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The schlockification of this stretch of 7th Ave continues... so glad I live in South Slope.
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Dunkin Donuts banners in Brooklyn are becoming as frequent as seeing the NYU banners below 14th St.
For better or worse, the change on Nostrand is going to make the change on Franklin look minor. -
Sadly, this is what 7th Avenue is headed to, it sees the rents are going higher and higher and the only people, businesses that can afford it are chain stores.
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anything near 7th ave is full of old people with money.
5th ave is full of young people who don't have that much but have better stores.
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Yes 5th have has the better choice of stores and old people, like me...love that!
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damn you old person :p.
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But 5th Avenue is also full of young people, who by their very youth and proximity remind old people (like me) how old they are. Damn you, young persons!
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One can not get old if one always eats Dunkin donuts.For better or worse, the change on Nostrand is going to make the change on Franklin look minor. -
Lots of people may be bitching about this place opening but I'll bet dollars to donuts they won't go bankrupt from lack of customers.
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old people stay on your side of the slope!!!
Fight white guilt and injustice by smoking tax free guilt free Reservation Smokes or go gamble in a Native Casino.
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that restaurant seems very familiar, has it been around for a while, if so i think a female friend of mines drag me into it once.
Fight white guilt and injustice by smoking tax free guilt free Reservation Smokes or go gamble in a Native Casino.
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Tonio? It was here when we came to the Slope in the late 70's.
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last time i remember eating on 7th ave was over a decade ago, this girl who was into vegetarianism or was it vegan doesn't matter. I ate at tofu or something.... but that place looks very familiar. yes Tonio.
I try to stay away from 7th ave :p.
Fight white guilt and injustice by smoking tax free guilt free Reservation Smokes or go gamble in a Native Casino.
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PragmaticGuy said:
Lots of people may be bitching about this place opening but I'll bet dollars to donuts they won't go bankrupt from lack of customers.So far, this board is merely bitching about old people and young people.
No one seems to care about:
a. 40 year olds
b. Donuts
c. Italian foodFor better or worse, the change on Nostrand is going to make the change on Franklin look minor. -
Hopefully, the very superior 7th Avenue Donuts will not fold because them.
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oh! french crullers. yum almost as good as peter pan. but where to get apple fritters?
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Well whynot
1. i care about 40 year olds... My daughter is 40 years old.
2.I care about donuts.. I still lament the demise of the donut place on 9th street between 4th and 5th ave that was terrific.. supplied many dinners in brooklyn with donuts and made incredible Corn muffins in the middle of the night!
3. Italian food... Yes I care and I know and frequent Italian places that are not Al Di La or Aunt Suzies... But... sadly, most of those places are not in park Slope. -
Thanks Veets!
For better or worse, the change on Nostrand is going to make the change on Franklin look minor. -
Whynot
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Are you people kidding? 7th Ave rocks. If you go below 9th St. There are even some signs of life above 9th: Zito's, Crespella, um.... errr....
Seriously though, Dunkin Donuts is there for the hospital crowd, which is just too ironic to be funny.
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8thHand... You are so right... My problem is that I have lived here so long that I remember a time where the border of "9th Street" was not considered (true) PS.
Good point about Methodist Hospital being a huge chunk of DD clientelle. And not a bad thing the hospital is there.. IMO..I have been sick enough to need a hospital and be able to limp the two blocks rather than take a nice long, expensive cab ride to Manhattan. Lord bless all those people who keep themselves alert while on shift by a Dunkin Donuts break!
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Why do you people hate good cheap coffee. Are you angry it isnt another starbucks or something?
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SlopeDuder said:
Why do you people hate good cheap coffee. Are you angry it isnt another starbucks or something?they be rich that's why they don't like common people stuff :p. I don't drink coffee but I do like their donuts and hot chocolate. Plus it's a easy way for immigrants to open a american business with limited knowledge of the culture.
Fight white guilt and injustice by smoking tax free guilt free Reservation Smokes or go gamble in a Native Casino.
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SlopeDuder said:
Why do you people hate good cheap coffee. Are you angry it isnt another starbucks or something?If you think Starbucks is my idea of "good" coffee, then we will never see eye-to-eye on this subject.
