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.
8:07: That thread is part of the reason people hate the slope.
8:05. Thank you for saving this thread. Your post was, by far, the most enjoyable thing I have read all day. Are you a writer? If not, I would suggest you submit that post to a publisher. I bet you could make a lot of money.
have any of the Slopers seen this silly thread on Brooklynian?
http://www.brooklynian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=40811
Thank heaven that 7:40’s post was neither boring nor self-involved.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.
Not only do you suck, you are painfully self-involved. Whenever this site posts something about Park Slope, the posts become really boring really fast. Slopers are losers.
Thanks 6:04.
I couldn’t possibly be good people though….I live in Park Slope.
Or haven’t you heard? We all suck.
Park Slope is one of the cleanest neighborhoods in NYC.
Park Slope is not just 5th Avenue.
Many places including the now famous Flight001 are open till 8pm on weekdays.
Just like their Manhattan counterparts.
Park Slope ain’t perfect…that’s for darn sure. But you people will complain about ANYTHING and EVERYTHING.
Yummy–Buca de Beppo. Screw the pretentiousness of Al Di La.
http://bucadibeppo.com/
I totally agree with 5:19. I recently moved to the neighborhood (6th & Park Place) and I’ve noticed how late the stores open and how early they close. It’s worse than a random Main Street in any small town. Isn’t Brooklyn part of NYC???? Also, 5th Ave should be much cleaner than it is, and so should the side streets of a lot of the North Slope.