'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.
Point is that when I think of Park Slope I want to heave.
I’d choose Park Slope because of 5th and 7th Avenues. You never need to leave the neighborhood, if you don’t want.
Considering you are paying huge amounts of money to live in Ft. Greene, I think the services are severely lacking in comparison to Park Slope. The schools are lesser quality, Ft. Greene park sucks and you’ve got AY coming.
10:39 – you are a true dork. back in the day when brooklyn was ‘cool’ – it wasn’t cool. it was second fiddle to manhattan. I am one of the so-called “hipsters” who lived in Williamsburg in the mid 90s, and believe me, it was not considered cool to live there – most of us would have preferred to be in lower Manhattan. we just couldn’t afford it.
Park Slope style parking has definitely arrived to Fort Greene. Park Slope car owners are to WORST parkers i have ever seen. It’s like the Helen Keller method of parking.
Just keep backing up til smash… Then pull forward and smash… Then for good measure back up again til smash…
I know you all have Volvos and never notice the damage you do to the poor little Hondas and Toyotas parked around you. You a little mercy.
11:00 – Park Slope has way more hispanic home and business owners than Ft. Greene. What was your point?
Once Ft. Greene wins a spot as one of the top neighborhoods in the United States, get back to me.
10:57: Wow, bro…thanks for keeping it real. Couldn’t have said it better myself.
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.
I agree 10:56. If Fort Greene were full of Italians or Poles, this wouldn’t be an issue and no one would care or write about it.