Fulton Grand Bar to Open Next Month
We almost wish a certain someone was still around to discuss this one…There’ve been rumors swirling about what’s going on behind the papered windows in the two adjoining retail spaces on Grand Avenue between Putnam Avenue and Fulton Street in Clinton Hill. The minutes of a recent Community Board 2 subcommittee meeting provides more details….
We almost wish a certain someone was still around to discuss this one…There’ve been rumors swirling about what’s going on behind the papered windows in the two adjoining retail spaces on Grand Avenue between Putnam Avenue and Fulton Street in Clinton Hill. The minutes of a recent Community Board 2 subcommittee meeting provides more details. The two spaces are being combined to create a single 34-seat bar currently referred to as Fulton Grand Bar with a full on-premise liquor license; there will also be a “limited menu” of food (and no dancing). As of last month, the owners were shooting to open some time in May. This could either be really good or really bad for what is already a volatile corner. GMAP
I don’t know washingtonatlantic…
I think “if you build it, they will come” will apply all along this heavily trafficed (sp?) strip. It’s just ensure the the “it” that is built is decent quality. There are so many people who live nearby or who travel by these unused storefronts on a regular basis just by virtue of the subway location.
For the record, I’d be happy if the methadone clinic closed, but at the end of the day, multiple and varied retail businesses that maintain their storefronts and provide needed and desired services are the only thing that will clean up the street.
Thanks donatella, I didn’t realize that. I thought that Chance II had the whole space though (i.e. the whole store front) which seemed wide. It looks like there’s a dividing wall placed in the middle of the windows, but that might be an illusion based on the slanting configuration of the building…?
DIBS, tts the former hair salon next to the cupcake place (assuming you were asking about the place for rent). And true, the bodegas get a ton of traffic, but I think the clinic would pose a problem to someone trying to create an Outpost vibe, i.e. a place more than to go. Hence why no one is ever sitting in the cupcake place next door even though they have tables and wifi.
Is the food at the Country House okay? I agree, Yafa has decnet coffee and good breakfast sandwiches, (our weekend staple), but I’ve never been to the Country House. Empty restaurants are hard to gage.
I will try Country House. I sort of keep wishing they’d get together with Just Taste it and have a restaurant/take out thing.
washingtonandatlantic…is that Michael Z?????
1842, that entire row of buildings are attached on a slant and none of the stores has “straight walls”. All of the buildings are attached to each other on a slant. So you are starting with a wierd space, but agreed that Chance 11 is a strange renovation. The thing is that they did structurally fix the building which was a wreck and dollars for donuts, these people will be gone soon and the space will be available to be improved upon and opened for something else.
washingtonandatlantic…..someday early take a look at the crowd in Yafa, the Yemeni bodega on the Corner of Fulton and Clinton. His coffee for take out is actually decent and very cheap and he has a crowd waiting for coffee and bacon and egg sandwiches. He is smart enough to realize that there is a need for am takeout food that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg.
My point is that he has a small mob there every am.
Yeah the methadone crowd (man, are THEY creepy) can be seen but I really don’t think they would ruin a little coffee shop. The Palestinian brothers that own Country House on the same block are doing terrible – poor guys – I like them but they can’t seem to get arrested over there. I don’t know how they stay in biz…. food ok, for what it is, but the creepiest vibe in there imaginable — they get biz on Sunday ONLY.
It is a shame what Chance II did with the facade of that nice old building. It looks tacky and uninviting. You can’t see in and it seems like they built the interior walls so you can really see outside too well either.
Hopefully this place with be nice. I think the more people in this area at night, and not for nefarious purposes, the better.
Was talking to someone who’s looking to open a shop on Fulton about morning coffee near the Clinton Washington C stop, and the methadone clinic is a real killer for potential shop keepers (namely the corner of Waverly that’s for rent which would be a pretty good spot otherwise).
And ditto Chance II being uninviting – generally reluctant to go in places I can’t see in unless I hear great things about it, and that hasn’t been the case here.