StreetLevel: Old Brooklyn Parlor a Thing of the Past
Old Brooklyn Parlor, the ye olde-style coffee/ice cream shop on Vanderbilt Ave, closed last week. The business opened only a couple years ago. Word on the street is that the storefront will be converted into a second branch of Clinton Hill Design Build, which has another office further up the avenue. GMAP

Old Brooklyn Parlor, the ye olde-style coffee/ice cream shop on Vanderbilt Ave, closed last week. The business opened only a couple years ago. Word on the street is that the storefront will be converted into a second branch of Clinton Hill Design Build, which has another office further up the avenue. GMAP
ice cream and frozen yogurt really angers me. it’s not even a treat when it costs so much! i mean it’s milk and sugar and yogurt, why does a small lil cup, barely enough to wet one’s tongue, cost 5 dollars in this city? RIP-OFF. fyi i have no clue what the prices are here, im just stating in general ice cream and froyo are disgustingly jacked up.
*rob*
ok then, perhaps the problem was that the dudes are just so attractive that they distracted people from going in the store and buying the (openly) marketed products!
This place was laughable, forced and contrived. A perfect example of folks who long for a nostalgia that never existed. Shocked that Alan Harding who created similar faux retro places in BoCoCa was not behind this dreck.
And not for nothing, Tom’s Restaurant—the real deal—is right nearby. Geniuses!
i disagree, i disagree. I think it was the “neighborhood guys” out front who attracted me to the place. A few of them looked like they came from the Speed TV show “Living the Low Life” about Latino low-riders.!!!!!
yeah, also not surprised. it was cute on the outside, but the quality of the ice cream and coffee wasn’t very good, it was expensive and not appealing to sit inside, and at a certain point they seemed to have given the outside benches over to some neighborhood (?) guys who didn’t exactly make the place any more attractive.
Any one know if this building and the one adjacent(bike store ground level) have the same owner?
I went once. The guy didn’t know the first thing about making espresso, and it showed. Never went back.
Not surprising. I went in there only once. It seemed disorganized, dirty and like it was a front for something else.
I walked by this place last week and wondered what it served….looked like a nice place.