Streetlevel: Flowers for Myrtle

Not trying to be provocatively optimistic (to battle my cognitive dissonance), but wonder if Myrtle will be kind of the next 5TH Ave or Smith Street.

Posted by: guest at May 15, 2008 3:00 PM

it's always nice to see a nice story- but what about Jose who sells flowers on the corner... it's kind of like opening a starbucks next to the neighborhood coffee shop- maybe more people will come to the area for flowers and he'll do even better. let's hope....

Posted by: guest at May 15, 2008 3:34 PM

I think Stabucks has fifteen thousand stores and this florist has two stores. How is that even remotely equivalent?

Posted by: guest at May 15, 2008 3:50 PM

Jose will still have his market. Not everyone can afford or is willing to pay for the products of a florist.

Posted by: guest at May 15, 2008 4:10 PM

I was *just thinking* we needed a classy flower joint in our neck of the woods. No offense to Jose, but sometimes carnations and dyed daisies don't cut the mustard. He had some nice all-white irises today, though (minus the goldenrod or whatever that was).

Posted by: guest at May 15, 2008 4:23 PM

Does anyone know of a place in Park Slope that delivers bags of mulch??

Posted by: guest at May 15, 2008 4:25 PM

"but wonder if Myrtle will be kind of the next 5TH Ave or Smith Street."

uhh...not till they tear down the projects...

Posted by: guest at May 15, 2008 4:27 PM

i was in there last weekend and they are charging $20 for a small bunch of tulips and you can get better tulips at the farmer's market on saturday for half the price. when will new businesses in the neighborhood (a la green grape provisions) realize that their pricing structure is way out of step with the rest of the neighborhood. just because they are offering a "new and different" service does not mean they have to price their product in the stratosphere. come on business owners - do you research!

Posted by: guest at May 15, 2008 4:44 PM

Actually Myrtle is becoming the next 5th Ave or Smith Street in Clinton Hill. Thank God, finally. I just wish it would move along a little faster.

Posted by: guest at May 15, 2008 4:45 PM

I just walked down Myrtle last weekend and saw absolutely no shop, store or restaurant I had a desire to go into.

Not the case on Smith or 5th for me...

Posted by: guest at May 15, 2008 4:53 PM

"I just walked down Myrtle last weekend and saw absolutely no shop, store or restaurant I had a desire to go into.

Not the case on Smith or 5th for me..."

I just walked past your Mom's butt and had no desire to go into it...

Posted by: guest at May 15, 2008 5:03 PM

Yeah, 4:27, Myrtle and Washington is not really near those projects, but anyway Smith is near some projects too, so I don't think that's gonna define the issue. And having lived off of 5Th in the 80s it has kind of the same vibe.

Posted by: guest at May 15, 2008 5:11 PM

Want to compare Myrtle in the 80's to 5th in the 80's???

Please...let's start that one...

This is 2008. Myrtle is still crap. And 5th is amazing.

btw, 5:03 is the most immature comment I've ever read on this website. And that's saying A LOT.

Posted by: guest at May 15, 2008 5:13 PM

5:11, so Myrtle now reminds you of 5th in the 80's? Well, that means Myrtle has another 30 years to go before it's as nice as 5th.

MURDER AVENUE

Posted by: guest at May 15, 2008 5:15 PM

Yes, let's start that one 5:13...if you or your cousin 5:15 have anything to say that supports your argument besides "crap" and "MURDER AVENUE". Anyone with a lobotomy scar and a hard-on can come with that. 5TH in '88 was a lot like Myrtle is today...a few condos that struggled...a lot of long time locals...old failing stores...and then a sprinkling of people who wanted to open businesses and couldn't afford 7TH Ave. Yeah it'll take time and today's economic will set it back, but you come back in 20 years and we'll see. Of course you'll probably be dead because of the way you talk to people, but maybe you'll wish you'd pulled you heaed out once in awhile during your life.

Posted by: guest at May 15, 2008 5:25 PM

I said 5TH 80s = Myrtle 00s, people said 5TH was crap then, turned up their noses at it. Forget about starting it, it was an obesrvation take it or leave it.

Posted by: guest at May 15, 2008 5:34 PM

where is myrtle avenue?

never heard of it.

