Streetlevel: Organic Boom on Cortelyou
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…
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
You’re telling me I should “Go somewhere else, where such an infrastructure exists. Or else, get a high paying job, find a mate, have a mess of kids and get with the DP program. That’s what it’s about out here, in terms of this blog anyway. Big houses and the people who live in them.”
Hello, have you not already seen the park slopification of the area already?
Your comments about how to be a “DP resident” is laughable. If it weren’t for the people coming from the slope, your house would still be worth 100k. And never once, did i “pine” for multi-housing. Just pointed out some logistics.
The people who are dissing park slopers are giving out the same PS stroller parent attitude you so abhor with your uppity tones about how “wonderfully diverse” the neighborhood is for your kids. Well here’s a news flash: this is nyc! I can give that education with any kid anywhere, just living in this city, riding the subway, walking down the street. It’s not just the interaction you give your kids; it’s also how you talk to your kid about it and the attitude you display towards others in front of them. Merely pointing them out don’t make “diversity”. Nice you’re so open to diversity but ironically, incredibly close-minded in the differences of neighbors.
What a hypocritical bunch. By criticising people who are from the Slope, CG, etc., you are equally trashing T.B. Ackerson, The Farm on Adderley, VoxPop, Belle and Maxie, Trailer Park, Frontier Market, the soon-to-be-expanded Flatbush Co-Op, Picket Fence, and Brooklyn Hearth Realty. Because those are all the reasons why people are coming to DP.
I’ve been living here close to 30 years and have never shopped in the neighborhood. The old run down sores didn’t serve my needs and these new Park Slope yuppie places don’t either. We don’t need bars and coffee shops, but quality grocers and produce stores.
For those looking for wine, so to Newkirk Plaza Liquor. The owner Nick is a great guy and a mainstay of the Plaza.
“secure enough to form a posse”! So forming a posse is better?
God, you DPers are defensive. Someone actually admits the neighborhood has faults and that it doesn’t snow cotton candy in DP at Christmastime and you’re all, “Love it or leave it!”
At least the Slopers are secure enough to form a posse when their nabe gets criticized here–which, you may have noticed, happens from time to time.
Hilarious anon 10:10!
No one has yet mentioned that a great thing about DP is that Cortelyou Road and the surrounding area was deemed the most diverse nabe in the country by the US Census Bureau. There was an article in the US News and World Report a year or two ago. My children played in the Tot Lot with Orthodox Jewish, Russian, Chinese, Bengali, Pakistani, Morrocan, Yemeni, African continental, African American/Carribean, Mexican, Yuppie (I think that it is officially a nationality now) Tibetan and Bi/Tri-racial children, on any given day. At seven years old my son knew what a yarmulke was, as well as a hijab. He learned about Purim, Diswali and Ramadan all on the playgound or while shopping -yes, in Associated and the Food Co-op. The nabe is also socioeconomically diverse and he learned at an early age that not everyone has the same financial or educational options and that he should therefore take full advantage of the opportunities presented to him.
Slope to Cortelyou –
there will never be the sort of multi-family housing you pine for in DP. Go somewhere else, where such an infrastructure exists. Or else, get a high paying job, find a mate, have a mess of kids and get with the DP program. That’s what it’s about out here, in terms of this blog anyway. Big houses and the people who live in them.
So persnickety slope to cortelyou. You definitely belong in PS.
for your information, I’m out enjoying a nice sat. in the park with wifi. what i choose to do on a weekend is none of your business. And same to you in regards to your own sitting at your computer.
Me Again, DP streets are wide enough for you to walk past my porch without coming into my yard! Come into the yard and then when sic the dogs on you.