The MARP blog just posted a call for new businesses on Myrtle, especially the services identified as being the most desired:
bakery
florist
butcher
book store
cheese shop
organic grocer
gourmet grocer
ice cream parlor
MARP secures city grants to help renovate or upgrade retail space! Let this be your call to action. The demand for the things we’re lacking will only grow.
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There was a short lived ice cream parlor located where Karen’s Body Beautiful now is. My vote goes overwhelmingly to a full service bakery.
Nice – I’m working on the bookstore now, and I hope that survey bolsters my business plan a little. I did go talk to them at MARP, and they are great people.
bookstore = good
used books too. i will be a customer.
there used to be a bakery on Myrtle too (“Sprinkles”). this is just a couple of years ago too, it must be frustrating for those guys to see that they were just a little too early for the myrtle rennaissance.
Unfortunately I believe sprinkles burned down.
Sprinkles was a Carribean take out and a pretty unappealing one at that. I don’t think it burned down, just closed.
I would like to see all of the services mentioned, but I also would like to have a real gym like a New York Sports Club. For me the nearest decent gym is Maxim on Driggs/N 9th.
I want this stuff too but am not willing to risk all in my first retail venture. I would, however, invest time and money in a collaboration/coop/partnership. Anyone game for sharing the risk on an organic grocer, butcher, cheese shop with a bakery, ice cream and flowers (looks like someone else has the books covered)?
Pirates,
If you go for it, please add fresh fish to your list! A fish place with truly fresh fish would be a welcome addition to Myrtle. By the way, has anyone noticed how many organic things the Associated on Myrtle is now carrying? I just noticed an array of natural meat products, and they have lots of other things- cereals, shampoo, cheeses (most of the stuff I used to trek to Manhattan to get at Whole Foods). I still wouldn’t buy fish there, though (yet…).
So Adam, I’m getting from your comment that you don’t believe the fish at Duncan’s Quality Fish Market is fresh? Not accusing, just truly curious, as I’ve never been there.
I think Duncan’s is the place I’ve been to– in fairness, I only went there one time a few years ago, but it wasn’t an experience that made me want to go back for more (the fish I bought there was not fresh). Does anyone have more experience with fish purchases on Myrtle?
Sprinkles was a bakery before it became the Carribbean place. and yes, that place was sub-par! i don’t know why they kept the name (to keep the sign i guess).
I can’t give any specific info, but I can tell you that there are plans in the works to bring an old-fashioned ice-cream parlor to the Bed-Stuy/Clinton Hill border area sometime very soon. So please, somebody get on the cheese shop thing!!
not on myrtle, but the fish market in the pioneer supermarket (on lafayette @ grand) is good and fresh—it’s run independently of the supermarket.
there’s a gym on fulton in ft greene, it’s a crunch
Um, T-Tone, if I were in good enough shape to schlep my post-holiday bulge all the way over to the Crunch on Fulton, then I wouldn’t need to go to the gym at all!
Besides, my area of Myrtle is filled with people who seriously need to get to the gym. Any gym opening in this area should get tax exempt status because they would clearly be doing charity work.
Well I think Park Fish is great! However, not on Myrtle. I think it is Park Ave and Franklin. Very clean place, new store front, and always fresh fish. NOT OPEN ON SATURDAYS! That’s the biggest beef I have with them!
Interesting to hear about a fish place on Park near Franklin. I wouldn’t have thought to look under the BQE for fresh fish! Thanks for the tip.
I think MARP is probably mostly interested in local/home grown businesses, but I would love to see a Trader Joe and/or Whole Foods in Clinton Hill. I went to both of their websites and requested that they come to Clinton Hill. If anyone feels the same way, I’m sure requests help…at least a little.
P.S. This blog rocks!
I buy fish from Duncan’s when I can’t get to Fairway in Red Hook. For the most part, Duncan’s seems pretty fresh
A good candidate for a conversion to Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods would be the Pathmark near the Atlantic mall. Considering all the construction around there, it seems like there would be a huge clientele (and the existing Pathmark is horrendous).
The problem guys is that none of the storefronts on Myrtle are large enough for certain types of businesses. ie a NYSC, Whole Foods, etc could never come to Myrtle. Those types of businesses require thousands of sqaure feet. But keep hope alive.
There must be a place around Park Ave that could hold a larger supermarket.
A gym on Myrtle would be divine! That and a B54 that arrived on time every once in a while…
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