Ample Hills Creamery for Vanderbilt and S'Max
Remember when we told you about Lucas Fine foods closing, but with the promise that Ample Hills Creamery, the ice cream sold there, would open a storefront in Prospect Heights this spring? From the Ample Hills Facebook page comes word that a lease was signed on a corner storefront at Vanderbilt Avenue and St. Marks…
Remember when we told you about Lucas Fine foods closing, but with the promise that Ample Hills Creamery, the ice cream sold there, would open a storefront in Prospect Heights this spring? From the Ample Hills Facebook page comes word that a lease was signed on a corner storefront at Vanderbilt Avenue and St. Marks Avenue. We’re guessing it’s the charming storefront at 623 Vanderbilt, which is pictured. As the Fork in the Road notes, “Together with the Blue Marble outpost on Underhill Avenue and the $9 gelato sold at Bklyn Larder, [this] may establish Prospect Heights as an unlikely artisanal ice cream vortex.” GMAP
fair enough! 😉
Infinite Jester: The custard of the day on Mondays for November at Shake Shack is Salted Caramel.
oh, i wasn’t suggesting it was insidious, just a little sloppy. 😉
“dh: such as…?? you are forgetting that available affordable commercial real estate and foot traffic (of people with money to buy artisan ice cream) can outweigh immediate residential demographics. this new place is a block away from multiple elementary, middle and preschools and plenty of new somewhat upscale restaurants. it’s not too far from the train, and vanderbilt is increasingly becoming a thru-way up to everything at GAP and folks heading down to fort greene. ”
I’m sure this place will do fine. I just don’t think there’s anything insidious about the last sentence above.
but to answer your question – there’s no artisan ice cream available (that i know of) within a 20 minute walk from where I am in williamsburg. but that wasn’t what i was driving at.
that may have been the intent but the copy doesn’t read that way! but even so, there are more frozen-ish delights to be had in prospect heights! hawaiian shave ice at eton and the amazing affogato at milk bar, uncle louie g’s by the b/q in a pinch…
i heard they also will have space for parties – something that is in short supply in the hood.
dh: such as…?? you are forgetting that available affordable commercial real estate and foot traffic (of people with money to buy artisan ice cream) can outweigh immediate residential demographics. this new place is a block away from multiple elementary, middle and preschools and plenty of new somewhat upscale restaurants. it’s not too far from the train, and vanderbilt is increasingly becoming a thru-way up to everything at GAP and folks heading down to fort greene.
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three ice cream sources opening so close by each other.
and it’s almost winter! i swear sometimes i think tho people just add the word artisinal just to charge 10 x the price. there really isnt anything artisinal about these ice shoppes.
*rob*
I think “unlikely” here clearly refers to the happenstance occurrence of three ice cream sources opening so close by each other. Although technically BKLYN Larder is in Park Slope.
“Why would ph be an unlikely place for artisanal ice cream? As compared to what?
other neighborhoods in brooklyn without artisan ice cream places and a higher concentration of people with the money to buy artisan ice cream.
I do NOT think of dairy products when I hear the name “Ample Hills”.
Well, I suppose that’s dairy too, of a sort.