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Select Bus Service and other changes on Nostrand Jan 2013+ - Page 8 — Brooklynian

Select Bus Service and other changes on Nostrand Jan 2013+

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  • vaportrail
    vaportrail
    I'll accept your position that advertising dollars are not a subsidy, if you accept the fact that the what the current operation shows is that Citibike's current business model is both flawed and unsustainable. Citibike is not making money and the current two options being discussed are 1) a significant fare increase to cover operating losses or 2) a public subsidy to offset operating losses. Its great to claim no subsidy is required, but then I think you have to also acknowledge that the business model doesn't work and is unlikely to work over time (there isn't going to be a slowly increasing usage pattern) and that any changes will likely result in either another form of public transportation that is so costly as to be available only to a limited population (like ferry service in NYC) or the program receiving a subsidy in order to have it continue to operate.
    Um, you might want to include a third option. 3) additional private investment. 


  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    edited May 2014
    While I wouldn't call it a "subsidy", Citibike does receive free spaces throughout the city for its docks.

    This means that if they ever were to actually make money (and/or its execs were to be paid a really good salary), portions of the public would be upset.

    ....or at least jealous.
  • vaportrail
    vaportrail
    unless they paid . . . . $1 million dollars. . . .  for this. 


  • tateinbk
    tateinbk
    The "West Indian Market" on Nostrand between Eastern Parkway and Lincoln place is being torn down right now.  There seems to be a fire sale on whatever fresh veggies are left.  
  • crownheightster
    crownheightster
    Wait, the triple s???? Oh no! I loved that place!
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    edited June 2014
    The fact that today is not the end of a month makes me hopeful that this is the same proprietors reinventing their business, rather than being merely priced out.

    I haven't been in there often, but are the owners are Asian, perhaps Korean?

    That is a big, sought after space.
  • tateinbk
    tateinbk
    I don't know if it's called the Triple S, we just called it the West Indian Asian market on This side of Eastern Parkway.  I wish we had known it's actual name, that would have saved some time.  I too thought the owners might be Korean.  He didn't seem all that depressed, but I don't know any details.  This winter they stopped being 24 hours.  I don't know how that factored in to the decision.  Also recently the Met Foods started closing later. 

    It is a nice big space.
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    edited June 2014
    It was called Triple S.   It is likely worthy of its own thread.

    Few things, after all, are not.

  • crownheightster
    crownheightster
    What is interesting to me is that it seems like building owners/landlords are driving different dynamics onto Nostrand.

    For example, the former Beauty World building had/has 3 storefronts available: the original Beauty World, a former nail salon, and a barbershop. The landlord has clearly rented out to higher paying tenants, and Beauty World will be a de Zayas bar/cafe, the nail salon was replaced by a hair salon for hipsters, and the former barbershop space is now up for lease. The barbershop, interestingly, re-located right across the street, with signage related to a sneaker store.

    So, one landlord/building owner is going all-out "new" Nostranders -- and another landlord/building owner is taking in or recruiting traditional but upscaled businesses for "old" Nostranders. Just an observation, at this time...
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    edited June 2014
    I suspect the PSF rates are pretty similar, and suspect that Nostrand will begin to serve not only new residents, but the pent up demand of long term, home owning, middle class residents who shopped elsewhere because the avenue offered them very little.

    Sneakers might appeal to both groups.

    Upscale barbers might appeal to the latter group.
  • clayfilms
    clayfilms
    edited June 2014
    Unacceptable. Not one working ticket machine at Fulton & Nostrand. Not one!!

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  • homeowner
    homeowner
    Tragic SBS accident today. Despite the fact the article says Fulton and Bedford, my sib posted on FB about walking past the scene immediately after the accident. According to that post it took place on Bedford between Halsey and Hancock.

    http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/woman-crushed-bus-retrieve-phone-article-1.1943178
  • newguy88
    newguy88
    I'm always amazed at people who jump on to tracks to get their cellphones. I guess some people do the same with busses too. Honestly why didn't she get the drivers attention? Also would it have been possible for the driver to see her had he checked her mirrors?
  • newguy88
    newguy88
    So some one in a work van "doored" the Nostrand SBS this afternoon. 
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