Flatbush Junction Target Coming Soon
Fading Ad Blog has been chronicling the construction of Brooklyn’s newest Target at Flatbush Junction (the intersection of Nostrand, Flatbush and Avenue H). The store is scheduled to open within the next month or so. Here’s what the blog has to say about changes to the area: When Canal Jeans came to Flatbush, I was…
Fading Ad Blog has been chronicling the construction of Brooklyn’s newest Target at Flatbush Junction (the intersection of Nostrand, Flatbush and Avenue H). The store is scheduled to open within the next month or so. Here’s what the blog has to say about changes to the area:
When Canal Jeans came to Flatbush, I was astounded. They were pioneers way before the first Flatbush Starbucks replaced the only decent diner on Hillel Place. Then the banks came. We already had banks, and fast food chains, and now places to buy cell phones. To replace the municipal lot where commuters would park to take the train into the city to work is a Target Superstore. Now with the Congestion Pricing plans underway, where are commuters going to park? In my driveway.
Any readers foresee going to the new store?
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The diner on Campus Rd. replaced by Starbucks was the only decent diner in the area? You’ve got to be kidding me! I ate there once, ordered mashed potatoes with vegetables, and the mashed potatoes were instant, and the vegetables turned out to be peas and carrots from a can. THAT was the level of that diner.
Now, I own a studio co-op in the area and was absolutely psyched as to what this development would do to the apartment prices ever since I found out about it. I can’t believe how altogether underdeveloped the area is considering the college has been there how long, seventy years now?
There are some things I don’t understand – like the Canal Jean store being nothing like an actual Canal Jean store (has any one of you seen the crap they sell? and do they even carry jeans? all I know it’s embarrassing even to go into). Why was the abandoned railroad allowed to take up all that space all that time?
And why am I unable to find information anywhere as to what other stores will be next to Target?
I don’t see why they did not protest this the first week they opened in the food area food was all over the floor the family dollar next door will go out of business. and they are sucking the life out of the neighborhood cheap people never learn you can’t even get a job at junction target location unless you work saturday and sunday. wooh to the neighborhood mostly jews in blacks live in that hood jews hold the sabbath blacks go to church on sunday you do the math. college kids by the thoudsands was getting turned down by target because they cannot work on sunday do to family religious
or single parents with small kids cannot take the job because they have to work past 6pm so you tell me what target will do to benefit the neighborhood. family dollar was good enough target is no different then walmart wake up america. stand up for your neighborhood the reason why target came to the flatbush junction their are no good stores on the junction really and you cant even get white college kids to go near the junction they do not come to that new target i know i go to brooklyn college thats a black target with blacks on the wall as soon as you go up the stairs. you will see a few whites their out of a million blacks they make up most of flatbush for those of you that have never been here.
To the first commenter, the Sugar Bowl (the diner that used to occupy where Starbucks now is)was rumored to have numerous health code violations. If that was the case, then thank God its gone! We need decent food on the Junction, period. The nearby Burger King, Wendy’s/Popeye are two other places that need to get the boot- they are constantly getting shut down for violations.
I see the new Target as a welcome addition to Flatbush Ave.,and hope it will attract other new business and interests in the area overall. That area has soooo much potential, its a shame its been in the state that it is for so long.
O, I guess I’m showing my age – but in terms of shopping, truly one cannot compare a Target in the Junction with the “downtown” Brooklyn department stores of old — for example, the old A&S, or Martin’s, with its mahogany paneling. What’s really awful about places like Target and Walmart is the almost plastic-looking facades, kind of glossy and cheap looking. As we can see from some of the quirky new apartment buildings going up on Coney Island Avenue and Ocean Parkway, it’s probably just as inexpensive nowadays to build something attractive, with concrete moldings imitating “old-fashioned” details, that fits in with the neighborhood architecture, as it is to do the plastic-and-glass eyesores. But instead developers seem to think that big-box stores must be ugly — perhaps how they perceive those of us who live near where they build. (I like Sears. It’s a grand old building, and they’re helpful, good folks there.)
