Wednesday, August 7, 2013

No Coffee Shop for Station Square

I found out today that the space along Greenway Terrace that was being considered for a coffee shop will instead become some kind of a physician's office. Sorry coffee lovers!


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  1. That's good news. We wouldn't want another place for outsiders to loiter in the Gardens.

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    1. If evil-doers are going to loiter in the gardens, they're going to loiter in the gardens, coffee or not. Honestly, a nice classy coffee house would ruin property values or something?

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  2. Because no outsiders go to doctors' offices?

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    1. I'm an "outsider" and I visited a doctor in Station Square. But don't worry, he sucked and I won't be back.

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  4. Outsiders to loiter? Sounds vaguely elitist. What is wrong with a business that would benefit the LIRR commuters from Forest Hills like a coffee shop? Station Sq is a working TRAIN STATION....not some private entrance to a gated community. Unless you think that a gate on Continental Ave would be a good idea to prevent the "outsider" population from Austin St from entering your precious Gardens.

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    1. Station Square is an entrance to a private community.

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    2. You miss the point. Businesses such as Dirty Pierre's and Jade serve ALL residents of Forest Hills, not exclusively the Garden residents. To suggest that having another business as benign as a coffee shop will somehow invite unwanted "loitering outsiders" is uninformed and divisive.

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  5. Perhaps we seem to have lost what the intent of a community blog is about...it is not for bashing, or being elitist, or even for bashing the elitist. It is to bring us together, to keep us informed, and to make our community stronger.

    Thank you, Edge of the City, for caring enough for Forest Hills and keeping us informed. I look forward to your future posts.

    Liz

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  6. Actually, Station square is private property. All of Forest Hills Gardens is private property. This is why you can get towed for parking without a permit within the gardens.

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  7. The physicians.office will provide complimentary coffee to its patients.

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  8. LOL...

    Glad it isn't a coffee shop as well. Too many coffee shops by the Train station. You have Station House and McDonalds by the train station and lots of other coffee places there.

    A doctors office makes a lot of sense there, but its weird that there is a lot of other space that is unutilized here.

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    1. Station House and McDonald's are coffee shops? What universe did I wake up in? Heeelp!

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    2. Oh yes! The Station House's IPA-infused lattes are da bomb!

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  9. Anybody know whats going into the wedding dress shop on the block of bareburger?

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    1. Not sure, but wondering if it's the H&M anonymous commented about here the other day. Said it will be multiple floors and they've gutted the top floor...

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  10. One of the surveyors said it may be a shoe store. I doubt that. Nice to see Bareburger expanding it's space.

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    1. Oooh, would love to see a shoe store, maybe even a shoe outlet, move here.

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  11. Into Bus Stop space I believe...

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  12. Bus Stop closed a week ago, right? After 38 years? And, yeah, I heard Bareburger was planning to expand into their former space.

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  13. Hey Drake. You're falling asleep at the wheel! We will let this one slide. Happy for Bare Burger.

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  14. H&M would need a much bigger space. No?

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  15. so will the current bareburger be closed during all or part of this expansion?

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    1. They're doing the expansion now, and they're still opened. Are you worried your supply of delicious bareburgers will dry up between now and next month? I don't blame you.

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  16. Not against Bareburger expanding. Concept is good. But food is overpriced with small portions and you need to be careful of getting overbilled.

    But since it is a profitable business venture, it may as well expand and the location was indeed quite small to begin with and was very tight inside.

    Nothing significant here unless you are a huge Bareburger fan.

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  17. On a sorta related matter, but does anyone else notice the amount of loitering happening in from of Buffalo Wild Wings? Saw a couple of teens just sitting on the roof of cars one day and what appeared to be a line to get in the next. Seriously, what weirdness is happening to this neighborhood? Just when I'm ready to be excited about change, things happen to bring it back down. :(

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  18. We desperately need an independent coffee shop. But given the assumption that a coffee shop would bring loitering outsiders to the private enclave, I'm not surprised that our great-potential neighborhood remains stuck where it is. Not sure whether I'm more disappointed by the missed coffee shop opportunity or by the opening comment (which I first assumed was a joke but sadly realized was not). Couldn't agree more about the Buffalo Wings backslide...

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