Confirmed: Arby's Planning to Take Gage & Tollner Space
Looks like we were right: A fast food restaurant is indeed trying to take over the former Gage & Tollner space at 374 Fulton Street on the Fulton Mall in Downtown Brooklyn. The Daily News today reports that the chain known for its roast beef sandwiches submitted an application to the Landmarks Preservation Commission in…
Looks like we were right: A fast food restaurant is indeed trying to take over the former Gage & Tollner space at 374 Fulton Street on the Fulton Mall in Downtown Brooklyn. The Daily News today reports that the chain known for its roast beef sandwiches submitted an application to the Landmarks Preservation Commission in January to modify the historic interior. We’re keeping everything in place, and anything we move in will be nonpermanent and easy to move out, said Raymond Chera, the franchisee behind the project. It will probably be the most beautiful Arby’s ever. And you better get used to the idea of being surrounded by Arby’s: Chera says he plans to open 41 locations around the city over the next decade.
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Kelly’s Roast Beef out of Boston would be better.
Arby’s is alright, but Boston knows how to make a mean roast beef sandwich.
Great if you love over-cooked, over-salted, tasteless roast beef sandwiches. Classic Jersey Turnpike food.
It’s not just the junk food chains. While having a mix of chains and small shops is probably healthy, what’s happened to Manhattan (for example) over the years is just not right. New Yorkers love to blame out of towners and transplants for this proliferation. I think New Yorkers are pretty much themselves to blame. Granted, tourists don’t help the situation.
hahahah i dont even know what those things you mentioned ARE, dave!!!
*rob*
There’s a junk food junkie in all of us rob, no matter how often we seek the finer things like white truffles, prosciutto di parma or a nice Amarone.
“If I were named Brooklyn Chicken I’d just be happy it wasn’t a Popeye’s!!! :)”
Or a Pluck U. (best fast food restaurant name in NYC)
sad. but it’ll probably do well there. i do love me the jamocha milkshake (if they still have that).
Cracker Barrel, please slip in and take this.
i love when new yorker’s get into such a tizzy and angry about chains coming in, but then when chaings get built, they all flock to them like cracked out pigeons on on a hotdog bun. deal with it. nyc isn’t special anymore.
*rob*
If I were named Brooklyn Chicken I’d just be happy it wasn’t a Popeye’s!!! 🙂