Subject: FW: [SPAM] Re: [FlatbushFamilyNetwork] Shopping Newkirk - What's Your Favorite?
On 4/16/07, fdcmarketing phillipkellogg@mac.com wrote:
Where do you shop at Newkirk Plaza?
And, what do you like to buy?
I'm new in the area and I have had a great time discovering all that
is new here - and on Cortelyou Road. One project in my new job at the
Flatbush Development Corporation is to find out what kind of shopping
and eating people do at Newkirk. I've been going into the stores and
restaurants and discovered so many great things. But it is the regular
customers who really know where to find the best of everything.
- Is it the stewed chicken at Fisherman's Cove?
- The earrings at Royal Market?
- The bargain designer eyewear at Veyana?
- The spinach pie at Cha's?
- Or, is it the fact that you can get a newspaper, fill a
prescription, buy fresh fish and pick out a good bottle of wine all at
a subway stop?
It would be great if you took a minute to respond with 2-3 of your
favorites shops and restaurants and what you like to buy there. Keep
it short if you like... just write whatever comes to mind. It'll be
interesting to see what everyone has to say.
I know many of you may want to respond with what new things you'd like
to see, and that's ok too. But the first thing I'm hoping to find out
and to let others know about, is all the great things already here -
right under our noses.
Thank you,
Phillip
On Behalf Of Tonia Gustafson
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 7:23 PM
To: fdcmarketing
Cc: FlatbushFamilyNetwork@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [SPAM]
Re: [FlatbushFamilyNetwork] Shopping Newkirk - What's Your Favorite?
I just moved here 2 months ago and was pleasantly surprised to find so much
so close to our house. I still don't know all the store names yet but I am
in the place next to Almac, with the fruit & veggies out front, 4 times a
week. They get fresh cannoli from Bay Ridge daily and let me tell you they
are way too good! They also have organic milk about $1 cheaper per half
gallon than the C-Town (?) on E 16th. Almac is a godsend. Period. The
bagels on Newkirk are, in my families opinion, not great but we were spoiled
living a block from Bagel World on Court St. We love Loduca Pizza, have
decided that Chinese place across the st from the big laundry place on
Newkirk rocks and can't stand that Duncan Donuts won't let customers use the
bathroom. Pisses me off to no end yet I still go there for coffee & ice
cream. It's also amazing that there are Two banks right there in the plaza.
The jerk chicken at Fisherman's Cove is phenomenal though not as good as
mine of course ;) I just wish they jerked chicken breasts; it's just legs
there. The deli at the corner where Almac is makes the most amazing warm
turkey sandwich; he chops up the turkey slices on the grill, on wheat with
swiss - yum. So that's it for now, still exploring! I need to find fresh
mozzarella closer than PPW, a really great place to get my shoes/boots
re-soled, shined etc. I'd also love to find a better butcher, with hanger
steak, more selection .. someone who will ask me how thick I want the steaks
cut.
~ Tonia
I have inside information that a person who owns a very popular restaurant/bar in Park Slope is seriously negotiating with the owner of the Cornerstone. He is not planning on having a kitchen but will probably offer sandwiches....he has many good ideas.
Keep your fingers crossed.