'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.
Paperbag party at my house.
2:18 hahah. I know. It FEELS kinda german.
and uncut
I’m on it 2:18.
Would you care for some crotchfruit salad?
New York, need I remind you, is not the U.S. It’s just New York. A weird anomaly, a cherished beauty mark on the obese ass that is our God-fearing, war mongering country.
That beauty mark happens to be 28% black and only 45% white, with other shades of hispanic (27%) and Asian (10%) mixed in there.
i love germans. they are usually pretty hung.
part of what makes park slope hellish are the eurodrips that live there. No surprise that a bunch of germans love it – and certainly no draw.
It’s high time somebody offered up some snacks.
Brooklyn lost African Americans in the last census more than at any time in the last 50 years.
And gained more people with an undergraduate and graudate degree that at any time in history.
The U.S. is 12% black.
It makes no sense to me how you all think you’re “keepin it real” in a neighborhood which is 80% black. That is not the demographic of the U.S. at all.
Even Park Slope is only 50% white, and some of you make it seem like it’s freakin Greenwich.