Chain Gang Thrives in Brooklyn
National retailers are increasingly sweet on Brooklyn, according to an article in today’s Post, and Brooklyn is apparently sold on chain stores. Since opening in December, the new IHOP on Livingston Street has ranked first in sales among the breakfast restaurant’s 1,300 locations, and the Downtown IHOP’s owner plans to open eateries in Bed-Stuy, East…
National retailers are increasingly sweet on Brooklyn, according to an article in today’s Post, and Brooklyn is apparently sold on chain stores. Since opening in December, the new IHOP on Livingston Street has ranked first in sales among the breakfast restaurant’s 1,300 locations, and the Downtown IHOP’s owner plans to open eateries in Bed-Stuy, East New York and Williamsburg. Other evidence of chain stores’ willingness to give Brooklyn a try includes the Target opening at Flatbush Junction and the one planned for the new building at Albee Square; Apple, JC Penney and Nordstrom are all said to be considering adding Brooklyn outposts. Marty Markowitz has been trying to woo Apple to a number of locations, including the new Albee Square building, the ground-floor space at One Hanson and the lower level of the Municipal Building on Joralemon Street. Although Downtown—with its existing foot traffic, reputation as a shopping district, and thousands of residential units in the pipeline—seems like a reasonable location for national chains, the influx of new stores is also detrimentally affecting independent retailers. “You can go anywhere to shop at a big chain store—people come to Downtown Brooklyn for Downtown Brooklyn and its uniqueness,” says Randy Leigh, a board member for Families United for Racial and Economic Equality, who notes that more than 100 small businesses have been pushed out of Downtown in the past year.
B’klyn is Making Chain-ge [NY Post]
Flatbush Junction Target Coming Soon [Brownstoner]
Downtown Brooklyn in Transition [Brownstoner]
Photo by milkshakepants.
helpLESS not helpful.
sorry.
Actually 3:04 the issue is not saying…whey don’t you eat sushi or thai like me…it’s your quote “…it’s not our eating habits it’s what shoved down our throats.” that is disturbing.
NO ONE is shoving anything down your throat. You have a selection of food JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE DOES!
If you argued that fast food was cheaper, fine we could try to talk about that even though I don’t agree. But you are suggesting that there simply are no other options which I’m telling you is FALSE. I could name 10 places with 5 blocks of the new IHOP with better quality food for less, but you are so ignorant that you don’t even know how to argue the actual point at hand and want to continue the same oh whoas me…I’m a poor black man that everyone hates crap that is so tired already.
Why don’t you take a cue from our hopeful soon to be President Obama and realize that YOU are the one who needs to stand up for yourself and stop playing the victim.
I’ve never forced ANYONE to eat at IHOP.
You want equal rights, act like an equal not a poor helpful victim waiting for the white man to give you everything you want.
Unless 3:04 was referring to Tai Babilonia.
Biff Champion
it’s thai.
you know…like thailand.
dont try it 2:52 i was not equating black people with poor
Poor white people eat fastfood aswell. it’s just plain wrong to stroll through a predomintly black neighborhood and pass judgement and “say why dont they eat sushi or Tai like me”.
Robb Report.
actually, 2:53 (and by extension, 2:48–though if you’re going to be grammar police, 2:53, you’d better deliver the goods) it’s “backPEDALING,” not back peddle.
You’re all frickin’ morons! All of youse!
2:48, that’s “Stop back peddling YOU’RE making it WORSE.” I have to go out at 5pm, so I’ll save the time it would take correcting all of the other grammatical issues with your post.
As for “greedy ones in your race” not understanding “the eating habits of the poor in this country”; there’s enough racism between you and 2:44 to make a Klan member blush.
2:48 also is equating black people with poor.
Interesting…not very helpful for your race, bud.