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]
Babies also scream a lot. They throw up on everything, shit themselves and require hours and hours of attention everyday. These are facts. Why deny them? And don\’t give me some lame bullshit about how children are everywhere. Yes, of course, there are children in every neighborhood, but that doesn\’t mean that they are evenly distributed across every square inch of the earth\’s surface. If someone doesn\’t want to live around kids, they\’re free to find areas that have fewer kids.
i love how people here enjoy remarking that hoods with lots of children are somehow less desirable or un “cool”. only places covered in dive bars with 20 somthings everywhere are “cool”- as if. in case you haven’t noticed every single area in nyc ia full of children these days, which i think is a good thing. it’s part of the cycle of life- why deny it. i guess these particular posters were never children and when they were they lived in the dull suburbs or were kept locked up in child-only areas.
Anon 3:00. what you are saying is white people and their kids.
There a people with kids in every neighborood in NYC, well maybe not Chelsea.
The earlier poster acknoledged that PS is a nice place to live. All she said is that PS is not cool, and it is not cool unless your idea of cool is defined by such things as antique collecting and breathing the stench of soiled diapers.
i’ve lived in ps for 10 years and let me tell you it is a hell of a lot cooler than it used to be. it used to be insanely dorky (still is somewhat) and there wasn’t a good bar, shop or restaurant to be found. i think these days 5th is a little too much, but at least there are some genuinely great small businesses and one really doesn’t feel like you have to go elsewhere to spend a little cash. people here love to bash ps for being overly gentrified, but as far as i’m concerned it’s a lovely place to live.
Park Slope is cool, very cool.
There are so many restuarants, bars, and venues in Park Slope. There is life, there are things too do other than watch TV and listen to large SUVs pumping loud music drive past you window.
to anon 9:55 having money does not make someone uncool. player hater.
Combustable girl keep on hating.
well actually one of the so-called coolest bands in music Clap Your Hands say Yeah are from Park slope and there are many artists living along 3rd Ave and poetry readings and galleries are popping up, so I wouldn’t say it’s like the Upper East side. Many indie stores with very few chains help out, as well.
Please, while PS is a lot of wonderful things, it was NEVER cool and certainly isn’t now. A nice place to live? Certainly. But, cool? Give me a break.
Fifth Ave was not cool 15 years ago. I remember. I was there. Not cool at all.