Blimpie Is Coming, Like It or Not
The controversial Blimpie under construction at S. Elliot and Lafayette, as captured by Set Speed. Blimpie Awning [Set Speed] Blimpie, DD to Mar Lafayette [Brownstoner]
The controversial Blimpie under construction at S. Elliot and Lafayette, as captured by Set Speed.
Blimpie Awning [Set Speed]
Blimpie, DD to Mar Lafayette [Brownstoner]
Blimpies?!?!? Give me a break…Next there’ll be a Dunkin Donuts/Baskin’Robbins with a 24hr. Check Cashing next door! They’ll make a killing anyway!! That’s what’s it’s all about, right?!$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Not to mention, they make the “soggiest” heroes in the world…Definitely, not a SUBWAYS:)
whoa! As a 30 plus resident of Brooklyn Heights: all apologies to fellow Brownstoners for my bloviating, myopic neighbor. An innocuous little Blimpie’s is a blight on a neighborhood? Has this self-apointed elitist ever taken a hard look at our own, singular retail strip, Montague Street? One of the ugliest, most boring, architecturally uninspired and lame service streets in Brooklyn.
No mystery here: only the biggies (Corcoran, Starbucks, Design within Reach, etc.) can afford the commercial rents (at over $100 a square foot now, Montague Street, along with 86th Street in Bay Ridge and 7th Ave. in Park Slope are the highest commercial rents in the boro) . Among others who can afford the rents: The Key Food, the street’s major supermarket which is crowded, understaffed, frequently depleted of mainstream items and often (loading and unloading) a sidewalk hazard; and the new Tasti-Delite (sp?), ,the mostly chemical frozen confection shop just across the street, which is doing gang buster business . As to why there are, and never have been, any interesting/creative/chef-driven restaurants on Montague: It’s all about the rents, stupid! Hence the now old Smith St. restaurant revolution, followed by Atlantic Ave., Court St.. 5th Ave. in Park Slope, Red Hook, and CH/Ft. Greene.
Oh, I see. I thought you were being sarcastic by saying you would love to be my neighbor, which is silly because I’m actually a really good neighbor to have, since I don’t blast my music after a certain hour and I don’t clomp around on my wood floors wearing high heels. Btw, I hate Wal-mart too. A Wal-mart in Brooklyn really is a tragedy and something to get hysterical about.
Apologies for the confusing comment on Walmart. The text at the end of the url is taken from the actual ad in the Brooklyn Papers. Not my comment at all as I’m not a fan of Walmart.
I don’t understand the gist of your comment. Are you actually comparing Wal-mart to Blimpie? A giant blight of a store that doesn’t pay it’s employees enough to subsist and forces them to use Medicaid because they don’t have health insurance vs. a small fast food franchise owned (as someone else stated below) by a guy from Queens? Aren’t you stretching your metaphor a bit too much? All I was saying is that there are much worse things that could happen than the opening of a Blimpie. It seems like there’s a whole lot of hysteria over a single storefront shop on a commercial block.
Wal-Mart is trying to come to Brooklyn.
They have a full page ad in the Brooklyn Papers.
http://www.brooklynpapers.com/html/issues/_vol28/28_29/28_29bp.pdf
In Brooklyn, you can get great cheesecake,
enjoy Coney Island,walk the Brooklyn Bridge,
and do just about anything. The only thing missing
is every day low prices. Brooklyn. Where you can find everything from the world’s best cheesecake, to a Beluga whale. The only thing it’s missing is a Wal-Mart, where New Yorkers could find quality merchandise at every day low prices. Wal-Mart has become America’s favorite place to shop by saving people money every day. And when it comes to saving money, what New Yorker doesn’t like that? We’d be proud to have a Wal-Mart in the neighborhood. And we’d be just as proud to be your neighbor.
What a difference a few blocks make. We have a relatively new Subway on the corner of Vanderbilt and Myrtle. Personally, I hate Subway. Their bread is yeasty and undercooked, but the store is always busy. It’s clean and well kept. There isn’t an overabundance of Subway garbage littering the streets out front. Previously there was an pizza place there, but they didn’t last long. The neighborhood decides what stays and what goes by spending their dollars. If everyone refuses to eat Blimpie, it will go too.
I’ve been following this thread and while I find some of the comments amusing, I’m disturbed by the class mentality that prevails. I find it hard to believe that brownstone dwellers are so high class they never eat fast food. Sure, it would be nice to see yet another french restaurant on that corner, but sometimes what you need a little paper dish of Nathan’s french fries, red plastic pitchfork included. Diversity is what makes Brooklyn a cool place to live. The coming of Blimpie is really not the tragedy that some people are making it out to be.
So the drunks and some fast-food addicted Tech students will love it….Sure to be a hit with owners in the nabe!
Y’all drink?
Blimpies are great late night after hitting the bars. I look forward to scrafing a foot long italian sub with all the fixings and then stumbing home.
Ain’t nothing wrong with Blimpies. Way better than an expensive t-shirt shop or another crappy sushi bar.