hollywood video on 5th

VoodooNYC wrote: [quote=Flexichick][quote=brooklynpotter]carmen, if you have a car you should be going to rossman's

I went to Rossman's today. I can't believe it took me 12 years and Potter dragging met there to get with the program!

What and where is Rossman's?

3rd ave and.....????? 26th???

open 24 hours...no frills....great produce....sells to tons of restaurants...cheap cheap cheap.

it's amazing. fresh real fruit all winter. and it's almost meyer lemon season.

"LongTimeSloper" wrote: No, I read a brooklyn paper just yesterday and I thought that spot where D2 moved into would have been big enough.

Heh -- you're not the only one. I was praying for a TJ's when Eckerd's closed.

Close the Jennifer's Convertibles next door and then it's big enough for a Trader Joe's. Oh, I can dream.

I think that giant space should be turned into the largest most awesome winestore ever.

But somehow I doubt that will happen

How does the OP know this place is rented? I walked by yesterday and the "For Rent" sign is still up.

you might tell your friend that there's another large space for rent up at flatbush and 6th avenue where the old video place was there. video edge, i think it was called...?

it's been for rent for quite a while, so perhaps the rent is flexible by this point in time.

there's also those couple spaces for rent on 7th avenue between berkeley place and union street, which combined would make a pretty large space...

muggle wrote: I can't understand why Amish can rent those gigantic spaces all over Manhattan - they own the Zeytuna place in the financial district, Zeytins on Bryant Park, and others - and yet charge lower prices than Union Market. Can the rents be higher in Park Slope than in Manhattan, so the merchants charge more? I picked up a French bread at one of those last week - it was $1.99 - the same thing costs $2.39 here in the Slope. Meats at Union Market are insanely expensive, IMO.

I know it's baffling, but what you've got to realize is that's part of the whole appeal of these places. Places like "Union Market" charge exorbitant prices for pedestrian goods on purpose.

If you haven't noticed, nuevo-Park Slopers take great joy in overpaying for run-of-the-mill products and services as long as the atmosphere in which they're shopping is sufficiently pretentious--rent, kids clothing, and ESPECIALLY groceries. In fact, if given a choice between a regular grocery store charging regular prices and a 'pretentious' store charging two dollars more for the very same item, nuevo-Slopers will pointedly flock to the overpriced one. That is why "Union Market" has such a following in this "affluent" area.

The irony is that the supermarkets in the Upper East Side, which is where all the REAL money is in this city, offer much more reasonable prices on groceries, because the people there are actually smart and frugal about where they shop and refuse to overpay for anything (which is probably how their families became so rich to begin with).

Flexichick wrote: right, Obamanut, that's why I drive to Rossmans under the BQE to buy my fancy produce at fancy prices. Your overgeneralizations are really ridiculous.

Ok, so your anecdotal evidence of one individual case (yourself) disproves everything I said and renders the immense popularity of "Union Market" and other supermarkets like it an aberration. Darn, guess I better head back to the drawing board.. doh! #-o

Flexichick wrote: there are enough others like me that it's not anecdotal, but I can't be bothered to engage in the type of ridiculousness you seem to love so much.

Ok, so the never-ending stream of complaints from nuevo-Slopers about stores like Ace and Pathmark not being good enough for our "affluent" area and the hundreds of nuevo-Slopers streaming in and out "Union Market" on any given day of the week are completely irrelevant. From now on I will base my conclusions about Park Slope off of the shopping habits of you and your dozen or so acquaintances.

VoodooNYC wrote:

One of the points of the thread, if you had even bothered to read it, is that the produce at places like Ace suck, and posters would like to find decent, not necessarily expensive, alternatives. Sorry if you find that so unreasonable, but why am I not surprised to find that you don't mind worms and larvae in your produce.

I was replying to another poster's pondering about why places like Union Market are so successful in Park Slope despite their mediocrity, if you had even bothered to read my original message.

VoodooNYC wrote: [quote=Obamanut]I was replying to another poster's pondering about why places like Union Market are so successful in Park Slope despite their mediocrity, if you had even bothered to read my original message.

My eyes glaze over when I start to try to read anything you write, but thanks for the brief and painless clarification. Now go play with Hamilton.


Voodoo - you forgot to add "in traffic".

Flexichick wrote: [quote=VoodooNYC][quote=Obamanut]I was replying to another poster's pondering about why places like Union Market are so successful in Park Slope despite their mediocrity, if you had even bothered to read my original message.

My eyes glaze over when I start to try to read anything you write, but thanks for the brief and painless clarification. Now go play with Hamilton.


Voodoo - you forgot to add "in traffic".

Oh, go eat a dub pie.

"Dub pies!! Dub pies!! Dub pies!!" *backflip*

Obamanut wrote: Funny, for someone who claims to not enjoy reading what I write, you sure have replied to enough of it. :^o

Now why don't we get this thread back to the original topic of Park Slope supermarkets, shall we?

Eh, not interested. And you invaded a thread that I had been posting on, typically I do avoid you. You've actually become really boring. It was mildly entertaining in the beginning. Now it's just dumb. And boring. Maybe start posting as a "neuvo" "park" "sloper" to get everyone really riled up about the "old" "timers" ? Actually it gives me great comfort that you are so miserable in your "life". Nighty night.

VoodooNYC wrote: [quote=BigGuy]Wait ... dub pies are good.

Hell yeah. Yeeeeeeeeee-haw!

Mmmmm.....I'll get to eat them on the way home from CurleyGreg's new bar.

I'm a big fan of the shepherd's pie and the mince & cheese.