O, I guess I’m showing my age – but in terms of shopping, truly one cannot compare a Target in the Junction with the “downtown” Brooklyn department stores of old — for example, the old A&S, or Martin’s, with its mahogany paneling. What’s really awful about places like Target and Walmart is the almost plastic-looking facades, kind of glossy and cheap looking. As we can see from some of the quirky new apartment buildings going up on Coney Island Avenue and Ocean Parkway, it’s probably just as inexpensive nowadays to build something attractive, with concrete moldings imitating “old-fashioned” details, that fits in with the neighborhood architecture, as it is to do the plastic-and-glass eyesores. But instead developers seem to think that big-box stores must be ugly — perhaps how they perceive those of us who live near where they build. (I like Sears. It’s a grand old building, and they’re helpful, good folks there.)
O, I guess I’m showing my age – but in terms of shopping, truly one cannot compare a Target in the Junction with the “downtown” Brooklyn department stores of old — for example, the old A&S, or Martin’s, with its mahogany paneling. What’s really awful about places like Target and Walmart is the almost plastic-looking facades, kind of glossy and cheap looking. As we can see from some of the quirky new apartment buildings going up on Coney Island Avenue and Ocean Parkway, it’s probably just as inexpensive nowadays to build something attractive, with concrete moldings imitating “old-fashioned” details, that fits in with the neighborhood architecture, as it is to do the plastic-and-glass eyesores. But instead developers seem to think that big-box stores must be ugly — perhaps how they perceive those of us who live near where they build. (I like Sears. It’s a grand old building, and they’re helpful, good folks there.)
O, I guess I’m showing my age – but in terms of shopping, truly one cannot compare a Target in the Junction with the “downtown” Brooklyn department stores of old — for example, the old A&S, or Martin’s, with its mahogany paneling. What’s really awful about places like Target and Walmart is the almost plastic-looking facades, kind of glossy and cheap looking. As we can see from some of the quirky new apartment buildings going up on Coney Island Avenue and Ocean Parkway, it’s probably just as inexpensive nowadays to build something attractive, with concrete moldings imitating “old-fashioned” details, that fits in with the neighborhood architecture, as it is to do the plastic-and-glass eyesores. But instead developers seem to think that big-box stores must be ugly — perhaps how they perceive those of us who live near where they build. (I like Sears. It’s a grand old building, and they’re helpful, good folks there.)
O, I guess I’m showing my age – but in terms of shopping, truly one cannot compare a Target in the Junction with the “downtown” Brooklyn department stores of old — for example, the old A&S, or Martin’s, with its mahogany paneling. What’s really awful about places like Target and Walmart is the almost plastic-looking facades, kind of glossy and cheap looking. As we can see from some of the quirky new apartment buildings going up on Coney Island Avenue and Ocean Parkway, it’s probably just as inexpensive nowadays to build something attractive, with concrete moldings imitating “old-fashioned” details, that fits in with the neighborhood architecture, as it is to do the plastic-and-glass eyesores. But instead developers seem to think that big-box stores must be ugly — perhaps how they perceive those of us who live near where they build. (I like Sears. It’s a grand old building, and they’re helpful, good folks there.)
O, I guess I’m showing my age – but in terms of shopping, truly one cannot compare a Target in the Junction with the “downtown” Brooklyn department stores of old — for example, the old A&S, or Martin’s, with its mahogany paneling. What’s really awful about places like Target and Walmart is the almost plastic-looking facades, kind of glossy and cheap looking. As we can see from some of the quirky new apartment buildings going up on Coney Island Avenue and Ocean Parkway, it’s probably just as inexpensive nowadays to build something attractive, with concrete moldings imitating “old-fashioned” details, that fits in with the neighborhood architecture, as it is to do the plastic-and-glass eyesores. But instead developers seem to think that big-box stores must be ugly — perhaps how they perceive those of us who live near where they build. (I like Sears. It’s a grand old building, and they’re helpful, good folks there.)