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
Troy, you are a funny dude!
I’m more confused as to why Rob is actually HOPING that business owners in Park Slope (some of which have been here for DECADES!) go out of business and become unemployed.
Hate Park Slope all you want, but that’s just plain effed up.
Hey rob, get over yourself.
I’m not saying you should move.
I’m saying I am just confused by your desire to spend a premium to live in a neighborhood you so obviously dislike.
You could split a place in Sunset Park for half the price, and you would probably like it better.
That’s all I’m saying.
Now go see a shrink or something, sheesh.
ROb,
you have such a persecution complex it makes me want to hunt you down and move all your stuff to Greenwich COnn
i dont care where you live but there are plenty of “non-ghetto” areas of brooklyn and queens which are much cheaper than park slope. And im pretty sure you have commented where you live and there are even cheaper areas of park slope that you would like better.
also for the record I cant pay anywhere near the price to split a 2 bedroom in anywhere that’s desirable park slope.
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You know, Rob, I gotta say I am bewildered by your choice to live in Park Slope.
You could really save a lot of money if you lived in a less gentrified neighborhood.
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i live in park slope cuz it’s not ghetto and i was sick of the ghetto even tho i bring the ghetto sorta kinda with me wherever i go anyway. i like my current living situation and i can pay that much and have a roommate or i can have my own apt in a crappy ghetto neighborhood and im just not in the mood to live that way anymore. so ill happily be the most ghetto newbie in park slope and proud of it. you think people who are not like you and make as much money as you should move to the bronx and brownsville and stuff. sorry newflash we can live wherever we want. and that includes precious park slope.
*rob*
I went to a friends party in bed stuy of the myrtle stop on the J and I think Rob should live there. Nothing cute and no parks and no bullshit. They had a pretty large apartment on the top two floors of a skinny brownstone with apparently 6 people living in it.
do it up
HA! i just passed that comic book store actually on bergen!!!! (it didnt look open tho yet, was it? i was on the other side)
i was there this weekend (my ex moved to bergen and vanderbuilt into that line of fedders townhouses that are like a block long). i must say i liked it tho! the construction was crappy as hell and it was weird having wall to wall carpeting (tho i liked that back in the day in old school apt living), but not a bad area.
*r*
are there still poor people in ft greene? i mean besides the walt whitman houses.