In characteristically muted and understated tones, brokers at Brown Harris Stevens describe little old Vanderbilt Ave. as the "hottest commercial strip in Brooklyn – the center of it all!!!" (emphasis theirs). Hot, huh? Someone must have tipped them off to that new HOME HEATING OIL storefront that’s got everyone giddy with anticipation ("COMING SOON"! Can you hardly stand it?). Brownstoner says this listing is still active, so for just $1.2 million, this rather cozy 3-story townhouse/commercial space could be yours!
So hot you can cook a crepe on it *wink*
I, too, was sad to see that the new business was something so boring. OTOH, I was never too impressed with the nail shop that was there before–let’s just say that it fell short of being a totally gazaasmic experience.
I was hoping that the Home Heating Oil storefront would turn out to be an ironic new cool bar or coffeeshop. I don’t understand why a heating oil outfit would want to set up a relatively expensive retail storefront? It’s not as though people stop in to place heating oil orders in the same way they would drop off dry cleaning — that’s up to the managing agent / landlord.
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JRP: I hear you on the ironic coffeeshop. I lived in the neighborhood for several weeks before I realized that City Lighting was not, in fact, a lighting fixture store. In my defense, I was walking past it during the day when the neon beer ads weren’t turned on.