The current issue
Neighborhood Map
Bay Ridge
  • Bensonhurst, Dyker Heights
Brooklyn Heights
  • Downtown, DUMBO
Carroll Gardens
  • Cobble Hill, Red Hook, Boerum Hill
Fort Greene
  • Clinton Hill, Crown Heights
North Brooklyn
  • Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bushwick
Park Slope
  • Prospect Heights, Windsor Terrace, Greenwood Heights
GO Brooklyn
Dining Guide
Where to GO
Events calendar
Classifieds
The Brooklyn Wire
Not Just Nets
Police Blotter
Perspective
Parenting
Politics
Transit
Podcasts
Brooklyn Cyclones
Merchant news
About The Paper
RSS Feeds
CNG Boro Politics

‘College’ education

By Evan Gardner
for The Brooklyn Paper
Enlarge this image
The Brooklyn Paper / Shravan Vidyarthi
The New College Restaurant, a mainstain next to the Union Street subway station on Fourth Avenue in Park Slope, has undergone a startling transformation and is now “South Slope.”

Tools

Print this story
digg
del.icio.us

The New College Restaurant looks like it’s been taking finishing classes.

The longtime diner at the dour corner of Union Street and Fourth Avenue has suddenly reinvented itself as a hipster hot spot.

“We have to keep up with the neighborhood,” explained co-owner Stavros, who has owned the restaurant since it opened 28 years ago in a very different Park Slope.

“We’re ‘Manhattan-style’ now,” he added, without a hint of regret. “We have wine. And better coffee.”

It is not the first time the 38-year old Park Slope eatery — which started in 1980 as Fourth Avenue Donut — has had to catch up.

“When we started, this was a pretty bad neighborhood,” he said. “In ’92, we changed to New College Restaurant.” The new name is just as incongruous. The South Slope, after all, doesn’t truly start for a dozen or so blocks down Fourth Avenue. But that doesn’t bother the recent arrivals.

“New people come in every day, but we’ve kept the old people, too. People like the new sidewalk cafe.”

South Slope Diner [corner of Union Street and Fourth Avenue in Park Slope, (718) 522-2083]. Hours: Monday–Friday, 6 am–10 pm; Saturday, 6 am–6 pm; Sunday, 8 am–4 pm. Free delivery.

©2008 The Brooklyn Paper

←Windsor Terrace: Wildpack on loose in W’Terrace
→Smartmom: Smartmom has no kids to drop off

Reader Feedback

Enter your comment below

By submitting this comment, you agree to the following terms:

You agree that you, and not BrooklynPaper.com or its affiliates, are fully responsible for the content that you post. You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening or sexually-oriented material or any material that may violate applicable law; doing so may lead to the removal of your post and to your being permanently banned from posting to the site. You grant to BrooklynPaper.com the royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual and fully sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such content in whole or in part world-wide and to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology now known or later developed.

First name
Last name
Your neighborhood
Email address
Daytime phone

Your letter must be signed and include all of the information requested above. (Only your name and neighborhood are published with the letter.) Letters should be as brief as possible; while they may discuss any topic of interest to our readers, priority will be given to letters that relate to stories covered by The Brooklyn Paper.

Letters will be edited at the sole discretion of the editor, may be published in whole or part in any media, and upon publication become the property of The Brooklyn Paper. The earlier in the week you send your letter, the better.

Water Street Restaurant
Brooklyn Paper Parent

Links