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
there really needs to be a good DVD porno store on 5th avenue in park slope. it’s really f’ing annoying to have to go all the way to sunset park for porn. and dont say who buys porn anymore. i dont believe in watching porn on a compuiter or downloading it. it’s not as fun.
*rob*
tybur6, the restaurant logic was offered up in Brooklyn Paper article and just reblogged here…
Ok so aside from eateries, what other types of stores do most people really want and will shop in?
Another logical fallacy… that restaurants will do well even with lower rent. With less disposable income, we do not really need more restaurants.
Oh yeah, and Song. Song is pretty damn tasty.
I also felt that the ‘eateries’ are the ones that drove rents up. Alcohol is big markup and moneymaker and those that serve can pay higher rents than ‘shops’.
There was a time when many landlords did not to rent to ‘food’ establishments…too much trouble and vermin.
But with appetite of today’s crowd for drinking – landlords seem quite willing to take to bigger rents.
(and I mention this in particular because I have very little patience for Williamsburg and don’t quite understand the appeal…)
Lost… I think there are still 47 thai or thai-inspired restaurants in Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill. Even if 3 or 4 of them close, they seem to be replaced with the same thing again.
Oh, and it’s about a 10 min walk across the Gowanus.
Lostintranslation:
Song on 5th Avenue is one of the best Thai restaurants in Brooklyn.
And yes, Williamsburg (Bedford Avenue anyway) seems to have WAY too many really mediocre Thai places.