Someone alleges in a letter to the New York Times that there is no supermarket in Fort Greene. What planet is this person living in? If the Pathmark at Atlantic Center and the Associated on Myrtle and Ryerson to name a few aren’t supermarkets, I’m not sure what is. If you read the full letter though you’ll see that the author is an apologist for development that is currently controversial in the neighborhood. But why lie for that cause?
A friend of mine who used to work at Il Torchio (now Anima), calls my practice of hopping from spot to spot when I come back from a long day’s work in Manhattan “the Myrtle Shuffle”. A beer here, a burger there but lots of love everywhere. I’ve lived in Fort Greene/Clinton Hill for 11 years, 4 of which have been on Myrtle.
Last summer (07), I watched a critical mass of restaurants and businesses pile onto the avenue. Now my friends have a hard time peeling me off of what was once “Murder Avenue”. I have been a blogger for a while now and I thought I’d start sharing my Myrtle adventures.
The wider playground is all of Fort Greene/Clinton Hill.
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Pathmark is pretty garbage though and it’s prices are inflated for some foodstuffs, especially vegetarian foodstuffs. The spot by Habana is good for veges and the health conscious but its prices are inflated as well. If you want to eat healthy/og and are on a budget you’re assed out in FG. I shop in the city or the slope.
Understood. It sounds like we need more variety but to say that there’s nothing is a bit extreme and was obviously politically motivated in this instance.
What about the bravo at washington park and myrtle? I live on WP and pop in for milk and the occasion veg.
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Contaminator says : I absolutely agree with this !