Streetlevel: Bye-Bye Bergen Tile
Longtime Flatbush Avenue resident Bergen Tile has packed up its wares and moved them to Farmingdale, Long Island. Which means 11,500 square feet of retail space is now available. Ripco is handling the property, at 215 Flatbush Avenue and has a heckuva neighbor: Atlantic Center, and then all the mess of construction at Atlantic Yards….
Longtime Flatbush Avenue resident Bergen Tile has packed up its wares and moved them to Farmingdale, Long Island. Which means 11,500 square feet of retail space is now available. Ripco is handling the property, at 215 Flatbush Avenue and has a heckuva neighbor: Atlantic Center, and then all the mess of construction at Atlantic Yards. Maybe someday the neighborhood will get more walkable and the location will be a draw for pedestrian traffic. In the meantime, where are you home renos gonna get your tile? We’ve heard Brooklyn Chinatown’s a good spot. GMAP
The story as I heard it was that the business was owned by two brothers. They decided to go their separate ways and one got the business while the other got the building. The one with the building then promptly sold it. No one got pushed out or run out, or was taken advantage of by Asshats.
What is long Goldman at 150. cornball.
A&K is good. They’re a lot more polite since the recession started.
“A&K — you need a thick skin, but they are honest and the selection is good.”
Excellent summation.
A&K — you need a thick skin, but they are honest and the selection is good.
Mondial — in the near corner of Bensonhurst. Also a good selection that complements A&K’s.
Daltile distributor behind HD — Get your GC registered with them. You can save a lot but homeowners can’t walk in and buy. GCs only.
I always found Bergen a bit depressing. A good place for cheapskate landlords, but that’s it.
Bergen Paint and Tile closed this store awhile ago, and they own their properties so I do not think it was high rent. The farmingdale location is not new, it wasnt a move but a consolidation. They also owned property on 2nd St where they built The Heritage (and I am sure they retained a piece of that profit – or loss)
This area is only walkable if you have the reflexes to get the *#@$ out of the way of the SUV that just decided he is NOT sitting through another light on Flatbush and is making a 120 degree turn across 3 lanes of traffic without looking where he is going and accelerating from 15 mph to 45 mph in the process.
I walk around here most days, and I think the number of times I’ve been in “move or get hit by someone who could not stop his car even if he saw you” situations in the last year is up to 12 or so.
I use to think 1st Avenue in Manhattan in teens and 20s was dangerous before I moved here. Now I realize those cabbies and bus drivers were like sweet little old ladies driving to church compared to Brooklyn SUVs on Flatbush or Atlantic.
The bf likes A & K Tile Studio on 9th St between 5th and 6th Ave.
Some Asshats give a pile of money to sell (I guess around 15 million). Bergen tile moved to Long Island because all the Asshats are moving back there. They brought a warehouse real cheap and will live of the proceeds of the Asshat developer. God bless them because Atlantic yards will NOT be built.
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Someday this war is gonna end..