Dunkin Donuts coffee is *okay*, maybe a step up from a gas station 24-hr blend. But its donuts are beyond gross and the overall aesthetics of the places scream "retail blight".
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veets said:
8thHand... You are so right... My problem is that I have lived here so long that I remember a time where the border of "9th Street" was not considered (true) PS.It's not true Park Slope. It's South Slope.
veets said:Good point about Methodist Hospital being a huge chunk of DD clientelle. And not a bad thing the hospital is there.. IMO..I have been sick enough to need a hospital and be able to limp the two blocks rather than take a nice long, expensive cab ride to Manhattan. Lord bless all those people who keep themselves alert while on shift by a Dunkin Donuts break!
Nothing against the hospital folks, except that the fast food schlock seems to be attracted to them.
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veets said:
8thHand... You are so right... My problem is that I have lived here so long that I remember a time where the border of "9th Street" was not considered (true) PS.Good point about Methodist Hospital being a huge chunk of DD clientelle. And not a bad thing the hospital is there.. IMO..I have been sick enough to need a hospital and be able to limp the two blocks rather than take a nice long, expensive cab ride to Manhattan. Lord bless all those people who keep themselves alert while on shift by a Dunkin Donuts break!
We can have a hospital without a Dunkin Donuts.
and lets look at the quality and quantity of litter on 7th Ave in a year.
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Not a fan of DD, but not sorry to see Tonios close - didn't like the food and didn't like the owner at all.
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Crappy utility doughnuts or a sketchy-looking mobbed-up Eye-tie restaurant that no one ever went into? Crappy utility doughnuts, FTW!
"We have access, we have keys, and we will open the doors and do our business."—Pedro Espada Jr. -
With the hospital there I wonder if it will be another one of these:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/dunkin-donutsbaskin-robbinspizza-huttaco-belllong,10000/
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I love the fast food supermarket style type of places :p. you could get everything in one place!!!
Fight white guilt and injustice by smoking tax free guilt free Reservation Smokes or go gamble in a Native Casino.
I like to stick it to The Man, The Man happens to be Liberal in NYC(power Structure). -
armchair_warrior said:
I love the fast food supermarket style type of places :p. you could get everything in one place!!!Everything in one place: Heart disease, diabetes, cholesterol, high blood pressure.
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whynot_31 said:
Everything in one place: Heart disease, diabetes, cholesterol, high blood pressure.If only there were alcohol.
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jeffrey said:
If only there were alcohol.Dude, bodegas can give you all of the above diseases plus alcohol, cigarettes and lottery tickets.
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whynot_31 said:
Everything in one place: Heart disease, diabetes, cholesterol, high blood pressure.junk food where my stomach is at :p. bring it on!!
Fight white guilt and injustice by smoking tax free guilt free Reservation Smokes or go gamble in a Native Casino.
I like to stick it to The Man, The Man happens to be Liberal in NYC(power Structure). -
whynot_31 said:
Dude, bodegas can give you all of the above diseases plus alcohol, cigarettes and lottery tickets.
Added bonus: rodent- and other pest-borne ones.
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...insanely cute cats
...Bodega guys
For better or worse, the change on Nostrand is going to make the change on Franklin look minor. -
And if I might return to the original subject:
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I'm probably the only one on this board who went to Tonio's. I thought they made pretty good "gravy" dishes. Their interior decorating had a lot to be desired, though.
"Clamato! Straight Up! No chasah! -
jeffrey said:
And if I might return to the original subject:.
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Jeffery-
Enough with the donuts.
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.Dietary Link To Mental Health Found
By Harold Mandel
Published in Health Examiner
October 17, 2011For years there has been a raging battle between natural mental health care advocates and psychiatrists regarding the vital significance of diet in dealing with mental health. Natural health care practitioners take the position that a good diet, often with supplements, can generally play a primary role in preventing and curing mental illness without drugs.
Psychiatrists to the contrary have consistently taken the position that the not so simple consideration of what constitutes a good diet is too simple a consideration in dealing with their fictional considerations of what actually causes mental illness. Psychiatrists far too often misdiagnose dietary deficiencies as serious mental illnesses and pump their patients up with highly toxic drugs which always cause more harm than good instead of suggesting better nutrition.
