The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

(to be clear that's in the wall street area, not the NYU area)

i am back on my parents insurance for now, thank god

no availability till next week

Best health system in the world

A Duane Reade in Brooklyn With a Beer Bar
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/business/14beer.html?hp

"“With each of our newer stores, we’re trying to find what works in our community,” Mr. Tiberio said. And in Williamsburg, “this was an area that was devoid of opportunities for beer,” he said. "

haaaaaa.
fuck duane reade. they opened up across the street from a family-owned, long-running pharmacy when they already had a location a few blocks away. also, there are a million places i'd rather go to get my beer.

^^^ talking abt the specific new williamsburg DR btw.

lol last nite i saw this and was lla THIS is leading on the times site right now - so i took a screenshot wtf

http://grab.by/8nbj

"We’re trying to bring in New York references,” said a CBX partner, Todd Maute. CBX hit the New York angle again in the name for the bar —Brew York City — which is also on the old-time growler bottles of dark glass"

Brew York City

shamelessness and immunity to embarrassment still rockin' the marketing career path

i like that he's "bringing in" the "New York references" as if it's a TGI Friday's in Wichita

Something really gross and unappealing about getting tap beer in a pharmacy.

I got a lot of objections to this nonsense, but getting stuff in a pharmacy isn't one of them. In my hometown, there's a drugstore that is also a gift shop that is also a lunch counter and soda fountain. People go there to get a bowl of soup or a burger or a milkshake and run their errands. Maybe it's a small-town thing.

morbs otm

haha that picture!!! that guy!!! those shades!!!! that whole situation!!!!!!!!!!!!!! williamsburg i love you!!!!!!!!!!!

i like pharmacies that are kind of like junk shops and it is true that food and beer are kinds of drugs too, but obv it's the inauthentic marketing-department kitch factor that is making this a not-good idea. i mean, there's beer everywhere in brooklyn!
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hahahaaaaaa!!!!

Well yeah and that it's duane reade and not your quaint mom-and-pop drug store.

I'm hearing guy in shades thinking "So this is Williamsburg" in a Will Arnett voice.

"We’re trying to bring in New York references"

^^ admirable goal, wouldnt want to have a new york business with no new york references

fluorescent lights make beer taste better

i picture him on Google, typing in "New York drugstores"

customers will receive genuine scale model replica new york granny cart w/each beer purchase

Move over Duane Reade, Marshall's is coming to town:

http://ny.racked.com/archives/2011/01/17/williamsburg_end_times_marshalls_considers_space_on_bedford.php

Is 249 Fourth Avenue in downtown Brooklyn? That is where the Capstan Shafts are playing tomorrow!

sorry to say but i will buy clothes at marshalls.

There is a marshalls right near me in the same building as Old Navy, Stop and Shop and Guitar Center. Take that, Brooklyn.

we know queens is one giant step closer to suburbia, you don't have to bring it up just to make us jealous :( bet u have a wendys too.

haha I was in that marshalls the other day, horrifying

do you ever go to that outlet store across the street from those things dan? crazy cheap.

tbh I have found good stuff at Marshall's as well.

Also fwiw Williamsburg is not Downtown Brooklyn.

if shopping at marshalls means i can avoid a trip to k-mart or target whenever i need some socks/underwear/a dress shirt.. then so be it. much diff't from a duane reade opening across the street from king's in terms of perceived ethical dilemma.

I found good slacks there for work for like $20. But the problem is they rarely have more than two anything in my size. Maybe the Williamsburg one will be stocked differently.

I don't have anything morally against marshall's but bedford ave does seem like a weird business decision

no way, in 10 5-10 years bedford ave will be just like the east village.

But the East Village doesn't have a Marshall's.

I agree, that's why I think it's weird! not w/r/t corporate overlords taking over, but rather that marshalls' lower-middle class vibe doesn't fit well w/ the wine bar and luxury condo crowd that's moved / is moving to williamsburg.

Lately I kind of think Cobble Hill/Carroll Gardens already looks like the East Village if not Hoboken.

everyone needs off-size slacks, rich and poor alike.

New Freddy's opens today! woulda been great in '92-94, when I lived down the street.

http://www.nypress.com/article-22086-freddyrss-revenge.html

Oh it's gonna be MOBBED though. Today's the opening?? Can we go anywhere less insane for opening weekend?

Ha, I thought you typed "it's gonna be MORBED"

for a long time I didn't know what ferddy's was called. I referred to it as "the place that loves beer".

ferddy's!

I dunno if tonight can work for me, not fond of mobs.

NOT GONNA BE MORBED :(

wha happened

Nada.

the matter of factness of that Duane Reade headline cracks me up

A Duane Reade in Brooklyn With a Beer Bar

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