Slurpees for the South Slope: 7-11 On the Way
Take a Big Gulp, Park Slope: The largest chain store in the world is moving in. A 7-Eleven is coming to 5th Avenue between 13th and 14th streets, taking a storefront that used to house a 99-cent store. The 7-Eleven opening sorta seems emblematic of the divide between the types of retail on 5th Avenue…
Take a Big Gulp, Park Slope: The largest chain store in the world is moving in. A 7-Eleven is coming to 5th Avenue between 13th and 14th streets, taking a storefront that used to house a 99-cent store. The 7-Eleven opening sorta seems emblematic of the divide between the types of retail on 5th Avenue north and south of 9th Street. South of 9th you still see a lot of distinctly un-yuppie mom-and-pops and big chains like Domino’s; north of 9th, a new boutique pitches its tent practically every week. It’ll definitely be interesting to see whether fancier retail starts heading farther south on 5th over the next few years or if the area below 9th is going to stay scrappy for a while. In the meantime, brain freeze! GMAP P*Shark DOB
HELLO?? 2:39–the stats and figures in the Brownstoner thread are coming from the NYPD. See original article:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06172007/news/regionalnews/surge_in_slayings_shocks_brooklyn_regionalnews_brad_hamilton.htm
The precinct figures showed that “murder is up 34 percent in the north half of the borough and muggings and bank robberies plague its highest-income area.” And this is from mid-2007. How is that not relevant to 2007???????
love brownstoner, but it’s not where i get my crime stats, 2:33.
here’s an article a little more appropriate to what is being dicussed here. your article was from june…HARDLY an accurate count for the crime rate in nyc for 2007.
if you prefer facts over “anecdotal evidence” this article is for you:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/nyregion/31murder.html
Regarding crime, see April 2007 thread/report–it most closely matches the anecdotal evidence about Brooklyn:
http://bstoner.wpengine.com/brownstoner/archives/2007/06/murder_up_in_no.php
“Are they implying that NYPD stores hundreds of bodies in warehouses in order to appear more effective in the public eye?”
Where do you think those 7-11 hotdogs come from?
Once that 7-11 goes in, I’m going to hang out in front of it with all my disaffected teen pals.
I’m always amazed that with all the 99 cent stores on that stretch of 5th Ave., we didn’t see any 98 cent and 97 cent stores moving in to underprice them. I thought we lived in America!?
11:14,
How about a link to this alleged “expose” on how NYPD fudges its statistics? Otherwise, I don’t believe you.
I love how these types claim that NYPD covers up violent crime, only to fall silent when faced with the record-low number of murders. Are they implying that NYPD stores hundreds of bodies in warehouses in order to appear more effective in the public eye?
I think they’ll be open 7-11, but I’m just guessing.
Seriously, kind of a drag in one sense (the worst of corporate america), but kinda cool in the sense that it shows how rapidly 5th ave is changing down there. I don’t think 7-11 franchises are given out before demographic studies are done, so they probably know it will succeed – 10 years ago maybe not.
It’s better than a permanently closed metal shade or another .99 store. There are stll about twenty of those between 9th and 16th st.
someone was murdered last week in bed stuy.
and the week before.
and the week before that.
what was your point, 12:19?