After Fair Warning, Fairway Opens in The Hook
After months (make that years) of anticipation, the Red Hook Fairway opens today. The 52,000-square-foot store is the biggest in the four-location empire. We’d love to receive reports (and photos) from any eager beavers who make it there today. Lots of photos by Callalillie here! Fairway Comes to Red Hook [Gothamist] Fairway Opens in Red…
After months (make that years) of anticipation, the Red Hook Fairway opens today. The 52,000-square-foot store is the biggest in the four-location empire. We’d love to receive reports (and photos) from any eager beavers who make it there today.
Lots of photos by Callalillie here!
Fairway Comes to Red Hook [Gothamist]
Fairway Opens in Red Hook [NY Sun]
Re: bike parking
You can ask the city to install a rack (see link to form below) and they will blow you off for 7 years and then go study it and then wait 7 more years and then come and put one in but by them we’ll all be using jetpacks anyway so it won’t matter.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bikeped/rackfrm1.html
I was disappointed with Fairway. Compared with Whole Foods, Costco, or many a smaller market, the staff knew little about products or process — for example, I asked what kind of coffee was used in the Fairway blend (which was priced well at 6.99 per LB — and it was organic), and it took five minutes to find a staffperson who knew. Really five minutes. I asked about the Orange Roughy fish at the fish counter and not one of the ten people there could explain what kind of fish/taste it had — a fellow customer clued me in. Finally, the organization/layout is very strange — there were teas in three separate sections of the store, so finding a box of Earl Grey proved quite a hunt.
Yes we all bike everywhere. Don’t be so incredulous. Red Hook is remote to say the least and Fairway has good stuff. We need our bikes and backpacks and bike trailers to haul inexpensive goat cheese all over brooklyn.
Fairway. You cheap bastards. Throw us a bone and put in a bike rack. Now! Capice!
Isn’t this a superstore? What are you buying that you are taking home on your bike? Do you all bike to Costco too?
Bike parking is a reasonable thing for Fairway to have thought of. Lots and lots of people bike in the neighborhood. But since it’s all still under construction I’m sure it’s not a problem to put it in. Patience people!
and as for Sunny’s bar. they’re not really going to be open at the same times. so chill dude. Red Hook will still be mostly desolate.
this from the guy who complains they didn’t accomodate his needs exactly?
If it makes you feel better about my state of mind, I was *amused* by the way everyone swarmed around the woman handing out samples of shrimp. I’ve been watching a lot of nature documentaries lately — it reminded me of dolphins attacking a bait ball:
http://www.oceanfootage.com/oceans/vd?action=popup;product=CM01_096;show_clipbin=1
why is it the least they can do? what do they owe you exactly?
when did Brooklyn fill up with these entitled idiots.
do you guys bike to Costco too?