Concord Village Giving Associated the Boot?
The Tillary Street Associated’s days may be numbered. The supermarket’s lease is up soon and, according to a tipster, the Concord Village Co-operative Board is looking for a replacement. This news adds another layer of uncertainty to the Downtown supermarket scene. With the future of 162 Myrtle up in the air and resolution on Admiral’s…
The Tillary Street Associated’s days may be numbered. The supermarket’s lease is up soon and, according to a tipster, the Concord Village Co-operative Board is looking for a replacement. This news adds another layer of uncertainty to the Downtown supermarket scene. With the future of 162 Myrtle up in the air and resolution on Admiral’s Row “delayed indefinitely”, the area could certainly benefit from something a step up from the Associated. Given that the upscale markets tend to favor larger spaces, however, we wouldn’t be holding our breath for a Whole Foods or Fairway in this location. GMAP
12:38
Get a clue. While Concord Village may have been built for the moderate (ahem–working class,) that is not the case now. Parents of friends of mine have sold their well located brownstones to arrivistes such as yourselves to BUY SPACIOUS apartments on WELL TENDED grounds in a well located area.
Perhaps you do not have the resources for such transactions?
Concord Village is not NYCHA public housing. Not every tall building complex is the projects. As U Designer said, if these were lined up on the street, no one would be calling them projects. They are coops, to my knowledge, have been coops forever, and have always been well kept up. So 12:38, get your facts straight before condemning people, or where they choose to live.
12:38:
Not the people who live there, but the management. As financial support for public housing has declined, so has management, maintenance, and security. Park, Fifth, and Central Park West high-rises would be terrible with similiar cutbacks.
Concord Village and nearby public housing projects have the same basic diagrams as expensive “luxury” housing: tall buildings with elevators. The difference is that they stand in open spaces instead of being lined up along the street. (Ever look at the elevations of “luxury” housing? Pretty boring, except that you don’t notice it as much because they’re not free-standing objects.)
High-rise housing can work, but only if it’s well-maintained. And Concord Village is well-maintained.
U. Designer
The (relatively) new “Fine Fare” on Kingston between St. John’s and Lincoln Place is very nice and replaced a dirty, decrepit Key Food (or some other name-brand-type of supermarket, I don’t recall the name) that had been there since I’ve been in Crown Heights. Things are looking up.
Don’t worry about the haters.
It’s interesting…I bet the person on here denouncing these couldn’t even afford to buy one of the studio units.
Concord Village proves beyond any doubt that the problem with city housing projects is not one of architecture or design but rather a problem with too many of the residents.
Amen, 12:28. I can’t believe someone would advocate burning down people’s homes. This complex is one of the last vestiges of middle class housing in this area. Any replacement would be even less attractive, and guaranteed to be too expensive for any of the people currently there to remain.
Leave ’em alone.
11:43, I like Foodtown in Bed Stuy, too, and shop there regularly. It is an exception to the rule of horrible local markets. Most of the Brooklyn markets I’ve been to could come to Foodtown and take notes. Granted, they have a decent amount of space, but so did Pathmark, when it was in the same location, and they were disgusting. It’s good management, stock and staff. It’s that simple.