What this area needs is....

bellavoce · July 2009

Saw this on Eater today. Not sure where it's posted, but it has a PS feel to it. I'm not sure we need a whole foods, but I AM sure we don't need more banks and cell phone stores:

http://eater.com/archives/2009/07/listage_720.php

MOD · July 2009

No whole foods please!! That place is expensive. I'm happy with the grocery options. Especially now that Trader Joe's is close by.

What I want is another mom and pop bookstore, an independent movie theater and a cd & record shop that carries older stuff and collectibles. I know, dream on.

MOD · July 2009

Oh, and a good burrito place. La Taqueria messes up orders, food is mediocre, and the burrito side is always crowded.

brokechick · July 2009

ooooooh, movie theater, movie theater! bam shows good things sometimes, but something more like the sunshine would be fantastic. you could fit one in any space that whole foods was willing to occupy.

i want a brooklyn branch of the brookline booksmith! bestest independent book store ever, and in the downstairs area they sold used books and rented niche/hard-to-find movies (i got all my troma and john waters from them, along with every weird french movie ever made). why don't we have that? no more expensive food for my tummy, more cheap food for my brain!

i think what i really want is to transplant the whole of coolidge corner to 17th street and 5th ave.

wponsot · July 2009

I'm a broken record, but I want eyebrow threading (although one just opened on 5th - I haven't tried it yet) and a salad place where you tell them what to put in it and they toss it for you.

This topic has been beaten to death, but i thought the sign was funny

carmen · July 2009

hehe. "toss it for you"

hehe.

bkchickie · July 2009

brokechick wrote: i want a brooklyn branch of the brookline booksmith! bestest independent book store ever, and in the downstairs area they sold used books and rented niche/hard-to-find movies (i got all my troma and john waters from them, along with every weird french movie ever made). why don't we have that? no more expensive food for my tummy, more cheap food for my brain!

i think what i really want is to transplant the whole of coolidge corner to 17th street and 5th ave.

Ah, how I miss the Booksmith! I was initially skeptical of combining Videosmith and Booksmith, but it worked out.

I think that Park Slope, esp. the north slope, does a pretty good job of being Coolidge Corner-esque. There's not a shoestore to rival Simons, but other than that, it's okay.

I don't, however, miss the Green Line.

bkchickie · July 2009

Subject: Re: What this area needs is....

Flexichick wrote: Saw this on Eater today. Not sure where it's posted, but it has a PS feel to it. I'm not sure we need a whole foods, but I AM sure we don't need more banks and cell phone stores:

http://eater.com/archives/2009/07/listage_720.php

According to the caption on Flickr this was posted on Lex and 86th in Manhattan. I guess the proliferation of cell-phone stores is not limited to the borough of Kings.

brokechick · July 2009

BKChickie wrote: I don't, however, miss the Green Line.

i always took the 66 from haavahd. it swung me right by grasshopper, which i also want to bring here. i agree that ps is as close as new york can probably get to coolidge . . . and i think parking might actually be easier here. i think the booksmith has done away with the movies, so if we opened a book/movie store now we would totally triumph. when i am a billionaire, i am definitely going to do this. what the hell--mamacita, i will sell music, too.

bkchickie · July 2009

brokechick wrote: [quote=BKChickie]I don't, however, miss the Green Line.

i always took the 66 from haavahd.

OMG, the 66. You're better off walking!

Not sure abt. the parking. I don't have a car here, and I never had trouble finding a space south of CC off Harvard.

8thandprez · July 2009

I would say we don't need another bank or cellphone store or nail salon or real estate office or mediocre overpriced Italian joint.

Flexi: eyebrow threading? Seriously? I don't know about that, it sounds suspiciously close to a nail salon in terms of its effect on a retail strip.

omoba · July 2009

Aside from the new place on 5th ave, there is no threading. These stores are usually tiny with a few barber-type chairs.....nothing like a nail salon :-)

longtimesloper · July 2009

I want a Trader Joe's right here that I can easily walk to and I want a pet store that sells live food.

While we are at it, how about a GOOD Indian restaurant and a GOOD steakhouse?

For my husband I would like a men's clothing store that sells regular men's clothes that a guy in his 40s could wear, oh, and can the clothes not cost a small fortune?

comfortably smug · July 2009

we totally need a steakhouse!

I'd love a TJs too, but can survive with the one in BK and going to my mom's house a few times a year to stock up.

MOD · July 2009

I second a steakhouse, especially if they also did seafood. Surf and turf..mummmm....

I'd really love to find a place to get my favorite breakfast burrito from my college days: shredded hashbrowns, avocado, cheddar, bacon, and egg all wrapped up in one huge white tortilla with lots of salsa on the side to scoop into it as you ate. GOD I want one NOW!!

longtimesloper · July 2009

that sounds yummy

carmen · July 2009

THIS is what we need:

http://www.flamingamysburritobarn.com/

Its a burrito joint where I ate many a meal and worked in college. Check out the menu- I have NEVER found anyhing like it anywhere. BLT-rito? Big Fat Greek Burrito? Thai chicken nachos (omg EPIC delicious)? Home-made salsa bar? Heavy metal bingo?
This place would make an absolute killing. And although the music was often loud late at night, it was a VERY family friendly establishment because it was cheap cheap cheap.

I would give anything to have them open a store up here. A friend of mine (also from NC) and I have actually looked into overnighting a cooler of burritos up here. THATS how good it is.

raw · July 2009

What Flexi posted is the most intelligent thing I've read this year!

