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March 3, 2006

Dunkin' Donuts Making a Mark in Carroll Gardens

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A Brownstoner correspondent sends us this report from the field: "Had I not seen the Grand Opening sign earlier in the day, I surely would have known the Carroll Gardens Dunkin Donuts had opened when I was greeted by this sight in some shrubs on my street at 12:30 this past Saturday night." Hey, add a few more cups and it could pass for a flowerbed.
Milking the Dunkin' Donuts Story [Brownstoner]




Posted by Brownstoner at 11:05 AM | Comments (13)
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like i have never seen a Starbucks cup on the street before

Posted by: Anonymous at March 3, 2006 11:37 AM

Ugh, yes! I noticed the same thing myself on my walk home from the train the other night. Bags and cups and greasy donut-grabbing tissues in the gutter. Dunkin Donuts is apparently patronized by litter bugs...?

Posted by: Sandra at March 3, 2006 11:46 AM

There's an interesting economics paper that relates trash levels to economic strength. I guess this picture is a good sign for Dunkin Donuts...

Posted by: Anonymous at March 3, 2006 12:41 PM

A more interesting study would be one that linked class levels to trash levels...

Posted by: Anonymous at March 3, 2006 12:44 PM

It's not DD's fault...people who are slobs will always be slobs whether they patronize DD, Starbucks, or whatever. I don't think it has anything to do with class level, either. Slobs come in all economic brackets.

Posted by: Anonymous at March 3, 2006 1:12 PM

It's been kind of windy lately...possibly someone threw it in a corner trash bin and the wind blew it around? I think a lot of the trash in the winter is due to the wind. Newspapers and bags, etc...

Posted by: alexuma at March 3, 2006 2:07 PM

Yes, I have been seeing the same thing. Since they openned I have seen a marked rise in litter on 1st Place and Court all bearing the DD logo.
If you feel up to it- just pitch it over the fence into the lard processing area.
IMHO- class level definately relates to public littering. Unscientific, but it is what I see on the street, subways, etc.
So...
Be Classy New York!

Posted by: Ron B. at March 3, 2006 2:11 PM

forget about the trash, litter, cups... anyone else just bothered by the fact that big queens-looking dunkin donuts, baskin robbins, and ANOTHER bank are now in the works for that block of lovely carroll gardens. i would much prefer my mom and pop, family owned, business to rule the roost on court st.

Posted by: karinne at March 3, 2006 2:21 PM

karinne, if you would like to see the mom and pops stores rule the roost, why don't you just open a store in your neighborhood. Or have your friends and neighbors do so. Stop complaining and just do something about it. All these people on this blog talk of the loss of mom and pop store, but no one talks of actually opening one up. Put you money where your mouths are.

Posted by: Anonymous at March 3, 2006 3:06 PM

How many times have I seen well-dressed people on the subway leave their NYTimes/AM New York/coffee cups behind and toss them under the seat when they leave the train? Hmmmm...let me count the ways.

Posted by: Anonymous at March 3, 2006 3:12 PM

damn right anon 3:06!! quit complaining and start doing!!!!

"never doubt the ability of a few people to change history -- indeed that is the only thing that ever has." or something like that. Thomas Jefferson

Posted by: anonymous at March 3, 2006 4:31 PM

Not T. Jefferson but Margaret Mead.

Posted by: anonymous at March 4, 2006 5:59 PM

wow, a relationship posited between people who are tasteless enough to patronize an indepently-owned franchise location of a national brand against whom there are no charges of unfair business practices and which began as a local shop that was (and still is) very important to its local community (Quicy, Mass.) - whew - a relationship between those ignorant coffee slobs and wanton disregard for the environment: rarely have i seen such a flawed use of logic. i wonder, if one your your "mom and pop" local shops had a real windfall and decided, with their extra profit, to open up a location in Queens and, say, somewhere in NJ, would you immediately begin disparaging their homogenizing effects?

Posted by: rachel at March 6, 2006 3:51 PM

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