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 Beverly C Cortelyou – is there really Vietnamese for order around there? Where? Tell me and I’ll order it.
I’d love to see a good yoga studio/gym in the area. It would also be great to have an indoor playspace for kids (sort of like Bija in Carroll Gardens).
Guest who “can’t walk the walk”:
Just curious – not judgemental. Did you try Kensington partially because you were limited by financial constraints? The Slope and Heights are way expensive, we all know that. So, if you are a normal person on a regular income – what neighborhood will you try next? Somewhere like Bensonhurst? Really, just curious. I admire your honesty.
There is a new or I’ve not noticed before Abacus real estate office on Cortelyou near East 16th/Cortelyou Road subway stop.
They seem to have commercial properties and residential listings in points beyond Ditmas Park on their inventory.
Anyone know anything aboutAbacus?
Re: coffee and politics, 1:32, 99% of coffee places I’ve been to manage to serve me my cup of jo in a politically-neutral environment. Not to worry, though, for I’ve taken your advice and now buy my coffee elsewhere. It’s just that I wish there were more neighborhood options.
I’m sure that Starbucks will appear once the neighborhood is more gentrified, though.
I’ve lived off Cortleyou Road for three years and it’s gotten better. But, as some have already said, I would love to see the following:
1. A cheaper grocery store that offers organic choices, like the Key Foods in Park Slope and Windsor Terrace. The new natural foods store is great and I like the co-op, but they’re way too expensive. My absolute fantasy is Trader Joe’s, but I’d settle for a high quality Key Foods so I could at least get some affordable staples.
2. Inexpensive Thai/Indian food.
3. Mexican food that doesn’t make me sick (sorry, Cinco de Mayo) and that has margaritas and more vegetarian options.
4. A bar/microbrew with a consistent tap and good munchies.
5. Yoga studio and/or gym.
6. Pet store (although I still need to check out A Dog’s Life on Coney Island Avenue).
And to add my two cents, I hate that that the firefighters park on the sidewalk and double park on the street, especially when I’m trying to see around them or get around them on my bike.
But even though the library staff is surly (I’ve been yelled at many times when *they’re* the ones making the mistakes), I always get the books I reserve and it does have Wednesday night and Saturday hours for us working folks.
would love a Starbucks myself.
the owner of Vox is ridiculous. i think his politics are so obnoxious too!
“I thought I could cope with the litter and the tagging and the cigarette butts everywhere, but as it turns out it depresses me and makes me feel unsafe, and I hate watching my kid play in that often dirty, tagged Tot Lot, and we’ll probably be leaving when our lease ends in 2009.”
Holy crap. I take it you’re moving out of NYC all together, in that case? You’d have to in order to escape litter, tagging and butts. In fact, if these things make you feel unsafe, your only alternative might be the MacMurdo weather station in Antarctica.
cor-TEL-you or cor-TEL-yo as the train conductors all say