Follow Up: Garry's Revealed
Guess this sign that went up at the end of the week puts to rest any fear that Garry’s Wine & Liquor would go all gentrified on us when it opens at 80 Saint Marks Avenue in the next few weeks. Streetlevel: Garry’s Moves Up the Block GMAP
Guess this sign that went up at the end of the week puts to rest any fear that Garry’s Wine & Liquor would go all gentrified on us when it opens at 80 Saint Marks Avenue in the next few weeks.
Streetlevel: Garry’s Moves Up the Block GMAP
Normally, I’m more of an elitist and a snob than most people. So I’m trying real hard to hate this sign… but I can’t.
why?
I disagree – 1. I’m not from Ohio – born and raised in southern Europe. 2. You really should get back work and stop criticising signage in Park Slope; Get a life.
Smith St. or 5th ave? or manhattan, for that matter? as if those are the models of beauty. it’s a shame to spend good money on something that looks like crap when it’s so easy to spend it on something that doesn’t. sorry your upbringing in ohio evidently prevents you from understanding this. witness the new shops opening up on vanderbilt avenue and you’ll see what i mean. some are garish, and not to my taste, but nothing this ridiculous.
i walk by this place everyday. Its pretty fuckin ugly but so is pretty much every store sign on flatbush. Isnt that called “character” or “funky”. The guys who own this place (Russian, Ukrainian?) are hilarious. I was in there the other day and someone asked when they were moving and he just shrugged and said “sunday,monday? we move whenever.”
I disagree – Sorry but all of BK is not going to look like Smith Street or 5th Ave. Get over it or just move to Manhattan.
there is nothing intrinsically ugly about that corner. it’s ugly BECAUSE of crap like this. seriously, each of the buildings at this intersection proper are fine-looking. it’s disrepair and low standards that make it look bad. (and the cars, but that’s another story.)
tybur6 – your argument makes no sense. how are cars driving 65 mph down flatbush going to become customers of this place? if they designed it for drivers, they’re stupid, as well as having no taste.
nanook – it’s THIS sign that makes the store looks like it belongs in a tacky strip mall. good for you for your diminished expectations, but not all of us have given up.
have they put in the bullet proof glass yet>
It’s a great sign. Sorry it doesn’t fit with your mallification of Brooklyn. Yeah, it’s tacky – but I’ve seen much much worse.