Streetlevel: Flowers for Myrtle
Biking to work this week we noticed that a new flower shop has just opened at 471 Myrtle Avenue. Turns out it is the new Clinton Hill outpost of the Park Slope-based Root Stock and Quade. The storefront has a cool Deco-y tile thing going on, and the interior renovation of the store looks pitch-perfect…
Biking to work this week we noticed that a new flower shop has just opened at 471 Myrtle Avenue. Turns out it is the new Clinton Hill outpost of the Park Slope-based Root Stock and Quade. The storefront has a cool Deco-y tile thing going on, and the interior renovation of the store looks pitch-perfect to us. Anyone been yet?
Root Stock & Quade: Open By May 1! [Clinton Hill Blog] GMAP
Wait, they’re opening a Starbucks on Myrtle? What? Where?
No?
Damnit, they should open one somewhere in Fort Greene/Clinton Hill. I would walk to Myrtle for a Starbucks. (Not sure the one currently in Target really counts.)
Oh great. Root Stock and Quade completely screwed up our wedding flowers 2 years ago. We had specifically asked for horizontal arrangements for the reception at our house and they sent over vertical ones that we couldn’t use. When I asked for a fix, I was told in a really hostile way that the design was up to them and we had no say in it. When I begged them to reconsider, they reluctantly came back to rework the flowers. The new arrangements took them all of 5 minutes to do and looked it. The day you get married is stressful enough w/o that kind of situation and I cried. We’ll never use them again.
where is myrtle avenue?
never heard of it.
I said 5TH 80s = Myrtle 00s, people said 5TH was crap then, turned up their noses at it. Forget about starting it, it was an obesrvation take it or leave it.
Yes, let’s start that one 5:13…if you or your cousin 5:15 have anything to say that supports your argument besides “crap” and “MURDER AVENUE”. Anyone with a lobotomy scar and a hard-on can come with that. 5TH in ’88 was a lot like Myrtle is today…a few condos that struggled…a lot of long time locals…old failing stores…and then a sprinkling of people who wanted to open businesses and couldn’t afford 7TH Ave. Yeah it’ll take time and today’s economic will set it back, but you come back in 20 years and we’ll see. Of course you’ll probably be dead because of the way you talk to people, but maybe you’ll wish you’d pulled you heaed out once in awhile during your life.
5:11, so Myrtle now reminds you of 5th in the 80’s? Well, that means Myrtle has another 30 years to go before it’s as nice as 5th.
MURDER AVENUE
Want to compare Myrtle in the 80’s to 5th in the 80’s???
Please…let’s start that one…
This is 2008. Myrtle is still crap. And 5th is amazing.
btw, 5:03 is the most immature comment I’ve ever read on this website. And that’s saying A LOT.
Yeah, 4:27, Myrtle and Washington is not really near those projects, but anyway Smith is near some projects too, so I don’t think that’s gonna define the issue. And having lived off of 5Th in the 80s it has kind of the same vibe.
“I just walked down Myrtle last weekend and saw absolutely no shop, store or restaurant I had a desire to go into.
Not the case on Smith or 5th for me…”
I just walked past your Mom’s butt and had no desire to go into it…