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We Have Arrived

Friday, March 5th, 2010

We’ve noticed that Brownstoner has been paying quite a bit of attention to DP, but this really does it. A neighbor emails:

Now I now we have really crossed over into being a fashionable neighborhood.  The Met food near the subway is now selling sushi and have put in a little olive bar!   Check it out.  Strange times..

- Liena

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  • Phil

    Well my work is done. Time to leave. . .

  • wren

    Don’t give yourselves so much credit. The owner of the Met Foods has been waiting about 5 years to offer more to the neighborhood.

  • Tim

    If I were the owner of Met, I would skip the sushi and refocus my efforts on offering the occasional non-rotten vegetable.

  • Jaguar_Gorgonne

    If I owned the Met Food, I wouldn’t have unpaid kids working in my store bagging groceries for tips since that is ILLEGAL.

  • sea

    Yeah, the veggies there are enough to keep me from even considering raw fish from that place.

  • inez

    The only supermaket I would buy sushi from is the food emporium on union square. They actuaully have a small sushi bar that caters to the lunch crowd.

    for those interested I picked up half a gallon of horizon organic 1% milk on sale for 2.88. I have never seen it that cheap.

  • Mindy Nass

    There is a lot of debate around whether Horizon milk actually meets the standards for organic. See http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_20216.cfm

  • Phil

    Does anyone not understand the absurdity of the original post. “Arrived?” As if no one ever lived in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn before. Get over yourselves . . .

  • a different sarah

    Phil, I’m pretty sure it’s called “tongue in cheek.”

  • Phil

    Sarah, you never know with some people. But if you say so . . .

  • OLD TIMER

    I was better in the neighborhood before all these trust fund kids arrived. Their strollers cost more than my car.

  • Seven

    I have to agree with OLD TIMER, also please note there is a pooper scooper law in NYC which simply means… CLEAN UP AFTER YOUR DAMM DOG!!!

  • Jaguar_Gorgonne

    While of course it is absurd to ever suggest that any neighborhood has “arrived” as that can be seen as implying that it was “nowhere” before, I do wonder why people such as Old Fart and Seven think that the younger, presumably white, residents have trust funds? How does Old Fart know so much about their finances? I don’t assume Old Fart lives on social security so why does he assume people have trust funds?

  • DirmasSnark

    I’m new to the neighborhood, and trust me, I don’t have a trust fund. Nor do I have a dog, so don’t go blaming the dog poop on me.

  • Jaguar_Gorgonne

    What, Dirmas Snark, you mean you actually earned your money? Old Fart will never believe it!

  • DitmasSnark

    JG,

    I’m so busy working hard for the money, I see I misspelled my name above.

  • Seven

    Perhaps I should clear a few things up in regards to my comment… As thirty year resident of Ditmas Park I have seen many changes some good some not so good. I agreed with Old Timer that the neighborhood was a bit nicer, people were a bit friendlier and we basically knew the business owners on Cortelyou Road etc. This has always been a neighborhood of mostly hard working individuals from various backgrounds. As far as trust funds that’s really not my concern if you are lucky enough to have a trust fund in these tough times WOO HOO, my issues are … there are some individuals moving to Ditmas Park from various states and other areas of Brooklyn who need to stop judge others in the neighborhood based on their ethnic background, to the woman who lives on my block that insists on walking her dog without a leash I don’t think it cute or funny when your dog jumps at me or others, to the individuals who refuse to pick up after their dogs that’s just not very neighborly. I think we should learn to respect each other as human beings. I am all for positive changes in Ditmas park!

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