'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.
working on your term paper buddy?
Outside of public housing tenants Fort Greene appears to be almost exclusively white. I would love to see some current stats on the shift in race and income in FG over the last 10 years.
3:21…Manhattan is WAY more expensive than most of Brooklyn, yet singles seem to love it there.
Your logic makes no sense.
Brooklyn is just getting a more wealthy crop of singles, and the old timers don’t like it.
Plain and simple.
Well since Park Slope, by the latest census was 52% single, I’m not sure that’s a big concern right now, 3:21.
I am single…I live in Park Slope. My entire building (co-op) are singles.
People like to give Park SLope the stereotype that it’s all married people with kids, but the facts are that it is 24% of the population.
Rest are couples and singles.
I prefer facts over generalizations and stereotypes. But that’s just me.
Then why did the yuppie parent insult the young hip singles then, 2:51?
If Park Slope residents make singles feel out of place, and the singles can’t afford to live there, why would they stay?
50 much better shops and restaurants than were there before, if you ask me…
Apparently you don’t read this blog too often, 2:49.
About 50 new boutiques, shops and restaurants have opened up in Park Slope just this past year.
It’s fun to say all those young arty people are leaving, but the fact is, they are just being replaced by more successful young arty people.
Nothin less edgy about that to me. Just the way things go in a society which is supposed to strive to evolve, not devolve.
11:16 said:
“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.”
If there weren’t such thing as young arty hip renters spending lots of money on eating and drinking and buying cute trendy clothes in Park Slope there would be NO amenities in Park Slope at all.
Families don’t go out, they don’t spend money on those things.
The moment anybody points that out, the Park Slopers rush to say “oh yes we do have young hipsters and we love young hipsters” but then at the same time they hate those young people and insult them and attempt to take over Union Hall and push them out.
Young hipsters are priced out of Park Slope and no, they don’t want to hang out at Union Hall with the moms and strollers. Young hipsters will be going elsewhere and taking their restaurant, bar and chic boutique shopping business with them. Gosh, most neighbors want these kinds of residents in their neighborhood and actively court them to come there. But not Park Slope, apparently. Well, all the better for the other neighborhoods trying to get better amenities!
where is ft. greene exactly?