PACC is Wack
The future of the Bodegas space on the corner of Clinton and Fulton is of great concern to everyone we know in the neighborhood. Since the restaurant closed at the beginning of the year (in a domino effect caused by money problems and nasty landlords at Liquors), the rumors have been flying. The space is…
The future of the Bodegas space on the corner of Clinton and Fulton is of great concern to everyone we know in the neighborhood. Since the restaurant closed at the beginning of the year (in a domino effect caused by money problems and nasty landlords at Liquors), the rumors have been flying. The space is of particular importance because of its location at the gateway to Clinton Hill on a commercial stretch of road that has been crying out for improvement for years. So it was disbelief that we heard recently that the Pratt Area Community Council (which owns the building) took time out from destroying the aesthetics of the historic neighborhood to turn down an offer from a successful local business owner who wanted to open a wine bar in the space. And for what? PACC told this business owner that it had done a survey that showed residents wanted an Applebees! Yeah, right. This weekend, Clinton Hill Blog reported a rumor that PACC had recently shown the space to North Fork Bank. At least the nabe does need a bank (more than an Applebees), but, geez, turning down someone with a proven track record who wants to put an upscale establishment in this crappy stretch of Fulton? If the organization takes the credit of low-income renters and buyers, surely it can rent to a local business.
Store Rumors [Clinton Hill Blog]
Future of Bodegas & Liquors Thrown Into Question [Brownstoner]
Corner of Clinton and Fulton Up for Grabs [Brooklyn Record]
PACC is a joke. I used to be a donor, until they took on my deadbeat tenant as a client because she told them she felt “insecure” in her (lovely, restored garden Bstone)apt., which had a private entrance and plenty of security. No reason at all to withhold rent. If they’d investigated before taking her on, PACC might have discovered that she was a serial tenant who’d gypped everyone she’d ever rented from and always ended up in LT court, getting months of free rent before being bought out (and no, I didn’t do a litigation check before renting to her, but that’s the last time I made that mistake). She had also done time for assaulting a previous landlord. PACC never even inspected the place; just took her at her word that the landlord was the Evil One who refused to provide locks on her doors. So I suddenly started getting calls from PACC saying they “represented” her and wanted to “mediate.” Needless to say, I read them the riot act, never donated again, and got the deadbeat tenant out after losing five months’ rent.
…and we have a WINNER! 1:55 figured out that the hair and nail salon suggestion was meant in jest. Okay, 1:55, are you ready to play the lightening round for BIG CASH!
I think the hair and nail thing was a joke. There are about 300 hair and nail places in Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, for Chrissakes.
yes, the hair and nail thing is done…but if there was a hair and nail place, I hope they decide men are allowed to have a mani-pedi and I hope they have peaceful music and maybe decor that doesn’t remind me of the Kmart Pharmacy in Littletown, Nebraska.
Lose the race baiting, please. Bad food is bad food is bad food. We want GOOD food and delicious restaurants. Oh my God, I would be in heaven if there was a Graziella’s there. Or any good local restaurant there. By the way, I didn’t like Bodega’s. The food was so so and they dissed my parents once, very rude. Good food is for everybody!!!
the hair and nail routine has run it’s course 1:00 p.m.
Does anyone else think it’s funny this post is directly above “Call 1-800-GENTRIFY” Now!?
very funny, whoever it is that keeps asking for another hair or nail salon… We definitely should have 3 or 4, as opposed to 1 or 2 as it is now, per block
If you split the difference between a wine bar and an Applebee’s, you get a nail and hair salon. So, there’s your middle ground.