Carmen, just because you wrap pumkin pie in a soft tortilla shell does not mean you have a pumkinpiritto. All it is in pumpkin pie in a tortilla. Don't argue. There's no such thing in the dictionary. I win.

carmen · July 2009

raw wrote: What Flexi posted is the most intelligent thing I've read this year!

Carmen, just because you wrap pumkin pie in a soft tortilla shell does not mean you have a pumkinpiritto. All it is in pumpkin pie in a tortilla. Don't argue. There's no such thing in the dictionary. I win.

I dont disagree. Amys never argued that it was "authentic" anything. The motto was "Hot, Fast, Cheap and Easy" for gods sake. I'm not saying it's ethnic food..Im saying it was awesome, super popular, delicious food that I would LOVE to have here. If I could buy a wrap with home-made fried chicken, fresh lettuce, red onions, jack cheese and home-made chipotle ranch dressing anywhere I would be happy.

stewart · July 2009

So basically if I opened a Mom and Pop bookstore that also showed indie movies and sold old CD's and pumpkin barittos and had an eyebrow threading station and put it all on top of a Trader Joe's, I could retire tomorrow.

burns · July 2009

whats the deal with the crappy looking chicken chickadee place opening next to pita pan?

longtimesloper · July 2009

stewart wrote: So basically if I opened a Mom and Pop bookstore that also showed indie movies and sold old CD's and pumpkin barittos and had an eyebrow threading station and put it all on top of a Trader Joe's, I could retire tomorrow.

Yes!!!

jmd · July 2009

Subject: whole foods

I guess most of the posts are from people who haven't been in the area too long

Whole Foods bought the two very big plots of land on Third Avenue and third street a few years ago and it turned out that the land was toxic so the building of a LARGE Whole Foods and a LARGE parking lot to accomodate the throngs was put on hold.

tom.neill · July 2009

Subject: Re: whole foods

jmd wrote: I guess most of the posts are from people who haven't been in the area too long

Whole Foods bought the two very big plots of land on Third Avenue and third street a few years ago and it turned out that the land was toxic so the building of a LARGE Whole Foods and a LARGE parking lot to accomodate the throngs was put on hold.

Um, no....we've been around for ages (look at the number of posts people have....). Also, the Whole Foods thing has been discussed many times. This is just routine convo on this board. Stick around and you'll see

MOD · July 2009

Yup, we've been around and the Whole Food thing is trite and old.
We've moved on to waxing and movie watching while eating a burrito and buying a book.

carmen · July 2009

god now I'm craving that burrito joint so bad...merrrrr. Its almost work flying home for!

pastoralia · July 2009

"LongTimeSloper" wrote: I want a Trader Joe's right here that I can easily walk to and I want a pet store that sells live food.

While we are at it, how about a GOOD Indian restaurant and a GOOD steakhouse?

For my husband I would like a men's clothing store that sells regular men's clothes that a guy in his 40s could wear, oh, and can the clothes not cost a small fortune?

My British friend (who knows his curry) turned me on to Joy Indian on Flatbush and about 6th Ave. Damn good Indian! Try it.

A steakhouse would be a good idea...maybe in that space by the Pavilion Theater.

brokechick · July 2009

whole foods, to god-damned hell with whole foods! we have no whole foods. in fact, we don't need whole foods.

stewart, if i had to serve as its sole employee and customer, that place would be a blazing success.

longtimesloper · July 2009

pastoralia wrote: [quote=LongTimeSloper]I want a Trader Joe's right here that I can easily walk to and I want a pet store that sells live food.

While we are at it, how about a GOOD Indian restaurant and a GOOD steakhouse?

For my husband I would like a men's clothing store that sells regular men's clothes that a guy in his 40s could wear, oh, and can the clothes not cost a small fortune?

My British friend (who knows his curry) turned me on to Joy Indian on Flatbush and about 6th Ave. Damn good Indian! Try it.

A steakhouse would be a good idea...maybe in that space by the Pavilion Theater.

Joy Indian? We will check it out, because after trying all the other Indian places around here (Baluchi's, Kinara, Star Of India, that place on 7th Ave), we have been far from thrilled.

longtimesloper · July 2009

Subject: Re: whole foods

jmd wrote: I guess most of the posts are from people who haven't been in the area too long

Whole Foods bought the two very big plots of land on Third Avenue and third street a few years ago and it turned out that the land was toxic so the building of a LARGE Whole Foods and a LARGE parking lot to accomodate the throngs was put on hold.

Yeah, most of us have been here a long, long time! Whole Foods announced this week they will no longer be opening on that spot and are looking to sell the land, try to keep up

pastoralia · July 2009

"pastoralia" wrote: [quote="LongTimeSloper"]I want a Trader Joe's right here that I can easily walk to and I want a pet store that sells live food.

While we are at it, how about a GOOD Indian restaurant and a GOOD steakhouse?

For my husband I would like a men's clothing store that sells regular men's clothes that a guy in his 40s could wear, oh, and can the clothes not cost a small fortune?

My British friend (who knows his curry) turned me on to Joy Indian on Flatbush and about 6th Ave. Damn good Indian! Try it.

A steakhouse would be a good idea...maybe in that space by the Pavilion Theater.

Joy Indian? We will check it out, because after trying all the other Indian places around here (Baluchi's, Kinara, Star Of India, that place on 7th Ave), we have been far from thrilled.

It's not on the menu but they make a delicious lamb jalfrezi...ask for it if you like lamb.

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