Fort Greene: City's Best Nabe?
Trying to crown one neighborhood as New York City’s best is kind of a silly exercise, but if you were to concentrate on the criteria of culture, community, diversity and architecture, there certainly is a good case to be made for Fort Greene. “In all my days and nights of walking neighborhoods and asking people…
Trying to crown one neighborhood as New York City’s best is kind of a silly exercise, but if you were to concentrate on the criteria of culture, community, diversity and architecture, there certainly is a good case to be made for Fort Greene. “In all my days and nights of walking neighborhoods and asking people why they live where they live, I have never encountered a place that has this much heart, soul and pride,” write Daily News correspondent Jason Sheftell. “More than ever, I found people who said they could never live anywhere else but right here.” Unfortunately for those just hearing about Fort Greene’s charms, the days of finding a real estate deal are long gone (though they may return soon enough!), but it’s still worth it. (The writer naively claims that the Brooklyn nabe is as expensive as the West Village. Not!) People here do not like any fakeness in their neighborhood and they pay higher rents for that, said Denis DuPreez, co-owner of the Dekalb Avenue restaurant Madiba. We have beauty, and we have the good people. It’s hard to argue with that.
Fort Greene: The best neighborhood in New York? [NYDN]
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But they do have Scopello’s…best short rib I’ve ever had.
pphhtt. fine, i’ll counter by listing the downsides of this crown-jewel hood.
– too few good choices for bars
– poor subway access compared to other nabes
– that park is small and not very useable, hate the hill..not comfortable for picnics
– a G train runs through it
– the pj’s
I live right on the Fort Greene/ Clinton Hill border, while the article is great for the neighborhood, it seems like it written by a 5th grader.
That guy on the link on the stoop is HOT.
“We have beauty, and we have the good people.†Maybe there is something to this 🙂
Good call, Brenda.
agreed dave. Not to mention, everyone feels pride in their neighborhoods. they all have something different to offer- articles like this are just stupid and condescending.
It’s a gorgeous nabe, one with a legendary park, great restaurants and shops and a unique, haunting beauty. But how can we be so short-sighted and clueless to top-rate a neighborhood that still, by general admission, has highly problematic schools? The heart and soul of what makes an all-around “great neighborhood” is not architecture or dining or shopping but its investment in the future, and that’s our children. A nabe where you have to put your kids in $30K/year private school to get a top-flight education may be a good nabe, but it’s not a great one.
“People here do not like any fakeness in their neighborhood and they pay higher rents for that,â€
Of all the posts on brownstoner since I’ve been here, I’ve never heard such shallow crap. This should be the slogan for a new real estate brokerage.
I definitely agree that Ft. Greene is one of the best neighborhoods in the city. It has a little of everything.