Open Thread Wednesday

I haven’t tried Taze, but they bombed my co-op with colorful flyers over the long weekend. I noticed the flyers use Kapadokya’s (well deserved) Zagat testimonials and weren’t so much a menu as they were an announcement that the place is open for lunch (for instance – no prices). Appears to be the same fare, though — hope they have not 86’d the Mixed Grill – the best thing on Kapadokya’s menu IMO.

I think a national chain is bound to open up on Clark Street — sounds like they may be the only viable tenants given the outrageous rents.

As I mentioned last week, I’m single but I think a baby clothes and supplies store would make a billion dollars in BH.

Finally, I think the park will definitely happen, and we can look forward to more colorful neighborhood characters like the guy with the dog, who I have seen at least twice.

brooklyn eagle web site: worst ever?

i brooklyn papes.

Anyone try Taze, the new restaurant in the Kapadokya spot? Not yet. I tried to get my wife to try it a couple of nights ago when she had dinner with a friend, but they stuck to the tried and true Teresa’s.

Will a national chain ever open in one of the huge spaces available on Clark Street? Only if they’re looking for a huge tax write-off.

If you could open any kind of store in the neighborhood what would it be? I’d try to ressurect Capulet’s – a decent bar and grill with bluegrass music on weekend nights.

Brooklyn Bridge Park – ever gonna happen? Yes.

And just who is that guy with the dog? Haven’t had the pleasure yet.

Blue Pig Party Place — the newspapers are off the windows… thoughts? Have a photo? No and no.

Brooklyn Eagle, Brooklyn Paper or The Courier? Read ’em? We subscribe to the Brooklyn Heights Paper, which I enjoy, although Dennis Holt’s writing style is so baroque that I feel like Hemingway by comparison. I pick up the Brooklyn Paper now and then, but don’t like it as much. Courier? Don’t know it.

…and anything else you’ve got on your mind….

How about a Border’s or Barnes & Noble on Clark St.? If it takes a chain store to pay the rents, a bookstore would be better than bank/drug store/r.e. office.

Anyone know what happened to the Children’s clothing store just up the block from Middagh and Hicks? There used to be a french women there, and now the front of it looks very odd – they kept the window showcase but put a door up. It looks like maybe it’s commercial space being used for residential but disguised?

I’m not crazy about blue pig there ice cream is so/so. What their other location suppose to be – what kind of party place?

BTW, I like Monty Q’s pizza but think Fascati’s is awful. Am I alone on this?

A good grocery store on Hicks would be what’s needed, and the only thing that would survive. Nothing needed on the scale of Garden of Eden, but along the same like of organic and varied produce, a good meat and deli counter, and interesting sundries… I would be there every day! And it would teach those Pace students how to eat right, too.

Wow, thanks for the Monty’s link. That’s nasty. But it’s not shut down yet, unfortunately, I just ate there (it wasnt my choice, I swear). I guess they need a hearing or something first.

There’s something odd with the Monty Q’s closure. (It was shut down on the 16th, and I saw people in there last night frantically trying to fix stuff.) If you look at previous inspections, it passed with no particular problems. Yet the things that the health department dinged it on are pretty systemic — no place to wash hands, incorrect surfaces, dim lighting in food prep. Those aren’t temporary matters; they’re the kind of things that come from design/construction flaws. What in the world happened there over the last year to rack up so many points?

Whole Foods? Never happen. Whole Food stores need a bazillion square feet. The place their building in Gowanus will be bigger than the Red Hook Fairway, at 60,000 sq ft. Maybe a Trader Joes, which would be pretty good, but I don’t know if they do spaces as small as 5,000 sq ft.

The “thrift store” going into Fish’s Eddy is HousingWorks, which is about as high-end a second-hand store as you’re going to find anywhere. Its stock will probably be nicer than Ann Taylor’s or Jennifer Convertibles.

The Eagle and the Daily Eagle are different businesses entirely. There was a “Patsy’s” type lawsuit some years ago about who had the rights to the Eagle name.

Me, I’m hoping for a good utilitarian kids clothing store. Somewhere in the market between a Children’s Place and the frou-frou place on Henry that went under.

I would love to see a Crate and Barrell type store on Clark Street. Very excited about HousingWorks. I bet they will do well.

Gallery space? I don’t know how much rental income it could generate, but they’d be interesting and would also bring people into the neighborhood.

A brooks brothers could also work for the open storefront on Clark, but it may need more square feet.

Borders seems to do better than Waldenbooks, and at least it sells music.

Whatever it is, I suspect the invisible hand will come up with something.

I think a Boston Market or similar type chicken place (like peruvian style, or like Chirping Chicken) would be great for the neighborhood, either on Clark Street, or maybe where Mr. Souvlaki is on Montague.

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