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
someone was mugged the other evening on 8th ave and berkley –
walking home from train –
hand over mouth – wanted money – took an ipod.
open 24/7???
hooray! maybe their coolers will work well enough so their milk won’t come out in large clumps like it does at nearby grocerettes. that’d be great, and convenient!
7-11’s are often pretty clean, I can’t remember exactly what the 99-c store looked like, but the 7-11 can’t be worse. New windows, clean facade. There are worse things that could have gone in there.
why did you mention park slope, 11:22?
ax to grind?
i’m sure there are about 20 other neighborhoods in brooklyn alone that had higher rates of muggings at gunpoint this year, so why exactly did you decide to mention park slope?
seems quite odd to me.
oh what a waste of a piece of real estate. A one-story building? WTF? That could have been at least a 6 unit condo.
Considering how many people I know who live in Park Slope who’ve been mugged at gunpoint, I doubt it’s safer than Disneyland. So much violent crime gets underreported (or ignored all together) that the picture isn’t totally clear.
Be a little more skeptical, unless it’s in your interest to paint the rosiest picture possible.
um….in a city of 8.25 million people, 34 murders in 2007 were committed against a “stranger”
cooked or not, those are some of the best odds i’ve seen in a while.
nyc is safer than disneyland at this point in time.
you can’t believe everything you see on 20/20, 11:14.
Not that we-who-live-in-that-exact-neighborhood need another place to buy Red Bull and but it’ll be pretty damn cool to be able to grab a slurpee when it gets all nasty, sticky hot.
Right on.