Streetlevel: Skateboards, Flowers and Dry Goods
Like it or not, the border of Crown Heights and Prospect Heights is getting hipper by the day. Last month, it was news of Tracy Westmoreland’s new bar Manhattans at 748 Washington Avenue. Now, courtesy of a reader, comes word of a store called Skateboards, Flowers and Dry Goods at 533 Park Place between Grand…
Like it or not, the border of Crown Heights and Prospect Heights is getting hipper by the day. Last month, it was news of Tracy Westmoreland’s new bar Manhattans at 748 Washington Avenue. Now, courtesy of a reader, comes word of a store called Skateboards, Flowers and Dry Goods at 533 Park Place between Grand and Classon. And don’t forget about the restaurant Abigail which is a couple of blocks away on Classon and the bar Franklin Park which opened a year ago. Anyone been in the store yet? When did it open? GMAP
Salons & Liquor stores make the world go round.
*rob*
Hope they really do sell sk8 supplies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“So, did they just write down a bunch of items on slips of paper and then choose three at random out of a hat?”
HAR!!
“a gazillion salons and liquor stores are of a needed value/necessity.”
Yes, many, many black people happen to frequent hair salons. That’s why there are so many of them, many successful. Is there something particularly wrong with that? Read a bit about Madame C.J. Walker sometime. As for liquor. I guess a trendy bar is more “legitimate” than a liquor store, although both specialize in the same product.
“Retailers of questionable value/necessity”
a gazillion salons and liquor stores are of a needed value/necessity.
Skateboards, Flowers and Dry Goods?
So, did they just write down a bunch of items on slips of paper and then choose three at random out of a hat?
this block is so very ugly – and all you anti-gentrification people should thank the owner for, ahem, keeping the building in that context. best of luck to them, though (from the looks of their blog, they also bought the building). already seems to have attracted a number of skaters hanging out across the street.
do i spot a boner? lol
*rob*
http://parkdelicatessen.blogspot.com/
“Skateboards, Flowers and Dry Goods”
Indeed. Retailers of questionable value/necessity = unmistakable gentrification signpost.