StreetLevel: More Bread, Brawn on 5th Avenue
A couple new 5th Avenue businesses are about to satisfy the demands of Slopers who’ve been longing for a one-stop shop to carbo-load and work out. The corner space on 6th Street is going to be a branch of Brooklyn Bread, the Carroll Gardens bakery on Court Street and 2nd Place. And the space right…
A couple new 5th Avenue businesses are about to satisfy the demands of Slopers who’ve been longing for a one-stop shop to carbo-load and work out. The corner space on 6th Street is going to be a branch of Brooklyn Bread, the Carroll Gardens bakery on Court Street and 2nd Place. And the space right next door is being turned into an outpost of Fitness Together, a gym with hundreds of franchises across the U.S. (Their only other NYC location, however, is in Cobble Hill.) Fitness Together emphasizes personal training, and the 5th Avenue space is being carved up to include three private studios. The gym is scheduled to open sometime next month, and the bakery should be cooking by late December or early January. GMAP
“Brooklyn Bread, the rudest service in Carroll Gardens. And I’m fairly certain the owner is in deep with the mob because if he’s not beaten up, the windows have been smashed in.”
agreed! seriously a bunch of morons working that counter. i guess all those old guys
sitting for hours of overpriced coffee keep it going somehow.
WAIT Sky Realty and Maxwell Carpets closed!!! Who needs another bakery or gym…I loved the crappy apt listings and dilapidated carpet remnants those places had -there is just no edge to Brooklyn anymore, its like 1 big mall!
Please to god let’s hope 5th avenue never turns into anything remotely resembling the upper west side retail-wise.
have you been there lately?
broadway looks like white plains mall these days…
we are lucky to still be getting a lot of “cute shit” as i like to call it in park slope.
even 7th…in the northern section and towards the southern section ain’t half bad.
but 5th rocks! I don’t find it lame in the least.
and i’m the “east slope” dweller.
“Brooklyn Bread, the rudest service in Carroll Gardens. And I’m fairly certain the owner is in deep with the mob because if he’s not beaten up, the windows have been smashed in.”
agreed! seriously a bunch of morons working that counter. i guess all those old guys
sitting for hours of overpriced coffee keep it going somehow.
I live right by this spot. This East-West Slope debate is stupid.
I love living near 5th Ave the way it is now, but of course for most people with money the park (and the kinds of houses near the park) will command a premium. That doesn’t diminish my house; I’m glad to get a little more exercise walking to the park in return for a million-dollar discount on my house.
What I’d really like is to have the retail of 5th Avenue AND the proximity of the park. 7th Avenue I can do without. If only we could fold the neighborhood together and lose a couple blocks in the middle, that’d be perfect by me.
4.49pm. For trophy properties consumed by the super-rich or merely rich, park views are a virtue. That’s why the Richard Meyer building is going up on grand army plaza.
But for real people, being near amenities and activity is key. And you can bet that Broadway and Amsterdam had plenty of lame bagel shops 20 years ago (probably still do) but the overall quality level of amenities improved a lot over the years. There’s plenty of lame stuff on 5th now, but one day a Citerella will open there and it won’t take 20 years.
You may be right, 4:05. And I think the center of gravity is/already shifted towards 5th in terms of what’s “cool.” But just like Central Park West, the blocks closest to the park will always be more expensive, in my opinion. A park like Prospect is a gem. There is one of them. As someone mentioned, there’s 10 medicocre bagel shops.
The new 15 Central Park West would have sold at 25% lower prices had it been built on Columbus Avenue.
Rember in the movie ‘Wall Street’ when the Charlie Sheen charater sheepishly admits to renting on the west side to the real estate agent? That was 1987, pretty late in the game. And yet there was still a stigma, the upper west side was for college professors, communists and criminals.
North versus South. East versus West. “A Slope Divided.” Next on The History Channel.