What Manhattan store/cafe do you wish had a Bklyn outpost?

OK, I thought of some more...

Bereket
Agata and Valentina
Decibel
Angel Share
Katz's
Kum Gang San
Joe's Shanghai
Pommes Frites
Sullivan St Bakery
Century 21 (I know there's one on 86th St, but it would be nice to have a closer option)
Broadway Panhandler
Pearl Paint
Tekserve
Kim's Video
Sunrise Mart
Katagiri
Schaller and Weber
Republic

I thought of some more too:

Luchows
Tiptoe Inn
Vorst's
Gitlitz
Izmir's Pizza
Ideal Restaurant
Footlights
The Gaiety
McCann's

triebensee wrote: The Gaiety

But there's not one in Manhattan anymore -- they shut down a few years ago, if it's the same Gaiety I'm thinking.

ino

or lupa.

The Gaiety closed in 2005 and was recently demolished.

http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2007/10/gaiety-theater.html

russ & daughters

sweet tea wrote: russ & daughters

That would be cool, but if we got a zabar's or an agata and valentina, we wouldn't need it.

Carnivore wrote:
Angel Share

no need to wish - we're getting a m&h offshoot, hopefully, on vandy. which is better than angel share.

how bout a bowling alley?

somewhere on 4th ave...

and a place to play pool, air hockey, ping pong, etc. that is a little more welcoming than the brownstone billiards place.

It would be so great for all of these places to open (especially the suggested Target and H&M) so everyone on this forum could complain about more of the local businesses. It's true though, this city is so large and so hard to get around, that everything should come to precious park slope.

I really wish they would bring the Statue of Liberty, all of Union Square, and even Ground Zero to park slope! Then I'd never have to leave!

Land Mine -
I could not have said it better myself!
Genius!

People- we are 15 minutes away from Manhattan, 10 on a good day.

Nubnu, I get the feeling we're the minority. It's scary seeing this pampered mentality coming out of the "number 1 neighborhood to raise a family." You know what that means: Big babies are raising their own babies, who will grow up to be even bigger babies than their big baby parents.

Instead of buying $1,000 strollers, why don't you support your local economy and NOT TARGET! Are you serious? Someone actually suggested a Target in Manhattan so this one wasn't so "trashed".... Boo hoo, the aisles are trashed.

I thought this area was supposed to be progressive.

landmine
i love that we still have little butcher shops and little italian delis (like russo's). I would hate to live in a mini version of Manhattan. If I wanted to live in Manhattan, I would have stayed there in the 1st place.
I just dont get it.
Nevertheless, I do feel like the clothing stores (boutiques) here are just not chic and way overpriced and just not cute at all. I do end up shopping for all my clothes in the city. That being said, I wouldn't change a thing!

Land_Mine wrote: It would be so great for all of these places to open (especially the suggested Target and H&M) so everyone on this forum could complain about more of the local businesses. It's true though, this city is so large and so hard to get around, that everything should come to precious park slope.

I really wish they would bring the Statue of Liberty, all of Union Square, and even Ground Zero to park slope! Then I'd never have to leave!

Great post!

Are you all talking about Brooklyn in general, or just Park Slope? There are great shopping strips all over Brooklyn. Try 86th street in Bay Ridge (4th, 5th aves) and then hop over to 86th street in Bensonhurst (19-24th aves.). You'll find great stuff over there. There's also 3rd avenue in Bay Ridge, Kings Plaza and Fulton Street.

It's a pity that a discussion in which people were just having a good time throwing out names of lots of businesses in Manhattan that they can't always schlep for an hour on the subway to visit has gotten derailed by a bunch of tired cracks about the Park Slope eeeevil yuppies.

Many of the people who were participating in this thread don't even live in Park Slope and are hardly "big babies" or "pampered" -- something a new user to the site like Land_Mine probably didn't realize, but hey, why get to know people when it's so much easier to make assumptions about them? Come on over to my block in Crown Heights sometime -- ain't no $1000 strollers over here.

The thread was fun while it lasted, I guess...

Subject: Re: What Manhattan store/cafe do you wish had a Bklyn outpos

bougiesis wrote: Okay, we've got Fairway and Daffy's. But what other Manhattan-based stores or restaurants would do well in Brooklyn?

Heartland Brewery and The Olive Garden.

Land_Mine wrote: I really wish they would bring the Statue of Liberty, all of Union Square, and even Ground Zero to park slope! Then I'd never have to leave!

why bother, we have our own local attractions:

1. atalantic yards punching bag shaped like ms. brooklyn
(she's actually a terribly ugly man with leakage problems)

2. a euro money changer

3. the biosphere theme park

4. revolutionary war reenactment killing field

5. fratboy internment camp

6. the "hello foreigners, there is no downtown" welcome kiosk

7. spoken-word extreme fighting ring

8. famous people from brooklyn expo with animatronic walt whitman

9. borough pesident catapult

10. scale model of brooklyn bridge butter sculpture

nubnu wrote: If I wanted to live in Manhattan, I would have stayed there in the 1st place.

well, if i wanted to eat belizean food, i would just move there.

:roll:

veselka

joe the art of coffee

Yes Sweet Tea, touche!
How clever are you?

caseopele wrote: Ok, I'd never heard of this Beard Papa before but now I totally want one here. Mmmmm, cream puffs....

Oh, and there are 7 Children's Places in Brooklyn according to their website, including one at the Atlantic Center.

True, but I find it easier to patronize the closer one. The one in my bedroom: the website. I just spent $100 on virtually the boy's entire winter wardrobe, including numerous shirts, pants, snow boots, hats, and scarf. Got a 15% off coupon from one of the coupon sites -- another amenity you don't often find for brick & mortar places. And the whole expedition took about 15 minutes, start to finish. More time for me to spend with the kid, instead of on his clothes.

I like shopping locally, really. Save on Fifth gets a visit at least once a week. :^) But if the local merchants aren't offering what I need or want, I don't feel any compulsion to patronize them. Either other locals (or tourists) need enough ironic onesies to keep those places afloat, or they'll change, or they'll fold because they don't have what the community wants. Such is business.

Sorry for the hijack. We now return you to our long-running series, "Local is Always Virtuous."

Oh, and seconding Tekserve and Pearl Paint! The new local Mac-repair place isn't any good, in my experience. And I could see a large Pearl outpost (or a Utrecht, or a Dick Blick, or any other large discount art supply place), perhaps on 4th, doing really, really well.

Brooke Lynn Knight, I know what you mean. I wasn't being snarky or anything just figured people might not know about the stores. And I cannot stand clothes shopping, years of being dragged around department stores for hours at a time by my grandmother ensured that. Plus, I'm poor so I buy most of my clothes on ebay. $10 for my favorite Gap jeans ain't too shabby, what do I care if they aren't brand new?