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The changing demographics in Victorian Flatbush are having a big impact on the neighborhood’s food market scene. On the heels of a new organic market opening on the cornering Cortelyou and Stratford a couple of weeks ago (and the Green Market opening this past weekend) comes the news, via a neighborhood tipster, that the Food Co-op will be buying out the Associated on Cortelyou and Marlborough. According to our source, Associated owner Leon Boyer is selling because of all the “damned yuppies.” What’s the impact of this on the folks in the area who can’t afford organic fare? Do they still have other options?
Photo by Kate Leonova for Property Shark


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  1. anonymous 10:06, you wrote:

    “What’s so “wonderfully diverse” about a neighborhood where all the giant expensive houses are being bought by wealthy white people?”

    The buyers are not all white and they are not all wealthy. In any case, that they have more money than you is not their fault.

    You wrote:

    “Oh, it’s so wonderful to live in a neighborhood where my children can see all the diverse kids we ship them off to private school to keep them away from!”

    You must be writing about Al Sharpton, who lived at 1902 Ditmas, the big white house on the corner of Ditmas and E 19th St. At least he lived there till he ditched his wife.

    Al sent his kids to Poly Prep. Of course we know James Brown paid the tuition bills for Al’s kids. Shows you how desperate he was to keep his kids out of the public schools.

  2. Anon 8:23 you hit the nail on the head.
    I am Brooklyn Proud. All of Brooklyn is my home town. Park Slope is great and so is Ditmas Park. I have a personal preference for Ditmas at this point and that is why I purchased my home in DP.

  3. What’s so “wonderfully diverse” about a neighborhood where all the giant expensive houses are being bought by wealthy white people?

    Oh, it’s so wonderful to live in a neighborhood where my children can see all the diverse kids we ship them off to private school to keep them away from!

  4. anon 8:23: read up a bit and you’ll see my honest reasons. if everyone lived where they were happy, you wouldn’t have displaced low income families or artists being forced to move… nor would you have slopers who finally want to buy, be forced out of the slope because of the prices. people here seem to mistake my comments on areas that could use improvements (which many of the residents here agree upon from what I read), with my being unhappy with the area. i won’t say it again… that’s not the case. like you said.. every place has their strengths and weaknesses. I think one can happily live in a place but still have the freedom to voice gripes (e.g. slope is great but the stroller moms aren’t). Doesn’t mean they should move.

  5. “If it weren’t for the people coming from the slope, your house would still be worth 100k.”

    And I’d be debt free.

    And if it weren’t for the people coming over from Manhattan, the average PS house would be cheap. So what?

    I didn’t write any of the comments about kids, education, diversity, etc., so I’ll pass there. However, I don’t think people have anything against PS per se. They simply don’t share your feeling of “slumming it” in Ditmas Park, and I must confess that I don’t share it either. Ditmas and PS both have their strengths and weaknesses. Neither place is for everyone. You seem to prefer PS, but live in Ditmas. Is that correct or am I misreading you here? If it’s true, then why stay in a nabe you don’t like. You owe it to yourself to live in a place that makes you happy, and you owe it to someone else to make a little more room in a nabe that’s growing on more and more people.

  6. Oh, and how could i forget CT Muffin. All those places are proof of more of us Park Slopers to the area. Get used to it.

    Oh, and I’m sure the way things are going, we’ll have an Olive Garden here so we won’t have to go to the Slope for it. I hate Olive Garden,but I hope they bring one to DP just to annoy all of you. From what i heard as well, there’ll be a Starbucks coming before the end of the year.

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