CRM on my skirt
Attention attention.
CRM, the outlet, as is says proudly in the window, is having a big sale this week. As I walked by this morning, I saw a skirt reduced from $629 to $440 and now to an amazing $319!!
And this...
Who needs thrift stores when you have outlets like these serving the neighborhood?
I got in another argument the other day with someone about the future of the FLTN Mall, that glorious strip of cheap hoop earrings, cell phones, grilles (for your mouth), Payless shoes, sleds, a conway, and a real shoe OUTLET (with its own theme song..."9.99 are you outta your mind").
I get in this argument a lot, it seems, and I feel the need to rant. Also ranting here is better than big arguments at work.
So their big complaint seems to be that the strip does not serve the interests of the surrounding neighborhood. On this premise, a big study was done last fall, focusing on ways to improve it, and lo and behold, the findings are that this is one of the most profitable strip in the Northeast, rents are as high as SOHO per SF, and they recommend changing nothing. Then came a contentious series of community board meetings where the yupsters kept digging themselves further and further into a hole trying not to appear elitist and racist.
Rich people are not the only people in this neighborhood. You already got Crt Street and Smth Street, and every other Fing street. The poorer among us really only have one street left and NOW you rich yupsters want to talk about real estate EQUITY? Or is it retail therapy equity? Are you serious?
I am sorry if you can't wear those cheap ass flip flops out to your country home on these nice summer weekends, but that's no reason to shut down a business that serves the rest of us.
Or wait, maybe it does...hmmm, can I waste city money doing a study of how much of the surrounding neighborhood shops in your damn one word shoppes? Can I get you shut down if your clientele isn't "balanced" enough? Can I shut down a McDonalds because I'm a vegetarian?
I don't know the future of the FLTN mall. But I will continue to buy fabulous earrings there for under $3. And I will continue to look awesome in them. And I think you should all do the same.
FLTN mall
CRM, the outlet, as is says proudly in the window, is having a big sale this week. As I walked by this morning, I saw a skirt reduced from $629 to $440 and now to an amazing $319!!
And this...
Who needs thrift stores when you have outlets like these serving the neighborhood?
I got in another argument the other day with someone about the future of the FLTN Mall, that glorious strip of cheap hoop earrings, cell phones, grilles (for your mouth), Payless shoes, sleds, a conway, and a real shoe OUTLET (with its own theme song..."9.99 are you outta your mind").
I get in this argument a lot, it seems, and I feel the need to rant. Also ranting here is better than big arguments at work.
So their big complaint seems to be that the strip does not serve the interests of the surrounding neighborhood. On this premise, a big study was done last fall, focusing on ways to improve it, and lo and behold, the findings are that this is one of the most profitable strip in the Northeast, rents are as high as SOHO per SF, and they recommend changing nothing. Then came a contentious series of community board meetings where the yupsters kept digging themselves further and further into a hole trying not to appear elitist and racist.
Rich people are not the only people in this neighborhood. You already got Crt Street and Smth Street, and every other Fing street. The poorer among us really only have one street left and NOW you rich yupsters want to talk about real estate EQUITY? Or is it retail therapy equity? Are you serious?
I am sorry if you can't wear those cheap ass flip flops out to your country home on these nice summer weekends, but that's no reason to shut down a business that serves the rest of us.
Or wait, maybe it does...hmmm, can I waste city money doing a study of how much of the surrounding neighborhood shops in your damn one word shoppes? Can I get you shut down if your clientele isn't "balanced" enough? Can I shut down a McDonalds because I'm a vegetarian?
I don't know the future of the FLTN mall. But I will continue to buy fabulous earrings there for under $3. And I will continue to look awesome in them. And I think you should all do the same.
posted by reilly at 6:50 PM
1 Comments:
Hey! I did come across this blog at one point while searching about local/neighborhood stuff, but didn't realize the connection to your other one.
In complete agreement on all sides. The weird thing about Boerum Hill is how in a 3-4 block walk you're basically walking into a true whole other world no matter which direction you go. Walking down Nevins from Atlantic to Dekalb--to head to Junior's--is like going on a living sociology lesson. Brownstones, to rehab, to supposed "Bingo" halls, to the mall and then to old school Brooklyn,
It took me a while to realize that I was a few blocks away from the old May's Deparment Store--which is now a Cookies: School Uniforms AND MORE! store--and in a way it still hasn't sunk in.
Yeah, more rambling. But I don't think the Fulton Mall is that horrible. I never thought King's Plaza was that bad at all, and remeber people talking about how that wasn't a "real" mall too. And from what I heard, even when the mall area was less of a discount store city, people still put the area down as not being on the same level as Macy's or Gimbel's and the whole Herald Square area.
Whatever Fulton Mall sells, they at least don't sell $420 skirts on discount. Hey? Does anyone buy those skirts, or is the $420 price so odd code to let people know you can buy bags of 420 there?
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