The Times Wraps Its Arms Around Fort Greene
“Fort Greene is Brooklyn’s latest culinary mecca, bewitching foodies with hip, minimalist restaurants. Or it’s a bastion of African-American pride and culture, a historic home to a vibrant community of black families. Or the artistic center of the borough, laying claim as it does to the multifaceted Brooklyn Academy of Music (a k a BAM)….
“Fort Greene is Brooklyn’s latest culinary mecca, bewitching foodies with hip, minimalist restaurants. Or it’s a bastion of African-American pride and culture, a historic home to a vibrant community of black families. Or the artistic center of the borough, laying claim as it does to the multifaceted Brooklyn Academy of Music (a k a BAM). Or maybe it’s the new roost of the nouveaux riches, with pricy brownstones and new luxury condominiums dotting its map. What new and old residents have found is that Fort Greene plays all of these roles with grace and aplomb. It is a busy, blooming hybrid whose slate-sidewalk streets somehow retain their serenity. No one is in a hurry — even as newcomers rush in from all corners of the city to live here.” — NY Times
Photo by Tracy Collins
Sorry that was rude of me, but you’re really pushing my buttons today.
It’s not a store if you would actually read what I wrote.
11217 – am really shocked I had no idea it was a non for-profit
very interesting
It’s a charity, dumbass.
see? lol
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Can someone please please tell me why that “Superhero” store remains open year after year after year on 5th avenue
I actually read the storename and the ads in the windows for things like:
superhero glue, tights,capes,webs
well 11217 needs to shop somewhere, doesn’t he?! ha xoxo 11217 JK
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Brooklyn Superhero Supply
826NYC is a nonprofit organization (located in Park Slope, Brooklyn) dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Services are structured around the belief that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention, and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success. With this in mind 826NYC provides free drop-in tutoring, after-school workshops, in-schools tutoring, help for English language learners, and assistance with student publications. Drawing from a volunteer base of over 1,000, which includes many teachers, writers and journalism professionals, 826NYC unites eager students with eager helpers. There are also 826 National chapters in San Francisco (826 Valencia), LA (826LA), Seattle (826 Seattle), Chicago (826CHI), and Ann Arbor (826 Michigan).
826NYC is located in a “secret lair” behind The Brooklyn Superhero Supply Company [1], a store similar in eccentricity to 826 Valencia’s storefront pirate shop, and which sells capes, grappling hooks, utility belts (new and vintage), masks, tights, deflector bracelets, bottles of chaos and anti-gravity, secret identity kits, and more. Visitors to the store can try out capes for free in a cape-testing wind tunnel (essentially a series of fans on a pedestal). The store sells new and back issues of Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The Believer,Wholphin, and other McSweeney’s publications. The Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. also carries a complete stock of publications written and edited by students at 826NYC including Trapped: The Encyclopedia of Escape, Sonny Paine, and issues 1 and 2 of The 826NYC Review. The store front is literally a front for the charitable organization, with all sales going to the organization. The store employs volunteers.
The design of the store features many tongue-in-cheek signs and features, and the staff treat their products as real super-hero supplies, and visitors as real super-heroes. The secret lair to the student learning and activity center lies behind a swinging bookcase.
Can someone please please tell me why that “Superhero” store remains open year after year after year on 5th avenue
at first one would think – oh it’s a hardware store, but upon closer inspection one day I actually read the storename and the ads in the windows for things like:
superhero glue, tights,capes,webs
agree with you snark, im sure i could be equally happy in other hoods that are cheaper, but it just didnt work out that way. not everyone always has a say in where they live believe it or not.
and i did utilize the park this weekend with my dog and it was nice. tho i still dont get why people scream and rave over it. it’s a pretty dirty park and eh i dont know. im not one who should comment on parks, maybe it is a great park or something.
and im sure somewhere along the line ill be scooped out of park slope based on life’s circumstances anyway so my my comments about the neighborhood probably dont mean much anyway.
im not a park slope hater. i love it! i just dont act like it’s the garden of eden cuz it’s not and it shouldnt be that. and to the person who told me to move to sunset park. nuh-uh. that would probably mean not getting a seat on the train or something. i do not stand on trains!
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“I find them largely useless.”
Even the meteorite store?