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.
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Name one single really bad unsafe non residential industrial dirty neighborhood that has suddenly began gentrifying due to an instant arrival of yuppies and people with money that didn’t have artists pioneering right before? You can’t. Not in the recent history of this City.
DUMBO – and please don’t try to say that the handful of art-like buisnesses/people “pioneered” the neighborhood – b/c they didn’t – Gentrification came b/c of one person – Walentas – who as the owner/developer basically built the luxury residential market out of whole cloth.
All hail the brick’s money and ability to turn around neighboods single-handedly!
I hearby christen the offending posting developer “The Brick”
Name one single really bad unsafe non residential industrial dirty neighborhood that has suddenly began gentrifying due to an instant arrival of yuppies and people with money that didn’t have artists pioneering right before? You can’t. Not in the recent history of this City.
There are no examples where a crime ridden ethnic down and dirty industrial neighborhood suddenly becomes attractive to middle class white yuppies who decide to move there and gentrify it. Doesn’t happen. The yuppies and other white money only move in after the area has been established as cool and cleaned up and “safened” up enough by the previously pioneering artists.
You can argue all you want. But it’s proven history and will continue to be.
“Northside wasn’t industrial and crime-ridden. It was just industrial. Or rather post-industrial, and close to Manhattan. Thats why it was rezoned. Get over yourself. The city rezones when they think its needed. I suppose all the condos in LIC were due to you as well.”
It wasn’t? Maybe 12 years ago when you moved here it wasn’t, but if you go back aways it wasn’t safe.
You mean it was rezoned because it was post industrial and close to Manhattan? So then why isn’t everything that is close to Manhattan being rezoned?. And why if that’s true, did it not get rezoned twenty, thirty years ago? Why? BECAUSE NO ONE WITH MONEY WOULD MOVE THERE YOU STUPID IDIOT! Yes, the City rezones when it is needed, and not just becasue the City “thinks” it is needed, but becuase there is money involved and pressure is put on the City by developers. Why does this happen this decade and not previous decades? BECAUSE the ARTISTS that were there pioneering, PAVED THE PATH for this to happen! Willimasburg didn’t suddenly become close to Manhattan and post industrial and one subway stop away overnight this decade. It was like that forever, but only began slowly gentrifying relatively recently due to -MY GOSH- the coincidental arrival of artists settling in the area and making it hip right before the gentrification process moved into high gear. A Coincidence? I thinknot.
Artists are not real people.
Modern art is meaningless.
Posts about developments in gow-anus are really a comment on the value of artists in relation to real estate values.
Right, all art school kids are white.
What a clown.
it also bothers me how people talk about how they could live in new york and not have a job. What came out of that? Not much.
While these white art school kids sat around kids in the bronx invented hip hop!!!!
shit