Truly, we realize that someday, this battle will be lost for good. Probably on the day that the Whole Foods at Third Street and Third Avenue opens, marketing wholesome goodness from a toxic site on the shores of the Gowanus, and people start calling it the Park Slope Whole Foods. We’ve already seen a Holiday […]
Entries Tagged as 'Neighborhood Names'
Park Slope Manifest Destiny Strikes Again
June 20th, 2007 · 4 Comments
Tags: Gowanus · Neighborhood Names · Park Slope
Red Hook "Until Recently Wasn’t a Neighborhood"? Really?
April 17th, 2007 · 5 Comments
We didn’t know that Red Hook “until recently wasn’t a neighborhood” until a GL reader pointed us in the direction of Time Out New York’s 2007 Eat Out Awards. And, there in the “Readers’ Choices section,” in the entry about Good Fork in Red Hook, appears the following curious–well, utterly freaking bizarre–statement: “It’s significant that […]
Tags: Neighborhood Names · Red Hook