'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.
I think South Slope is far “edgier” than any part of Ft. Greene.
In terms of “hipsters” it seems every person south of 9th Street is one. Park Slope is certainly gayer than Ft. Greene. That I like.
I see very little difference between park slope and fort greene.
Maybe Fort greene has better street cred with the hipster set.
yes stay away.
ft. greene sucks.
so does clinton hill.
i think ft. greene is worse than park slope.
the people who bought there think they are cooler than though, while at least the people in park dope knew what they were getting into.
plus, the white people who think they are black in ft. greene are quite disturbing.
i prefer prospect over ft. greene park, so why choose the latter if they are both the same?
Oh, but this was never supposed to happen! Remember? Fort Greene would get only the good, cool, enlightened rich people! They would be totally different from all those other rich people!
LOL, welcome to bougieville, guys.
The day Fort Green becomes like Park Slope is the day I move out.
Hmmm…I lived on Clermont between Lafayette and DeKalb in 1999-2000, before moving to Greene & Grand; I think it might be a wee bit of a stretch to say that Fort Greene has been “edgy” in recent memory. “Somewhat less gentrified that Park Slope” I’d totally buy, but “edgy?”
i just wish all the new folks in the greene would respect those that have lived in the hood before them. too many new people walk done the street as if they are better then the rest. can’t stand em. go back to the slope or jersey or wherever you came from.
ugh
For the transformation to be complete people who live in Fort Green would have to start acting like complete pompous assholes and start trash talking every other neighborhood in Brooklyn.