Streetlevel: Organic Café Coming to Bustling Bergen
The proprietors of Bergen Street’s Organic Heights have painted their storefront a bright, distinctive green—just in case the business’s name doesn’t clue you in to the sort of food on offer. The café, between Flatbush and Fifth Avenue, is set to open within the next couple of weeks. Paint job notwithstanding, the eatery’s organic sandwiches,…
The proprietors of Bergen Street’s Organic Heights have painted their storefront a bright, distinctive green—just in case the business’s name doesn’t clue you in to the sort of food on offer. The café, between Flatbush and Fifth Avenue, is set to open within the next couple of weeks. Paint job notwithstanding, the eatery’s organic sandwiches, salads and soups will likely stand out on a street where fast food options are dominated by cheese steaks and subs. Beyond that, though, Organic Heights is the latest addition to the small street’s flourishing mom-and-pop retail scene. The past couple of years have seen the introduction of maternity-wear purveyor Bump, dude-wear purveyor Private Stock and Unnameable (nee Adam’s) Books. Buzz about other Bergen openings making the rounds? GMAP
I come to expect some, and dont mind even, posts touting gloom and doom. Its good to get alternate opinions even from extreme ends. But the What Posting cut and pastes of entire multi-page news articles is a bit much.
Its gotten to the point I no longer need to go to Rueters or the Times for news articles – I can just scan this blog and get every bit of bad news in its entirety.
Ridiculous!
I’m not a “liberal,” I don’t live in the Slope, and The What sucks badly. VERY badly.
walked by the tapas place last night and there was literally not a soul in there.
they really need to start listening to the comments on the park slope message board or they are going to be out of business in no time.
I was thinking more of the bookstore, bump and city sub. I don’t know much about the other store.
On a side note, the owners of Black Sheep are also the people behind the New Tapas place on that corner.
Is Private Stock really a mom-and-pop store? From what I could tell, it’s the clothing line of a brand of malt liquor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Stock_(malt_liquor)
Also, have you noticed that a t-shirt in the display window just says “CRACK”? I don’t think mom OR pop would approve of that.
It’s a narrow little street and often overlooked. That’s why mom and pop shops can afford to rent there. However it gets a lot of traffic from people crossing over to Flatbush.
I love that section of Bergen.
City Sub (the best!) and on the other side of 5th ave is, I believe, Black Sheep Pub.
The makings for a beautiful afternoon.
I heart The What. Let him speak. Walk the talk, you Slopian liberals.
I mean, we all agree we understand The What’s point, right? The housing market will crash. OK, OK!
Yes. The What sucks.