Streetlevel: A Starbucks on Every Corner?
How many Starbucks locations are there in Brooklyn at present? 21. How many will there be in three years? About 100. At yesterday’s quarterly Brooklyn Real Estate Roundtable luncheon at the Brooklyn Historical Society, the coffee giant’s real estate broker in Brooklyn noted that the company was planning to open 25 stores a year for…
How many Starbucks locations are there in Brooklyn at present? 21. How many will there be in three years? About 100. At yesterday’s quarterly Brooklyn Real Estate Roundtable luncheon at the Brooklyn Historical Society, the coffee giant’s real estate broker in Brooklyn noted that the company was planning to open 25 stores a year for the next three years and that, given the recent transformation of Brooklyn, its expansion was “not precluded from any neighborhood.” (The recently-opened location in Brighton Beach, for example, has been a big success.) Hey, maybe Crown Heights will get its day in the services sun after all? Clinton Hill, Bed Stuy and PLG are also lacking, for that matter.
I was gay-bashed at Starbucks once.
Never will I go there again.
I used to be a Starbucks junkie but the inconsistent coffee and service annoyed me . I used to go to the SB on Montague Street.
they really should update their look
Hey 2:33 Brooklyn is the biggest borough in NYC, bring on the Starbucks baby!!!
Starbucks is the root of all evil.
Seriously hate that place and all they stand for.
Their business model is to invade a neighborhood with multiple stores…keep them open long enough to put the independents out of business, and then they close the unnecessary “extra” Starbucks.
Saw it happen on the upper west side over the past 5 years.
Its difficult to get a cup of consistent, good quality coffee as Starbucks. I am torn on this. Saying yes to this chain will make it that much easier for others to come through . i like them in Manhattan.
Has Beans is weak. Cafe Sutra used to be good but i believe is under new management and is no longer good.
Greenpoint already has one of these. Oddly, I don’t feel lucky.
Then again, with the oil spill and waste treatment plant, we now have a toxic trifecta! w00t!
Wish we had that Belgian coffee shop chain here, Le Pain Quotidien. Love their organic breads.
Starbucks is just so damn ugly, regardless of your taste in coffee. They haven’t updated their look since 1993, and the color scheme has become an adjective (a pejorative one, obviously) when I’m deciding on colors for paints and finishes. “That’s just so starbucks”.
Windsor Terrace has three great coffee shops.
No need for the bux, thank you.