'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.
10:53, your post is laughable. Good luck to your family when you have kids.
Yes, let’s castigate those unhip loser parents “who pick a neighborhood based on what the kids would benefit from in terms of schooling, daycares, parks, safety, and bargains.” What a miserable existence they must lead, always putting the children first, their only consolation being the weak pleasures of gripping the finely worked leather on the handlebars of their $900 stroller and sipping a $4 latte.
Yea verily, let us praise those selfish thirtysomethings whose “breeding program isn’t dictating their life.” Thank the lord that they have seen the true light, that what matters most in our short time on this mottled orb is having a choice of wine bars within walking distance.
Fort Greene has a very good chance of becoming the Chelsea of Brooklyn. I know of several affluent gay males who tired of the Chelsea and found what they were looking for in Fort Greene.
I make strong bold statements.
Period.
Period.
You lame ass Slopers can scream till your blue in the face about all the virtues of Park Slope but the fact is that everyone knows that Fort Green is way cooler than Park Slope.
The ladies in Fort Greene are fine.
Not so in uptight olde Park Slope.
10:59, you were probably seeing nannies or aunts or something, not moms.
Many women don’t appreciate the devastating effects that childbirth will have on their bodies. There is the weight gain, which of course is horrendous and to a degree irreversible. Then there’s the fact that the vagina gets stretched out and…well, it’s never the same. My wife was a tight young thing when we first married. After our first child was born, having sex with her was weird…kinda like just having sex with water or something.
Ft. Greene has much higher crime. That’s all Manhattanites need to know to sway them to Park Slope.
Period.
“I would never choose Park Slope personally because I find the PS Cheerleaders on this blog repulsive and if they are anything at all like the rest of the people living in Park Slope then it is one scary neighborhood.”
So far you are the most repulsive poster on this thread. How ironic.