Cortelyou Road: Vintage Stores and More
Cortelyou Road has been getting some attention over the past year for its improving retail mix. One of the recent additions is Cortelyou Vintage at 1118 Cortelyou Road which opened last summer. The owner explained its raison d’etre to a NY Times reporter at the time: “I’m looking to capture the young hipsters who want…
Cortelyou Road has been getting some attention over the past year for its improving retail mix. One of the recent additions is Cortelyou Vintage at 1118 Cortelyou Road which opened last summer. The owner explained its raison d’etre to a NY Times reporter at the time:
“I’m looking to capture the young hipsters who want unique furniture and who are not going to go to Levitz and buy new,” said the owner, Nicole Francis, who works as a financial planner and lives in a 10-room Victorian house nearby. “The key market is couples with young children.”
We thought the store was cute and a welcome addition to the strip but, frankly, the stash of chandeliers at the Thrift Shop around the corner was a greater find. Seriously. There must have been a hundred of them–some of them quite nice.
Commercial Strip Gaining in Charm [NY Times]
Bemused? Befuddled? Confounded? Frankly, I’m baffled. To Anonymous at March 9, 2006 04:49 PM: But what about Canada?
They’ve broke ground on the empty lot on Stratford and Cortelyou… I assume condo’s since its not zoned for retail… has anyone seen the plans? how many units? I hope my premonition of fedders/balconies and strange bricks were just bad dreams from a fitful sleep… Heres where they should use that Supreme Court emminent domain and build beautiful 6 story brick buildings all along the north side of Cortelyou… with lovely apartments and big retail spaces on the first floor! 🙂
Supporting mediocre local restaurants because they’re local is a good way to get more mediocre local restaurants. That’s why 7th Avenue in Park Slope was filled with arrogant, complacent, bad restaurants through the 80s and 90s even though the neighborhood could have supported better: because of locals who put up with it, out of duty or guilt or apathy or whatever. (The Upper West Side in the same period was much the same. Not sure if it’s gotten better.)
The dining scene improved because of competition from elsewhere — on Smith Street and later, 5th Avenue. And 7th is only now starting to catch up.
PPS’ser,
Did you even go to college. Your argument and complaint is so lame that any liberal professor (your so called democrats that you’re siding with) would give you and F in two seconds flat. The restaurant is mediocre because there is much better options in the south slope. Of course this should happen every single time you make this comparison, just like there will be on average better restaurants in manhattan than brooklyn…more competition, more disposable income, and demand. What so infuriating is the sheer stupidity of the comparision between the south slope restuarant options and picket fence. Any place with 10 options will always beat out the other on average. That’s the way competition works. My only point is the only way to make it better is to support the average so the average is rises. That is positive commenting, the other is just those annoying comments made by that miserable employee who has nothing positive to say about anything so after while they fire him…why…because he’s worthless and that’s the way I feel about your comments…no value to anyone. End of line.
This must be how the Democrats in Congress feel when they express a view questioning Bush or Cheney. I now fully expect Anonymous to suggest I move to Canada.
Geez – enough already. Can we move on to more interesting conversations? Does anyone know what is going on with Cornerstone? Does there really seem to be some movement going on in there? It has such potential it makes me sad. I live in the neighborhood and a bunch of us are dying to have a decent bar we can actually meet at and hang out in. If someone would just open one, they would get more business than they know what to do with. Something with a TV for sports games and perhaps some casual pub food would be an instant hit. Cornerstone looks perfect but as we all know, is never open and everytime I have tried to walk in there they practically chase me out. It seems such a pity. Please someone buy that bar!!!
And btw, PPS’er is totally entitled to whine and complain all he wants. I’m just pointing out how illogical it is. And if you think the food is bad, terrfic, I agree there are better places in manhattan , park slope, etc, but there are also worse places. It seems like its a pretty decent meal for the price. And since it seems as your comments point out that it is “somewhat” popular I think your comment about all PPS’er’s thinking its overated doesn’t jive with the facts. People are obviously going and liking it. If you want to complain about you’re one upscale restaurant so be it. For me, I’d rather have something decent to walk to with my kids…crowded or not…slow service or not…mediocre (again mr. restaurant critic) or not.
We can disagree about the food, but the service is awful at all times, whether the place is busy or not.
anon 4:08:
“To anon at 3:45,
the only problem is that pps’er complaint is not about the food, its about how busy it is…”
PPSer, 12:33:
“When all is said and done, we spend far too much money for thoroughly mediocre food.”
Move to Victorian Flatbush! Where mediocre is good enough!