Leaf & Bean recently relocated to Lincoln Place and guess who’s taking their old spot? Subway Sandwich, the ubiquitous hero sandwich shop (five dollar footlongs and all that).
There goes the neighborhood for the dozenth time. Just saying.
According to Dan at Here’s Park Slope, the king of what’s in, what’s out in retail Park Slope, the old Leaf & Bean storefront can’t be dismantled because of Landmark designation. Let’s hope Subway keeps it contextual when designing their storefront.
Does that mean they have to take those cute Leaf & Bean letters and respell them as Subway. Let’s see there’s an A, a B, another a…
Reminds me of when there was middle eastern restaurant with huge red letters for signage on the Upper West Side called Cleopatra back in the 1970’s. When a new place, more of a bistro, went in they used the old letters to spell At Our Place .
Yes, it’s a shame.
This is really too bad. I think that it’s the greedy 7th Avenue landlords who are making it impossible for small, neighborhood businesses to survive. I’ve lived in Park Slope since 1966 and it’s sad to see this happening.