AS Pork is Closing

BTW Carmen, I was under the impression that you worked from home?

LongTimeSloper wrote: BTW Carmen, I was under the impression that you worked from home?

I do now. My last job was in jewelry manufacturing in chelsea...this is a welcomed change after the 70 hour workweeks I used to have haha

I don't disagree that wider or later hours would behoove A&S. Yes, it's a different world and a different Slope, since they opened. Wasn't it only a year or two ago that most of the 5th ave restaurants that didn't exist a decade ago had little reason to serve weekday lunch? I was thrilled when Bonnie's finally went that route. Damn, I did most of my drinking in the EV until the 90s.
More than ever this is a 24hr place, and people in the Slope work at home, in town, and in the city at all hours.

A&S has excellent Mozz. and AMAZING meats, not to mention fine prepared foods and olives. I'm so happy they're staying open. They're not expensive at all - it's high quality food, especially meat. You get what you pay for.

Great news about A&S. I am thrilled. They are a great butcher shop and it would have been a real loss if they had closed down.

I am thrilled too!!!

belzjm wrote: i know hindsight is 20/20, but these businesses which have been here forever should have had the foresight to buy the building where they housed their shops. do these business owners not realize that rents always go up in the long term?? were they hoping park slope would never take off, thus keeping their rent low for eternity? i guess i don't get it.

Um.. speaking as someone who has been here 'forever,' I can tell you that no, no one foresaw the fact that in a span of hardly 10 years or so Park Slope would "take off" and become completely and hopelessly unaffordable for working families and the businesses that serve them. Sorry to say we didn't see that one coming.