Landmarked Florist Building Up For Sale
Here’s a neat opportunity for someone with a little vision: The landmarked McGovern Florist building at the corner of 25th Street and 5th Avenue in Greenwood Heights is up for sale. The glass structure is being sold along with an adjacent two-story woodframe house for $1,500,000 or on its own for $775,000. Obviously the location…
Here’s a neat opportunity for someone with a little vision: The landmarked McGovern Florist building at the corner of 25th Street and 5th Avenue in Greenwood Heights is up for sale. The glass structure is being sold along with an adjacent two-story woodframe house for $1,500,000 or on its own for $775,000. Obviously the location across from the entrance to Green-wood Cemetery makes flowers an obvious choice, but that space would be pretty amazing as a beer garden!
750 5th Avenue Listing [CPEX] GMAP
Actually I think Brenda and Stonergut maybe the ones from Ohio:
“Wow, doesn’t anybody here go to funerals? People near a cemetery need two things. One is flowers”
This is Brooklyn NEW YORK -> and anyone really from here KNOWS that a sizable portion of NY funerals and cemeteries dont need a florist at all – cause Jews dont have flowers at a grave.
BRENDA FROM FLATBUSH GETS IT!
*rob*
A beer hall? Next to a huge still active cemetery? I wonder what people are thinking?
Perhaps a garden nursery catering to brownstoners’ backyards would do well on that site.
This is no doubt a great opportunity for the neigbhorhood-
The city should maybe step in an buy it, or the greenwood conservancy should think about buying it.
Second the idea that a cemetary side restaurant (a la Niderstein’s) would work well. Beer garden would not be bad either.
The issue is probably less about the upkeep than the HVAC – these buildings were not designed to be fit for human occupancy- they are freezing in the winter and hothouses in the summer. Also, I’m sure that every so often, a gigantic pane of non-safety glass come crashing down from somewhere in this ancient structure- restoring it to a state where you could insure it for a new use might involve a total rebuild.
Maybe some rich eccentric will restore the cute house next door, and put a gigantic jacuzzi in the greenhouse.
There is not a huge amount of funerals going on in Green-Wood – many of the plots there were full 100 years ago.
Brenda, everyone on this board goes back to Ohio for funerals, so they don’t know how they do things in NYC ; )
Wow, doesn’t anybody here go to funerals? People near a cemetery need two things. One is flowers; the other is a nice place to take the whole family (including Grandma!) for a comforting meal after a burial. Bag the Billyburg beer garden nonsense and turn this into a nice genteel middle-of-the-road traditional eatery like Long Island’s old Milleridge Inn, with a reasonably-priced menu heavy on nonthreatening things like chicken pot pie and poached salmon salad. The adjacent property could be a pleasant “country-inn” type property to accommodate visiting guests. No irony, no retro, just a solid, lovely restaurant to serve the community–and the trademark could be huge bouquets of fresh flowers to unify the past identity to the present, along with evocative images of Brooklyn nostalgia. Call it The Green-House, for a subtle branding bridge to Green-Wood. License to print money. You will get my consulting bill in the mail.
no! do not legalize weed. too many criminals would be broke and outta work and then they’ll really be climbing in your windows!
*rob*
this would make a cool weed emporium.
there’s a lot of cool interior design happening in weed shops in CA