Two new studies by Australian investigators has found that diet quality can in fact have a significant effect on mental health outcomes. Furthermore, these studies support the position that good diets may also play a pivotal role in preventing and treating mental illness.
Caroline Cassels has reported for Medscape Today "More Evidence Confirms Diet's Link to Mental Health." In their most recent study principal investigator Felice Jacka, PhD, and colleagues from Deakin University and the University of Melbourne in Australia have found that better diet quality was associated with better mental health in Australian adolescents cross-sectionally and over time. This study has been published online in the September 21 edition of PLoS One.
Dr. Jacka has said that the findings from this study show that it may be possible to prevent teenage depression with sufficiently nutritious diets. Furthermore, improving the quality of diet may help to treat depressive symptoms on adolescents. It was found that children whose diets got poorer had a worsening in their mental health, while those whose diet improved had improved mental health.
In this study a healthy diet was defined as a diet which included fruit and vegetables as "core food groups" and which included both 2 or more servings of fruit per day and 4 or more servings of vegetables. A healthy diet also consisted of a general avoidance of processed foods including chips, chocolate, sweets, and ice cream. An unhealthy diet in this study consisted of a diet high in snack and processed foods.
These findings have followed a recent study on the effect of diet on mental health by the same investigators. This earlier study, which has been published in the July issue of Psychosomatic Medicine, showed a significant link between better-quality diets and improved mental health outcomes, and specifically for depression and anxiety, in a cohort of Norwegian adult men and women. In this study it was found that individuals with better quality diets were not as likely to be depressed, whereas a higher intake of processed and unhealthy foods was associated with increased anxiety. Dr. Jacka's findings highlight the significance of a consideration of nutritional approaches to preventing and treating common mental illnesses, including depression and anxiety.
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you are not the only one Idlewild, Hubby and I went to Tonio's many, many years ago. And, being old school Italian myself and having grown up with old school Italian cooking via Grandma, I thought I would love the place. Turns out, I didn't. Thought the food was very bla.
I do like DD coffee, I am not thrilled about another chain opening up. But, once again, the landlords on 7th Avenue have driven up the rents so much that chains are all we will be seeing.
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Tonio's used to be acceptable for a American style red sauce place. The food was pretty bland but predicatable and the owner was usually very nice. Sadly a few years ago he decided that he wanted to "upgrade" the menu with overpriced specials that were way beyond the capabilities of his kitchen and business fell off dramatically.
If he owns the building, he will make more in rent from Dunkin Donuts than he ever made running his resturant.
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^^Very true! this is why Little things moved out of the Starbucks spot years ago. they owned the building and Starbucks was after them to rent that space for a while. After refusing, the amount of rent money they would make off of renting to Starbucks was just too much to turn down. So, Little Things moved to two spots on the other side of 7th Avenue and rented their space to Starbucks.
If the owner of Tonio's does own the spot, he will now be making out like a bandit
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studies and more studies could go kiss my fat ass :p. I still eat my donuts :p.
Fight white guilt and injustice by smoking tax free guilt free Reservation Smokes or go gamble in a Native Casino.
I like to stick it to The Man, The Man happens to be Liberal in NYC(power Structure). -
dude wouldn't care who takes the spot, he'll be too rich to care. he'll be laughing in the sun in florida or something....
Fight white guilt and injustice by smoking tax free guilt free Reservation Smokes or go gamble in a Native Casino.
I like to stick it to The Man, The Man happens to be Liberal in NYC(power Structure). -
I'm still going to 7th Ave Donuts for my donuts and coffee. And greasy spoon meals, which I suspect are a lot healthier than any DD sandwiches.
"Clamato! Straight Up! No chasah! -
armchair_warrior said:
dude wouldn't care who takes the spot, he'll be too rich to care. he'll be laughing in the sun in florida or something....If it were me I'd do just that and take the name "Tony Donuts."
Instant respect.
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Tony, the owner of Tonios, does own the building
Peanuts -
Then this is a win-win for everyone.
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jeffrey said:
With the hospital there I wonder if it will be another one of these:http://www.theonion.com/articles/dunkin-donutsbaskin-robbinspizza-huttaco-belllong,10000/
Long John Silvers AND Taco Bell, oh to live the dream!!!
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