Long Island City sweltering Tuesday afternoon linkage

That’s because CB2 is a group of geriatric people who live in Sunnyside or Maspeth (with a few exceptions). They have no idea what the hell is going on in LIC, what we need or don’t need, and should have nothing to do with decisions that are made here. It’s annoying that he’s so often quoted in the media as representing what the community of Hunters Points wants.

Wow I’ve never heard of serving alcohol in a bakery! What will LIC think of next!

I can’t wait for the McDonalds on Vernon. Everyone will love that. It’s a food focused restaurant that doesn’t serve alcohol and is family orientated. Surely this will unite us all, and will serve the needs of the thousands, upon thousands, of new residents set to come over the next few years.

Yes # 7

There a home depot in LIC I don’t understand the obseession with hardware stores.

Most neighborhoods (even crappy dying ones) have a hardware store, often a national chain like True Value, right on the main commercial street. It’s such a pain in the ass to have to get in the car or take mass transit to buy simple materials for a project. So why has the rest of the universe been able to provide such a service to their communities but we can’t?

13, I don’t agree with you. Barely ever? If we had a good hardware store on Vernon or Jackson, I would probably go at least once a week. When I’m doing a home improvement project, perhaps more. I think you underestimate the worth of these places, perhaps because you aren’t a do-it-yourselfer. Many other people are, not to mention artists and crafts people who would be steady customers.

Then why did the one we had on 21st close down if there’s such a need? And there used to be several, but they all closed down.

There clearly isn’t a need for one.

There is a great hardware store on Jackson. It’s inside Dykes Lumber at 26-16 Jackson, right across the street from the Citibank building. Just walk in the big loading dock, and the door’s on your left.

Their hours are Mon – Fri 7:30 am -5:00 pm and Saturday 8:00 am – 1:00 pm. They have most everything you would need there. Plus, for a lumberyard, the guys there are pretty nice and willing to help. They even gave me some cabinet-grade particle board for free once.

Hope this helps!

What we really need is a master plan for hardware stores and someone to mediate the rent negotiations.

16, that’s ludicrous. Pickwick closed for entirely personal reasons. The owners are retiring. There’s absolutely a need for hardware here – are you nuts?

2o, your comment was as smart and helpful as the $15 drink guy.

Pickwick was for sale for quite a number of years and no one bought it b/c it made no money.

Thanks #18, I didn’t know that about Dykes. Great info.

“The market has spoken.”
What horse shit!

:-)

Your observation is terribly correct Townie,

Personally I prefer bullpucky

Why is it HS? If enough people actually need a hardware store on a daily basis it would have been profitable and stayed open. Instead what you have is a bunch of people who probably go to a hardware store once a year and smal handful of people that go several times a month. Not good enough. Any store need volume to survive. The store that are here are the ones that can generate enough traffic and repeat customers to survive. The market has spoken.

The market apparently does a lot of talking and has ruled our lives during this forty-year Yuppie ascendancy, but to treat the notion as if it were somehow scientific, that is, an accurate reflection of real circumstances in real time, well that is the ongoing fallacy of our time. The market should stfp while it exercises a multi-billion dollar correction with your goddamn money, you blithering suckers.

The fact that a hardware store can’t survive in a community is a much more complex issue when rents are climbing and dislocating everything and everyone. Do not look at our community as if it were a market. There is a critical difference, as the community is devoted to the nurturing and promoting of its own, not to mention their survival, regarding which “the market” is singularly indifferent.

There are the facts #17. Paul and Al were great! It was like going to court…I sometimes wanted a lute. Hi jinks and fun while purchasing your screws, wood, glue, tools etc, etc. And a tipple on Saturdays. Do you know how many new folks I’ve seen barging into the pharmacy asking to buy a screw driver, a box cutter, because they just moved in and are panicking to unpack in their new neighborhood that they failed to noticed doesn’t have the basics?

Uh lets see….we sustained hardware stores for quite sometime on 3500 people. And then the development frenzy began and they either sold out or were kicked out. Now we are at 35,000 and we don’t need a hardware store?

Are you the white night #17? That would explain your lack of conciseness.

What a pitiful beautification of jackson ave.

Take away metered parking and businesses will close up… new ones everyday realize where the F**k do our customers park?

I’ll be the designers either don’t drive, or have never been to jackson ave and walked up and down the street

Ill bet my next weeks paycheck, they used google maps to design this crap.

The hardware store on Jackson is approximately across from Dutch Kills bar. Dyke’s has a limited selection of contractor-related hardware, but it is a lumberyard. People who work with their hands know the difference.

All this hulabalu makes me want to try to open a hardware store. Any body know anyone who would like to back me?
I do agree with #34. Don’t know why all these naysayers aren’t putting together the difference in numbers between now and even 5 years ago. Seems like there are a lot of empty store lots around right now. Surely something rents for a reasonable amount.