Streetlevel: Dueling Cellphone Stores on Prospect Park West
Sure, Brooklyn was recently pronounced a paradise where comity existed between small business and the big guys, but two cell phone stores on one block? This T-Mobile shop just opened at 209 Prospect Park West, sandwiched between a Verizon shop and the delicious Dub Pies. Across the street, the Windsor Terrace version of Cake Shop,…
Sure, Brooklyn was recently pronounced a paradise where comity existed between small business and the big guys, but two cell phone stores on one block? This T-Mobile shop just opened at 209 Prospect Park West, sandwiched between a Verizon shop and the delicious Dub Pies. Across the street, the Windsor Terrace version of Cake Shop, a bakery-cum-music venue, will soon open. Interesting mix of corporate and hipster playing out here.
“I think a little fish shop or cheese store would be a great addition.”
I wish. How about a bakery…like a Mazzola storefront. Or a small take out restaurant. A real organic market (would need a larger footprint I guess). A cute store that sold cute things. Pita Grill. An Indian restaurant. What if we got rid of both the cel stores and got a gym…
cell phone stores are the new shoe repair stores.
Ugh, another cell phone shop. Who even shops in those stores?
I think a little fish shop or cheese store would be a great addition.
Because it contributes to the mall-ification of New York.
My comment WAS in jest (because of course neither a bank nor CVS would fit there). Other than that I completely agree with Boxermonkey.
I should have said Ikea. Now that would have been funny.
So if Oak Park is awful and Ballard doesn’t have the best hours, why shouldn’t a better drug store be encouraged to pen around here?
There are actually two pharmacies within two blocks there, Oak Park which is awful and Ballard which doesn’t have the best hours but is a good place. There isn’t enough sqaure footage for a CVS to begin with, and more chain-store banks and drug stores (and cell phone shops) should, in my opinion, not be encouraged even in jest.
The local pharmacy has a terrible selection of merchandise and closes too early. Other than that, it’s perfect.
Why would we need another bank on that strip?
Why not shop at the local pharmacy a block away?
They seem to be following each other. T-Mobile opened on the corner of Flatbush Ave and 7th Ave. Then a month later Verizon shows up on the opposite side of Flatbush Ave by Park Place. Oh yeah, and AT&T has a store right by the new T-Mobile.