Streetlevel: One Down on Cortelyou
Mega Hardware and Houseware at 1406 Cortelyou Road has closed up shop, reports Ditmas Park Blog. While new businesses like Sycamore seem to be thriving, apparently the neighborhood’s main strip has seen a lot of vacancies. Sign of the times? Photo from Ditmas Park Blog.
Mega Hardware and Houseware at 1406 Cortelyou Road has closed up shop, reports Ditmas Park Blog. While new businesses like Sycamore seem to be thriving, apparently the neighborhood’s main strip has seen a lot of vacancies. Sign of the times?
Photo from Ditmas Park Blog.
no way dude that hardware store was really ( in my opinion) really understocked and all around out of touch. A really bad selection of screws and a lot of poor quality tools. Crappy lightbulbs and no gardening stuff. I wish the owner good luck but also glad a valuable storefront is now available.
I know just what you mean lalaland. The guy who owns the other hardware store on Cortelyou is rude and his keys never work. I much rather go to Almac in Newkirk Plaza. It was voted the best (or one of the best) hardware stores in NYC. They are friendly and the older guy in the store is extremely knowledgable and always willing to offer assistance.
too bad – they copied keys that worked when others in the hood failed… now i don’t know where to go.
The owner of the store is retiring and returning to his country after years of business at this location. There has always been a turnover of businesses on Cortelyou Road. Some find their niche others don’t. This area is always changing and always has been. It has’nt’gentrified’ as quickly as some people out here may have wanted but it will no doubt continue to do so at a slow and steady pace.
its interesting that while places such as this are shutting down there are quite a few hardware stores on flatbush ave between park slope and prospect heights.
With the exception of Belle and Maxie, the storefronts that are currently empty, and which have been for several months now, are almost exclusively low-end businesses, not the chi-chi shops and restaurants catering to the new crowd.
It’s my understanding that these places are bust because of ridiculously high rent hikes, and it’s been hard to fill the spaces for the same reason – unrealistic greed.
However, now that we’ve hit the big economic downturn, I would expect them to stay empty for some time to come, and be joined by still others, which leaves the continued gentrification of Cortelyou Road, and Victorian Flatbush, in limbo.
Will the neighborhood sink? I think not. But residents should not expect the ‘hood to gentrify at the past few years break-neck pace.