Park Slope Officially Too Posh For Own Good

The Brooklyn Paper printed two separate articles this week exposing closings due to rent raises in Park Slope. Nancy Nancy Is Gone, Gone reads one headline, focusing on the hood's beloved novelty shop. It's shutting its doors as a result of "over-the-top real estate prices." A few pages away is Stomach Pains for 7th Avenue Eateries, which notes that the strip once recognized for its bevy of restaurants (Park Slope's "heart of darkness") is now falling victim to the "hipper Fifth Avenue."

Seventh Avenue now houses "at least one empty storefront per block (sometimes more), many of them the sites of former eateries." This might be the final word on whether Park Slope is getting too posh for its own good. That is, unless Lynn Harris has anything to say about it. Either way, our guide to 7th Ave. survival dining is more pertinent than ever.