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• George says:
  

  It was a bodega with a suspiciously sparse inventory when I moved here in August ’06 (I live on Clifton). It’s been closed for several months but there’s signs of life in there lately, like they’re starting to do some sort of work inside. I’d be really curious too if anyone has any inside information.

  04.15.08 at 8:29 am

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• CliftonRez says:
  

  I think it was reported on Brownstoner as slated to become a brick oven pizza place. Initially there was talk about a bagel store.

  04.15.08 at 9:16 am

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• CB says:
  

  It really was the scariest bodega I’ve ever seen, and that’s saying something! And you don’t need an old-timer to tell you that … even though it looks like it’s been abandoned for decades, it actually only closed a couple of months ago! No idea what’s going in there, but there’s been work going on in there for several weeks now.

  04.15.08 at 9:35 am

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• Kath says:
  

  What was interesting about this bodega was the owner ran the annual Lucha Libre wrestling match that happened in the middle of the street! The last one was a few years back, then he closed the deli. It’s been closed for over a year.

  04.15.08 at 9:52 am

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• George says:
  

  I believe a group of investors purchased the group of buildings along Grand last year, including this building. A brick oven pizza place is planned. They did a good job re-laying the slate sidewalk. This is a landmarks block.

  04.15.08 at 11:05 am

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• boberic says:
  

  This is only vaguely related to this post, but does anyone know what’s going in on the corner of washington and park? There has been some renovation of the space on the ground floor of the chocolate factory. Anyone know what it’s going to be?

  04.15.08 at 11:41 am

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• Skeets McDonald says:
  

  I’m curious about the development going on at Park/Washington too. In fact there’s quite a bit of work going on in that section of Wallabout these days.

  There’s a building being renovated on Waverly, the work on the Hall Street storage building as well as the renovation of the Brooklyn’s Best Pizza pizzeria. (THAT’S going to become a brick oven pizza.)

  04.15.08 at 3:21 pm

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• tinarina says:
  

  The building has been owned for some time (over three years) by a group of people–not investors but not best friends. They chose not to renew the lease on the bodega, and are considering a number of options on the space.

  04.15.08 at 4:26 pm

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• bebklyn says:
  

  the construction seems to have slowed down in the last month or so. will it be a brick oven pizza place? i can’t wait for *something* to open there.

  04.15.08 at 9:29 pm

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• EAB says:
  

  I saw people working on it yesterday and this morning.

  04.16.08 at 9:03 am

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• JasonScottJones says:
  

  no news like late news, yeh that bodega was around for at least twenty years, Puerto Rican owned as I recall, and I remember when it had a full inventory and later when it was barely hanging on. Usually had ol’ timers sitting out front. “Scary”? That depends on your perspective I guess…

  04.18.08 at 7:05 pm

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• ClintonHillBlog says:
  

  [...] Unemployment Cafe reported the soft opening of Urban Vintage last week  the name of the long-intriguing storefront on Grand at Clifton – while we were on vacation.  Check the post and some photos here.  [...]

  01.05.10 at 8:10 am

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