What's the Oldest Business in Park Slope?
If your answer was prostitution, you’re not the only one. This Brooklynian thread tries to chart out the nabe’s oldest retail spot. The contenders: Pinchik Hardware on Flatbush, rumored to have been here since the 40s; Smiling Pizza (since the 70s, maybe?); and Neergard Pharmacy’s 5th Avenue locale, which seems to have opened in the…
If your answer was prostitution, you’re not the only one. This Brooklynian thread tries to chart out the nabe’s oldest retail spot. The contenders: Pinchik Hardware on Flatbush, rumored to have been here since the 40s; Smiling Pizza (since the 70s, maybe?); and Neergard Pharmacy’s 5th Avenue locale, which seems to have opened in the late 1800s. Jackie’s 5th Amendment? Aunt Suzie’s? Tarzian? Other ideas?
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I guess we aren’t extending the boundaries west to include Monte’s. The dry cleaners on 9th St./6th Ave have been in business continuously since at least the early 60s, I believe. Viejo Yayo on north end of 5th Ave looked old when I moved here in ’85. Also, Leopoldi’s is a bit of an institution.
“I led a normal sane life just like the rest of the world that is not on brownstoner.”
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WOW…Look who is pointing out verb conjugation. Why it’s BRG!!! Conjugation has nothing to do with an overnight stay while you’re in the HOD.
“I led a normal sane life”
Past tense.
I led a normal sane life just like the rest of the world that is not on brownstoner.
“Do you ever give it a rest?”
Better yet, what on EARTH did he do before Brownstoner came along?
cobblehiller…If I gave it a rest then you wouldn’t have much to post about 🙂
What’s the oldest bar???
There isn’t even a question, I don’t think…it’s Neergaard.
Oh come on, for pete’s sake, DIBS, we all know you are so much wealthier, so much smarter, better educated and so much more worldly-wise than the rest of us mere mortals on this board. Do you ever give it a rest?
Neergaard is my vote.