Streetlevel: Cell Phones in Place of Antiques
More cell phone shops! This Verizon opened at 337 Flatbush Avenue, where Accentiques used to be. What more can we say? We’ll leave the commentary to you guys. GMAP
More cell phone shops! This Verizon opened at 337 Flatbush Avenue, where Accentiques used to be. What more can we say? We’ll leave the commentary to you guys. GMAP
These are franchises right? This is a case of newbie wannabe business owners being utterly clueless and unoriginal in the franchises they choose. It’s just like all those yogurt places located on the same street.
so lame it’s unbelievable. the cell stores are like banks taking over corners — large wasted spaces, stupid staff and overall. flavorless and shitty.
doesn’t look like a cell phone store? the cell phone stores here have many cell phones in the window, this looks more like a real estate sales office
My mom is a longtime friend of Michael, the guy who owned and ran Accentiques. He really had some great stuff… It’s a shame really. No one needs antiques but who NEEDS another cell phone?
You should see this thing at night! Even when it is closed, the light beaming from the storefront is obnoxious.
Even my daughter is sick of cell phone stores. She’s 8! The only thing more disappointing for her was the opening of the new realtor at Berkeley and 7th Ave.
Have any of you folks been to McNulty’s Tea & Coffee Co. in the West Village on Christopher Street?
It’s been at the same location of over 100 years and it’s incredible (and very fortunate) that it’s never been renovated.
It’s kind of like McSorely’s, but for tea and coffee.
the cornice is still there but they did tear down the entire front to replace it with all of that glass. It wasn’t in great condition, but still sad to see it go.
While the original sign may still be behind the Verizon sign, the glass frontage is incontestably new. The previous store front was of 19th century/early 20th century design where the front door is recessed between two bay windows. This kind of slick cheap modernizing of storefronts does a great deal to rob character and human scale from our streetscapes. The LPC is holding a public hearing next Tuesday on Prospect Height’s bid for historic district designation. This address is within the area that would be protected. It’s sad that it will be too late for this location.