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He’s also employed “community tactics” performances, panel — getting the Roadify name in the public eye by actively discussions, and related participating in neighborhood events. “It’s good to get our events. The exhibit also name out there,” he told Civic News in October, “but the increases traffic flow in the way I like to think about it is it’s what we stand for.” community, getting more people “Our motto has become ‘never pass up a meeting,’” Goelz interested in the vacant space and in the added. “You’ll never regret going, and you’ll find something neighborhood as a whole. useful to offer your business.” “This is something interesting for busi- Owners of bricks-and-mortar stores sometimes find it ness and property owners,” she added. “We difficult to figure out what social media’s two-way commu- see it as a social good. It gives you nication means and how much time may be needed to get it more investors, but the fact that right, Caserta noted. “Freelancers may have it easier, since you’ve worked to create new they can have multiple Twitter accounts open, for instance, programming can really help as they do other work on their computers.” the community.” Freelancing has become a better option for many Vacant storefronts can people in Park Slope and elsewhere. “There’s a greater also serve as incubators for acknowledgement of the freelance movement in New new businesses, even as tem- York City,” said Peers. “Organizations like the Freelanc- porary spaces, and can be a ers Union have done a tremendous job providing benefits great asset in building a lively and ancillary support.” streetscape. Goelz, who will be focusing on “Turning Passion Into Many other speakers are Profit” at the forum, said that freelancing by definition scheduled to appear at the should be something you’re interested in: “You’re not work- forum, including Neil F. Carlson, ing for a company that has 100 employees. That flexibility is cofounder, Brooklyn Creative both invigorating and scary at the same time.” League; Catalina Castaño, direc- “I see people finding and using inexpensive tools on the tor, Brooklyn Small Business Internet to start their own companies in their Park Slope Development Center; Louise apartments,” Caserta added. “You don’t need that big Man- Crawford, Only the Blog Knows hattan office space to be a success.” Brooklyn; Nicole Davis, publisher, Physical space is certainly an issue for bricks-and-mor- Brooklyn Based; Susan Fox, founder, tar stores, though, as the cost of real estate in New York Park Slope Parents; Denis Hurley, founder and president, can be “a major hurdle,” said Peers. “That makes the ability Mobile Meteor; Bob Kalb, owner, Park Slope Copy Center; of a commercial strip to come together and Brent Langerman, web designer, mimoYmima; Alan Siege, support one another, whether through a founder/owner, Small Business Management Consulting; merchants’ association or business improve- R.J. Wafer, owner, Mybeegle.com; and Amy Yang, founder ment district, so important.” and teacher, Brooklyn Design Lab. In addition, Irene LoRe,

Naomi Hersson-Ringskog of the non- executive director of the Park Slope Fifth Avenue Business 5 profit No Longer Empty has another view Improvement District and owner-operator of Aunt Suzie’s of real estate. Her organization transforms Restaurant on Fifth Avenue, will focus on “The Past and empty storefronts into thoughtful tem- Future of Park Slope Business.” porary art exhibitions and programming. “I’m looking forward to meeting the businesses and “Our exhibitions are site-specific — we look at the site’s entrepreneurs that are coming out to the forum,” Carin former uses and the surrounding neighborhood, and that said, “learning what they’re trying to do and sharing our informs our curatorial process.” One recent exhibition resources.” took place in the former Tower Records on West Fourth “Park Slope is such a vibrant, connected community,” Street in Manhattan, where more than 20 artists created a added Morris, who opened her store in 2002. “I hope we can fantasy version of the once-popular, now-defunct store. draw on that strength as a group to help support local busi- “We want to bring people into the space,” said Hersson- nesses.” She would also like to build a network of support Ringskog, who will be discussing “Thinking Outside the beyond this forum, “forging connections and opportunities Real Estate Box.” The organization reaches out to the com- for the local business owners, entrepreneurs, and indepen- munity — merchants associations, community groups, dent contractors.”

neighboring stores — and looks for collaborations on — David Herman; additional reporting by Rebeccah Welch 2011 | Winter News Civic SectionFeature Head Southern History

Last November, the city’s Landmarks Preservation Acme Hall (4), a large Romanesque Revival–style structure Commission voted to move ahead on plans to include some built in 1889. Now home to a Brooklyn Industries store, the 600 South Slope buildings in a larger Park Slope Historic hall once featured a large ballroom, bowling alleys, and meet- District. The LPC is now documenting those historic struc- ing rooms for the South Brooklyn Board of Trade — prede- tures as part of its designation process, and the expansion cessor to the Civic Council — and other organizations. will most likely be approved later this year. A corner building on 10th Street (5), one block south, fea- Years of research and advocacy by the Civic Council and tures “one of those marvelous cantilevered corner window bays many volunteers have helped push this process along. When projecting into the center of the intersection, and is crowned approved, the expansion will be the most significant change by the name liberty,” wrote Save the Slope. “One suspects in our historic district since it became one of the city’s first the building is named for the Statue of Liberty, which can be such zones in 1973. It also means that hundreds of struc- glimpsed on its harbor perch from many South Slope blocks. “ tures will be protected from demolition or inappropriate Another key factor in the neighborhood’s growth was alterations, a move long sought by the community. construction of the Ansonia Clock Factory in 1879, on Sev- So what makes these buildings in the South Slope so enth Avenue between 12th and 13th Streets (6). Now co-op special? A lot, according to documentation culled from the apartments, the factory once employed some 1,500 workers. LPC and the blog Save the Many nearby buildings were built to serve this community, Slope. particularly the four-story buildings along Seventh and Most structures in this Eighth Avenues that mix walk-up apartments and ground- area are row houses and small floor commercial space. apartment buildings built in Just a block away from the 1880s, following Pros- the Ansonia are two im- pect Park’s completion and pressive firehouses: Ladder new streetcar routes along Company 122, a two-story major avenues. These blocks red-brick Italianate struc- 1 offer handsome examples of ture built in 1883 by the late-19th-century residential then–city of Brooklyn; and design. Eighth Street (1) and 11th Street (2) between Seventh Engine Company 220, a and Eighth Avenues offer excellent groups of single- and three-story tan-brick Beaux multi-family houses. These generally well-preserved brick and Arts–style fire station(7) . brownstone houses display simple, mostly classical, details. The blocks around The south side of Ninth Street(3) , meanwhile, gives us the Ansonia and the fire a collage of residential designs — beautiful Neo-Grec and stations offer many other

6 Queen Anne structures from the 1880s. architectural delights, 2 At the corner of Ninth Street and Seventh Avenue stands including mid-19th-century

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