'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.
No two words guarantee a 50+ post thread more than “Park Slope” (other than perhaps “Foreclosures Up”, which would bring The What out from under his rock and result in an overwhelming amount of Asshat references, grammatical corrections, etc.)
Ft. Greene is like jock itch. You know it’s there and it’s annoying, but no matter what you try to do, it just doesn’t seem to go away.
I bet you Brooklyn would become more attractive to rich manhattanites if we started up some high class prostitute rings.
Ft Greene is the coolest nabe in brooklyn because cool people live there. Everyone else can eat crap.
Let’s be real here for a second. Someone else above kinda alluded to it, and it’s 100% true.
Most Manhattanities looking to move to Brooklyn prefer Park Slope leaps and bounds over Ft. Greene. For a host of reasons…it’s whiter, it’s got better schools, it’s safer, it’s more expensive, it’s got a better park, it gets accolades saying it’s the best, it’s ultra liberal and green, it’s got more fancy boutiques, nice restaurants, union markets and fro-yo places than it knows what to do with and it’s kid friendly.
Being attractive to Manhattanities is the only way Brooklyn will continue to flourish, so let’s not beat around the bush here.
Ft. Greene is great, but it’s smaller and attractive to a substantially smaller portion of people. That is good news for some people.
I put my PERIOD last.
PERIOD!
“The day Fort Green becomes like Park Slope is the day I move out.”
Hope you’ve called the moving van.
People who do not put their children first, should NOT BE HAVING CHILDREN!!!!
PERIOD.
If that’s what Ft. Greeners are like, I’ll take Park Slope.
You people are wacko.
There isn’t a single gay bar in Ft. Greene.
I can think of five in Park Slope.
Nice try though, 11:14.