March 23, 2007
Brooklyn Drinks: Rope
If you happen to be wandering around on Myrtle Avenue around say, 10 o’clock, it could surprise one that there is actually a business open. The small stores and beauty saloons (why are there so many of these?) that line the street all shut their gates by the time it gets real dark, and the street can feel like a wall of metal instead of a new strip of emerging restaurants and bars. For those making this lonely walk, Rope can feel like a bastion. It’s smart, stylish, and incredibly comfortable.
The inside is dark red, with so many couches and chairs we can’t imagine anyone ever needing to stand. There is also a projection screen in the back, in a little nook by more of the couches, which makes the whole place feel a little more like it belongs in the East Village than on a street once lovingly titled Murder Avenue. It even has a jukebox full of indie favorites --Elliot Smith was blasting for the entirety of our stay. For those that got priced out of Fort Greene, this must seem like a godsend. When we dropped by people had sprawled all of their bags across the place, and settled in. It was their bar, and they really liked being there.
The beer selection is very decent and they serve a few interesting liquors. The specials run through the predictable run of Pabst ($1 on Monday) and discounted well drinks during happy hour ($3 between 5:30-7:30). Not bad, but not that much different from the other indie rock bars around the area. Which, come to think about, are really far away...so wait...we take that back.
Rope
415 Myrtle Avenue (Between Vanderbilt Avenue & Clinton Avenue)
Photo from Lesterhead's photostream on Flickr
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fucking gothamist. if this means that my local pub is going to be flooded with douchebags from manhattan - or worse, williamsburg - heads are gonna roll.
"so many couches and chairs we can’t imagine anyone ever needing to stand."
Ha! Maybe once the college kids go home, which should be soon... please?
I wouldn't worry about that..that bar sucks. And there's always old, fat dogs running around.
Viper, that bar is already filled w/ douchebags, it's current clientele. How is it that it's a bar 1/2 a mile away from Bed-Stuy (but, I'm sure nobody would ever admit that!), yet there's no black people? It's okay, though. You can have your board games and Pratt students. I am assuming are or were a Pratt student, right?
That address is Fort Greene, what are they talking about? It is still West of Washington Ave.
It would be really impressive if there was a white scared overpriced yuppie-hipster bar at 815 Myrtle Ave. by Marcy Ave.
the reason why there are "so many small stores and beauty salons" on myrtle is that there are other people in this neighborhood that use goods and services that are not limited to overpriced restaurants and shitty bars that are normally patronized by boring white narcissistic douchebags.
@Ross: Actually, as I've stated earlier, there's actually a lot of white people hanging about. They're the ones that pushed out all those nasty black people, that I'm sure you're no fan of.
Boring. Listening to non-native New Yorkers argue about gentrification and edgy bars in Brooklyn is beyond annoying. Can all of you go back to the midwest...please.
Ditto CHresident.
HA at 'douchebags from manhattan" crowding up your bar on Myrtle Avenue. Viper, you suck, you are a bitch back home in Indiana and moving to Fort Greene isn't going to do anything about that. I swear to god I want to go to this bar with like 50 people. I'd love to see your bitch ass roll heads. Go home you fucking herb.
im from the south.
boooooya
It's beauty salons, sorry, not saloons as your freudian typo would suggest. And there are so many of them because many black and hispanic people have hair that's difficult to work with. It requires more care and maintenance than white people's hair. I'm sure all these salons will eventually be made into bars or an equally pointless equivalent when there is no clientele left for them.
Ah i love this let the hate breed
Hey Sucky
understand grammar
You scared white yuppie/hipster that pushed the locals out
Ah i love this let the hate breed
Hey Sucky
understand grammar
You are the scared white yuppie/hipster that pushed the locals out
and
CHresident
a likely story
Ahh, I remember those days on Myrtle Av . Back then you could walk a block without someone trying to stick, or rob you . Things have changed, Now you have a bunch of trendy clubs, and drunk dummies replacing the "Mom& Pop shops" that once dotted the Av . I will say this, Some people here need to get the neighborhood names correct . Fort Greene ends @ Clearmont Avenue up too Lafayette & down too Fulton Street, & back too the park ! Williamsburg begins @ Hall St. down towards Flushing Ave. & back too the South side . Clinton Hill is basically the Co-Op's, The hood of Clinton Hill starts along Dekalb, & Lafayette Avenues . It extends back too Gates,then back too Carlton Avenue . The rest of the area is made up of Bedford-Stuyvesant, & Prospect Heights !
Ah i love this let the hate breed
Hey Sucky
understand grammar
You are the scared white yuppie/hipster that pushed the locals out
and
CHresident
a likely story
I was thinking this for a while
we have heard of gay bashing and hate crimes
What about Stupid bashing?
Rip the heads off of people with low intelligence
We need to stop putting up with stupid
make an example
ah yes - the good old days when myrtle ave was called murder ave. give me a freaking break. FYI, more than just pratt people live in CH/FG. FYI, a large proportion of them are not white - but CH is still middle-to-upper-middle class. FYI, there are plenty of great local businesses in addition to the hair salons on myrtle...karen body beautiful, joseph david salon, move with grace, chez lola, that handy little hardware store...just to name a few. wise up before you make ignorant comments about a neighborhood it appears most of the posters here know nothing about.
oh, and rope sucks. their female bartender was smoking AND drinking while obviously pregnant the one time i went there, and it was filled with loud idiots who couldn't hold their liquor and who hassled two "newcomers" (me and my husband).
The people who frequent rope are more diverse than any of you think, based on your postings, but you know it takes time to actually speak with someone, get to know them. But I guess when you guys are talking about diversity you only think in black and white. And even if that was the issue, what percentage of "whites" does a bar need to be a white bar? And then who are these black folks that go to rope? Not black enough for you?
and to Me and My Husband, if the bartender you mention was indeed pregnant, she ain't working there no more.
finally, they have a new policy about keeping dogs on leashes and off the couches it seems.
Enjoy your drinking, that's what a bar is for.
Yeesh, this thread turned quickly into an assholepalooza. Rope is a nice joint with friendly barkeeps, a good-looking crowd, good booze and cool music. And nice, vintagey sofas. And what the hell is wrong with dogs? Felt laid-back to me, not "hipster"-y. And it's two doors away from the Five Spot co-existing perfectly peacefully with a hip-hop soul-food place.