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
a gymnasium for cats, it is.
barber shop. not a salon.
“Pathetic is limp lettuce and surly jerks charging too much.”
Foragers Market in 10 words.
Okay, should we have said “bare bones” then instead of pathetic? They had, like, two small food counters in the entire large space. Compared to the Bridge deli a couple of doors down, it did look pretty pathetic. At the very least, it was an underutilized space without much going on in the ambience department. And it’s not a yuppie thing: The Spanish American restaurant across the street is hardly new or upscale, but has tons of character and hopefully will be around for a long time.
I usually roll my eyes when people call you out, Sir Brownstoner, for your absurd yuppie hipster bias, but this time I’m wondering what your problem is. As someone who worked in a low-budget non-profit in DUMBO for years, I really liked that deli and never once found their stupid cheap salads or cheerful staff “pathetic.”
I’m sorry you don’t have a fetish for the kitchy cachet of a handful of earnest chinese dudes trying to make it work, because then you could have waxed on about their earnest working class charm instead of calling their shop pathetic.
It was clean, the food was fresh, they were nice. I don’t understand why that is pathetic. Pathetic is limp lettuce and surly jerks charging too much.
I’m not arguing that the DUMBO I once loved should be preserved on ice for all eternity with a boo hoo here and a boo hoo there, but “pathetic”?
I call bullshit on that.
a transport portal to a more happenin neighborhood?
restaurant. restaurant. restaurant. good food. could be Tai, vietnamese, Italian, fondue, middle eastern…. i don’t know something good and decent and original. We have so few choices down here.
Vietnamese Sandwiches place, Banh Mi PLEASE! DUMBO needs more lunch places.
I live across the street and I have to say this is NOT the best retail space available in the immediate vicinity. It is partially subterranean. It has low ceilings. The entry is less than perfect on Jay St. If I were looking to open a business in the neighborhood this would not be the space I would look to rent.