H&M Setting Up Shop in Downtown BK
Somehow we missed this major retail news from Tuesday: H&M “has officially signed a 15-year lease at property owner Al Laboz’s 497 Fulton Street building on the Fulton Street Mall. The 29,600-square-foot store, between Hoyt and Bridge streets, will be H&M’s first street location Brooklyn,” reports the Observer. Due to construction, it won’t open until…
Somehow we missed this major retail news from Tuesday: H&M “has officially signed a 15-year lease at property owner Al Laboz’s 497 Fulton Street building on the Fulton Street Mall. The 29,600-square-foot store, between Hoyt and Bridge streets, will be H&M’s first street location Brooklyn,” reports the Observer. Due to construction, it won’t open until 2010.
Dave…nothing registers….?!
I did a little modeling when I first moved to NYC, so I just happen to know a few. They are not supermodels, just your garden variety, chain smoking, pill popping run of the mill models…
my 11:28 post – Yikes..what the hell happened there?
Cobble, I really really want to know if you’ve been there.
thanks. and im sorry i had to lol @ sweater vests getting your adrenaline pumping. hahaha
Rob,
I am a guy. I think Beacon’s is great. Now, you can’t go there thinking…today I’m going to buy 2 new outfits. You have to be into the hunt, and if I come out of there with one good thing, I consider it a success. Not long ago, I found a vintage Christian Dior sweater vest in perfect condition for 14 bucks. Stuff like that gets my adrenaline pumping. It gets a ton of compliments.
Sure it’s overpriced for a vintage store, but what are you going to get for 14 bucks retail? Not even something on sale at H&M. That’s the point. So yeah…I’ve spent 30 bucks for an item at Beacons Closet, but usually it’s a piece of designer clothing, which probably cost a few hundred dollars new, so it’s all relative.
More importantly, I just LIKE the older stuff. Retro is my style so it works for me. Like I said though…you have to be “into” thrift store shopping and like the thrill of the hunt…
The new one on 5th Avenue is now open till 9pm which is pretty awesome. It’s double the size of the old one…I went on Sunday…
11217…I guess you know “Lots of Luck” from the Lotto commercials if you know those supermodels!!! 🙂
Cobble, have you ever been to Steve & Barry’s? The Sarah Jessica Parker line was really cute last year. Cobble, have you ever been to Steve & Barry’s? The Sarah Jessica Parker line was really cute last year.
Cobbler, maybe my post came off differently than I intended. I’m not knocking H&M in any way. And I wasn’t putting down people who shop there (in a way that you may have interpreted as me implying such people have no taste and let’s accept that). I meant that I wouldn’t think any differently of someone who shopped there or bought a $10 pair of shoes at Payless than I would think of someone who spent $14,000 on a pair of Manolo Blahnik alligator boots. Ok, maybe I would think a bit differently, but it would be more along the lines of why people would spend $14,000 on a pair of boots!
how is beacon’s closet for guys clothes btw? i’ve been in there twice but it was such a clusterf-ck i left shortly after without getting to really look around. how are the prices? most vintage shops seriously seem to overprice..
there used to be a salvation army store right on prince street in manhattan around the corner from where i work and i would stop in there everyday on my lunch hour. loved it because it upped the chances to finding good stuff before the vintage betties from brooklyn and the village and their little vintage shops would come in and snatch up all the good stuff to resell ahhah.
-rob
H&M definetely serves it’s purpose. Not everyone can afford or wants to spend a fortune on clothes. Stores like H&M and the discount stores are popular, because we live in a disposable society. If it’s cheap, we don’t feel as guilty buying it, using and tossing it sooner, than something we spent more on.
Personally, I’m not a fan of H&M, everytime I go in there, I feel old, but then again I’m not really into shopping….it bores me.