Atlantic Terminal Station Starting to Show its Face
The seemingly interminable reconstruction of the LIRR station at the Atlantic Terminal is finally revealing signs of progress. Exterior brickwork for the station, directly across the street from the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower and attached to the Atlantic Terminal Mall, has started going up over the past month or so. While there’s never been much…
The seemingly interminable reconstruction of the LIRR station at the Atlantic Terminal is finally revealing signs of progress. Exterior brickwork for the station, directly across the street from the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower and attached to the Atlantic Terminal Mall, has started going up over the past month or so. While there’s never been much doubt the station will end up looking as generic as the rest of the Atlantic Terminal and Center, the construction (going strong for five years now) has made getting to the LIRR a confusing pain in the ass, and mangled street and sidewalk traffic. A press release from the MTA that came out earlier this year didn’t pinpoint when the revamp’ll finally be finished. Anyone know? We won’t be holding our breath.
Work Continues on Major Renovation Project [MTA]
“The chain stores I have been in around NYC are almost all run with staffs and (at least front line) managers being people of color –
This is the case in many big cities….Dubai…Buenos Aires….London…
You will find most workers in these establishments to be minorities.
I used to manage a retail store in Manhattan. Retail in NYC is TOUGH. I feel for the young men and women (mostly of color) who work at Target. It’s a bitch of a job. Minimum wage pay; lousy benefits; a schedule that’s constantly changing in spite of the boss knowing your class schedule, family needs etc; cranky, rude customers; a centralized buying office that doesn’t understand why your store sells certain merchandise really well and other things not at all (so the customers are always moaning about what’s not in stock) + supply-chain models that don’t work for the smaller square footage/high turn of an urban store; shop-lifting (yes, it’s a HUGE problem perpetrated by people of all ages and races in NYC); issues with shelf-damaged stock. I could go on and on. No wonder they’re miserable.
3:57 – Economics 101 would tell you that it is the “no competition around them” that allows stores to provide lower quality service, worse selection and higher prices rather then some imagined “racist corporate policy”.
The chain stores I have been in around NYC are almost all run with staffs and (at least front line) managers being people of color – do these employees get a memo that says – “hey since we serve a large black & Hispanic clientle, you dont have to stock the shelves, clean up throughly or help out the customers”
the only premise for your statement is some kooky conspiratorial agenda, with no basis in fact.
I am sure there are racist feelings among some corporate managers/officers of some retail chains (and local shops) that feels that its not worth making it nicer for “them” but thankfully in today’s society $ speaks way louder then a few idiots racism and if there was more competition then $ would force even the most racist individual/corporation to improve (or go out). However the idea that this bad retailing in NYC is a policy or by design tells me you have no experience within corporate america (or even small buisness america)
Hey Z, tell your 2-month old to shut up!
Hey 4:09, I’m not white, I’m black, and I think it’s about on par for a shopping center. It has some things I want to buy, and when it’s convenient I go there. I’m not looking for an architectural or aesthetic masterpiece, I’m looking for a STORE, and I’m glad it’s an option in the neighborhood. Now you can try to figure out a way to insult me.
my 2 month-old daughter is almost always quiet and well-behaved when she is out of the house. but whenever we go to the atlantic target, she starts shrieking. she hates that place more than any other.
4:09 you are so off the mark.
While the mall may be crappy by your standards, the purpose of any mall or retail establishment is to make money.
The Target is one of the top 3 money makers of the ENTIRE CHAIN.
The Daffy’s is also in the top 5 of the ENTIRE CHAIN.
As is the DSW.
While it might be crappy to you, apparently not everyone agrees.
I personally think your attitude is crappy. Does that make it true?
Brenda, I do my mall ish shopping with my friend in Newburg. Most of the chain stores that have opened in Brooklyn are their corporations top grossing stores nationwide. And as a previous poster stated, they don’t even have to work for. It comes down to volume. We have more people than suburban areas and therefore the urban stores get more traffic in the same square footage, if not less, than their suburban counterparts. In addition, most of the stores were not designed and are not managed to cater to this high volume. Chain stores all have a formula that is repeated wherever they open and it seems as though the formula has not yet been modified to suit our urban setting. Also, what’s with the checking of receipts as you leave some stores? They don’t do this upstate. If we have more thieves in Brooklyn it is not because there is more immorality in Brooklyn (some would beg to differ) but because once again, we have more people. So when looked at per capita, we don’t have any more thieves than our suburban counterparts.
All this talk about ‘ghetto’ shopping and not one mention about The Children’s Place, THE most ghetto apparel store (and corporation) on the face of the earth?!?!
But moving on…. Brooklyn (esp. this area in discussion) ain’t the Upper East Side, folks. Isn’t that what brought us all to live in Brooklyn in the first place??
Regardless, that’s what brought me to Boerum Hill. And I’m staying put, Atlantic Yards be damned.