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
Renters should not be allowed to post on this blog
4:23-fucking jealous dick. your just bitter because you bought in a shitty neighborhood and the value of your home is worth jack shit. Yes, I live in a nicer neighborhood thank CH and NO my parents don’t give me shit. I work for everything i have. Fucking douchbag.
I just bought a brownstone in Crown Heights (on the eastern end near Utica Ave.)
I love it. I love Crown Heights. I was excited about this bar and went to check it out with a few friends. It sucks, we stayed 10 minutes and left. It’s just not a very good bar. It’s not about race, it’s about beer and ambience and it fails on that level. It’s just a boring cement slab with too many people milling around and it was hard to get a drink. Stop worrying about getting mugged and start worrying about building better bars.
as stated earlier, white owned businesses opened in neighborhoods that are primarily black, hispanic etc do not get patronage from the “majority”
Look at Northeast Kingdom, Life Cafe or the Wreck Room in Bushwick. If you were blindfolded and put in those places, not knowing where you were, you would think you were in northside williamsburg of the east village.
Is the one in the immediate foreground a dude or a chick?
swordfight
dorks
Statements like “there are no bars, restaurants, etc. in this neighborhood” in most cases seem to suggest that there are no bars or restaurants where white people come to consume the stuff white people like to consume (lattes, Belgian beer etc.)
Establishments that don’t hold up to the standards of the “bespectacled, shaggy haired, unshaven, slightly overweight white boy-man” simply do not exist. The same probably goes for the diverse people that live in these neighborhoods.
Did you know that no one lived in Fort Greene prior to 1998??
“well, if it’s predominantly anything, it aint too diverse, now is it, 4:11??”
That was a JOKE, jackass, in reference to earlier comments asserting anything black is “diverse” (and as pointed out in the post). Your comments just prove that a mind is a terrible thing to waste.