3rd Avenue is Starting to Happen
If 4th Avenue is the next Park Ave. (a laughable notion at this point), does that make 3rd Avenue the next Madison? Silly comparisons aside, 3rd Avenue in Gowanus is quietly transforming into an exciting retail/restaurant corridor. New businesses are joining neighborhood mainstays like the Glory Social Club and more recent ventures such as Canal…
If 4th Avenue is the next Park Ave. (a laughable notion at this point), does that make 3rd Avenue the next Madison? Silly comparisons aside, 3rd Avenue in Gowanus is quietly transforming into an exciting retail/restaurant corridor. New businesses are joining neighborhood mainstays like the Glory Social Club and more recent ventures such as Canal Bar, Le Chandelier Salon, Tri-State Chess, Bella Maria Pizza, and the light manufacturing/artists’ hub at the Old American Can Factory. Here’s a roundup (from south to north) of what’s recently hit and forthcoming:
Bar Tano at 9th St.: Italian restaurant from Slope’s Bar Toto owners; opens this week.
Brick Oven Barbeque on 6th St.: BBQ joint opening in old warehouse.
Whole Foods on 3rd St.: Should come to fruition…eventually.
Home Ec betw. Carroll & 1st St.: Owners of the Flirt boutiques teach sewing lessons.
Hotel at President St.: Construction under way for 4-story hotel.
Crooked Tail Café at President St.: New coffee/sandwich shop; will open in about a month.
Drugstore or Supermarket on Degraw St.: New owner is looking to lease big warehouse.
Skate park at Douglass St.: Local group wants Thomas Greene park revamped with skateboarder friendly features.
Check out the photo montage of the new places and coming attractions on the jump.
do not agree that this is developing because of artists. that’s crap.
every area that gentrifies with yuppies sells for higher psf prices.
i live in williamsburg and am so tired of that BS. it’s the people with jobs and money and the local entrepeneurs and developers who gentrified it there. people who don’t spend money aren’t doing much.
this was destined before artists were there. it’s spillage from park slope. get a clue dude. and i used to have my studio there on the gowanus by the way.
Organic peanuts, 10:53.
Why to poor artsy types make a place cool?
3 years and it’s over. The artists will have to move on. Sad but that’s the way it has always happened. Maybe Sunset Park will be next.
What’s happening on 3rd Avenue is yet another example of the classic NY cycle of artists moving into an area and making it cool. There are several industrial buildings that house artist studios in that area – between 2nd and 3rd avenues on 9th street, 8th street, and 7th street. How long now before rents go up, pushing the artists out?
10:51
Whole Foods has more money than God. This project is -peanuts- for them. Seriously, peanuts.
How is Whole Foods going to ever justify all the money they’ve spent if they don’t open a store. If they can’t build, they’ll never be able to sell the land. Food for thought.
Maybe the smell of barbequed rat will scare off the rats and their fecal ways…