Closing Bell: Fresh Direct Cherry Picking in Bed-Stuy?
What’s so special about this building? Unlike most addresses in Bed Stuy, Fresh Direct delivers here. Conspiracy or just business?
What’s so special about this building? Unlike most addresses in Bed Stuy, Fresh Direct delivers here. Conspiracy or just business?
If FD didn’t serve a section of Brooklyn whose residents are white, none of you would make these kinds of comments.
Bed-Stuy is not just the Marcy houses, or projects in general. Why do non-residents of Bed-Stuy assume that everything in the area is a housing project? You all need to get out more. (But why would you, you think Bed-Stuy is so crime ridden.)
Is crime higher in some sections of Bed-Stuy, you bet. But there are large sections of the neighborhood that are extremely safe, where the population has money to spend and the people have requested – repeatedly – to have FD service. Yet FD is still not in the area.
You make these blanket statements based on some perceived notion of an area in which you don’t live. Bed-Stuy is not “the dark continent.” Grow up, get a clue and stop being racists.
This building is right across the street from the Marcy projects. If there was anywhere that was “dangerous” it would be here, and I don’t buy that everyone in the projects is waiting on the corner for a deliveryman to show up. Please.
I don’t buy that drivers in danger scenario whatsoever. Bodegas on really dreadful corners get deliveries. More and more restaurants deliver, and businesses like Sears and PC Richards have always delivered. I’ve never seen anyone running down the street stolen goods.
No one is going to jump Fresh Direct on streets like Hancock and Marcy, or any other place in BS where houses are now going for close to a millon, and people of all nationalities and incomes are walking up and down to their jobs and homes. Fresh Direct needs to look at how they can make more profit by serving a market that is crying out for their product. Their drivers could get mugged anywhere, including in tony Manhattan.
If they can deliver to Washington Hts, parts of Harlem, and East Houston Street, then they can come to Bed Stuy, Crown Heights and anywhere else they could be doing a rousing business. But then, they don’t seem to have much business sense sometimes anyway. I heard they don’t even deliver to the area that their warehouses are in in Astoria. I know people who can see their warehouse from their window, but can’t get Fresh Direct.
and how does someone commenting on safety and crime stats get labeled a racist?
“4:28, you are a racist.”
And 4:57, you’ve never looked at Brooklyn crime stats.
This is purely about business. How many residents of the Marcy Houses use Fresh Direct?
Safety is also an issue. It’s no secret that vast swathes of Bed-Stuy, despite some gentrification, remain dangerous.
See more at http://www.bedstuyblog.com
4:28, you are a racist.
Not everyone in Bed-Stuy is a criminal.
Just business…
Most folks of average means do their own shopping so that they can take advantage of sales, especially if they have a family to feed.
When there are enough requests for their services in the current “no delivery” zone,
you folks living there will get the thrill of having Fresh Direct’s noisy, fumy, refrigerated trucks and surly drivers parked under your windows at all hours of the day and early evening!
Be careful what you wish for… 🙂
They don’t deliver to all of Harlem either. I’ve seen certain Harlem brownstone listings that say “within Fresh Direct delivery zone” as part of the sales pitch.
Is it possible they don’t deliver to other areas because they are concerned for the safety of their drivers?