What Manhattan store/cafe do you wish had a Bklyn outpost?

I thought of some more too:

Luchows
Tiptoe Inn
Vorst's
Gitlitz
Izmir's Pizza
Ideal Restaurant
Footlights
The Gaiety
McCann's

ino

or lupa.

russ & daughters

Carnivore wrote:
Angel Share

no need to wish - we're getting a m&h offshoot, hopefully, on vandy. which is better than angel share.

It would be so great for all of these places to open (especially the suggested Target and H&M) so everyone on this forum could complain about more of the local businesses. It's true though, this city is so large and so hard to get around, that everything should come to precious park slope.

I really wish they would bring the Statue of Liberty, all of Union Square, and even Ground Zero to park slope! Then I'd never have to leave!

Nubnu, I get the feeling we're the minority. It's scary seeing this pampered mentality coming out of the "number 1 neighborhood to raise a family." You know what that means: Big babies are raising their own babies, who will grow up to be even bigger babies than their big baby parents.

Instead of buying $1,000 strollers, why don't you support your local economy and NOT TARGET! Are you serious? Someone actually suggested a Target in Manhattan so this one wasn't so "trashed".... Boo hoo, the aisles are trashed.

I thought this area was supposed to be progressive.

Land_Mine wrote: It would be so great for all of these places to open (especially the suggested Target and H&M) so everyone on this forum could complain about more of the local businesses. It's true though, this city is so large and so hard to get around, that everything should come to precious park slope.

I really wish they would bring the Statue of Liberty, all of Union Square, and even Ground Zero to park slope! Then I'd never have to leave!

Great post!

It's a pity that a discussion in which people were just having a good time throwing out names of lots of businesses in Manhattan that they can't always schlep for an hour on the subway to visit has gotten derailed by a bunch of tired cracks about the Park Slope eeeevil yuppies.

Many of the people who were participating in this thread don't even live in Park Slope and are hardly "big babies" or "pampered" -- something a new user to the site like Land_Mine probably didn't realize, but hey, why get to know people when it's so much easier to make assumptions about them? Come on over to my block in Crown Heights sometime -- ain't no $1000 strollers over here.

The thread was fun while it lasted, I guess...

Land_Mine wrote: I really wish they would bring the Statue of Liberty, all of Union Square, and even Ground Zero to park slope! Then I'd never have to leave!

why bother, we have our own local attractions:

1. atalantic yards punching bag shaped like ms. brooklyn
(she's actually a terribly ugly man with leakage problems)

2. a euro money changer

3. the biosphere theme park

4. revolutionary war reenactment killing field

5. fratboy internment camp

6. the "hello foreigners, there is no downtown" welcome kiosk

7. spoken-word extreme fighting ring

8. famous people from brooklyn expo with animatronic walt whitman

9. borough pesident catapult

10. scale model of brooklyn bridge butter sculpture

veselka

joe the art of coffee

caseopele wrote: Ok, I'd never heard of this Beard Papa before but now I totally want one here. Mmmmm, cream puffs....

Oh, and there are 7 Children's Places in Brooklyn according to their website, including one at the Atlantic Center.

True, but I find it easier to patronize the closer one. The one in my bedroom: the website. I just spent $100 on virtually the boy's entire winter wardrobe, including numerous shirts, pants, snow boots, hats, and scarf. Got a 15% off coupon from one of the coupon sites -- another amenity you don't often find for brick & mortar places. And the whole expedition took about 15 minutes, start to finish. More time for me to spend with the kid, instead of on his clothes.

I like shopping locally, really. Save on Fifth gets a visit at least once a week. :^) But if the local merchants aren't offering what I need or want, I don't feel any compulsion to patronize them. Either other locals (or tourists) need enough ironic onesies to keep those places afloat, or they'll change, or they'll fold because they don't have what the community wants. Such is business.

Sorry for the hijack. We now return you to our long-running series, "Local is Always Virtuous."

Oh, and seconding Tekserve and Pearl Paint! The new local Mac-repair place isn't any good, in my experience. And I could see a large Pearl outpost (or a Utrecht, or a Dick Blick, or any other large discount art supply place), perhaps on 4th, doing really, really well.