Posted by: guest at May 15, 2008 5:36 PM

Oh great. Root Stock and Quade completely screwed up our wedding flowers 2 years ago. We had specifically asked for horizontal arrangements for the reception at our house and they sent over vertical ones that we couldn't use. When I asked for a fix, I was told in a really hostile way that the design was up to them and we had no say in it. When I begged them to reconsider, they reluctantly came back to rework the flowers. The new arrangements took them all of 5 minutes to do and looked it. The day you get married is stressful enough w/o that kind of situation and I cried. We'll never use them again.

Posted by: guest at May 15, 2008 7:06 PM

Can you still but a gurdle on Myrtle?

Go to Castros on Myrtle. Great Mexican!

Posted by: guest at May 15, 2008 8:29 PM

just visited the myrtle strip recently (lived there 4years ago for about 5 yrs... thanks to pratt)

*i could NOT believe how much has changed in the past 4 years..

i remember when Zaytoons & Thai 101 were the trailblazers... now there's many more dining options and nightspots.

*it still does have a tinge of old-school low-budgetness... but that what makes this strip stand apart from other nabes..
(it truly reflects a diverse socio-economic section of our city).

im curious if the new towers at flatbush and other new sprouting condos along the strip will push out the low-income. (i heard there were talks about converting the NY housing to co-ops, if/when that happens, then you know that this strip is truly gentry-heaven....)

Posted by: guest at May 16, 2008 10:12 AM

Myrtle Ave is perfect the way it is. There's something for every income.

U-N-I-T-Y!

Posted by: guest at May 16, 2008 11:00 AM

is this in queens?

Posted by: guest at May 16, 2008 9:54 PM

"i was in there last weekend and they are charging $20 for a small bunch of tulips and you can get better tulips at the farmer's market on saturday for half the price. when will new businesses in the neighborhood (a la green grape provisions) realize that their pricing structure is way out of step with the rest of the neighborhood. just because they are offering a "new and different" service does not mean they have to price their product in the stratosphere. come on business owners - do you research!"

i assume keeping with the neighborhood price structure means offering what ever you feel like and forcing patrons to buy it because there's nothing esle around ala bodegas every two feet and, uhmmm, nothing else. being a new yorker (born and raised) i understand the importance of diversity the need for bodegas and upscale markets. the need for jose and the need for upscale shops. i also understand that you probably priced someone out of the current apartment that you live in. and that perhaps you should research.

if i'm wrong and you've been here for whatever amount of years you feel qualifies you to make such ignorant statements without the least bit of knowledge regarding economics or capitalism then i'll assume you remember when starbucks opened in park slope. you'll remember how outrage people were. to the point of throwing paint in the entryway every day. what happened, nothing, starbucks remains and places like ozzie's and gorilla are successful. do you see?

have fun in utopia

Posted by: guest at May 19, 2008 9:35 AM

I am disappointed in this thread for the lack of commentary regarding vertical and horizontal wedding flower arrangements.

Posted by: guest at May 22, 2008 11:57 AM

Anyone know about the smelly bodega on Myrtle and Clinton? What a waste of a great location - sort of brings the whole neighborhood down

Posted by: guest at May 23, 2008 2:08 PM

First and for most, I love the little guy and do everything I can to make sure he succceeds. I hate big corporate and I hate people trying to rip me off! The thing is, buying flowers from a florist in comparison to a street vendor or the farmer's market is like buying deli cold cuts vs shopping with the butcher. I have bought from Rootstock a couple of times, and every time they have hooked me up with a kick ass bouquet that lasted for over a week! Deli and farmer's market product lasts 2 days max. Further, Rootstock has always been a fun and novel experience. There is a time and place for both, but Rootstock has better quality.

Just my opinion.

Posted by: guest at May 28, 2008 8:18 PM

As I was lookin into the flower shop and I noticed this awesome looking driver (I guess the company's driver) dropping off plants to the store. He greeted me with a smile and invited me into the shop to look around guaranting that I would find something that caught my eye, pretaining to the plants and flowers. The store was gorgeous however, the prices are a little out of my range being that I'm a single parent raising my little one. I wish them the best of luck with their new flower shop and hope to see that guy again!

Posted by: guest at May 28, 2008 9:54 PM