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Driving down Fifth Avenue in Park Slope last week, we were struck at what an eyesore this corner of Fifth Avenue and Ninth Street is and were surprised that some crafty developer hadn’t figured out a way to get his hands on this prime spot. Anyone know what the hold-up is? GMAP


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  1. All these conversations end up in the same pro/ anti gentrification argument; it’s boring. I lived around the corner from here for five years. I think you can have a strip that caters to low income people without it having to be so fugly. This corner was disgusting when I lived there. That does not mean I want a Starbucks there…just a cleaner, safer corner. It’s classist and a tad racist to think that making a corner cleaner and safer makes it yuppie or white.

  2. Thanks for participating in the Yente show. And thank you, Brownstoner, for letting me take over. Hope you don’t mind. I do like an evolving nabe. It’s kind of exciting to see which new store or restaurant will open next. However, once the area becomes a surburban Yuppy mall, I’m outta there! The yuppification of Park Slope has treated me well financially, as I bought early on, but I moved because I no longer enjoyed being there. I’m loving Bed Stuy now because it feels like Brooklyn circa 1979 (with less crime), but I know it’s only a matter of time before it becomes Soho. As for Brownstoner’s car, driving is a way of life in the suburbs and this just goes to show you that Brooklyn has become the suburbs! I do hear alot of burb bashing on this blog, but I think it’s the same people who want to make Brooklyn into Anytown, USA.

  3. Brownstoner, you could use Zip Car to get around. My spouse and I both work (more than) full-time and have 2 young children, but can’t bring ourselves to further clog the Bklyn streets with our own vehicle. So we mostly hoof it (folks can turn their noses up at the bugaboo, but groceries do fit and it doesn’t emit smog). When we have to, we Zip Car-it, which yes means re-installing car seats everytime, but generally it works.

  4. Anonymous 8:28: the same people who shop on 5th Ave. shop on Fulton St. in downtown Brooklyn and on Fulton St. in Clinton Hill–the ones who are priced out of the neighborhoods they’ve lived in for generations.

  5. ***DUH*** THE REASON WHY THIS PLOT AT 5TH AVE AND 9TH ST HASN’T BEEN DEVELOPED IS THAT THE “F”-TRAIN IS DIRECTLY UNDER THESE BUILDINGS AS IT GOES FROM BEING ELEVATED AND PARALLEL TO 9TH ST AT 4TH AVE, TO BEING UNDERNEATH 9TH ST BY 6TH AVE! Unless a super-expensive platform/structure is built over the shallow railbed (a la West Side Yard and Atlantic Yard proposals), then only a 1-story light structure is possible. Simple developers’ economics. Sheesh…

  6. speaking of bodegas – any one know what’s going in on the corner of 6th and 9th (one block up from that photo)? The old bodega there had about 3 cans of soda (all pepsi brands) and not much else. I was glad to see it go! It’ll be nice to have some open (and brightly lit) store on that corner. walking up 9th at night can be weirdly deserted except for the corner of 5th ave and 9th st (once again, the corner shown in the picture) – eye sore or not, there are PEOPLE there late at night – that’s the best thing about neighborhoods, isn’t it?

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