Neighborhood Corners Are Some Of Brooklyn’s Best
Last week, L Magazine released their list of the 50 best street corners in Brooklyn, and if you’re looking for a place to make a dramatic exit, or show a corporate giant who’s boss, you’re in the right neighborhood.
Has somebody gotten on your last nerve, and you’re itching to “storm off in a huff?” Head to 15th Street and 7th Avenue, which is said to be “heavily populated by young families and with a moderate but not overwhelming amount of foot traffic, so the people you’re leaving behind won’t dare cause a scene and try to get you to stay, but will only lament the idiotic things they said as they watch you retreating into the distance.”
Now that we know this, the Thistle Hill sidewalk tables are looking like prime people watching seats this summer.
Over in neighboring Windsor Terrace, 11th Avenue and Prospect Avenue (shown above) scored “Best Corner to Admire the Power of Community Action Against a Huge Corporation,”after area residents, who lost their only large grocery store, succeeded in changing the plans of drugstore chain Walgreens.
Technically, Windsor Terrace did score an epic win, but there hasn’t been much progress on the site since the Walgreens/Key Food collaboration was announced in February 2013. Posters on the construction fence still call for an estimated spring of 2014 completion, but judging by the state of the existing building, it’s difficult to see that happening.
Want to see which other Brooklyn corners landed on the list? Check out the full report here.
Have you made an impressive escape on 7th Avenue? Have any additions to the list? Feel free to share your favorite neighborhood corners in the comments below.
Photo by Teresa Lagerman
