Streetlevel: Another Cafe for Fort Greene
According to the gentlemen sweeping up the sidewalk, the new tenant taking the retail space at 184 Dekalb Avenue is a cafe. Seems to us that there are quite a few of those within shouting distance of this location. Think there’s room for one more? GMAP
According to the gentlemen sweeping up the sidewalk, the new tenant taking the retail space at 184 Dekalb Avenue is a cafe. Seems to us that there are quite a few of those within shouting distance of this location. Think there’s room for one more? GMAP
it looks like baltimore…
so both.
Posted by: guest at December 4, 2007 3:06 PM
Can’t wait for January and the new season of the “Wire”; the place does look like B’more.
This space was once a real estate office. The neighborhood is getting a bit crazy – almost impossible to find a good parking spot. Off to Bed-Stuy…
Katherine Lily basically Had to close her brokerage after she managed to alienate just about everyone in the neighborbood (I have lived about 5 houses away from the former Realty on the Greene for 10 years–and she was not well loved, ever, believe me). Before Tommy’s opened, she was picketted by Pratt Community Council every weekend for months because she was heartlessly tossing a very old tenent and her disabled son out of an upstairs apt in the building, who had lived there for over 20 years (I heard 30 from someone). She was not willing to work with Pratt to give them more time to find the woman a new place to live (which was the jist of why Pratt became so vocal on the matter)–acording to Katherine, the woman HAD to be out at a date certain, and well, that was it. The heartlessness was astounding. And even though she may have felt justified in her own mind, you would’ve thought that she would’ve known better than to alienate a very tight knit neighborhood, especially during a time when some big gun realtors like Corcorran were starting to move into the neighborhood.
In the meantime, all her realtors quit in shame (I knew one who lived in the neighborhood and she was horrified by it all) and so, sheattempst to regroup (by now a neighborhood outcast) by opening Tommy’s, which was, indeed, boycotted by half the neighborhood. But she knew nothing about the resturant business, unwtting customers didn’t return. And all this in a neighborhood in which it is almost impossible to fail in any business (there just aren’t enough). Yeah she failed, Badly. Rice is booming. Even though the food is ho hum.
On an aside, Kathryn lilly was the owner of Tommy’s Blue Corner during the hottest part of the r.e. market then sells it to Rice and goes to work for Douglas Eliman during the slump. Is she some kind of dope…maybe she was smoking her hemp granola from her restaurant days. She obviously has no timing accumen in business. Oh, I forgot, when she was the broker of record at realty on the greene she closed “during” the height of the market to open up Tommys Blue Corner. Again, a very, very intelligent human being here. 🙂
i think it used to be a cleaners?
it looks like baltimore…
so both.
The front looks like crappy crap. Or is it edgy?
Five cafes within a couple blocks of this location (2:37 forgot Bittersweet and Tillie’s), and none at Fulton and Lafayette? That’s where we really need one.
this will be a more meal oriented establishment- a local contractor- hank is doing the work and opening the resteraunt.