Jefferson Avenue Loves the 70s!

Yesterday, the writers of The L Magazine magazine published a list of the "50 Best Blocks in Brooklyn," and Jefferson Avenue between Tompkins and Troop Avenues in Bed-Stuy made its list as the “Best Block for Pretending 
it’s the 1970s.”

(???)

The writer says of this block on Jefferson, “[It] shimmies along the shaky continuum between newly revived Bed-Stuy and the bad old days: here an elegant single-family home, there the sun-baked stoop of a stately, subdivided brownstone in desperate need of renovation, and a scattering of empty lots.”

(“The bad old days?” Hmmm)

The article chose 50 tongue-and-cheek attributes of Brooklyn neighborhoods, that played less on architecture or history and more on a personal feel.

The “Best Block for Mansions,” went to Clinton Avenue, between DeKalb and 
Willoughby Avenues in Clinton Hill; the “Best Block for Brownstones” went to South Portland Avenue, between Lafayette and DeKalb Avenues in Fort Greene; Varick Street, between Metropolitan and Johnson Avenues in Bushwick was named “Most Polluted Block;" The "One Percentiest Block" (a reference to the Occupy Wall Street Movement) went to Main Street, between Plymouth and Water in DUMBO; and conversely, the "Ninety-Nine Percentiest Block" went to Vermont Street, between New Lots and Hegeman in East New York.

Other observations included the “Best Block for Asian Food,” the “Best Block for Accidental Voyeurism,” and the block that is the “Best Example of Gentrified Perfection.”

(Gentrified perfection?)

The list culminates with the writers’ choices of the top-5 “Best Blocks to Live On” in Brooklyn.

(drumroll…)

Blocks in Greenpoint, Fort Greene and Bay Ridge were listed. The other two? Here’s a hint: The were not in Bushwick nor Bed-Stuy.

So, Bed-Stuy residents residing on Jefferson Avenue, apparently, it’s time to pull out your platforms, zodiac posters, afro picks and disco balls, because the editors at The L Magazine have christened your little corner of the world as the best place to be a "Dancing Queen” and do the "Jungle Boogie."