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Santa (or a reasonably affordable facsimile) will be stomping down Third Avenue this friday. As part of a promotional campaign..”Santa will stop at designated locations along Third Avenue to give out gifts for the children and a guide to local merchants offering Shop Brooklyn bonus deals.” Check out the schedule (and some more details), bring out [...] The Merchants of Third Avenue Civic Improvement Association, a non-profit serving the Third Avenue retail corridor for over 30 years is conducting a study, an in-depth survey of local residents that will help: –Understand the buying habits and desires of the community; –Gain insight from local consumers [...] Open and Closed: A case for the life of a small business in Bay Ridge Written by Rosalie Drago
Any Bay Ridge resident who strolls the avenues knows that every few weeks a new business opens while another vacant storefront, with skeletal remains of shelves and [...] Seeking a possible affordable one-stop-shop for healthy food I headed off to a Bay Ridge Food Coop meeting at the Bay Ridge branch of the Brooklyn Public Library on 73rd and Ridge Boulevard. [...] After we ran this article yesterday, … after a two day survey of 3rd avenue and 5th avenue in Bay Ridge, our reporting team found over 25 vacated or vacating storefronts. City Cuncilman Vincent J Gentile and Republican Challenger Robert Capano were kind enough to respond with some comments, suggestions and possible courses of [...] But after a two day survey of 3rd avenue and 5th avenue in Bay Ridge, our reporting team found over 25 vacated or vacating storefronts. Perhaps the most unfortunate block of all is 3rd avenue, between Bay Ridge Avenue and 70th street. Here we found four empty store fronts. The remaining stores are niche food services, a used goods store, a deli and the famous fresh-bread Cangiano’s. With the exception of the Second Hand Goods store, all other businesses on the block could in some way be threatened by the pending July opening of the Key Food on Bay Ridge [...] |
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