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
> More dollar-type stores filled with cheap useful household stuff
We just got a new one of those on Cortelyou in Ditmas Park. I bought a few items there last night.
> Baluchi’s … recently jacked up the prices…
Seriously? They were already a bit on the expensive side.
Guess I’ll get my Indian fix at lunch in Midtown. Hmmm, maybe today…
I’d be very happy if 7th Avenue got
1. A good butcher
2. A real Chinese restaurant
3. A quality fishmonger with reasonable, not stratospheric, prices.
Besides the lack of Chinese food, I really feel neutral about the prospect of more new restaurants on 7th because there are an abundance on 5th, Flatbush, and now on Vanderbilt.
What we seriously can do without on 7th Avenue:
1. All those useless “boutiques” obviously started as vanity projects by wives of hedge funders/trustafarians.
2. Another cell phone store
3. More real estate agents
What I’d find useful, if not necessarily “cool”:
1.More dollar-type stores filled with cheap useful household stuff
2. A professional tailor/alterations shop (not the guys who work inside of the dry cleaners)
> Lemongrass Grill across the street is usually more crowded than Mango
Agreed, Mango is much, much better than Lemongrass Grill.
> I had dinner at Chiles and Chocolate right next door…
I keep meaning to try them. Maybe this weekend.
a good old fashion NON-organic bodega would be nice. none of that phoney organic overpriced faudegas. tho i dont really mind them either for certain things i guess. i know there are still some old fashioned bodegas around, but there is non on my block and that makes me sad.
*rob*
Baluchi’s is pretty good… Although I went there last night (for about the fifth time since they have opened) and discovered that they recently jacked up the prices considerably. Like +40%, since they now require you to purchase rice separately. Also the service was brutally, painfully slow. It made me sad, ‘cuz I had been so happy with them previously.
> Yes to a GOOOD indian joint!
Baluchi’s is pretty good. Not great perhaps, but definitely better than any of the other options in Park Slope.
Mango IS quite good, Snark. I live right there yet sometimes forget about it. It always amazes me that Lemongrass Grill across the street is usually more crowded than Mango yet Lemongrass SUCKS!!!
I had dinner at Chiles and Chocolate right next door to Mango the other evening and it was delicious as well.
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um ok – agreed on chop chop. I have never been to Beard papa – but the name alone makes me chuckle. So Japanese! like Happy Tennis!
a good arcade/game place/fountain shop I think would do well in Park Slope
um no to the porn shop – sorry it’s kinda schevatz to me.
Yes to a GOOOD indian joint! also why can’t we have a good west indian restaraunt in Park Slope!!!
I still think Park Slope needs a solid dessert place – but cupcakes,cookies,cakes and coffee that is open until 11pm/12am