What's on Tap for Cortelyou Road?
Cortelyou Road’s shopping scene may soon get a lot more hopping. Sander Hicks, the man behind neighborhood anchor/coffee shop Vox Pop and Cortelyou’s unofficial mayor, is trying to lure a microbrewery to the spot that housed the recently shuttered Cornerstone bar. Sander reports that a couple breweries are nibbling at the prospect. Vox Pop itself…
Cortelyou Road’s shopping scene may soon get a lot more hopping. Sander Hicks, the man behind neighborhood anchor/coffee shop Vox Pop and Cortelyou’s unofficial mayor, is trying to lure a microbrewery to the spot that housed the recently shuttered Cornerstone bar. Sander reports that a couple breweries are nibbling at the prospect. Vox Pop itself is about to expand with a new media services center in the empty storefront around the corner from the coffee shop; in keeping with the spirit of Cortelyou’s homegrown ethos, the store is conducting an online survey so residents can weigh in about what services they’d like to see the center offer. In non-Vox Pop-related happenings, the long-in-the-works Connecticut Muffin is set to open soon in the storefront next to the Farm on Adderley. And all this is in addition to the Flatbush Food Co-op’s pending jump across the street, to the old Associated space. Anything we missed? Anything the strip particularly needs?
Survey [Vox Pop]
CT Muffin Opening in Ditmas Park [Forum]
Streetlevel: Organic Boom on Cortelyou [Brownstoner]
I have lived on this Street for over 38 years.
Can you Park Slope Yuppies/dweebs and just plain old-fashioned ASSHOLES, yeah YOU, please go back to the hole you came from……..
Thai Food, Butcher, Flower Store????… Piss Off!!!!
Dear, guest at September 27, 2007 10:21 AM
Thank you very much!
Re: Thai Food…All you who have been asking about Thai Food, there’s a great place, inexpensive that is within walking distance, and the deliver to the neighborhood, I’ve been ordering from them for years, sometimes I walk there, sometimes I order. It’s called AM Thai and it’s at 359 MacDonald Ave. The number is 718-871-9115. If you’re gonna start whining about the fact that it’s not right on Cortelyou Rd. I can’t help you aside from the fact that they deliver to the neighborhood and well frankly if it’s too far for ya, you’re probably just too lazy to walk. It’s a hole in the wall place, but it’s perfect for take out and ordering. I usually get the vegetarian green curry with the spring rolls which are excellent. They have lots of vegetarian options on the menu.
Anybody know what is happening at the old Cornerstone/Alexander’s location? The for rent sign has been removed.
The street/neighborhood really needs nothing but another grocery store (preferably not another overpriced “natural foods” store). If you want another ho-hum, overpriced restaurant or annoying coffee shop take a look at an apartment in Park Slope.
As for smart growth, I’ve been here for more than a decade and it’s only been in the last three or so that I’ve seen anything other than 99 cent stores cropping up on Cortelyou. Vintage stores with jacked up prices and spotty hours don’t exactly change the equation. It seems like what has changed is the population. There are also lots more “professionals” which on this page seems to be code for “white folks.” It’s a real shame, not too long ago, this neighborhood was the statistically most diverse place in America. See this site for more info: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/040628/28photo.htm
I agree, the newbies should shut up and enjoy what make this neighborhood so wonderful or take their money elsewhere.
you know what? neighborhoods change. grab the WPA guide to NY from the 1930s and read about all your precious neighborhoods in there. 10 years from now everything will be different, just like everything was different 10 years ago, and a whole new batch of NY residents will be whinging.
everyone needs to accept that change is part of living in a city. the east village was desolate and scary, then a dope nest, then a boho enclave and finally what it is now. BIG DEAL. bushwick was once big and fancy too, and now look at it. in shambles!
Actually, nothing that I can think of other than eviction notices for the newbies who claim this neighborhood as their discovery. My skin actually crawls from the constant influx of overpriviledged, ill mannered out of towners who lay claim to historic areas and then tout them as their quirky finds. It also drives up the real estate for the rest of us, not to mention having to deal with the overwhelmingly annoying and hipster wannabe crowd who seem to feel that residents should completely disregard their existing lifestyle in favor of the new crop of irritating people from Ohio and Minnesota who now declare themselves to be natives.
You have only to take a look at every other neighborhood in the City to see the complete disregard for history or authenticity in favor of yet another Whole Foods or Starbucks.
I’m all for progress, I just find it difficult if not painful to watch the pseudo intellectual baby buggy brigade transform a neighborhood from historic to bland the way they’ve done with Park Slope and the rest of Brooklyn. Find another borough to pillage, you’re so not wanted here.
October 5, 2007 5:26 PM I gotta say that so far, knock wood, the handful of new and with the exception of CT Muffin (which ain’t exactly Starbucks!), independently owned businesses on Cortelyou don’t feel a lot like suburbia to me.
I like the new options but also regularly buy tamales and pastries at the fantastic Mexican bakery b/t Stratford and CIA, Latino ingredients from Isabel Grocery and MoMos form Asian Grocery, none of which seem to be suffering from the increased vibrancy and foot traffic on Cortelyou–quite the contrary.
Now if a few of the redundent 99-cent stores, bodegas and calling card vendors go under, I won’t shed any tears.
They aren’t the original occupants. They displaced butchers and flower shops and Buster Brown shoe stores. And in my opinion, they make much of Flatbush, to borrow a phrase “a homogenized carbon copy” not of the suburbs, but of any of the once socioeconomically diverse but now blighted neighborhoods in Queens, Brooklyn or the Bronx, that suffered when the middle class fled.
If you don’t want an ill’tempered native dropping the F bomb on you then don’t move to Brooklyn.
The deeper you go into Brooklyn prepare to be cursed at. It’s part of the charm.
Enough of the HIPPIE shit on Cortelyou!
Vox Pop is like some kind of slacker coffee shop at some college campus in Vermont.
No street needs TWO natural food supermarkets when the ‘regular’ supermarket just closed.
The market on the street on Sundays is nice, but all they seem to sell is breads, and I’d rather just drive to Grand Army Plaza and go to the real one.