Banks Gunning for Royal Video Spot?
Over the next couple of weeks Royal Video is going to be moving its business a few blocks north on Flatbush, to a smaller storefront near Prospect Place that briefly housed Curves (see photo on jump). The original store between Bergen and St. Marks, meanwhile, is likely to be afflicted affected by the bank branch…
Over the next couple of weeks Royal Video is going to be moving its business a few blocks north on Flatbush, to a smaller storefront near Prospect Place that briefly housed Curves (see photo on jump). The original store between Bergen and St. Marks, meanwhile, is likely to be afflicted affected by the bank branch expansion craze. Two banks are currently bidding to take Royal Video’s old spot, according to one of the store’s employees. Whether or not the bank talk is true (and we’re betting it is), we’re definitely going to be sad to see Royal’s yellow-and-green signage go the way. GMAP
“There is a METEORITE store on 5th Avenue.”
An empty meteorite store I might add. Worst. Business plan. Ever.
You people are never happy.
When banks don’t invest in neighborhoods, you complain of racism and classism and bemoan the check-cashing places.
But when banks proliferate, you still whine.
As always, damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
A Citibank would be nice.
“Brooklynnative, actually there are THREE types of stores in the Slope: banks, real estate agencies, and cell phone stores.”
There is a METEORITE store on 5th Avenue.
who needs night life when there is plenty of porn to watch.
I don’t call people scampering in a locked door after 5pm to get cash, street life, that’s for darn sure.
Royal Video was open late and had people coming and going well into the evening.
That’s what I call street life.
You don’t notice a difference in streets lined with shops and restaurants to those lined with banks and real estate agencies?
First of all, Royal Video is moving SOUTH of its current location. Second, which banks are vying for the space? Citi and Bank of America (maybe Commerce) are the only ones that would make sense there. I bet it’s BoA…
I agree with Brooklynnative, though–who on earth rents videos anymore? And by moving south on Flatbush, this store is only closer to Blockbuster (which has a superior netflix-style rent online, drop off in the store policy) and the site of the now defunct Video Edge. I give it a year before it goes completely belly-up
I don’t see how a bank, which has ATMs and is basically a 24-hour operation, would kill the life on that corner, though. It’s next door to Sugarcane and across the triangle from Flatbush Farm. Besides, what kind of nightlife on the corner of Flatbush are you looking for 11:04?
maybe the low income neighbors can now read more books instead of watch so much porn.
how is a video store catering to the “low income neighbors?”
netflix is cheaper than royal video.
i’m not following your line of thinking.
Problem is, the only business that can afford the new rent to be charged on that place is a bank or a large chain.