Vanderbilt = Smith St?

More changes are coming.

The rumoris that the AY parking lot will hold more cars than expected b/c those multicar racks will be installed. Park, dine, see show at arena.

Lots of change headed our way.

If you own, your property values might increase (or at least not drop) due to people wanting to pigeon such a vibrant (aka loud) area.

At least it isn't a bar and will be open during the day. It could be worse, it could be another bar like thisthis bar opening near your house. I think the ladies in the photo are licking a vodka jello fountain.

That place is opening a bar on Vanderbilt btwn St. Marks and Bergen

I experienced the joy of a bar moving in under my apartment a while ago on that Vanderbilt strip. I'm still pissed at the fact that they removed all the sound proofing in their ceiling in order to reveal the punched tin. The constant late night smoking and yelling outside my windows was a harsh adjustment. Oh, and how about Tuesday trivia night where there would be tops, ten people at the bar playing, and yet the bartender insisted on using a microphone to read out the questions. The massive increase in vermin, including one of the times I tried to be supportive of the place when I went in for my birthday and found a baby roach in my drink.

I would find myself wide awake, listening to their music at 2:00am on a week night. When I called to ask them to please lower it so I couldn't hear the individual words of the songs either the music was too loud to hear the phone or they refused to answer it. I would sometimes go down and find it was all employees and their friends getting drunk and partying on their own.

Grrrr. The place was so loud so late I couldn't keep an employed roommate. I had to move and I don't miss the place at all. The sad thing is at first I tried to be very nice, but it was almost as if they were trying to drive me into leaving. The majority of the workers were so abrasive and unpleasant they wouldn't even acknowledge my presence when we were walking past each other on the street.

I don't know what I would have done if I had owned the apartment, probably filed frequent noise complaints that I should have filed then, but I hadn't wanted to completely alienate the people in there. It sounds like Vanderbilt ave. is going to be completely intolerable soon.

GoodProspect said:

Yah know sarcasm isn't necessary, Jack Krohn. When I moved into the neighborhood over 20 years ago crack vials would crunch under my feet when I left the apartment in the morning and Vanderbilt was full of car repair shops. Not interested in moving back to that era, but would still like it not to be all about the nightlife and drunken revelers weaving and yelling down the street. Would like a nice mellow residential neighborhood.

In your opinion, how long did the nice, residential era before the tipping point last? Or maybe it's still here in your opinion. Curious since you've been here for 20 years. I've been here for only 2 and have seen the alarming rate of trendy, rapid-fire change in just this short time period.

It's a restaurant replacing a restaurant...right? And its coming from the chef at City Bakery - who is not exactly a purveyor of the night club scene.

I can see getting upset about an "open till 4 AM" "weekday DJs" kind of place, but this one? I don't think you are going to have to move because of it.

Just curious, but are you bummed about the new ramen restaurant, too?

I moved from prospect and Vanderbilt about three years ago and I loved my neighborhood!I missed it very much. We're moving back in a few months, but we probably can't afford our old neighborhood anymore... I'm thinkin Crown Heights. I can't believe Tavern on the Dean is gone! Is Soda still there, Beast?, The Met?, that bakery next to the Met that had awesome red velvet cupcakes? Be careful everyone during the hurricane!