Streetlevel: Front and Jay Retail Sits Vacant
After serving as a rather pathetic deli, this corner spot at Front and Jay Streets in Dumbo morphed into an Indian restaurant for a few months before getting shut down earlier this year. It’s been sitting empty ever since in large part, we hear, because landlord Joshua Guttman is asking an astronomical rent for the…
After serving as a rather pathetic deli, this corner spot at Front and Jay Streets in Dumbo morphed into an Indian restaurant for a few months before getting shut down earlier this year. It’s been sitting empty ever since in large part, we hear, because landlord Joshua Guttman is asking an astronomical rent for the space. It is a pretty prime retail location as far as Dumbo goes. What kind of business would you like to see go in this space? GMAP
I have heard that Two Trees aggressively tries to keep new restaurants out of DUMBO b/c they are so set on having art spaces. If that is true, it seriously sucks, b/c Pedros is the only decent food in DUMBO and even I can only eat so much Mexican. We are in dire need of more restaurants.
68 Jay Street is a rat infested building. There are visible rat holes all along the base. Yuck!
Ok, I totally agree that that deli was awesome. A litle aethetically-challenged, but awesome. The key element was the great salads, good prices, and very nice staff. And there were OFTEN lunchtime lines for those salads. D Space was a classic.
The good news- the same deli moved (for a long time there were two of them…) down the street next to “Jimi’s” bodega. They have the same salads and many of the same staff. The big white door.
Seriously, though, the salads are better than bridge fresh.
Underutilized in the layman’s term for the pathetic planning term “best and highest use” (of land/building/etc.) which basically means if it ain’t making the maximum return, rip it out. And you can use eminent domain to do so if the owner balks.
As Oder of Atlantic yards notes, by applying that standard, Atlantic Mall could be torn down since its land is zoned for taler buildings. Hmmm…
biohazard practice space / porn studio
I think this would be a good place for Biohazard to have a practice space.
there needs to be a restaurant that is similar to what Jerrys in Soho was like. Decent, casual,a bit hip and with good, simple food. I Agee that the Guttman corner lot with Pedros on it has tear down written all over it. It would be a loss to one of the last remaning crumbs of authenticity to the area.
What is the definition of this term “underutilized” that is thrown around so much in these discussions? Is there such a thing as “overutilized”?
That spanish place smack full of character is also owned by guttman and will likely be demolished in about .2 seconds…