Prospect Pl/Classon Drug Dealers

Can anyone tell me how the living is at Prospect Place & Classon. I have an opportunity to purchase a renovated building and open a small cafe/bar here. The problem is when I drive by at night there appears to be a major drug dealing activity - "old-school East Village-style" dope dealers.

Z

Personally I like to eat Thai after I buy my drugs.

French, baby. One needs to live divine, in lovely settings, high as a kite.

low price italian -- look how well chavella's (low prices for good food) has done.

well there's already a thai place at st. marks & washington, and i bet the new wine bar opening up at st. johns & classon will be french bistro-esque. so just for variety, i'll vote for a pasta place, there's not many italian places around these parts of CH.

as for the drugs, someone seriously needs to hold my hand one day and give me a tour. i live around the corner and NEVER see anything shady, and i go to that corner bodega like all the time.

Someone who said they were voting for Italian didn't vote, because including me, there are at least three! :roll:

i see three votes , what you talking about.

armchair_warrior wrote: i see three votes , what you talking about.

Someone else voted since I posted. :oops:

Français bistro s'il vous plaît!

I live on the middle of the block, between Classon and Washington, and never have a problem on that corner.

Yeah there are some neighborhood drunks that loiter on the corner, but I actually think that once the building being renovated is put to good use, it will improve that corner immensely.

Echoing what someone else said, I have never seen anything resembling old school East Village drug dealing. Maybe you are driving by St Johns and Washington and not Prospect and Classon.

Aww snap! Yeah, I went there!

That was totally uncalled for.

And unnecessary.

And

Are you referring to the building for sale on Classon or the one on Prospect Place. Anyway I live on Prospect Place and you will have great business if you open a shop with great bread, sandwiches, salads, good coffee ala Choice on Grand and Lafayette..

The skievie (sp) characters are mosty drug addicts not dealers. There is a meth clinic further up on Prospect Place. But the hipsters from the Jewish hospital far out number the addicts.

I've been here over 2 years, and so far so good. Nothing unusual has ever happened.

Anonymous wrote: But the hipsters from the Jewish hospital far out number the addicts.

If you were to draw a Venn diagram, I have a feeling there'd be a lot of overlap between those sets.

a bistro please...some moules frites in the the neighborhood would be great

though if it were good thai, like sripraphai in queens or an isaan style place, i would vote for that! but we dont really need another generic brooklyn thai place since there is one on washington.

Gentrify with Thai.

Please, please NOT French or Thai! I second the idea for good bread, sandwiches, salads, and coffee. Good coffee!!

Subject: Suggestion

I've seen/participated in the transformation of PHeights over the last dozen years from the lesser sibling of Park Slope to the rapidly gentrifying yuppster/hipsterville it is today with mixed feelings.

How about something that would be intergrative vs. drive a further social wedge between the folks that made it a nice community and got rid of the drug dealers in th first place vs. solely for newbie interlopers with no appreciation for the neighborhood's past. Another french bistro? Please.. they're a dime a dozen in Park Slope. How about a little imagination and creativity.

Subject: Re: Suggestion

Guestq wrote: I've seen/participated in the transformation of PHeights over the last dozen years from the lesser sibling of Park Slope to the rapidly gentrifying yuppster/hipsterville it is today with mixed feelings.

How about something that would be intergrative vs. drive a further social wedge between the folks that made it a nice community and got rid of the drug dealers in th first place vs. solely for newbie interlopers with no appreciation for the neighborhood's past. Another french bistro? Please.. they're a dime a dozen in Park Slope. How about a little imagination and creativity.

OK- Guest. Not that I agree with you but, what do you have in mind? Any why on earth would a bistro (french, italian, or otherwise) drive a "social wedge" exactly? Your request for something "integrative" is vague. And when you mention the "newbie interlopers"- who are you talking about? People who hear about a good place to go eat, they know nothing of the neighborhood, so they're not welcome? What the frig is that? People have to have a history of the neighborhood so that they can fully appreciate what seeing, eating, drinking??? :roll:

Subject: Re: Suggestion

Whatchuwant wrote: [quote=Guestq]I've seen/participated in the transformation of PHeights over the last dozen years from the lesser sibling of Park Slope to the rapidly gentrifying yuppster/hipsterville it is today with mixed feelings.

How about something that would be intergrative vs. drive a further social wedge between the folks that made it a nice community and got rid of the drug dealers in th first place vs. solely for newbie interlopers with no appreciation for the neighborhood's past. Another french bistro? Please.. they're a dime a dozen in Park Slope. How about a little imagination and creativity.

OK- Guest. Not that I agree with you but, what do you have in mind? Any why on earth would a bistro (french, italian, or otherwise) drive a "social wedge" exactly? Your request for something "integrative" is vague. And when you mention the "newbie interlopers"- who are you talking about? People who hear about a good place to go eat, they know nothing of the neighborhood, so they're not welcome? What the frig is that? People have to have a history of the neighborhood so that they can fully appreciate what seeing, eating, drinking??? :roll:

I think he's angling for a nouveau Jamaican haute cuisine spot. Or a Franco-Trini fusion place.

Yea, that's what I figured. And I really don't think that anyone would be opposed to it necessarily. However, we have a TON of Caribbean food around here. Actually, maybe a Caribbean-fusion might not be so bad. I would just hope for something "not ghetto."

i joke with my mom, after selling my brothers place. we could buy a place on Washington and open a bakery or sandwich shop .

saje is caribbean fusion -- or at least, it opened as caribbean/asian fusion. seems more upscale caribbean these days. miss that jerk unagi.

it's likely a good business idea to have a broad customer base by aiming to please both newcomers and old-timers. i doubt upscale caribbean will do that, though, since there are plenty of caribbean places around already.

it would be interesting to know the true breadth of chavella's customer base. they're always very busy with eat-in, take out, and delivery. i'm guessing that low prices, high quality, and generally familiar food appeals to people of all sorts of demographic categories.

just learn the lesson of deacon blue: if you want to charge more than other places around here, the food has to be GOOD. (poor ol' deacon blue. i liked them, but their quality tanked, and suddenly the prices seemed absurd. and then chavella's opened....)