'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 is way overpriced for what it is.
A stupid and pointless article.
10:18 is from West Virginia. Married to her bro.
“oh well, i guess bklyn can’t be cool forever”
Yes, because Brooklyn was SO much more cool, when it was over-run by illiterate, goombahs and ghetto thugs who settled arguments with their fists, knives and guns.
God I long for the good ole days.
That damn coffee sure does make everything so UN-cool. So glad you’ve decided for all of us what is the bastion of coolness,, 10:39.
For one, Fort Greene is closer to Manhattan and thus doesn’t feel landlocked and remote like PS does. For two, I think it is actually hipper than Park Slope. i don’t live there, but the people I know who do are pretty hip (at least more so than the people i know who live in ps). but i think it long ago became a stroller neighborhood, so seems like this columnist is a little late in the game. When brownstones are going for not less than 1.5, you’re usually talking about a neighborhood catering to the stroller set not some cutting edge frontier for god’s sake.
Where are you from 10:18?
Both are great neighborhoods, but I think AY is going to have a much more profound impact on Ft. Green than most of Park Slope. That whole Atlantic Termial area is one of my least favorite in all of NYC. But once you get past that, there are some really amazing streets in Ft. Greene. South Portland is stunning.
I think Park Slope feels more like a neighborhood though somehow.
sounds about right to me. i think “park-slopeification” is really just code for “help, we’re being over-run by hipster breeders.” white, black, brown, red, whatever. if they’re pushing a stroller and dressed like a teen, drinking a $4 coffee, that’s park slopification. i noticed it on smith street the other day.
oh well, i guess bklyn can’t be cool forever.
10:18 — you don’t like the way people walk done (down?) the street? What are you, in high school? Swallow your insecurity and enjoy the new faces. You sound like you’re from Switzerland, seething with xenophobia and prejudice every time you see someone you isn’t just like you and hasn’t been around you like a security blanket for 30 years.
Whoever wrote this article is trying to market Fort Greene to the frumpholes of the slope. I doubt they’ll bite; character or beauty to them is nothing compared to a great deal in a “safe” neighborhood with “good” schools. Fort Greene is expensive, unsafe, and has slowly improving schools (but far from ivy-league approved). I can’t imagine what standard upper west side breeder would choose Ft Greene over Park Slope, so if you’re out there, do “enlighten” me — why did you pick FG over PS?