shoe store

Candicissima wrote: [quote=lirio]No offense to my new neighborhood, but if I could afford $500+ shoes, I don't think I'd be living in PH.

Word.

Of course we all have our opinions but the reason I LOVE PH is because its NOT Park Slope or Brooklyn Heights. That's the reason I moved here in the first place.

I would love a shoe store on Vanderbilt but there would have to be a pretty big selection in order for me to go in. I know the "Good Footing" store on Union and 7th Avenue just closed and that other store on Lincoln and Seventh is always empty (and for the 10 years I have lived in the area, I have only been in there once).

Shockingly enough, I agree with RGB this time. I don't see why a store can't have shoes for everyone whether they be $30 a pair or $500. Whats the diff? I know TONS of people who make very little money but buy enjoy a pair of Blahnik's, LV's or Choo's. So what, its their money and they aren't stealing shoes. This phenomena I speak of is called credit. :?

EmilyM wrote: Well, I do think that we each need our own shoes.

I would support a shoe rental store, I could rent summer shoes in the summer and winter shoes in the winter

ltjbukem wrote: make sure that you carry limited edition nikes, adidas, creative recreation, bathing ape, ritefoot, madfoot, clae, etc...

Truthfully, I am kinda surprised there isn't a Supreme or Alife type store around here yet...

if you carried shoes that went up to size twelve, i could guarantee that i would be in there in a second. and i'd bring all the other forlorn-looking big-foot ladies from the payless in the fulton mall with me.

Good Footing moved further down seventh, it's not closed. How do you think the one on Lincoln stays open? No customers? jeez! It's been there ever since I moved to Brooklyn, 8 years ago, at least. I've bought at least 2 dozen pairs there since then, and check it out every time I go into the slope. Always people in there when I am. How do you guys figure you know if a shop is doing business or not if you don't own/work in one? :? How does it stay open? Magic?

Plus, plenty of people live in PH who can {and do} afford $500. shoes and purses. They are not necessarily hanging out at Soda. There's a whole, older, more established group of people living here.

I've had many people coming into my shop from the city, and as far away as Europe/ Canada/ Brazil/ Netherlands, etc. to get a particular item. If a shoe shop opened on Vanderbilt and carried brands people wanted, whatever the price range, they will come.

sje wrote: Good Footing moved further down seventh, it's not closed. How do you think the one on Lincoln stays open? No customers? jeez! It's been there ever since I moved to Brooklyn, 8 years ago, at least. I've bought at least 2 dozen pairs there since then, and check it out every time I go into the slope. Always people in there when I am. How do you guys figure you know if a shop is doing business or not if you don't own/work in one? :? How does it stay open? Magic?

Plus, plenty of people live in PH who can {and do} afford $500. shoes and purses. They are not necessarily hanging out at Soda. There's a whole, older, more established group of people living here.

I've had many people coming into my shop from the city, and as far away as Europe/ Canada/ Brazil/ Netherlands, etc. to get a particular item. If a shoe shop opened on Vanderbilt and carried brands people wanted, whatever the price range, they will come.

I think your store would be a good fit for a small selection of "boutique" brand shoes...

sje wrote: If a shoe shop opened on Vanderbilt and carried brands people wanted, whatever the price range, they will come.

Eh, I'm not sure about that. I'd love to see a shoe store open with lots of indie brands, sorta like what you carry, what Pieces carries (for the most part) -- similar to a lot of the emerging designer stores in the LES.
but Jimmy Choo shoes (to keep using RBG's example)? I doubt people would come to NYC from Canada and wander all the way out to Brooklyn to see a small subset of the Jimmy Choo shoe line when there's a perfectly good Jimmy Choo store on 51st and 5th in midtown, near Saks, Barneys, Bergdorfs, etc -- all great places to drop $500+ on brands.

but, ya know, if someone wants to open a store with really expensive shoes and they do well -- bully for them. I won't be shopping there, but I don't shop in most of the stores available to me.

I'm definitely NOT dissing Soda, I hope that was a joke. Also assumed the "Jimmy Choo" thing was theoretical, not literal.

also, simple but fun shoelaces would be nice!

:roll:

Subject: Re: vanderbilt

Guest 1 wrote: For example, the home store- Broken- on the corner of Bergen....do people buy things there? Are there enough new people in the neighborhood supporting the rent?

'Housebroken' on Vanderbilt at Bergen is a great neighborhood boutique! I buy gifts there all the time, they have many unique items (esp. baby/kid gifts) at reasonable prices. I've been in the neighborhood a year, and I think it's great to have that kind of store close by.

'Pieces' is too pricey for my budget but I like the window shopping anyway.

Unfortunately, you can still get all the crack you want, at least in the borderlands between PH and CH

Its a neighborhood in transition. Personally, I can't afford $500.00 shoes, but I wouldn't mind having somewhere close to home to drool over them (and maybe buy them later on sale...).

And if I could afford them, I think I'd appreciate being able to buy them closer to home instead of having to go back into the city.

Nick's is a classic, dirt cheap greasy spoon! Rocks!

Carnivore wrote: If you're going to also carry men's shoes, I think you'd do well with the type of stuff they used to carry on 8th St in Manhattan before that street got too gentrified to be lined with shoe stores.

Um. There are still a shitload of shoe stores on 8th St. I just bought a pair there today. Or are we talking about when it was nothing but shoe stores? Like back in the brown shoe day?