Morning Links: Show of Support for City's Plans to Seize Coney Lots Via Eminent Domain
A Starbucks employee says a roastery is coming to gentrify Sunset Park, the city’s plan to seize Coney Island land has support and more morning news. In the News City Plan to Seize Coney Island Land Supported at Public Hearing [NY Post] Small Biz Can Rent in Kushner’s Dumbo Heights: Smart Space Takes 150K Square…
A Starbucks employee says a roastery is coming to gentrify Sunset Park, the city’s plan to seize Coney Island land has support and more morning news.
In the News
City Plan to Seize Coney Island Land Supported at Public Hearing [NY Post]
Small Biz Can Rent in Kushner’s Dumbo Heights: Smart Space Takes 150K Square Feet [NY Post]
$19 Million Rental Portfolio Sells in Park Slope [Crain’s]
Starbucks Employee Says a Big Roastery Is Coming to Help Gentrify Sunset Park [Gothamist]
Fire Razes Greenpoint Hardware Store, Upstairs Residents Displaced [Gothamist]
Stumbling Upon Jewish Groceries in Crown Heights [Edible BK]
Forest City Gets Shareholder Approval for REIT Conversion [TRD]
Developer Chaim Miller Accuses Brunner of Not Repaying Loan on Contaminated Greenpoint Site [TRD]
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[BAM Bike Park | Photo: Mary Hautman]
The big “roastery” Starbucks might build at Industry City in Sunset Park will be a very cool place, judging from the original (only?) one in Seattle, which I have visited. It is ironic, though, that this big tourist attraction will be in a neighborhood that is still, happily, Starbucks-free. I love Sunset Park and its relative lack of chain retail, and the brownstones and limestone blocks particularly around the 59th Street R&N stop, and its mom and pop shops, and of course Chinatown, and I hope the neighborhood remains Starbucks-free, but this pending touristy roastery near the waterfront, not in the residential part, seems harmless enough. As long as they don’t open any Starbucks shops on 5th Avenue to push out the local cafes, I won’t complain.