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
“Diverse” people are finding it increasingly difficult to live in New York. They’re being priced out and then the whiny gentrifiers wonder what happened to all of the local “color”.
4:23 you make me laugh…
If anyone lives in a nice area that means ther parents paid??? You dumb fu*k…
Actually people work hard and actually have jobs that pay well… Instead someone like you who is probably spins a record once a month and is bitter…
Zip it douche…
4:23 you make me laugh…
If anyone lives in a nice area that means ther parents paid??? You dumb fu*k…
Actually people work hard and actually have jobs that pay well… Instead someone like you who is probably spins a record once a month and is bitter…
Zip it douche…
I agree the use of the word “diverse” is hilariously yuppie, but it really is true that Enduro in PLG attracts a diverse crowd. Am not just talking race but types of people. Like a 20-something hipster artist sitting next to a black West Indies blue collar guy sitting next to a white academic-type young couple sitting next to a table of black women professionals heading home after work. And whenever I see it I realize it’s the economic diversity I notice the most. I feel like we don’t see that so much these days. Whether in Manhattan or gentrifying Brooklyn. Or elsewhere in the country.
“Crown Heights is quite diverse, certainly more so than Park Slope. First of all it’s a predominantly black neighborhood”
well, if it’s predominantly anything, it aint too diverse, now is it, 4:11??
I live a coupla blocks crappier than Frankiln Park + I gotta say the bar is a great addition the the neighborhood. I didn’t have any money to buy in ft. greene when I rented there and was stuck buying in the Crown. I say fuck all you haters that rent in fancier nabes. why don’t you ask your mom to buy you an apt. in Brooklyn Heights…
For all the “anti-political-correct” nascent Limbaughites out there, there are some places that are really diverse in Prospect Heights. Bar Sepia and Ripple come to mind. So does Barette.
The uninterrupted sea of white faces is dispiriting. Hopefully this won’t stay this way.
However, you’ll see a similarly non-diverse sea of black faces around the corner at 95 South (which had, the time I was there, a good catfish dinner along with good drinks and entertainment).
Both places are great additions to the neighborhood. Hopefully, over time, their will be a bit more cross-pollination when people get over their fear of strangers.
“crown heights is less diverse than park slope.”
Crown Heights is quite diverse, certainly more so than Park Slope. First of all it’s a predominantly black neighborhood (see posts 3:21 and 3:30). Secondly, there is a substantial Hasidic population, and there are also Asian, Indian, Mexican and other residents.
Amazingly there are OTHER bars in Crown Heights! Perhaps “diverse” elements of the neighborhood are well-served by hose establishments and are demonstrating their loyalty.
I only wonder how neighbors feel about the nightly gathering outside their windows.
With ‘good music’ no less.
I’d be calling every city agency/elected offical complaining.