The State of 7th Ave
If you’re walking down 7th Avenue in Park Slope, you might experience sensations of dizziness or disorientation. This is due to the massive turnover along this commercial drag recently: The Brooklyn Paper notes that the main drag from Flatbush Avenue to 15th Street has 27 storefronts either empty or in transition. Since rents are going…
If you’re walking down 7th Avenue in Park Slope, you might experience sensations of dizziness or disorientation. This is due to the massive turnover along this commercial drag recently: The Brooklyn Paper notes that the main drag from Flatbush Avenue to 15th Street has 27 storefronts either empty or in transition. Since rents are going down and lower rents favor restaurants, says the article, this means more eateries are on their way in, changing the character of the neighborhood. Some residents bemoan these changes, while others are adding menus to their take-out drawers, but Steve Sommers, a local broker, notes that previously higher rents were too high. It was a bubble, but now all the hot air is getting let out, he told the Paper.
Seven Up or Down? [Brooklyn Paper]
Photo by Raphael Brion
“Old Devil Moon made the best cakes ever. ”
The key lime pie was fantastic. And the biscuits. And anything they were serving for brunch. And the sangria. And the coffee. They did things right there.
Sigh…
“One of these just opened on 5th in the North Slope…can’t remember the cross street, but it’s right next to a barber shop. ”
St. Johns and Lincoln.
Wonton:
It’s called M&S Prime Meats on 5th Avenue.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/m-and-s-prime-meats-brooklyn
I don’t think 7th could support another butcher.
11217: I think you’re wrong about there being no difference on 7th Avenue compared to previous years. I see a LOT more empty storefronts, or storefronts taking a lot longer to turn over than in the past.
WonTon: Totally agree about the useless boutiques. For example, who even goes into that weird Victorian place between Lincoln and Berkeley, anyway?
I hope potential merchants are reading this thread today! There’s obviously an audience for a good tailor, a good Thai restaurant, a good Chinese place, and some low-end bodegas and dollar stores and the like. And how about a decent diner? Park Cafe is only so-so. That place on the corner of 7th Street that used to be farther north is pretty good, but far if you live in the North Slope. I’d love to see a Dizzy’s in the North Slope – I bet it would do really well.
I miss the great dollar store that used to be on Flatbush next to the Jamaican Pattie Shop (which moved). The Dollar store across the street is not as good.
Cortelyou Road is a little far to go for paper towels.
Natural Land doesn’t have a butcher, and the quality of their seafood is not good. Going to Brooklyn Larder for you meat is like going to Barney’s to buy all your clothes. They have specialty meats but they aren’t butchers.
Same thing goes for Union Market. You can buy meat there, but there’s no real butchering going on. I want a neighborhood place where the guys behind the counter go chop! chop! chop!
Old Devil Moon made the best cakes ever. I mean delicious. And you could get them x-rated too (the name of the bakery was Masturbakers). I had no idea it closed. Oh well.
there’s that crazy asian dollar store place where 7th smacks into flatbush.
“2. A professional tailor/alterations shop (not the guys who work inside of the dry cleaners)”
One of these just opened on 5th in the North Slope…can’t remember the cross street, but it’s right next to a barber shop.
With reference to a butcher and fish monger (the latter of which there are two on 7th within a block of each other) I don’t think it’s going to happen.
With places like Natural Land, Union Market, BKLYN Larder, etc, I simply don’t think a butcher could compete with those places. Even at $4500 a month, it’s just not going to work financially. Especially in a neighborhood like Park Slope where I bet people don’t eat a ton of meat. I’m not a vegetarian (anymore) but I only eat meat maybe once or twice a week, at most.
Completely agree regarding a good Chinese place. We do not have that.
rob — I’m pretty sure Alphabet City is de-gentrifying at a pretty good rate, although now that Old Devil Moon has closed, I really couldn’t see living around there again anyway.
That’s what park slope needs — a place like Old Devil Moon, although I couldn’t picture it on 7th Ave.
Wonton – Great points
we def need a good tailor!
would love a great cheaper fishmonger and a butcher
how about a good deli? – sorry but I don’t buy sandwiches from bodegas for fear their meats are old and they usually use stale poor quality bread.
I have a baddd story about Baluchi’s 6th avenue and Waverly