Where once stood a Boost Mobile at 701 Flatbush, tween Parkside and Winthrop, comes a fascinating entry in the
Delirious Brooklyn sweepstakes. The
NYC Polytheist Temple has landed a lease right near the Q at Parkside. We welcome it and wish it the best, though I've always felt, personally of course, that it's hard enough to keep up with ONE god, let alone a few hundred from various faiths and indigenous belief systems around the world and throughout history. I'm sort of of a mind that there are at least five gods though...one to make the world, one to run the weather, one to keep track of time, one to manage gravity, and one to ensure that you will have a nearly impossible time purchasing a mattress without getting sold a bill of goods. Seriously, it's nuts out there. Starts out with a teaser about $499 for a great night's sleep, and pretty soon you're talking body-molding angel noodles made of organic unicorn tails for $5K plus shipping. Below is a self-portrait of the Q after shopping for a bed.
Actually, that's not true. What is true, or rather one of the things I learned from the NYC Polytheists'
fascinating Facebook page, was the description and picture of a
Boggart, seen above. The boggart MUST be the genuine genesis of the bogeyman, or boogeyman if you prefer, though I think bogey sounds much more sinister than boogey, so I prefer the former, even though one became a term for one-over-par and the other for shaking your booty. I still think golf is more of the occult than disco. I've heard various bogeyman origin stories, but this is the clear winner. Boggart. Who knew?
More pictures below of the soon-to-be constructed Temple site. Call ahead though, because it might be one of about six thousand holidays.
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9 comments:
I saw that sign yesterday on my way to the post office...stopped me in my tracks. Like, huh? I just hope they won't be ringing our doorbells like the damn Jehovah's Witnesses.
We can get THIS, but we can't get a simple DINER?! Argh.
Haha anon 12:09
It seems you can get a decent dinner everywhere else in Brooklyn, just not in Lefferts gardens :( we do have awesome coffee and croissants though.
This, and a new pawn shop on the corner of Lefferts and Flatbush. Business is BOOMING in the hood!
I can't believe you neglected to mention the Parking gods in your extensive list. They are kind and benevolent if you show them the proper respect. I hope you repent soon or I fear you will waste a lot of time circling.
Hilarious, 12:09. (Who it seems is talking about needing a basic DINER not a dinner. An upscale dinner place would be amazing of course but we don't even have the basics yet.) I have been ranting the same thing because we just learned Toomey's Diner is closed. No info on their sign unless they've put up new or more info. Don't know if they closed just for Summer vacations or if they got somebody to take over the restaurant as they were looking for. But such bad timing for Toomeys owner to be ready to retire. The last few times we've been there the diner has been packed and with a lot of hip young renter types. Kids searching for apartment bargains are renting further East and are probably not always wanting to walk 20 minutes to Flatbush and Lincoln for coffee and breakfast. Those renters (if they increase) btw are perhaps the opportunity the Rogers Ave boosters have been needing. Anyway, yeah, we officially have no diner in PLG anymore if Toomeys is closed forever.
I'm fairly certain that once 626 Flatbush is built and 200 market-rate apartments come online right smack in the middle of PLG's stretch of Flatbush (which hopefully by then will have benefitted from DOT's traffic calming measures,) you're going to see some actual decent sit-down restaurants. Maybe there will never be sidewalk tables. Look at some of the nice spots on 4th avenue: Sheep Station, Ghenet, etc. Those are right on what is an even more unappealing expressway, and they're usually packed. My guess is that once a large population of market-rate tenants arrives en masse, the changes are going to be shockingly fast. Lefferts Manor, with its very low turnover, low density and extremely stable middle class population was never going to be enough to drive the demand for services that its residents hoped for. The Flatbush development (along with the Parkside/Caledonian development and the Lincoln Road development and the planned Clarkson development) with high proportions of market-rate tenants are going to be what ultimately drives the gentrification of the neighborhood.
The human consequences of those market forces are already becoming apparent, even though not a single one of those apartments has been built yet.
And now a Pawn Shop too
It seems crazy that a hotel is going up in Flatbush. http://ditmasparkcorner.com/blog/real-estate/seven-story-hotel-to-be-built-opposite-kings-theatre
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