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WOULD THE LAST PERSON WHO LEAVES STARBUCKS PLEASE TURN OUT THE LIGHTS?

June 27, 2016 | 1:04 PM
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Until the letters were actually being removed from the facade, we weren’t sure the Starbucks on the corner of 67th street and Columbus Avenue would actually close.

So when it became clear Monday morning that this was really happening, that the 90s-era symbol of gentrification was being dismantled before our very eyes, we asked:

What’s next?

By the way, a new Starbucks is slated to open at at 141 Amsterdam Avenue between between 66th and 67th streets, so keep your caffeine-addicted head up.

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The new Starbucks under construction at 141 Amsterdam Avenue. Photo by Nancy Ross.

Photo by Gary McElyea.

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David Collins
David Collins
7 years ago

I am not sure if this is true but I had heard that this was at one point (could have still been perhaps) the busiest Starbucks in NYC.

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rchjms
rchjms
7 years ago

Rent was jacked to $144,000 a month? Yes? Holy crap!

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Bob
Bob
7 years ago

good riddence. prob some beauty store moving in.

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Boopsie
Boopsie
7 years ago
Reply to  Bob

Yeah, betcha the next tenant is a Nail Salon…Now I want to see some of THOSE close.

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Nelson
Nelson
7 years ago

Help me remember clearly, neighbors: As I recall back in the mid 1980s, this site was a really fun, casual pub where one could grab a burger and a beer (and usually see a soap star or two, cause ALL MY CHILDREN, LOVING and ONE LIFE TO LIVE all shot in the vicinity). Does anyone remember that??

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Catherine
Catherine
7 years ago
Reply to  Nelson

Yes it was called Chip’s Pub. Roger Grimsby who was then an anchor for the evening news shows – would go in there and have a few between the 6 & 11 broadcasts/

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Stephanie
Stephanie
7 years ago
Reply to  Catherine

Actually, right on the corner, the bar was called McGlades. Classic Irish bar opened until 4 AM. Watering Hole for ABC News and ABC local. Chips was right next door. If those walls could’ve talked …….

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m.pipik
m.pipik
7 years ago

I hope they got a good deal at 141 Amsterdam. That’s a dead block with no foot traffic other than students at the High School(s) across the street who are not allowed to linger after school and can’t afford the coffee anyway, and the residents of the apartment buildings there.

It’s a really dead block in the evening. If Starbucks can bring people there and create some street life, more power to them.

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Anon
Anon
7 years ago
Reply to  m.pipik

Who doesn’t allow the students to linger?

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Big Earl
Big Earl
7 years ago
Reply to  Anon

The police. Walk Amsterdam between 66th and 71st around 4pm. It started to get so out of hand there were cops on the sidewalks at intersections. It all funnels to McDonalds, where after walking 6 blocks while fighting, chasing, screaming profanities and purposely trying to cause a scene with no regard to the toddlers and small children exposed to the chaos. The worst I saw were a couple fights and one time in front of my two small children at 70th and Amsterdam a kid came running up, grabbed something shady out of his pocket to give to his friend and asked him to hide it as he goes back to get whoever. After that we avoided that walk on Amsterdam. Once the police presence arrived though it helped keep a cap on the craziness.

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prosperine
prosperine
7 years ago
Reply to  Big Earl

It’s been that way for over 10 years. The cops facilitate the kids getting out of the area. Remember lots of kids are on the voucher system and live elsewhere in the city and after school they used to sit on stoops and cause mischief. And when Riverside Park South wasn’t finished yet, they would smoke pot and menace the few that dared to go there. I remember kids dropped a bottle nearly hitting my head as I walked down into the 66th st subway stop.

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ws
ws
7 years ago
Reply to  Big Earl

Cool it pipik! Those kids may be a different color from you but they are just harmlessly, if noisily, letting off steam after a day of being trapped inside.

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Sarah
Sarah
7 years ago
Reply to  Big Earl

That basically sums up Fordham Road in the Bronx. Glad it doesn’t happen to that extreme anymore in our neighborhood!

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Mark
Mark
7 years ago
Reply to  Sarah

Wow an “our neighborhood” and a “won’t somebody think of the children” level of xenophobia. I’m sure those kids care a great deal about “our neighbors” after that attitude was leveled toward them.

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Eric
Eric
7 years ago

Maybe McGlade’s will come back …

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ikemp
ikemp
7 years ago
Reply to  Eric

It only lasted 100 years

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Pedestrian
Pedestrian
7 years ago

When the rent is too damn high for Starbucks you know the real estate market has gone nuts!

