National Magazine Has Finger on Local Pulse
We were interested to learn of a new up-and-coming Brooklyn neighborhood while reading Time Magazine this weekend. What was it again? Park,uh, something? Oh yeah, Park Slope. Ever heard of it? A decade ago, the 2.4-km stretch of Fifth Avenue that forms the western edge of the Park Slope neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, was…
We were interested to learn of a new up-and-coming Brooklyn neighborhood while reading Time Magazine this weekend. What was it again? Park,uh, something? Oh yeah, Park Slope. Ever heard of it?
A decade ago, the 2.4-km stretch of Fifth Avenue that forms the western edge of the Park Slope neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, was the grim preserve of drug dealers, thugs and the demimonde. Not anymore. Thanks to the city’s skyrocketing real estate market, some campaigning locals and a few pioneering investors, a once bleak thoroughfare of boarded-up shops and unsavory bodegas has been transformed into one of the hippest shopping and dining destinations in the Big Apple. Today, this section of Fifth Avenue, dubbed “Restaurant Row” by some, is luring visitors and locals alike with top-notch cuisine and cool boutiques.
Park Slope Becoming One of NY’s Coolest [Time Magazine]
Try Iowa.
Do any of you child haters have a suggestion where those of us with kids in NYC should move to? Just wondered…
I’d love to know where all of you people who feel the need to rip on PS live. I live in the Center Slope area with my girlfriend, we’re both in our mid-twenties. I know more people in my age range who live in this area (admittedly, a few of them are in areas bordering on Gowanus) than in any other area of NYC. There are great bars and restaraunts around, and yeah, there are some useless little stores around. But I guess every store should be a hipster run record store with angst-ridden workers. Yeah, we have a Starbucks, but so does every neighborhood in Manhattan and most of the ones in Brooklyn. Get over it. If you don’t like PS, don’t live here, why waste your time trashing it on a website?
I don’t love the number of kids in the neighborhood, but I’ll take that tradeoff any day. PS is emerging (well, has emerged) as an excellent location for young people priced out of Manhattan.
You can always count on the toddler mafia to show up on brownstoner.com. Go change some dirty diapers and leave the rest of us alone.
Actually, I think those rock stars cease to be cool by the time you reach the age of, oh, 14 or so.
“Babies also scream a lot. They throw up on everything, shit themselves and require hours and hours of attention everyday….”
So do rock stars, and they’re totally cool.
I lived in PS for over 12 years. I’m not a player hater at all. When I moved in it was middle class, family oriented, crunchy, hippy, neighborhood–but not cool in the sense that people outside of BK barely knew where it was and people who did never envied you for living there per se (I didn’t care. I loved it. I’m just saying.) Then you had the evolution of fifth ave, which was a real plus, but even now you don’t have a critical mass there of businesses as creative or interesting as you do in, say, Williamsburg or the LES. Yes you have great restaurants (and a few lame, overpriced ones that make me feel like it’s a weekday and I’m at a business lunch with a guy named Mortie) and yes there are finally some bars that make staying in BK on the weekend as appealing as going to Manhattan, a few places to buy some not predictable clothes, and, my god, even a club with the same booker as Maxwell’s but really South Paw feels so out of place and like at any minute it could get booted the same way places like Tramps got pushed out when the surrounding area became high-end residential. And THEN along come the yuppies priced out of Manhattan who finaly realize: Hey, there’s beautiful housing stock there. And they get over their fear of not being able to buy fancy cheese on their corner and take the plunge across the river. Which then brings with them B&N, Starbucks, and Aerosoles. Say what you will, but to me pricey and newly chi chi does not equal “cool” in the classic sense. Is Park Ave cool?
And third Avenue is Gowanus, which I like very much as a hood in its own right. It’s not Park Slope (except to some desperate realtors perhaps).
Why mock this person? They do not want to live with children or teenagers. What is wrong with that? They did not say that you should not enjoy kids, merely that they do not enjoy them. As a father of three, I can honestly say that there is nothing wrong with that. To each his/her own.
If you want to live in a neighborhood without kids move to a geriatric center.