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Park Slope Manifest Destiny Strikes Again

June 20th, 2007 · 4 Comments

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 […]

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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 […]

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Tags: Neighborhood Names · Red Hook