Streetlevel: New LPC-Flouting Pharmacy for Fort Greene
A new pharmacy opened in the heart of Fort Greene’s commercial strip at 668 Fulton Street. Good news from a services point of view but it looks it’s kind of a disaster in the aesthetics department. According to LPC, there is no application on file for the storefront renovation. Given that it falls within the…
A new pharmacy opened in the heart of Fort Greene’s commercial strip at 668 Fulton Street. Good news from a services point of view but it looks it’s kind of a disaster in the aesthetics department. According to LPC, there is no application on file for the storefront renovation. Given that it falls within the BAM Historic District, that could be a problem. GMAP
Wow, glad to hear Greene Community Pharmacy is still around. I used to work in healthcare in the area and those guys were always so wonderful to work with. I miss Brooklyn so much!
I agree, Greene Community Pharmacy is fabulous, always helpful. Better sign, too.
oh sweet jesus! it’s a drug store. they have drugs in there. drugs that people might steal. more importantly we already have a great pharamacy- right up the street greene community. a real neighborhood gem, where everybody knows your name. they deliver drugs to shut ins. they explain insurance issues . they are old school ft greene and as such should be patronized.i can’t tell you how helpful the pharmacist is and how nice the staff is and the prices on other items are very reasonable.screw the newbies- stick with the vets and support the establishments that have made it through thick and thin.
I see roll down grates like this on storefronts in the historic part of 7th Avenue in Park Slope, so perhaps they aren’t too strict about enforcing such things…
when i saw this over the weekend, my mouth literally dropped.
maybe we should be thankful the metal rolling door is in place, because, if memory serves me correctly, the indoor display left a lot to be desired…
The owner should make the necessary changes to get this storefront into LPC compliance. Nothing spoils a streetscape more than this kind of ugly signage. This is a particularly attractive stretch of 19th century storefronts — some of the windows with recessed doorways(see to the immediate left) are especially handsome. I hope local civic societies and preservation-minded residents bring pressure to bear.
“ENY – Very true…I’m not a store owner, but these roll down things seem to invite vandalism and graffiti.”
I’ve seen (some) store ownwers handle the problem in one of two ways: one way is to keep a can of (in this case, silver) paint handy and anytime some jack*ss tags the gate, paint it over the next morning. Eventually the guys get tired of tagging it if they know their work will be erased fairly soon. The other solution is to get a (good) local graffiti artist to paint a nice mural over the paint. Most people in the area – even the vandals – will leave the mural alone if it’s well done.
WAIT! i thought the other week fort greene was dubbed the best most perfect neighborhood, which means they don’t need a pharmacy b/c theyre in perfect health with no ailments…what gives?
maybe its just stocking contraceptives since they have amazing perfect sex lives, second to Baby Slope of course.
There is some city bill afoot to mandate chain style gates. The most aesthetically pleasing solution that is usuall done when places are gutted and redone is to have the gate inside the building, rolling down from where it is stored in the ceiling. It’s what they did in the new commercial space below the “Fulton on Clinton” condo building on Fulton Street accross from Met Foods (that name is the most ridiculous, nonsense name for a building ever…).