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
Is that restaurant to the right of McD’s still an Italo-Argentine place?
Where is “Ruby on the Rag” complaining about how down market McD’s is? I am sure she was there protesting and asking that the store be replaced with some obnoxious, overpriced and pretentious restaurant.
when looking for a home, most people care more about the park, the more beautiful homes, the better schools and the lower crime, 5:57.
the people are an afterthought. no one goes and talks to neighbors before they buy a house.
i personally think you are wrong and think cg has the exact same people as park slope basically, but when deciding on a neighborhood it all comes down to the house and the services.
Park Slope is great that it is near Prospect Park but in my opinion I really feel that people in CG are just more down to earth.
Maybe a porn theater will move into Hollywood Video.
god, i WISH ps had a porn theater!!!
Relevant or not, McD’s did NOT replace a porn theater – that’s just a bit of PS urban lore or just plain b.s.
they recently totally gut renovated it and updated the facade, hal. i don’t eat there, but i would imagine that most of the clientele is local. maybe a few people from the hospital haul their ass down there for lunch, maybe…
I’m a big McD hater (read:EcoVeg). But they have been around longer than I (42 years in NYC) and people DO eat there. Hell, even I frequented McD and Burger King before I started to eat right!