Bread Stuy Seized By Feds
Bad news Bed Stuy. Neighborhood fave Bread Stuy has run into trouble: According to the tipster who sent in this photo, the cafe was shuttered today and slapped with a large “Seized” sticker. The reason, according to what was posted in the window, has something to do with taxes. Very sad. GMAP
Bad news Bed Stuy. Neighborhood fave Bread Stuy has run into trouble: According to the tipster who sent in this photo, the cafe was shuttered today and slapped with a large “Seized” sticker. The reason, according to what was posted in the window, has something to do with taxes. Very sad. GMAP
To all small Business and future small business:
Do it! Take the chance whether you have the money for 2 years of problems or not. To the creative… Keep creating. If you fail, keep creating until you succeed. Failure is the road to success. Without the experience of what you should not do, how will you know what to do? Listening to others people makes you a Servant, listening to yourself makes you a Master. Don’t listen to the bottom feeders of the world. They are just jealous that you can see something that they cannot. Never give up!!!
To the bottom feeders:
I love how the lamest comments always come from the “straight shooting and narrow minded” guys and gals from Wall Street. Yes FiananceGuy, I’m talking directly to you. Even your name demonstrates that you don’t have an original thought anywhere in your “by the book” head. Let’s not forget that the biggest financial crisis in my lifetime was directly caused by you and all of your “tax cheating, lying and stealing, thieves” from Wall Street. Your greed and blatant disregard for the law and basic ethics is what caused this mess for the entire world and has plunged not just small business, but entire countries into financial turmoil. Just look at the deal the Swiss are making to protect it’s largest bank. Not to mention that the IRS and the Federal Reserve are private corporations that force you, as Bread Stuy have experienced, to pay the debt of the Treasury dept’s authorization to create money for war and to give this Bail-Out (Poaching Session) to Wall Street so they can buy more homes and still not lend money to small business. I’m sorry DouchebagGuy, I mean FiananceGuy… Who are the Thieves?? You!!! Your the thief.. And you all walk around pointing the finger at small businesses who are trying to survive in a world that you helped mess up. Save your pompous, non creative, bottom feeding comments for your bathroom mirror… Although I’m sure you can’t even stand the sight of yourself, which is why you are talking so much BS here. Your small and your life’s achievements are worthless in comparison to the damage you have all caused. So go call your escort and cry that God cursed you with a small penis =)
BTW: Accusing someone publicly of anything that can hurt someones business is deformation of character. This is a crime and could result in court decision against you.
One that the owners of Bread Stuy could pursue and could cost you quite a bit for such unfounded public accusations. =)
Our simple plan of attack:
On Saturday morning, we went and bought Coffee, Te, Pastry and soup, sat down and ate it. Talked to some neighbors that we haven’t seen in a while.
Then dropped in at Brownstone Books and ordered a book that, let’s face it, I won’t get around to reading for a week or two anyway. Why travel to give the money to B&N?
Wake up call: Support them or they won’t be there.
Two more things…
1) For those of you who want to help Save BreadStuy, there is a fundraiser tonight: Cocktails, Concert and Community at Akwaaba Mansion featuring several musical acts including: Gregory Porter, Malesha Jessie, and Misnomers (Knewdles and Sos) 7-10 pm $20. Akwaaba Mansion is located at 347 MacDonough St (btwn Stuyvesant and Lewis Aves)
2) Watch the story about BreadStuy on NY1 (link below). I think Lloyd does a great job at illustrating the vibe around BreadStuy, and why it’s an important part of the community.
http://www.ny1.com/1-all-boroughs-news-content/113314/community-raises-dough-for-brooklyn-coffee-shop?ap=1&Flash
Stuyvesantheights has some great points. So read them just above if you haven’t already.
Look, whether you like their coffee, or the fact that their name doesn’t match their product offering is trifling. Shoot – I saw a post on Yelp from someone who didn’t think the air at BreadStuy had enough of a coffee aroma! “It was just regular-smelling air”, they griped. Stop. Re-read. S/he was griping that air smelled too regular!!!
Can we please take a birds-eye view of the retail/food environment in the neighborhood? BreadStuy is a diamond in the rough, in a community overwhelmed by Mountain Dew, Ho-Ho’s, and MSG-ridden chinese joints. Look at BreadStuy for what it IS, rather than what it’s NOT. I think if you polled the majority of BedStuy neighbors, who may not spend time on Brownstoner, or analyzing the napkin thread count on Yelp, they’d tell you that BreadStuy is something to be proud of.
SOLA, the development zone in which they operate, is important to the BedStuy community for obvious reasons. But it’s in a fragile stage of its evolution, still trying to prove itself. One failure on that strip can create a really bad domino effect. Especially in a down economy.
