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Flatbush Avenue freakout: On Prime 6 and how a race-baiting hoax hooked Bobo Brooklyn, briefly | by Michael McLaughlin | Capital New York “The music thing is an aberration. That was never ever a concern of any of our neighbors,” said Steve Ettlinger. “It’s a complete distraction. It’s a free-for-all and an indictment of the web.” Two things: One, the legacy of Flatbush Avenue as a home for businesses catering to African American shoppers—from its hair salons to Afrocentric children’s clothing stores to Christie’s Jamaican Patties, two blocks down the avenue at Park Place, that is so popular, double-decker tour buses are known to stop there, has been slipping away recently as new businesses catering to the yuppies just north and south of the strip proliferate: from Franny’s, the high-end pizzeria located in a former pet store, to American Apparel with its glitzy outpost in the former Plaza Twin movie theater at Flatbush and Seventh Avenue, to Flatbush Farm, the hipster bar and eatery with attached high-end grocery-boutique, the avenue is changing. And in Park Slope, that had bred suspicion and wariness—of the sort documented by Fucked in Park Slope, and echoed by locals who say they find they are defending themselves against accusations of racism more and more. Read more at Capital New York ——>

Flatbush Avenue freakout: On Prime 6 and how a race-baiting hoax hooked Bobo Brooklyn, briefly | by Michael McLaughlin | Capital New York

“The music thing is an aberration. That was never ever a concern of any of our neighbors,” said Steve Ettlinger. “It’s a complete distraction. It’s a free-for-all and an indictment of the web.” Two things: One, the legacy of Flatbush Avenue as a home for businesses catering to African American shoppers—from its hair salons to Afrocentric children’s clothing stores to Christie’s Jamaican Patties, two blocks down the avenue at Park Place, that is so popular, double-decker tour buses are known to stop there, has been slipping away recently as new businesses catering to the yuppies just north and south of the strip proliferate: from Franny’s, the high-end pizzeria located in a former pet store, to American Apparel with its glitzy outpost in the former Plaza Twin movie theater at Flatbush and Seventh Avenue, to Flatbush Farm, the hipster bar and eatery with attached high-end grocery-boutique, the avenue is changing.

And in Park Slope, that had bred suspicion and wariness—of the sort documented by Fucked in Park Slope, and echoed by locals who say they find they are defending themselves against accusations of racism more and more.

Read more at Capital New York ——>

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