'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.
Ft. Greene has way more black home and business owners than Park Slope. So it will be a long time if ever that Ft. Greene will = Park Slope.
i don’t know, 10:57, i’ve seen some damn fine moms in park slope.
or is it just park slope moms who gain weight from pregnancy?
South Slope has got to be one of the ugliest neighborhoods in Brooklyn.
Damned Park Slope moms and their repulsive crotch fruit. They should keep their now very fat and ever-expanding asses in Park Slope. Now that their bodies have been distorted beyond all measure by childbirth, who wants ’em around anyway?
***YAWWWNNNN***
Same old “changing-neighborhood” story where one ethnic/socio/economic group is replaced by another, except that when it’s an African-American neighborhood being replaced, it’s a major issue. Was there outrage by the Italians in Bay Ridge when they were replaced by Russians and Chinese? Should there be? Does it matter if your children can’t afford to buy/rent in the neighborhood they grew up in?
I thought Fort Greene was always a buppy neighborhood? Back in the 80’s I knew many doctors, lawyers, bankers, teachers, artists, musicians, actors who lived and were raising a family there. I think the big difference is that the houses they bought for $250k are now worth $1.75 million and the kind of people who can afford $1.75 million mortgages are not the same people who can afford $250 thousand mortgages.
bushwick kicks all y’all’s asses.
10:42, I totally agree — people who buy homes as single family units are going to be filling them with family — i.e. kids. This has been a nobrainer in Ft Greene for 10years now.
But there are two different kinds of people who have kids.
There are the people who pick a neighborhood based on what the kids would benefit from in terms of schooling, daycares, parks, safety, and bargains. This is Park Slope.
And then there are the people who pick a neighborhood because they themselves like it — often before having kids or having plans for kids. Most of my parent friends in Ft Greene weren’t planning on having children until they were living there a few years. Their breeding program isn’t dictating their life — they pop one out, find other people in their hood to help each other with services, and send their kids to the local elementary and middle schools. This is what i’ve seen in Fort Greene.
i agree that south slope is 10 times more cool than ft. greene. there are zero cool bars in ft. greene. it’s boring.