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.
Actually, I thought Cocotte was pretty good.
Do you know why these and other stores are closing? Beacause of two reasons. The Consumer is taped out and high assed commercial rents.
The marginal neighborhoods are going to get creamed. Clinton Hill, Bed-Stuy, Bushwick and Prospect Heights (Yes PH).
Sad that the Asshats can’t see whats going on.
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
It’s called TURNOVER people!
Out with the mediocre, in with something better!
It’s not like Al Di La or Oko or Blue Ribbon are closing!
These places were average. And that’s being SUPER generous.
I heard Brad Pitt only eats in Park Slope.
I heard Mario Batali was scouting locations of 5th for a new restaurant.
Would be terrific.
Maybe Babu can open a Dream Cafe at that location. No, wait, it should be a Pakistani restaurant to take advantage of his knowledge of his native cuisine. No, wait. Actually, I don’t know what the fuck I’m talking about…
Lissen here you Fort Greenehorn, the SLOPE ain’t goin’ nowhere. It is and always will be the “KING OF THE NABES!” So get used to it, you second class citizen. We’re just trimmin’ the fat for the next level of “best neighborhood in the world-dom”
I’m OUT!
You’re an idiot, 12:52.
These closings just keep happening all over the Slope. Could they be heading toward a slump once again. Or is it just a case of store front owners asking for too much rent? Perhaps Park Slope is just too big for their britches. Like how they act on brownstoner.