Park Slope Can't Measure Up to Marine Park
That’s what one Marine Park resident confided to the NY Times this weekend, in their weekly Living In section. The former Sloper said Marine Park, “reminds me of what neighborhoods used to be like before they became advertisements for themselves. The subway stop-less neighborhood is filled with “police officers, firefighters, postal workers and city employees,”…
That’s what one Marine Park resident confided to the NY Times this weekend, in their weekly Living In section. The former Sloper said Marine Park, “reminds me of what neighborhoods used to be like before they became advertisements for themselves. The subway stop-less neighborhood is filled with “police officers, firefighters, postal workers and city employees,” many of whom are second or third generation Marine Park-ers (Park-ites?) and purchase homes nearby those in which they were reared; the civic association’s motto is “Improve, Don’t Move.” The homes, many of them semi-attached or semi-detached (we believe the difference has something to do with where and how much of the homes are connected; architecture buffs, please inform), start in the $350,000 range and easily climb to $750,000. One-bedroom rentals can start in the $1,000 range. Among the neighborhood’s treasures are Marine Park itself (Brooklyn’s largest) and the Hendrik I. Lott House, an 1800’s Dutch farmhouse on East 36th Street filled with “clues into a vanished way of life,” with “wells, privies and a stone kitchen between the house and the street.”
Isolation Is Pretty Splendid [NY Times]
Photo by Stu_Jo.
it seems jebby is just pissed at the 21st century.
Target isnt filled with tourists. Its filled with Caribbeans and hasidic jews.
Whatever the merits of Marine Park, that lovely Dutch farmhouse could hardly be less representative of its Queensish domestic architecture. Still, so glad it has survived!
Jebby, waddya talkinbout?
Brooklyn has never seen better days than these. If you are nostalgic for the moribund inner-city of your distant youth you should move to Buffalo.
Hi Z, I’ve lived in Bklyn all my 54 years, attended public school, etc, etc. When the face of Brooklyn becomes Chase; Rite Aid; CVS; Bank of America, etc., you’re right, “it’s not what I think it should be”. Change is great, but when Gage and Tollners becomes TGIF Fridays, it’s not for the better. When Applebee’s is packed across the street from Juniors which is empty, Brooklyn’s narrative is becoming as bland as the suburbs. I’ve seen lots of great change in Bklyn. The Heights of my youth had boarded up brownstones and dangerous welfare hotels, but it also had a vibrant Montague Street with local usefull businesses. So, let’s all put our i-pods on, go to an ATM on every corner and look at our cell phone screens while we cross the street.
i live on the north pole man
That house is frickin’ adorable…
Santa, I got news for you, you need a car to buy a country house. How else are you going to find it? EBay?
dittoburg – i’ll buy the car when I buy the house.
Why is this neighborhood trying to promote itself like this? If it’s full of police, firemen, postal workers and city workers and it’s affordable for those NYC civil servants and they love it and have been there a couple generations then leave it alone and let it stay affordable for them.