Here it is...

dailyheights

... Now what are you going to do with it?

Sincerely,

The Management

whyfi

i was thinking about peeing in the corner, but i try to ignore those instincts...

whyfi

even if i have to put up all of the posts myself, this board WILL NOT be as pathetic as the PS board!!! Please excuse me while i converse with myself...

t-fal

we should start threads about restaurant recs, dry cleaner recs (barbag on nostrand, btw. park and prospect. cheap, nice, do a great job esp. on alterations.) the met v. key food v. starvation, that cute little 4 year old boy on my block who challenges me to bike races. he wins EVERY TIME! it must be the training wheels.

whyfi

t-fal wrote: ...the met v. key food v. starvation...

we split our shopping between met and key right now, but when we move, i don't think that i'm going to trek an extra couple blocks to and from those stores... well, not if there's passable grocery store that's closer (i'll be by classon and prospect)... c-town doesn't look promising, but i've never been inside there. any thoughts?

bluedove

Yeah--FRESH DIRECT. Seriously, it's the only way. We go to the C-Town when we're desperate, but I haaaate it...it HAS cleaned up a little bit since we first moved to the neighborhood (I literally did not used to be able to go in there without holding my breath) but the produce is abyssmal and it still smells strongly of salted fish and spoiled...something.

anonymous

Subject: Freshdirect

Doesn't Fresh Direct not come to this area? If it did, I'd be sooo happy, but I think we're SOL...

arielbl

Freshdirect comes to where I live (between Franklin and Classon). I also hit the keyfood, but for meats and heavy stuff, Freshdirect all the way!

ana.log

Subject: Re: Freshdirect

NewgirlinCH wrote: Doesn't Fresh Direct not come to this area? If it did, I'd be sooo happy, but I think we're SOL...

oh yes, freshdirect definitely comes to this neighborhood. yippee!

alex

11216

anonymous

hmm....well, maybe you can fool them by using 11238.

t-fal

Alex wrote:





11216

they are SUCH bitches for this, especially since i know i saw a truck on park betwn franklin and classon. BITCHES! but now that i have a car, i might check out the costco in sunset park.

pennysmith

I think Franklin Avenue is the dividing line for zip codes, and thus for FD delivery. Lie and say 11238 and see what happens!

alafairnadia

most credit card companies authorize using zip codes. if you can have separate billing and delivery addresses in FD, go for it. otherwise, write them a email asking them to shift over a bit. the delivery guy for PH is always calling me early asking if I'm home yet so he can deliver and go home early. they've got time.

bluedove

Yeah, I'm between Franklin and Classon and I'm 11238 (and we get FreshDirect...thank god!)

whyfi

wow- I guess that i'll have to try fresh direct... when my building finally has the cable connected and I have internet access again... until then, how is the key foods on washington? every time I pass by there, I have my hands full...

daveb

nybt wrote: wow- I guess that i'll have to try fresh direct... when my building finally has the cable connected and I have internet access again... until then, how is the key foods on washington? every time I pass by there, I have my hands full...

It's not much to look at. Flatbush is better, after that, Met but Met's pricier.

whyfi

yeah, i used to shop at the flatbush location and at met when i lived a few blocks closer, but i was hoping to avoid that walk with an armload of groceries...

carnivore

I hadn't been to the C-Town before a few months ago, but it's really not that bad now. Obviously the produce is not up to green market standards, but for basic staples, it certainly seems good enough.

daveb

Carnivore wrote: I hadn't been to the C-Town before a few months ago, but it's really not that bad now. Obviously the produce is not up to green market standards, but for basic staples, it certainly seems good enough.

Totally. Basic canned and packaged stuff, I'll buy. But the produce and especially the meat is nothing to look at.

Honestly, I'm not so happy with any of the markets here, but I'm jaded coming from Vermont. I do nearly all my shopping in the city. It's not too much more of a hassle than buying locally, mainly a subway ride, but I'm really picky about things.

whyfi

i'm really picky about produce, too... there are a few great (small) chains of upmarket grocery stores where i'm from, and it's ruined me... so, Isa is going to take care of the veggie restaurant, but when is someone on the board going to open a green market in the 'hood?!

bluedove

Oh man, please do!!! The produce and meat in this neighborhood is an affront to humanity.

The C-Town is better than it used to be (as I said on another thread, I used to have to hold my breath in there) but I wouldn't use it for much more than emergency/packaged goods. The Key Food is okay; it's pretty much on par with C-Town, I'd say, but has a nominally better selection (for example, the C-Town doesn't have hummus! Like it's some weird and crazy thing! But Key Food does.) We go there less often because it's farther for us, but if they were the same distance, I'd pick Key Food first.

t-fal

nybt wrote: i'm really picky about produce, too... there are a few great (small) chains of upmarket grocery stores where i'm from, and it's ruined me... so, Isa is going to take care of the veggie restaurant, but when is someone on the board going to open a green market in the 'hood?!

oh god i am SO picky about produce! but i grew up in the land of wegmans grocery store and hafner's farm market, plus i used to work for my friend's vegetable farm in the summers. last time i was home, i swear to god i loaded up on produce and came back to nyc with a bushel of corn that was picked that day. of course i had to par cook and freeze most of it because fresh corn should only be eaten on the day it was picked. oh and the tomatoes! heavenly. i used to eat them out in the field when they were still hot from the sun. but yeah, i should start an upstate produce import business or something, because veggies here suck.


god i miss good corn.

bluedove

god i miss WEGMANS.

i took my husband up to my hometown for the first time (my parents don't live there anymore) last month, and that was one of our must-do stops!

anonymous

A new grocery store is opening on Kingston between St. Johns and Lincoln place. I don't know if it's the same owners as the previous ones. I hope not because that place was a rip-off.

cathleen

You can totally get good corn on FreshDirect. I didn't realize that Franklin was the dividing line. THANK GOD I live juuuuust this side of Franklin. *whew*

anonymous

Subject: FRESH DIRECT in the 11216

Two blocks away is the cutoff!

Fresh Direct delivery stops on my street at Franklin Avenue, but goes no further east. I checked the delivery area, and FD will deliver to Bay Ridge, "some" areas in PS South, and also the convenient and nearby areas of Westchester and Fairfield County.

Is this only me, or is this unjust? FD will not deliver to the entire 11216 ZIP code, even though it borders 11238, which is completely covered. Yet, they will send their trucks to "Safe" neighborhoods like Scarsdale and Morristown, where everyone drives anyway to pick up their mesclun and SilkMilk at the local big box.

Who wants to join me in a petitition?

Alex wrote:





11216

alafairnadia

call them and complain about red lining.

back in the day

The Foodtown in Restoration (Fulton & Brooklyn) is very cool. Just go during off hours, the food is fresh, the prices are good, and they have an okay beer section for this 'hood...

back in the day

The C Town on Washington is changing management and will improve...

puma suede

Western Beef! Yeah I know the name might be a bit of a turn-off especially to us vegetarians, but;
-the prices are reasonable
-the store is pretty clean
-the produce is always fresh
-"cool" and huge walk-in freezer
-and there's parking

It's on Empire Blvd & Washington Ave.