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dannyboy
dannyboy
7 years ago
Reply to  Pedestrian

oh, oh

pity those apartment values

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Paul on West 67th
Paul on West 67th
7 years ago

I walked by tonight and it looks like the new Starbucks will be opening soon. M Pipik is right, that block needs help. The bodega was recently closed (by the state, I think), the beauty salon and hardware store are gone.

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Paris Wyome
Paris Wyome
7 years ago

It previously had been a great local pub for ABC folks and us locals.

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Liz
Liz
7 years ago

WOW. I am shocked. Most of the Starbucks in NYC are crowded. Lots of them though are full of people who have made Starbucks, with the free WIFI, their “office”.

This particular Starbucks actually had long lines of people waiting to order drinks.

You could never get a seat there. Now when I go to the Post Office on 68th and Columbus where am I going to use the bathroom?

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Independent
Independent
7 years ago
Reply to  Liz

The post office doesn’t have a bathroom for the public?

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Cato
Cato
7 years ago
Reply to  Liz

That was the problem: No one went there anymore; it was too crowded.

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Stephanie
Stephanie
7 years ago
Reply to  Liz

Pottery Barn? C21?

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Anon
Anon
7 years ago
Reply to  Liz

Even with crowds and the prices people will pay for a latte, $144,000 a month in rent is ridiculous. I can’t imaging what kind of business could pay that.

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LIS ANDERSON
LIS ANDERSON
7 years ago

Nicely decorated shop. Sorry to see it go. Is the building coming down? Are the streets paved with platinum?

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dannyboy
dannyboy
7 years ago
Reply to  LIS ANDERSON

Prescient.

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wijmlet
wijmlet
7 years ago

Plus ca change…

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John
John
7 years ago

A Men’s club can afford the rent

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freckls
freckls
7 years ago

Chip’s & McGlades are long gone. After working at ABC for nearly 38 years they are barely a memory. Thanks for reminding me about them.

I can’t believe the rent is $144,000. Can anyone confirm this? I remember when “Lenge” (forgive my spelling) left and the cupcake place moved in. Lenge moved because the rent went to $33,000. That would be a bargain now I guess.

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dannyboy
dannyboy
7 years ago
Reply to  freckls

The asking rent this week is $149,000. So that make’s $144,000 a “bargain”.

Just kiddin’ ya’

but next week’s asking is…

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ws
ws
7 years ago
Reply to  dannyboy

That rent isn’t far off.

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Jason
Jason
7 years ago

If you can’t compete in the market, get out of the market. That goes for starbucks or any “mom and pop”. Landlords are businessmen, just like any of the businesses that rent their space. They are no different, looking to turn a profit on their investment. Always amazes me how pro business people are on this site until you actually start identifying the business. Building owners (landlords) made a significant investment in our community, paid a great deal of money (and taxes), and are entitled to run their business as any other. They aren’t a social institution.

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dannyboy
dannyboy
7 years ago
Reply to  Jason

“Building owners (landlords… are entitled to run their business as any other. They aren’t a social institution.”

Not social? Then regulate them more.

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jason
jason
7 years ago
Reply to  dannyboy

Regulate them more? Remember the idea of a “free market”? This isn’t nursery school, you can’t make rules to ensure fairness because that completely defeats capitalism and competition. Landlords are business people, just like the overpriced independent drug store, just like the overpriced independent hardware store, etc. In fact more landlords constitute “small businesses” as that term is defined in New York than almost any other industry. Why should we be compelled to regulate those “small businesses” more than any other? The market bears what the market bears, that’s exactly how the system should work. Why should one small business take a paycut at the expense of another?

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John
John
7 years ago
Reply to  jason

If Clinton gets elected, we will become a more regulated socialist country so yes that land lord will be regulated and taxed into poverty. It is the utopian way.

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dannyboy
dannyboy
7 years ago
Reply to  John

Donald! Donald! Donald!

am i reading you right?

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ws
ws
7 years ago
Reply to  jason

So you are against my idea that locals be required by law to patronize (and prefer) mom-n-pop stores?

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dannyboy
dannyboy
7 years ago
Reply to  ws

Yes, I am against my idea that locals be required by law to patronize (and prefer) mom-n-pop stores.

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x
x
7 years ago
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x

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dannyboy
dannyboy
7 years ago
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Your Username is your Comment?

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Chris Gault
Chris Gault
7 years ago
Reply to  jason

Obviously don’t realize you moved to the socialist state of the upper west side, where everyone has an assumed claim on everyone else’s property.

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dannyboy
dannyboy
7 years ago
Reply to  Chris Gault

Gault, Gault!

Property Rules!

just a tad anti-social though.

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dannyboy
dannyboy
7 years ago
Reply to  jason

You lost me at “free market”. Is your “free market” free of social constraints? Social impacts?

“The market bears what the market bears, that’s exactly how the system should work.” – This isn’t nursery school, read some Adam Smith.

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