Streetlevel: Franklin Park Already Packed
Franklin Park, by the creators of Park Slope’s Southpaw, is already packed after only being open a week. We stopped by the Crown Heights bar and beer garden on its opening night April 25 (totally packed) and last Friday, when even the patio was full despite the chilly weather. There’re not many places like it…
Franklin Park, by the creators of Park Slope’s Southpaw, is already packed after only being open a week. We stopped by the Crown Heights bar and beer garden on its opening night April 25 (totally packed) and last Friday, when even the patio was full despite the chilly weather. There’re not many places like it in close proximity — featuring a large patio that welcomes (apparently) dogs and carryout, a unique beer list mostly for $5 or $6, good music (primarily hip hop), and a trendy yet comfortable atmosphere. We’re going to go out on a limb here, but we think this is going to be The Summer Place for a lot of people living in Crown Heights, Prospect Heights and Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, and for people visiting the Brooklyn Museum two blocks away. Its success reminds us of when Enduro, a mid-priced bar and Mexican restaurant, opened 12 blocks away in Prospect Lefferts-Gardens. Almost instantly it grew into the neighborhood gathering place for a diverse cross-section of residents and is busy EVERY night of the week, probably beating out a lot of similar restaurants in Park Slope. While the photograph doesn’t show the most diverse clientele, as the word gets out, we think the mix will be more representative of the overall neighborhood. The bar is located at 618 St. Johns Place at Franklin Avenue.
Streetlevel: Crown Heights Bar Goes to Bed Early
very few people on this blog can count to 1998
very few people on this blog lived here pre-1998.
um…8:40….the “no one lived in ft. greene prior to 1998” i think was meant to be sarcastic.
uh….defensive, much?
jeez, louise.
perfect place. total floovenation.
Don’t fight the floove, whatever you do.
Yeah!
“No one lived in Ft. Greene prior to 1998”
So the people that lived and still live. there are no one? Get a grip – you all did not invent Brooklyn – you are all just trying the ride the coat tails of Cool. Get the fuck over your selves. Not smart or talented enough to do something tangible so have to identify as some pioneer that discovered a land.
Boy, 8:15, you have pretty low standards. 7:37’s post was about as cookie-cutter as it gets, especially the inevitable swipe at a midwestern state. Boring and unoriginal.
7:37 = best post ever.
seriously man. i like your style.
last sentence is genius. and completely true.
I live in this neighborhood, and the reports of it being dangerous are greatly exaggerated. Yes the reports of tension in the neighborhood are true, but for the most part this neighborhood consists of people just living their lives, which is one of the things that makes it so fun. You see working people, homeless people, hipsters who don’t see the sun before 3PM, thugs & drug dealers, Hasidics, Latins, Asians, Whites, Blacks, and Arabs. Some days I hear the call the prayer a bit north of me and other days I hear the cathedral bells from the west. The point is that it is very difficult to codify the area. Also, it’s all block from the Brooklyn Museum and the park. If you want to feel safe all the time stay in Williamsburg where you can talk about how ironic it is that you moved to New York only to end up in a shack with siding surrounded by other White people from Ohio living next to a nuclear disposal site and an oil refinery.
home owners should not be allowed to post on this blog.