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.
pinkness is from smoking
Is it pronounced Flight “One” or “Flight oh-oh-one”…or Flight “Zero-zero-one?” I was corrected by the sales staff on my first trip there. It’s Flight One (& overpriced.)
Anyone who isn’t downloading movies directly to the chip implanted in their head needs to get a clue.
im surprised the blockbuster on flatbush by 8th ave is still open.
get rid of video stores. they suck
I thought biscuit sucked, but i’m pretty sure that the “pinkness” was a result of the smoking process. I could be wrong, though. Any food snobs out there know?
It’s time for a full on neighborhood throwdown. Meet at Floyd Bennett Field on Saturday at 8 AM and come armed with:
Park Slope (cherry crown molding)
Carroll Gardens (That waiter from Sam’s)
Fort Greene (a wigger)
Prospect Heights (whatever Bruce Ratner shoved up their ass)
Billyburg (Father’s stock portfolio)
Clinton Hill (Turpentine stolen from Pratt)
Windsor Terrace (Republican platform)
Maybe Apple will take a look at one of these larger spaces opening up on 5th.
Or a Gourmet Garage or Garden of Eatin’
I wouldn’t mind an Applebee’s Presto!
Why, 1:09pm, do you think Carrol Gardens is better than PS? In fact, among Boerum Hill, Park Slope, Cobble Hill & Ft Greene, Carrol Gardens is by fat the ugliest, least convenient & shittiest neighbourhood.