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Microneighborhood move - how's 17th st.? — Brooklynian

Microneighborhood move - how's 17th st.?

pieinthesky
pieinthesky
edited November -1 in Park Slope

Subject: Microneighborhood move - how's 17th st.?

So for the past couple years I've lived on 15th b/w 4th and 5th, and I love all my local color: the FABULOUS soup/tamale guy on 4th ave and 11th st., my great mexican/asian produce place on 15th and 5th, Cafe Regular that serves La Colombe coffee and has copies of the LRB! I'll be so sad to move, but for various reasons I have to. For a while I was afraid that I was gonna be priced out of the neighborhood entirely (still might happen), but my roommate and I have a pretty good lead on a place on 17th and PPW that we can actually afford...

So here's my request: can anyone sell me on that PPW area south of the park? What are some of those little places in walking distance that I'll discover if I actually live there? Where's the best bodega to buy my guacamole ingredients? Will I feel totally trapped being confined to the F train??? HELP!!

(I know this is totally neurotic, but that's what the apartment search does to me, people! If anyone can help me, you guys can...)

Thanks!

Comments

  • bennettjc
    bennettjc
    I live about 3 blocks from there. You'll be fine.

    Among other things, you'll discover the joys (and I do mean JOYS) of Terrace Bagel. Their bagels are amazing and their deli stuff is good, too. They also own a cafe next door where you can get decent breakfast.

    You'll be near Hot Diggity Dog where you can get .......um........hot dogs. Lots o' hot dogs.

    On PPW you'll also get Japanese food, Chinese food (I love Number One Garden - cheap, fast and they deliver with no minimum), Indian (never tried it).

    You'll get to know Krupa's (where you'll buy the newspapers and candy - lots of candy), with the nicest family (parents, daughter, son and son-in-law). We also call it "Lovey's Store" because the mom greets almost everybody with "Hello, love".

    J+H market also owns the other bodega on the next block (forgot the name). One is bigger and is open 24 hours (I think the other one might be too, but not sure). The other one has more produce. If you can't find it at one store, you'll find it at the other. And they sell flowers/plants at decent prices.
  • nj604
    nj604
    One bad note - there are two pizza places (Sabella's and I can't remember the other one) and they both suck ass.
  • seven24
    seven24
    number 1 reason to move to 17st: prospect park!
  • brooklynpotter
    brooklynpotter
    indian restuarant is closed (thankfully, because it stank)... but there's lots down here. the great meat store, pet-food place, yummy bagels at terrace (where if you ask for a schmear you get a schmear for the price of a schmear, if you know what i mean...)

    as for pizza, laura's in windsor terrace delivers and it's better, hands down, than any place is PS. (though anthony's brick oven is pretty darned good)
  • underhillnsterling
    underhillnsterling
    Ditto the pet store - great little place with 2 cats inside. Anthony's Pizza is really, really good (haven't tried Laura's - although it's been there forever). There's a bank (Independence Savings), a little post office (although service is somewhat limited).......and a 99 cent store! I love dollar store shopping!
  • pieinthesky
    pieinthesky
    Thanks for all the tips! I do love me a good dollar store.

    But the cruel (cruel!!) irony is that - as I feared - the apartment turned out to be a bust! I just can't resign myself to living in a walk-through with a roommate, and that's what this turned out to be. I am beginning to despair of finding an affordable place in the neighborhood. Did I just get priced out of Park Slope???
  • jordanelizabeth
    jordanelizabeth
    Did you get priced out? Depends on what your price is and what your parameters are as far as neighborhood, must haves, etc.
  • brooklynpotter
    brooklynpotter
    have you tried those large deco-ish building on PPSW? rents are not insane, from what i remember.
  • quijibo
    quijibo
    try 5th ave

    there's plenty of real estate on fifth
  • brooklynpotter
    brooklynpotter
    Flexichick wrote:

    You'll get to know Krupa's (where you'll buy the newspapers and candy - lots of candy), with the nicest family (parents, daughter, son and son-in-law). We also call it "Lovey's Store" because the mom greets almost everybody with "Hello, love".
    i went there for the first time today and i'm in love with them; can't believe i've been living here for three years and never been. they have everything you need *and* they have cats. i love a store with a cat. (who's now lying down upside down passed out from the heat... as is mine, because as much as we offer them a/c they want to lie upside down in the heat...)
  • greggny
    greggny
    Krupa's is THE BEST. I love, love, love them. Prices are fair for candy, sodas (my stop on the way to the Pavillion), etc. I stay away from the stuff in the back - overpriced, but that's what you get for convenience.

    The whole family is wonderful.

    In case you didn't see both of them - they actually have TWO cats - Jinty (grey and white) and Lucky (pale orange tabby). They're often sleeping in their spots under/behind the counter and are always there when the mom is working on the weekends. I make a point of buying Lotto tickets whenever I see Lucky. Haven't hit more than 2 numbers at a time yet, but at least I finally looked up the numbers to see if I won!
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