I HATE FAIRWAY

There, I said it. We went to visit the (as always) staggering Waterfront Artists show last Sunday in da Hook. For variety, volume, and vision, plus the opportunity to buy some very interesting and exciting art at manageable prices (and "Support Living Artists") the Waterfront Show on Van Brunt Street and the River is the place to go.

Afterwards, we decided to pay our maiden visit to Fairway right across the street. The thought was to have a cup of joe then pick up a few nice prepared items for dinner that evening. Well, Fairway on Sunday afternoon was one of the most crowded shops that I've ever encountered. I was in Fairway on the UWS on New Years Eve afternoon and it was not as crowded as the Red Hook store. You could not even navigate a shopping cart through the aisles, that is how crowded they were. Then, it was 10 minutes on line to get a cup of coffee, another 10 to pay for it. Forget the food lines, it was insane. We found a table and watched the crowd on the much hyped patio outside. Unfortunately, except for a few folks who seemed to be waiting for the New York Water Taxi to dock so they could hightail it back to Manhattan, Fairway seemed a regrettably familiar & crowded extension of 7th avenue.. Seemed like customers, in that Park Slope manner, are so reluctant to leave the safe haven between 5th and 7th aves and Flatbush and 9th streets , finding it so hard to believe that anything of value exists outside of its borders, that Fairway represents a jaunt far afield, almost glamorous..I guess .it is OK to go there as it is an adjunct of PS almost and after all is located in even hipper red hook...

Face it people, Fairway is too darn crowded and you can get an equivalent a variety of multi-ethnic foods by visiting the various nabes that make Brooklyn the king of boroughs....let's keep it real, not just packaged and branded, people..end of rant. Thank you