Goodbye, Park Slope. The Clay Pot Has Had Enough.
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When Bob and Sally Silberberg opened the Clay Pot in Park Slope, Brooklyn, in 1969, Seventh Avenue was dotted with bars. Some had been there for decades, when the neighborhood was home to dock workers living in single-room occupancies. It was an unlikely location for a hippie pottery store.
“We had a teapot show,” Mr. Silberberg, now 76, recently recalled. “And this guy came in and stole an elephant teapot. My manager ran to the nearest bar, the Stack of Barley, and said, ‘Someone just stole a teapot!’ The guys at the bar chased him down the block. The cops apprehended him and the teapot was held for evidence. A year and a half later, I went to Queens to get it, and the man at the desk shouted, ‘Here’s the guy for the elephant teapot!’”
Park Slope has changed a great deal since the Stack of Barley days. Today nearly all of Seventh Avenue’s 1960s-era shops have been replaced by chains like Chipotle, and a distressing number of nail salons and real-estate brokers.
A few weeks ago the Clay Pot’s owner, Tara Silberberg, the Silberbergs’ older daughter, announced that she was closing the Park Slope location to focus on online sales and a recently opened NoLIta branch. Since then customers have been coming in to the Slope store to weep.
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/style/romance-novels-diversity.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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