StreetLevel: Atlantic Earns Some Bread
Looks like the corner of Atlantic and Court is getting some new retail that’s all about dough. The storefront next to the Subway will soon host a bakery (if the baseball caps the workers who were rehabbing the store were wearing are any indication, the biz is going to be named “Adam’s Fresh”), while the…
Looks like the corner of Atlantic and Court is getting some new retail that’s all about dough. The storefront next to the Subway will soon host a bakery (if the baseball caps the workers who were rehabbing the store were wearing are any indication, the biz is going to be named “Adam’s Fresh”), while the plywood-encased space underneath the Blue Car & Limo sign is going to be a Bank of America branch, according to a neighborhood source. What with Trader Joe’s coming just across the street and Urban Outfitters taking space only a block away, it seems this stretch of western Atlantic is turning into more of shopping destination (though decidedly less mom-and-pop). Rumors about other retail openings making the rounds? GMAP
if the people who own in park slope are lucky, it will turn into the upper west side.
guest@2:38pm: Personally, I would love it if Brooklyn became more like Manhattan. Mostly because I can’t afford to live in Manhattan for my life, and to have the functional equivalent in a *slightly* cheaper neighborhood like Brooklyn Heights would be nice.
I would like to note how amazing it is to hear about all of this development coming to what was essentially barren space last year around this time. Between the Trader Joe’s, the Urban Outfitters, and now this spiffy sounding bakery, I can expect a little more life to come to this lovely but boring part of the neighborhood. I’m psyched. And it’s not just cuz I live a block away either $
And I completely, 100% agree with 7:15.
I completely, 100% agree with 6:39.
6:39 your rant is so stereotypically entitled-NIMBY it borders on parody.
Wow.. two BoAs almost as close as the two WaMus in the area.. one on Smith near Baltic, and Court and.. Livingston (i think). It’s nice to have options, and definitely two different neighborhoods. It’ll be pretty ugly to have both BoA and Sovereign on the intersection though.
Regarding Starbucks.. personally I like the taste of their coffee generally, and I find them to be almost always pleasant. I try to support the organic small guys sometimes, and enjoyed my Naidre’s cup today (after waiting 5 minutes for the girl to stop shmoozing before taking my order).
But I’m officially done with the Tea Lounge. The Cobble Hill location is OK, fairly nonchalant workers, bordering on bored. But the Union St. Park Slope store has never been a positive experience, where the guys are either stoned or rude. And their coffee is more expensive than starbucks, and they don’t take cards for less than $12 (a nice surprise after i got my order and had no cash). If I wanted to sit around on their dirty couches watching breastfeeding, I can see paying that much but usually i’m in and out.
4:49, wow, your grammar and spelling gives me a headache. Coffee carts and lobby shops are not even applicable in this neighborhood. It was said earlier, and I agree, that if you don’t like Starbucks, don’t support them. Don’t support them, and they can’t pay rent. I think the coffee is too strong, and too expensive. I don’t like how they saturate any neighborhood. And since I like complaining about them, I don’t go.
And just to throw in my 2-cents, I moved to the Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn Heights neighborhood 4 years ago. I love the area. Apparently I’m not alone. But I don’t think it’s the new residents that’s making it crappier. We all came because it’s a beautiful neighborhood. I think it’s the developers who are drowning the area with boring architecture and the greedy LANDLORDS who are pushing out the smaller shops that attracted us in the first place. (Who ever thinks, “Great! There are 4 Starbucks in the neighborhood! I’m moving in!!”) If I wanted to shop at Lucky Brand, I’d do it online. I have to walk to either 1st Place or Montague to go to my ATM, but I’m not begging Citibank to open a branch that’s closer. I’ll just get money in the city. Basically, I blame the developers and landlords for turning my simple neighborhood into another chain mall. I didn’t ask for Starbucks, Urban Outfitters, or 40 different banks to open on my corner. They came to me. So if the little falafel restaurant is pissed off that I moved in and brought my Chase banks with me, and priced him out, I’ll just have to tell him that I’m pissed off too. I moved there for his damn falafel.
i was gay-bashed at a starbucks once.
Let me add that actually Starbucks tends not to “overpay” – for rent. They will pay the high end of the market but demand incredible concessions from LL. Including LL pay fix-up costs, 50,000 loans, no annual increases and clauses that let them out easily – all of which make the gross sq ft rent – not so wonderful (of course if they stay, they will pay so many LL want them).
People want to make attribute everything to chain stores success except that they are actually giving good products and/or service – I guess b/c that would expose alot of Mom&Pops for what many are – Lazy, unfriendly and generally lousy.
BTW – I get my coffee (espresso) at Cafe Regular (12th St)