In terms of the management’s financial practices, I’m not concerned with the past. I’m going to take a leap of faith that they’ve learned some valuable lessons, and they’re ready to move on and do the right thing.
Bread-Stuy, you have MY support!!!
I live right near Bread Stuy and hope they are able to keep their doors open. I don’t feel responsible to donate though. I’ve patronized their business, but admit they are too expensive for me to frequent.
As for personally attacking the owners, it’s unfair. If people want to raise money to help them, what’s the issue?
This is a deeply under-informed thread. A few facts:
1) Bread-Stuy is now open. All you fiscal experts out there can draw your own conclusions as to how severe the problem was, if the shop was able to re-open within 72 hours.
2) A community mobilization is under way to assist Bread-Stuy in getting back on a firm footing. You business gurus and preachers of tough love might not get the idea of solidarity and community economics, but that’s ok. We get it here in Bed-Stuy, it’s happened before, it will happen again.
3) Those of us in the community who are taking part in the solidarity effort, including business owners, homeowners, renters, longtime residents, new residents (both black and white flavor) etc, are satisfied with our understanding of what happened and why, and are supporting Lloyd and Hillary with our eyes wide open, as well as our hearts.
I am horrified by some of the vitriol aired here, but not because I don’t expect vitriol from people. I’ve just come to expect better brands of it. The vitriol here about this very popular establishment seems to be propagated by either those who are too young to know better (as per the discussion about student loans. I, mean after a certain age, um, those get paid, if you’re worth your salt in your profession) and those old enough to want to establish businesses in this community. I think I’m more surprised by the vitriol of those who want to open businesses in this community.
I’m a business owner too and I know that my most precious commodity is goodwill, not my products and services. And I’m glad that Hillary and Lloyd have made enough contributions to their” goodwill fund” in this community, despite some of the complaints aired here, that they have something to draw from it in their time of need. This isn’t just about simple blind charity for people we don’t know. This is about reciprocal goodwill for people who’ve taken the time to not only establish a business here, but help build a community. For those of you, and you know who you are (and so do we), who are spraying around so much bile in here, you may not be so lucky to have this goodwill. You’ve gone beyond the pale of critique, with some of them being valid, into shallow-pated snobbery and self-righteousness.
If you were in business or going into business, you would know that people’s lives are not always how they appear on the outside. We all have our moments of getting by without looking like we are doing just that. This is the modern American dilemma. I mean, after all, look at the state of our economy. It seems like it has become pandemic for Americans, from corporations and small businesses to families and individuals–to not only keep up with the Joneses, but not realize that the Joneses have trouble keeping up with themselves. So how dare people here swill righteous indignation at small business owners getting help from friends when we have corporations who have the temerity to show up in jets to ask for handouts from the government! Where was this less than quality brand of indignation then? I’m more inclined to think that Bread Stuy’s predicament is far more venial than what automakers did as we, at least, have a small business seeking help from people who love them. I don’t love GM or Ford, but paid for them to get out of a hole nonetheless. Hell, I don’t even own a car.
So let’s get some perspective here. For those of you who aspire to have businesses here, keep in mind that you need more than just patronage. You need community support. Hillary and Lloyd might have fallen behind on their taxes, but they did not fall behind on the love of people around them. Obviously. There are three fundraisers organized for them within three days of each other, all planned in a day. Perhaps you would say that this proves how soft-headed and hearted people are, gullible even. Okay, but most of you with your vials of bile and petty grievances should be so lucky as to have any one darken your door for as long as we have Bread Stuy.
it is sad that the US government will spend billions bailing out big banks that have run amok but not support small business, especially in communities that need more cafes with internet access, not to mention affordable fresh food, a comfortable meeting place, and other resources people in more affluent neighborhoods in NYC take for granted.
As someone who helped run a small community-oriented cafe in Fort Greene, I can attest to the difficulty and struggle of remaining a viable business with no substantive capital investment to serve as a cushion in tough times like these. I sincerely hope that Bredstuy is more successful than we were- that they are able to reopen and continue to serve the neighborhood with their great coffee, snacks, internet access, and nice vibe.
Stuyvesanheights – it is widely known and hardly a secret that the wife has a reputation for treating people horribly (stories are a plenty), the food is mediocre at best and the place halfway clean. I heard about the wife before I even went there. You think it’s about community? Take away the free wireless internet and you will have nothing. STOP FRONTING!
Also, there are other good coffee shops in the nabe. And others on the way. Very community of you to act like they don’t exist.
Good luck BEG-STUY coffee shop and enjoy those 3 houses you own.