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January 9, 2008
7-11 must be stopped
I just read the story about the 7-11 coming to The Slope, and I’m very disappointed. I live around the corner, and was starting to see some exciting things happen in the area… the “green” building, Sidecar restaurant, new bagel store, etc. I was thinking that a business improvement district was really starting to happen, catering more towards local businesses, and now the 7-11 comes to town. Do we really need another chain store when there are plenty of local business that could open instead? How can I make my voice heard? Help Brownstoners!
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This is 5th south of 9th? Look around you, what did you expect out of that strip?
Posted by: guest at January 9, 2008 7:32 PM
Generally, in a the U.S. a landlord can rent to anyone who he chooses. If a tenant has excellent credit and is willing to pay the rent, why would a landlord not rent to this tenant? If you own the building, they you can decide who you want as a tenant. Since you don't, I don't see why your preference for type of store has any bearing. If you don't like 7-11 don't shop there. If enough people agree with you, they will close soon enough.
Posted by: guest at January 9, 2008 7:45 PM
At least they'll be open 24 hs! Don't know any local business that is.
Posted by: guest at January 9, 2008 8:10 PM
7/11 kicks ass. Now I dont have to go to Bay Ridge for a Slurpie.
Posted by: slick at January 9, 2008 8:26 PM
Is this a serious post or a subtle troll job? If you dont like a particular store - dont shop there.
If you want a world where everything caters to your preferences, get rich buy an island and open whatever you want. Or, like 8:36 says, move.
Posted by: guest at January 9, 2008 9:21 PM
I love 7 Eleven! I hope ten more open up in Park Slope.
Mmmm Slurpees and 200 oz Big Gulps.
Posted by: guest at January 9, 2008 10:35 PM
i heard they're putting a wal-mart next to it.
Posted by: guest at January 9, 2008 10:50 PM
This is the same forum where people have conniption fits about the alleged color of brick or non-museum quality trim. Go figure.
That said, it may be impossible to prevent a single store opening. If there was a major renovation or building, community pressure can affect it (note Commerce Bank on 5th, design somewhat controlled by protests by PSN).
Best not to shop there, but most will.
Posted by: cmu at January 10, 2008 9:04 AM
7:32 is correct. places like 7-11 are expected on 5th south of 9th. I heard that 7-11 was looking to open at 5th and 5th....but the landlord refused to rent them out the space.
Posted by: arial at January 10, 2008 10:16 AM
I would move out of the neighborhood fast. It is going down.
Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 10:23 AM
i see no problem with 7-11 on 5th avenue.
how is that any worse than dunkin donuts, 27 99 cent stores or papa johns?
i don't get it.
Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 10:53 AM
MrHancock, I hope that the reponses to YOUR original postings are as well thought out and insightful as yours the next time you have a question about a handyman, architect, boiler or plumber on this forum.
Posted by: 13th Streeter at January 10, 2008 11:58 AM
For what it's worth, most 7-11s are "local businesses". They are franchises, frequently owned and perated by immigrants who want to find a way to be there own boss and support their families. When I was growing up, my best friends dad owned one (eventually 3). It's not going to be owned or used by some corporate giant. Think of it as a bodega with a name you already know.
Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 1:50 PM
What is so wrong with a 7-11 in Park Slope?
Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 3:25 PM
I have excellent news, 7-11 is not coming to Park Slope. It will be south of Ninth, Park Slope is safe. South Slope on the other hand. Although when they open the Apple store on that corner...
Posted by: funstraw at January 10, 2008 3:33 PM
Nice righteous indignation, there. Typical faux Brooklyn d-baggery.
Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 3:45 PM
that corner still has a for lease sign on it, 3:33.
so nice pipe dream, but if apple were interested in that old eckert space, they'd have already taken it by now.
Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 3:57 PM
But if they did take it you wouldn't know about it for another year.
Posted by: funstraw at January 10, 2008 4:02 PM
Apple store will be on Adams street in downtown brooklyn. They wouldn't stick it smack dab in a neighborhood like Park Slope. With only 2 train lines near it... it would be a loss and no one from NYC would travel that far into Brooklyn to go to it.
And since when has JUST south of 9th street South Slope?. South slope has pretty much been 15th street and further.
Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 4:19 PM
Guest at 4:10 needs a geography lesson. south Slope starts at 9th Street. After 15th Street, you're talking about Greenwood Heights.
Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 4:44 PM
Bah. You and your neighborhood are not special. The slope is about as close to the burbs as you get in Brooklyn, so what did you expect? Deal with it. It's just a flippin 7-11.
Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 4:52 PM
actually i think park slope is about as close to an urban oasis as you can get.
a 7-11 does not the suburbs make.
if that's the case, then chelsea is a suburb too.
Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 5:23 PM
Would you rather a Methodone clinic than a 7-11?
Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 8:24 PM
I think the slope needs it.
All of your spoiled, soon to be troublesome and delinquent little tweenagers need somewhere to hang out.
Where better than the 7-11? Smoke their first cigarette, steal their first porno magazine, catch their first std behind the dumster out back. Good times.
Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 9:18 PM
A 7-11 brings out piles of indignation, but city housing for AIDS/mentally ill/formerly drug-addicted homeless on 15th St and 5th Avenue is something to cheer about? Please.
7-11 may lack cache, but with Rite Aid, Dunkin Donuts, and several branches of huge banks along 5th Ave, the purity of the area was breached long ago.
Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 11:38 PM
I love how you thin-skinned bleeding heart NPR listener, Channel 13 viewer, New York Times reader a$$&^@#$ think. 7-Eleven is simply a CLEANER and BRIGHTER version of an all night newsstand/bodega. If one of those cruddy looking all night newsstands were to open, nobody would say "boo".
Get a life, will you?
Posted by: guest at January 11, 2008 3:07 AM
The loudest message people in the area can send is not to spend money there. Same thing happened with the Starbucks on Smith and 7th ave. People complained a whole lot, but when the doors opened they all lined up with their $5, sat down and opened their laptops.
So complain all you want but the next time you want a loaf of bread that a cat has not slept on head-on-down to the 7-11 and pick one up from the well lit cat free shelves.
Thank you come again!
Posted by: guest at January 11, 2008 10:02 AM
Just let ratner claim eminent domain to that block and put in a walmart. You won't have a 7-11 to worry about.
Posted by: guest at January 11, 2008 3:07 PM
kvetch, kvetch and more kvetching!
Posted by: Ysabelle at January 11, 2008 4:26 PM
24-hour stores are always great to have. Think of late night runs for toilet paper, or diapers for families. Pet food when you run out and the cat is wailing, hungry. On and on. It's not the end of the world, or end of South Slope either.
Posted by: guest at January 13, 2008 5:26 PM
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