Classic bodega on the SW corner of EP and Franklin will soon be replaced by a Dunkin Donuts

That's the SW corner, right?

So - Starbucks on one corner, Dunkin Donuts on another. Where will this end?

Huh, there's a DD on Nostrand and EP. And then another opening on Montgomery and Bedford.

I always think of the Dunkin Donuts on Nostrand being like one would be in Paris, with cafe seating on the broad boulevard.

Huh, there's a DD on Nostrand and EP. And then another opening on Montgomery and Bedford.

There's also a Dunkin Donuts on Empire and Washington. How many DDs does an area need?

That's the SW corner, right?

So - Starbucks on one corner, Dunkin Donuts on another. Where will this end?

It will end with your apartment being turned into a Dunkin Donuts, where you will live with a dozen baristas. ;-)

As much as this annoys me and gives me another reason to patronize the Pulp and Bean, I have to admit that if it looks like the Dunkin on the corner of Nostrand and Eastern Parkway I'd be a bit more amenable to it.  That little outdoor café area always looked nice to me.....not nice to the point where I'd go to Dunkin Donuts, but nice to look at as I walk/drive past it.

I do wonder how this development will affect the business strategies of the presently-in-construction coffee shop at Franklin and Union: http://www.brooklynian.com/discussion/45213/franklin-and-union-new-coffee-shop/p1

...as well as the existing Pulp and Bean 2 about a block south.

Pulp and Bean needs to get the word out about those waffles. Since I'm over on Kingston, I'd never been. But after seeing the ridiculous lines for the cherry blossom festival at BBG, and after finding a seat at Butter & Scotch only to be told they'd sold out of brunch, the Mr. and I ended up there and had the best piping-hot, made-to-order waffles.    

If we sort the Dunkin Donuts into downmarket and upmarket locations, the area lost a down market one when the gas station at the SW corner of EP and Bedford closed: http://www.brooklynian.com/discussion/38184/the-gulf-stationdunkin-donuts-at-ep-and-bedford-1550-bedford #Item_66

On Sunday mornings I used to walk to that gas station to get a coffee since it was the only non-bodega option in the area.  ahhhh memories.

I moved out of Crown Heights last year, but when i first moved there in 2005, this was my bodega.  i remember requesting they start stocking Brooklyn Lager for me (their first craft beer selection. ...maybe that makes me part of the problem, ha.)  Even though i went there all the time, it was one of the worst bodegas i've been too.  always smelled like a mix of rat poison and something rotten.  One night i bought a seemingly harmless box of Kraft mac and cheese and when i went to empty the contents into the boiling water it was full of maggots.  Hard for me to get too nostalgic about this place, although there were one or two friendly workers there.  There was already a D and D a block down at Bedford for years (until recently), so i don't feel like this is a legitimate sign of gentrification.  And to be honest with you, this "retro" bodega calls back to a time when Crown Heights was a pretty undesirable place to live (aside from being cheap back then if you can believe it).  If you want to complain about too many coffee shops, imagine the intersection of EP and Franklin, where every coffee shop you see there now, was a fried chicken place where emaciated chicken wings were passed through bullet proof windows to crowds of resentful angry customers.  Not sure what i'm getting at here, just adding some perspective.  I'm already gone, as are nearly all my friends who lived in the hood with me in those days.  I guess i feel like this bodega moving two doors down is the least of the signs of the "bad" kind of gentrification that pushes out long standing residents.  there's much more horrendous things going on around Crown Heights behind the scenes.

Apparently DD's is a big thing in Boston (or was, as per my friend who lived there a few years ago). Go figure.