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.
sad loser, 2:14. if you need a rental, none available.
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When is that baby gap going to open?
You PS people are some real pompous dbags.
Probably not, 2:07. They’ve got their golf-shirted soon-to-be-ex-employees wandering the streets with scanners…
Umm, I have some movies from there that I never returned. Can I keep them you think?
How about one of those Amish Markets?
I think there’s one up on 9th Avenue in Hells Kitchen.
I wish another Sahadi’s would open in the slope.
Maybe even up on 7th, since there is such a crappy food store selection up there.
I’d love to see a medium/high quality brunch spot where Biscuit was.
Something like Robin Des Bois on Smith.
It has that nice outdoor space, now it just needs some halfway decent food.
Or how about something like Lupa?
We already have Al Di La, though…
Not big enough for a grocery store, 2:00… but some sort of Union Market style gourmet emporium would probably do pretty well.