Closing Time on 5th Avenue
Over the past few days several businesses on 5th Avenue in the Slope have announced that they’re calling it quits. It doesn’t appear that rent hikes are the sole cause of the pileup of shutterings, though they may have contributed to a couple of these closings: Biscuit BBQ: The restaurant, which relocated from Flatbush Ave.,…
Over the past few days several businesses on 5th Avenue in the Slope have announced that they’re calling it quits. It doesn’t appear that rent hikes are the sole cause of the pileup of shutterings, though they may have contributed to a couple of these closings:
Biscuit BBQ: The restaurant, which relocated from Flatbush Ave., took the place of the former Night & Day diner on President Street. No word on why the restaurant has decided to close. Will the back room jazz venue live on?
Nancy Nancy: The card/knick-knack store has been open for nearly 10 years. According to the shop’s blog, the landlord pulled the lease, but NN’s stuff will still be on sale at NancyNancy.com.
Cocotte: The French restaurant, which opened in 2002, in saying goodbye because of “rising rent and an inability to make a go of it financially,” according to Gowanus Lounge.
Hollywood Video: The large video rental store closed last weekend. The chain movie-rental biz is in the process of closing hundreds of stores nationwide. With the vacated Eckerd space only a block away, that means there’s two pretty large retail locations now available on 5th.
bad restaurants close. who cares?
biscuit sucked on flatbush and sucked on fifth. . . . maybe they can open a sucky place somewhere else
I like Park Slope. Its cute. But they try a bit too hard.
I guess we don’t have trolls like you, 1:09–but I’m willing to live with that loss.
Biscut was crappy on Flatbush, and I guess it retained its crappiness on 5th avenue. Its too bad, ’cause who doesn’t love good BBQ?
Biscuit’s second demise shows you that folks don’t like Bad BBQ. I didn’t like that they served half-cooked food to you: I had an experience with a pink “deep fried” chicken and another one with some pink ribs.
Do you think they’ll try to resurrect this thing, like the phoenix, a thrid time?
You know what they say, the third time is the charm.
Prediction – next (formerly good) now mediocore restaurant to close on 5th = Bellville
Somebody needs to turn their gaydar on.
How come Park Slope gets so defensive as soon as they see other neighborhoods like Fort Green or Carroll Gardens getting some higher rents or sale prices? Stores are closing so lower your rents and everyone will be happy.
No Gays in Park Slope? – are you blind?
If you don’t see gay people in Park Slope, 1:09 you are blind.
Has anyone realized that Park Slope between 5th and 7th Avenues has more retail than Ft. Green, Clinton Hill, Carroll Gardens, COMBINED!
A few crappy places going out of business ain’t a big deal.
Especially with a new one opening practically every week.