Closing Bell: McDonald's a Blight on Park Slope?
Bees to honey! Or McNuggets. Or…anyhow, when we read the Brooklynian headline “Hideous New Eyesore on 9th Street,” we were so there. Turns out the eyesore in question is a big yellow awning for the recently renovated McDonald’s between 4th and 5th avenues, and Brooklynian folks are calling it “mindblowingly ugly” and “g-d awful.” (Sure…
Bees to honey! Or McNuggets. Or…anyhow, when we read the Brooklynian headline “Hideous New Eyesore on 9th Street,” we were so there. Turns out the eyesore in question is a big yellow awning for the recently renovated McDonald’s between 4th and 5th avenues, and Brooklynian folks are calling it “mindblowingly ugly” and “g-d awful.” (Sure is!) The larger question, however, surfaces toward the end of the thread: Is McD’s better or worse for the neighborhood than the porn theater it replaced? Jury’s out.
Hideous New Eyesore on 9th Street [Brooklynian] GMAP
The new facade and new interior is a vast improvement over what was there before.
This McD’s should try this:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080224/ap_on_bi_ge/zen_fast_food
carroll gardens.
Does the 9th St. location have a parking lot & drive “thru”? I know the McD’s on 4th and 1st has both. As does the one on Atlantic at Vanderbilt.
_This_ is the true travesty. Drive-throughs and parking lots are anti-urban.
I also can’t wait until the owners of the Key Food on 5th Ave can no longer stand missing out on the actual value of their huge parking lot and develop it.
Ha! Love it, 12:43.
Did they ever catch the Carroll Gardens Cornice Snatcher? All those poor, poor brownstones, stripped of their period detail. Sad really.
6:46 has convinced me that I not only never want to live in Carroll Gardens but I’m never shopping there either.
Gross.
the mcds has been there for 30 years.
how is the neighborhood “beginning to look a lot like texas?”
the idiocy of posters here never ceases to amaze me.
This facade looks fine. They’re TRYING. But it’s fast food, not a wine bar. What kind of facade do you expect? As if any of the commercial streets in Brooklyn look all that great anyway. Whether it’s Smith Street or 5th Avenue there are plenty of ugly storefronts on those streets. Plenty.
So whatever.
Next.