Trader Joes to Open on Columbus Ave & 93rd Street (New York: sales, loan)
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I was referring to the Jacob Riis houses which are 3 blocks away
I think the one in Cobble Hill is closer to the Gowanus Houses, but it's a near thing either way. They're also opening a location in downtown Brooklyn that will be closer to the Ingersoll Houses than either of those locations are to any NYCHA buildings.
Trader Joe's are great and well run stores. I want to see them replace all the garbage grocery stores such as Gristedes, Food Emporium, Pathmark, Associated, etc. Those stores were all overpriced, sold expired food and were poorly managed. Good riddance to the crap stores and hello Trader Joe's. I do not see a single negative about Trader Joe's popping up all over the city.
The West 93rd St. TJ's will be handy for me. My route home often involves the M96 Crosstown for Broadway( 1,2, or 3 trains) or CPW (C train). A short walk to TJ's and then back to 96th and no danger of melting food. I like their frozen Shepherd's Pie.
Instead of a second store on the UWS, I wish they'd have considered the UES (like maybe the old Food Emporium site on 86th and Second.)
I was told that they are looking for an UES location, but that they wait till they find locations large enough to accommodate their trucks.
Trader Joe's are great and well run stores. I want to see them replace all the garbage grocery stores such as Gristedes, Food Emporium, Pathmark, Associated, etc. Those stores were all overpriced, sold expired food and were poorly managed. Good riddance to the crap stores and hello Trader Joe's. I do not see a single negative about Trader Joe's popping up all over the city.
Pathmark's is already gone. Food Emporium is as well.
I think the one in Cobble Hill is closer to the Gowanus Houses, but it's a near thing either way. They're also opening a location in downtown Brooklyn that will be closer to the Ingersoll Houses than either of those locations are to any NYCHA buildings.
Are those housing projects massive like Jacob Riis/Lillian Wald or are they little stand alone ones?
+ Gowanus Houses (a 12.57 acre complex bordered by Wyckoff, Douglass, Bond and Hoyt Streets) consists of 14 buildings, 4, 6, 9, 13 and 14-stories high. It has 1,134 apartments housing an estimated 2,836 residents.
To give you an idea, the largest NYCHA development on Staten Island is the Stapleton Houses at around 700 units (I think it's 693 or 793, I forget which offhand). So it's pretty large, but at the same time, pretty mixed into the neighborhood.
But it's not that close anyway. Trader Joe's is by Atlantic & Court, while the closest point of the Gowanus Houses is at Hoyt & Wyckoff (and to give you an idea, the 2/3 stop at Court Street/Borough Hall and then Hoyt Street, so they're basically a full subway stop apart). You have to walk three blocks east and four blocks south to get to the Gowanus Houses.
The closest subway station to both is the F/G at Bergen Street. The 2/3 are further north, but I was just talking distance-wise.
Raymond V. Ingersoll Houses in Brooklyn has 20 buildings, 6 and 11-stories tall on 22.9-acres with 1,802 apartments housing some 4,532 residents.
Those are huge. If you go through that area on the BQE, you'll see the Ingersoll Houses on one side, and then shortly after, the Farragut Houses on the other.
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