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
Lets get back to the real issue at hand. Park Slope is beginning to look a lot like Dallas, Texas. And soon enough everybody in that neighborhood will look like Texans. I will continue to live in the greatest neighborhood in the world where I know I will always be safe because it has for its entire history, CARROLL GARDENS!!!!
No one is forcing anyone to eat there, it’s a choice, among many choices one makes everyday about where or what they are going to eat. If that’s not your poison, pass by. What’s the big deal?
people love fast food no matter were they live.
shit the Applebees by the Dekalb stop is packed with people who as far as I can tell are locals.
The new 1/3 pound angus burger with mushrooms and cheddar is actually surprisingly good. And for four bucks it’s a steal.
This whole thread was torture to read, but I can’t help commenting about the McD’s. It did indeed replace a porn theater in the early 70s…I remember passing it in the car with my parents and seeing a flick called “All in the Sex Family” featured on the marquis. Anyway, porn theaters are obsolete, now that DVDs are so readily available. As for McD’s, I don’t see what’s the big deal. That block isn’t anything to look at, with its huge Mitchell Lama building across the street and the ugly post office.
the kids in ps get a pretty good sex ed class with all the gays and lezzies around.
the gay men seem to have come here in droves lately.
Kids who watch porn write “their” when they should write “there.”
I wish their were porn theaters in every neighborhood in brooklyn. Their should be more than one in neighborhoods like park slope where their are a lot of kids. Makes for a good healthy upbringing!
The McDonald’s renovation is great (and I can live with the awning). I stop there all the time when I’m being good on my lowcarb diet (loved the $1 double cheeseburger deal in January). I wish the neighborhood had a Wendy’s or Burger King, too. Give me fast meat and cheese!