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]
To guest 9/18/07 4:07
We Love, Love, Love Los Mariachi on Coney Island Avenue between Dorchester and Cortelyou….authentic Mexican….delicious and Mariachi band Sat. nights….a great place and they have frozen margarhita’s too. Check it out!!!!!
i know i comment as a guest, so you wouldn’t know it, but BREN we agree quite a lot.
i’m 3:41 and i agreed with you somewhere else today on another thread.
i used to spray paint this graffiti covered wall nearly every day. they kept coming back and i kept spraying.
after a year, they got sick of it and now it’s graffiti free for almost a year.
it’s little stuff like that, that really makes a difference and trickles down to other things…
there is a lot of K-town info here….
http://kensingtonbrooklyn.blogspot.com/
may sander wants to move to the other side of ocean if DP doesn’t love him… we here in Kensington are dying for a coffee shop on Church Ave or Ft. Hamilton
3:41 PM you hit the nail on the head! folks get out there and clean up your neighborhood, plant flowers, get trees, get active!
Make things better yourselves… A few good souls can transform a gritty block… stick to it…
before you know it more folks get on the bandwagon… it can be disheartening at times, but persevere…
Few things to clear up-
#1 EVERYONE wants Cortelyou Road to improve…and it has with EVERYONE’S help
#2 Owner of Cornerstone wants new owner to pay off 80K worth debt upfront…good luck
-Doesn’t anyone else have a problem with the fact that the self-proclaimed mayor of Cortelyou publishes this http://voxpopnet.net/megaphone.html and similar propaganda? From above sounds like a few do.
Why would any legitimate business want to deal with someone like that?
I have nothing against Vox Pop as a business…more power to you!…but I do have a problem when it is perceived that Hicks speaks for all
how bout a police station.
A really great video store would also be great. And they could sell ice cream. And offer yoga classes.
Okay, I take all my other suggestions back and replace them with just one:
AN OLD-FASHIONED ICE CREAM PARLOR.
Like Hinsch’s in Bay Ridge or Tom’s in CrownHeights. NOT like H——D— or B——R—–. Big wooden bar up front, tables in back, homemade ice cream and chocolate…and (here’s how it would become as famous as DiFaro’s) it would train and deploy a corps of genuine old-fashioned SODA JERKS, trained by the last few who remember the lingo (“brown cow” for chocolate ice-cream soda, etc.) It would be, in time-honored fashion, a great place for neighborhood kids to hang out (besides tormenting the poor short-fused librarians at the branch there).
Okay…there’s the business plan, folks…who wants to take it and run with it?
don’t use words and phrases like don’t feel safe, sacrifice, trouble adjusting, a little beyond me, uphill battle, daunting, constraints, all in one post then.