Signage confirms the manifestation of the Amish Market & Duane Reade

where is this?!?!?!

great reporting by LIQCITY once again.

It'll be nice to pick up fresh meat and veggies after work. No more lugging heavy bags into the subway!

#1 - Location is East Coast2. Check QW website for exact address.

#2 - This was reported yesterday on QW on "neighborhood Discussion" board.

More photos (up yesterday)

http://www.queenswest.com/neighborhood/discussion/989008364?b_start=10#452359735

Jake

suh weet ness

excellent news. whippeeee!! I am so excited for the market. so what if it'll be tortuously overpriced? it'll be downstairs. Fresh direct has it's perks, and I might be a relic, but I love shopping for my food. maybe it's the gatherer's instinct or whatever.

yeah, great news. nice pix! it's nice to see the development bear fruit. just in time for spring.

I can't wait to go shopping with photogenic folks in activewear!

It'll probably take 8 months to buildout. They'll move at a glacial pace. They don't care that we're crying out for a supermarket.

"It'll probably take 8 months to build out...They don't care that we're crying out for a supermarket." The people of Harlem waited 30 years (10 shy of the Bible's wandering in the desert total) for a supermarket, the Pathmark at 125th and Lexington which opened in 1999. And I don't think they had the FreshDirect option, either.

As the Kinks so eloquently phrased it, Stop Your Sobbing.

Yeah i'm with you Brandon. Those photos are ridiculous.

If it were possible I would volunteer weekends to help with the construction. This can't happen soon enough in my book.

What do you think the hours on both stores will be?

Why "The Market" not "Amish Market?" Do they think having one in LIC would sully the brand?

FYI Its totally 100 % against Amish Doctrine to open an outpost store in anyplace called LIC its too close to LICK! duhhhhhhh

theyd all be racked and stoned to death! hahaha

"Crying out for a supermarket." "this cannot happen soon enough."

I love the drama. You did get the memo that there are supermarkets less than a mile away and the train goes to Manhattan, right?

It doesn't make any business sense for Amish market to re-brand this store and this store only. Are you sure they are actually opening a store? Or did the plans fall through?

Yes, we are all aware that there is a supermarket a mile away, but why walk two miles round trip when you can walk two blocks? Why get in a car or subway instead of crossing the street? Not sure I follow the logic...

Who cares what they call it? Personally I think "The Market" sounds better. Not really sure what the whole Amish thing is about anyway.

The name "Amish Market" comes from their beginnings. They took over a store run by the Amish and at first carried only Amish products. As they expanded and added other brands and products they have continued to use a certan percentage of Amish products - thus enabling them to keep the name "Amish" in their title.

Brandon: HA! Well I'M not getting dressed to shop, at least you'll have one person there who doesn't look like that. That is, if I can tear myself away from Key Food.

liqcity - your use of the word "manifest" leads me to assume that you are French. True?

French? no. I like the word manifest. I think it works well with what's going on in LIC. Every corner I turn, something new is...manifesting.

I think #22 is confusing "manifest" with "manifique."

. Actually "manifest" has its roots in Latin and was brought into use by the French around the 15th century;however, I don't know why anyone would assume that LIQcity is French for using the word as it is in wide usage in the English language.

Prediction:

Those coming soon signs will falsely assure all prospective rental tenants and condo buyers that the neighborhood will improve with the arrival of a pharmacy and supermarket. Betcha the signs will grow old and faded, never to be removed for at least three years. What's your wager?

Actually I think the market is really on track for June. It's been pretty securely confirmed. The Duane Reade I don't know for sure.......

Manifest Destiny. very applicable to LIC.

26- You really can't be serious. Put your money where your mouth is - how much do you want to bet that they both will be open for business this summer?

#26 Five years ago I might have agreed with you, but lately LIC is moving at a faster pace. They would be stupid not to open soon and start collecting profits from the large influx of renters and condo owners.

y'all got way too much time on ur hands and i clearly do for reading all this crap

Great. With Duane Reade and Amish Market comes more upper middle class white folks from the mid-west, the brand names make them feel safe and secure while maintaining the air of pioneer spirit. Next there will surely be two Starbucks for every resident. This town has evolved at a breakneck pace, evolved into some perverted alien man eater, accurately coined midtown east, at least when it comes to rent. But this is progress I suppose, no more room for the starving artist, well starving ones maybe, but no more room for brown folk, lower class Europeans, and rarest of all, the elusive native New Yorker. Nope, just enough space left for more carbon copies of the same ugly faces, over and over again, and they all look alike, thats right, you! It started in Manhattan and like an incurable pandemic plague it has spread across the east river, Brooklyn, Queens, Surely Bronx will be the next victim. I see them walking their purebred show dogs down the street, wearing their $500 pre-torn skin tight jeans and $200 over sized aviator sunglasses, they are the young professionals. The accent is the dead give away, that mid-west twang, and the excitement of living in such an hip "industrial" neighborhood, like none other. They must be the first, but they wont be the last. I say go home, this place had much more character when it was a poor and indigenous town. Anyway, though this will without a doubt run the LIC pharmacy and C-Town (Cunt-Town) out of business, it is long over due.