'Port Sleene'? Yeah, That Has Quite a Ring to It
Brooklyn Paper columnist Dana Rubinstein spies a new maybe-trend: The Slope-ification of Fort Greene. Evidence? More boutiques, more strollers, more white people, more coffee shops, more high-end grocers like Union Market coming. It’s a glass half-empty sorta thing (“Fort Greene has acquired a distinctly less edgy vibe. Stores cater to the arrived, rather than the…
Brooklyn Paper columnist Dana Rubinstein spies a new maybe-trend: The Slope-ification of Fort Greene. Evidence? More boutiques, more strollers, more white people, more coffee shops, more high-end grocers like Union Market coming. It’s a glass half-empty sorta thing (“Fort Greene has acquired a distinctly less edgy vibe. Stores cater to the arrived, rather than the up-and-coming, the mainstream, rather than the avant-garde.”) but hey, at least the water is designer (“there are far worse things than looking like Park Slope”). And of course, what trendspotting nabe article would be complete without a couple possible new names for the area: “Park Greene. Or Fort Slope. Or Port Sleene.” Wait a sec, has Fart Grope been spoken for?
My Copycat Neighbors [Brooklyn Paper]
Fort Greene photo by Daniel A. Norman; Slope photo by wallyg.
Fort Greene=Heidi Klum/Iman
Park Slope=Brooke Shields/Christie Brinkley
Fort Greene=Heidi Klum/Iman
Park Slope=Brooke Shields/Christie Brinkley
If Park Slope is universally loathed, 11:48 why is it that outside Brooklyn Heights, it has the highest home prices?
People like to pay huge sums of money for things they hate??
Park Slope IS universally loathed. Can’t you get it through your Park Slope head that everyone finds people from Park Slope annoying. They are the worst. They destroy every thread on brownstoner. If you truly want to stop the wars then stop Park Slope from trashing every other neighborhood. Yesterday it was Bed Stuy and Carroll Garrdens that Park Slope went after.
11:39…while you are certainly right, I don’t think either Park Slope or Ft. Greene are suffering from the vitriol.
Given that homes in both hoods fetched 500K, 10 years ago and now sell for 3 million plus, I think it’s safe to say that most of this is all in good fun.
Everyone knows Park Slope is gorgeous, even if they hate it and everyone knows Ft. Greene is gorgeous, even if that hate it.
It’s like saying you hate a supermodel because she’s so damn pretty.
The What isn’t posting today because the DOW is up over 200 points.
Brownstoner, I know you’ve got to generate page views and all, but these kinds of posts serve no purpose but to lure the trolls from their caves.
To read the discussion on this blog one would think Park Slope was universally loathed and that Fort Greene and the Slope were perpetually at war. Both are great neighborhoods and everyone I know seems to think so. I can’t be the only visitor here who reads these vitriolic posts and wonders who the hell these people are.
Yes, whatever 11:25 said is correct: Fort Greene is definitely NOT very interesting. In fact, here’s a list of reasons why you should not move here:
1. Ugly
2. Depressing
3. Tons of stupid stroller moms with screaming brats
4. Gross stores with un-cool un-avantgarde overpriced crap
5. Rat infested
6. Drug ridden
7. Crime-addled
8. Everyone’s mean when they walk down the street; they’ll spit in your face and maybe even call you names like “poor slob”, “old-timer”, “fat ass stroller mom”
9. TERRIBLE schools
10. LONG COMMUTE to manhattan (all those train lines? they really SLOW DOWN approaching Ft Greene, so the wait to get a train can be like an hour or two)
11. NO PARKING. People will shoot each other for a spot, on a daily basis.
12. Atlantic Yards — need I say more?
WHereas Park Slope has it all. I mean ALL. It’s perfect, beautiful, lots of nice white people with good schools and gorgeous parks, and everyone will be really friendly and just like you.
PARK SLOPE ALL THE WAY!!!!
I’ve got one in my basement, 11:35.
It’s called my wife.