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The 2015 Edition -- New Businesses on Kingston — Brooklynian

The 2015 Edition -- New Businesses on Kingston

nothinlikeabklyngirl
nothinlikeabklyngirl
edited February 2015 in Crown Heights/Prospect Lefferts Gardens
Starting a new thread for the new(ish) year, and because many of the new businesses we were chatting about on the old thread -- http://www.brooklynian.com/discussion/38679/new-businesses-on-kingston/p2 -- are no longer new. 

So far in 2015, we've seen the very successful opening of Boeuf & Bun, which got its own thread: http://www.brooklynian.com/discussion/45147/boeuf-bun-kingston-and-lincoln-gets-its-own-thread-/p1

We're awaiting: 
1. the in-progress real estate office at 163 Kingston (a long-shuttered variety store)
2. the dollar store at 225 Kingston (formerly a bodega) that @pragmaticguy foretold and @thecosmicrain confirmed


163 Kingston real estate


And the big news today is that the Kennedy Fried Chicken at 255 Kingston has closed. The awning came down this morning, revealing a cool old sign for Klinger's Bake Shop.


Kennedy closes


I'll make a list of the rest of the vacant/in-the-works storefronts sometime soon.

Comments

  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    Now, only one Kennedy Fried Chicken remains in Crown Heights: http://www.nychealthratings.com/nycrestapp/browse/3/Crown Heights

  • dac545
    dac545
    edited February 2015
    148 Utica? 

    EDIT: Whoops, I was looking at Crown Fried Chicken.. how could I have ever confused the two?  :D

    263 Schenectady is the correct address for the one remaining Kennedy. 
  • morralkan
    morralkan
    I was wondering what was going on with this store! I saw the gate partially down a couple of days ago and thought that perhaps the workers were late in opening up. I'm friends with one of the owners of this business, but he's out of the country at the moment. I wonder what happened. 
  • nothinlikeabklyngirl
    nothinlikeabklyngirl
    Maybe they're just closed for renovations, because on the way home I saw that a brand new Kennedy Fried Chicken awning is up.
  • morralkan
    morralkan
    Perhaps you are right, but I'm wondering, in that case, what those renovations could involve.The insides were not falling apart, for sure. But thanks for updating the posts here, bklyngirl.
  • pragmaticguy
    pragmaticguy
    Spoke to the owner of 225 Kingston today. Told me the guy who is supposed to open the 99 cent store put up the sign and never came back. Tried calling but his phone is disco as well. Said he's going to go to his house and try and find out what's going on but as for now ... to the dismay of all the people in that area I'm sure...no 99 cent store in the near future.
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    Hopefully the owner does not lose too much money as a result of his tenant absconding.

    ...hopefully he rec'd a cash deposit, because my gut tells me that going to court to try to get the lease enforced is likely going to be more trouble than it is worth.
  • nothinlikeabklyngirl
    nothinlikeabklyngirl
    Adding a few more businesses in the works:

    3. An organic food deli at 96 Kingston, at the corner of Dean 
    4. Whatever's going on at the old Soul Food Kitchen at 88 Kingston, also at the corner of Dean, which has its own thread here: http://www.brooklynian.com/discussion/45360/new-restaurant-to-dean-and-kingston-#Item_6 


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    And another storefront is up for rent: half of the discount store Brooklyn Value Center on Kingston between Lincoln and St. Johns. I believe the address for that half is 260A.


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  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    Does Kingston still have visible street level drug dealing?

    Last year I noticed some way down by Dean and Pacific, but it was quite contained.

  • nothinlikeabklyngirl
    nothinlikeabklyngirl
    Spoke to the owner of 225 Kingston today. Told me the guy who is supposed to open the 99 cent store put up the sign and never came back. Tried calling but his phone is disco as well. Said he's going to go to his house and try and find out what's going on but as for now ... to the dismay of all the people in that area I'm sure...no 99 cent store in the near future.
    I guess the guy came back, because the 99 cent store has been open for about two weeks now.
  • pragmaticguy
    pragmaticguy
    I'm glad because the owner needs the rent money. Hopefully he gets paid.
  • nothinlikeabklyngirl
    nothinlikeabklyngirl
    The antiques store at the corner of Pacific, 74 Kingston, is for rent. The sign's been up for a while but I just got a shot of it this weekend. Seems like it will continue to operate until there's a new tenant.

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  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    That location has future faux organic bodega written all over it.
  • nothinlikeabklyngirl
    nothinlikeabklyngirl
    Another storefront up for rent; the hardware store at 109 Kingston (near the corner of Dean). Sign's been up for a while.

    Hardware store
  • nothinlikeabklyngirl
    nothinlikeabklyngirl
    edited October 2015
    Got an update today on 260A, half of the Brooklyn Value Center, which according to workers is going to be a "Jewish store -- accessories." This pic is from Sept. 10th. A new glass storefront and new security gates have since been installed.  

    Value Center
  • nothinlikeabklyngirl
    nothinlikeabklyngirl
    Also got an update on the former bodega at 250, although it's not much of an update. Workers said it will be an office. Here are pics from earlier this month and this morning.

    250 Bodega 10-08-15


    250 Bodega 10-20-15
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    edited October 2015
    I suspect that Kingston will soon get one or more offices for realty chains.
  • crownheightster
    crownheightster
    Looks like the Chabadniks are coming north of EP on Kingston. 
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    edited October 2015
    Non orthodox Jews have been moving into the area south of EP, so it seems fair to me:
    http://www.brooklynian.com/discussion/comment/565004/#Comment_565004
  • crownheightster
    crownheightster
    Just observing. For so many years EP was the DMZ. Now things are getting more fluid. 
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    edited October 2015
    yup.

    In my mind, no map depicts it clearer than this one:

    http://projects.nytimes.com/crime/homicides/map?ref=nyregion

    You'll need Adobe Flash to make it work, but if you zoom in on the Lubavitch area, you will finds an area virtually free of homicides.

    As it and the surrounding areas change, I suspect a more recent map would not show differences that are nearly as stark.
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    edited November 2015

    ...a walk on Lincoln Place makes this apparent.

  • pragmaticguy
    pragmaticguy
    The diner on the corner of Kingston and St. Johns has finally been sold. They're closed as of now and have until 1/31/16 to clean the place out and get rid of the last remaining tenant who should be gone by then. No idea what's going to be put up there as of now but the building is going to be replaced.
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