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August 31, 2007
StreetLevel: Rock On, Fifth Avenue!
In a sign that Park Slope retail has moved beyond mere fancy-rag shops and trendy eateries, witness the pending arrival of Stoned, a store that will sell rocks, crystals, minerals and meteors, according to its awning. A neighborhood source tells us the Fifth Avenue shop, between Prospect and St. Marks, is slated to open next month. And apparently meteors don’t come cheap: Our pal told us not to bother checking the store out until we “make more money.” Gotta dig the name, though, no? GMAP
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this makes me love and hate park slope at the same time.
wtf is up
Posted by: guest at August 31, 2007 11:44 AM
We used to have several new age crystal places in the Slope. This is just the updated version. They should serve cookies from Red Hook's Baked.
Posted by: guest at August 31, 2007 12:26 PM
Duly filed under how-the-hell-do-businesses-like-this-pay-the-rent-in-Boulder-let-alone-NYC?
Posted by: Rehab at August 31, 2007 12:49 PM
haha boulder has 20 of these places
Posted by: guest at August 31, 2007 1:33 PM
I agree with "Rehab" on this one!
Posted by: bren at August 31, 2007 1:35 PM
Man. I lived just off 5th, on Bergen, for YEARS and now that I've moved, EVERYTHING is opening up there. There's a bar RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET from my old apartment and now, a meteorite store. It's incredible what's happening over there.
Posted by: guest at August 31, 2007 1:48 PM
Whats the over/under on this place's survival? I say under a year.
Posted by: guest at August 31, 2007 1:57 PM
The odds of this place surviving longer than a year are about equal to it being ironically destroyed by a Prius-sized meteorite.
Posted by: guest at August 31, 2007 2:12 PM
I suspect that competition from the "already been in business for a long time and have loyal customers" Super Hero Supply Store also on Fifth Avenue will no doubt seal its fate. You can buy kryptonite for what I think is a bargin price compared to what they are charging at this new place. They are doomed.
Posted by: guest at August 31, 2007 2:27 PM
The Super Hero Supply Store is a "front" for: http://www.826nyc.org/. It's not about Kryptonite sales.
Posted by: guest at August 31, 2007 2:40 PM
And the award for the most ill-conceived and remarkably off-target new business on 5th Ave...
Posted by: guest at August 31, 2007 2:45 PM
im still confused how 20 "asian fusion" places stay in business.
Posted by: guest at August 31, 2007 2:50 PM
wonder if they carry that crystal deoderant rock thing? There must be three or four lesbians left in the slope. Is this close enough to the co-op?
Posted by: Rehab at August 31, 2007 2:52 PM
I see 3 or 4 lesbians every hour
Posted by: guest at August 31, 2007 3:41 PM
i've heard a lot of buzz about this place actually.
think it will do quite well.
Posted by: guest at August 31, 2007 3:41 PM
Buzz? Drop the "bu" and you're on the money.
Posted by: guest at August 31, 2007 4:12 PM
I think they should add stationary and cutting implements and rename themselves Rocks, Paper, Scissors.
Posted by: ProfRobert at August 31, 2007 5:22 PM
Hey, don't be hatin' on the lez-beens! I'm just breakin' their, um, balls. I love lesbians. They're handy and organized and altogether more useful than lots of people, especially when a revolution is called for.
Posted by: Rehab at August 31, 2007 7:07 PM
Stoned's owner owns a couple buildings in the immediate area, and maybe the one that houses Stoned, too, although i'm not sure. so i think this is less someone's crazy quit-your-day-job pipe dream and more a guy who's financially secure enough to basically enjoy his hobby all day, and maybe make some extra money doing it.
Posted by: guest at September 1, 2007 3:25 AM
Oh, that's cool! Better than thinking someone invested $ in a business that will prove to be financially "rocky".... booooooo, did I really do that! :)
Better to think that the person owns the building and is enjoying a hobby!
Would never want to think of the business owner as being caught between a "rock and a hard place".... awright, awright I'm going! :)
Posted by: bren at September 1, 2007 9:01 AM
Stoned's owner owns the buildings outright, and can absorb the loss of rent on this prime commercial space in order to pursue a hobby?
Posted by: guest at September 1, 2007 2:16 PM
the sign is TERRIBLE, why does it have to be so ugly?
Posted by: guest at September 1, 2007 7:29 PM
You guys are so gentrified, you're missing a potential point..."STONED"...much more could be selling in there than stones...come on guys - I'm beginning to believe that most of you posters are from Idaho..."the greatest trick the devil ever played...."
This owner has a real potential "gem" here if he can see clearly in NY...every ting irie man!
Posted by: guest at September 2, 2007 10:53 PM
5th avenue is rockin.
love all the new sh*t opening up along here.
way better than smith street.
Posted by: guest at September 3, 2007 4:59 PM
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