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.
1750 is not a bad deal for a 1 bedroom in the north slope.
you’re going to have to go to a pretty unsavory neighborhood to get much cheaper…
the rent on my little 1bed in north slope by the park just went up to $1750.
zing
time to move.
Nope, just love the store and used to date one of the guys who worked there.
2:40=Flight001 investor
Um…there has been a Flight001 on Smith Street in sleepy Carroll Gardens for 2 or 3 years now.
If they can make it there, they can make it on 5th Avenue. Trust me.
I spent $800 bucks in there on Sunday.
They also have a VERY lucrative website that subsidizes what they don’t make in their stores.
They researched for this location for 2 years. They would not have opened or signed a 10 year lease if they weren’t planning to stay.
Flight001 will close within a year.
Cure place, but how often does one buy luggage?
I love Fifth Ave, but that sort of store is only going to fly (sorry, bad pun intended) in Soho or Midtown.
make that 11, 2:24. sweet deal!!
I have one available.
A studio. 2000 bucks a month.
Want it? If not, I have 10 others in line.
no we’re not