Is Triangle Sporting Goods Really Becoming a McDonald's?
Friday, December 16, 2024 at 11:47AM
There's an article in The Brooklyn Ink bemoaning the recent spate of business closures in the Slope, and most of it reads like the many other elegies that have been spouting up recently about all the mom and pops being replaced by chains, an assertion that's actually quite unfounded.
It mourns Ozzie's, La Taqueria, Timboo's, Oko, Aunt Suzie's, and Christie's, all worthy of mention, but it doesn't asknowledge the fact that Ozzie's essentially re-opened in the Taqueria space, a French/Hungarian cafe is opening where it used to be, that Christie's closure hasn't been confirmed yet, and that Timboo's owns the building, so the odds are high that it will remain a bar. It cites Aunt Suzie's even though it's closing because the owner simply wants to retire, and since she owns the building she'll be able to replace it with a tenant of her choosing. In fact, the only chain it mentions is Petco, which it says "took over three vacant store fronts on Seventh Avenue," when in fact those buildings were burned out and crumbling.
But there's one assertion in the article that I found particularly interesting:
1) "...Triangle Sports, which recently closed on Flatbush Avenue, where a McDonald’s is rumored to be built."
Triangle Sports is still in fact alive and well after nearly 94 years on Fifth and Flatbush, and a call to them confirmed that they have no plans to go anywhere, let alone sell out to McDonald's. There's no source given, but someone must have heard something to believe the fact enough to publish it, right? Another one to add to the rumor mill.
Rumors in History, Storefronts 
Reader Comments (6)
Um, a McDonalds would never open in a space like that. And why did the article say that Triangle Sports was closed in the first place? Isn't that slander?
That entire Brooklyn Ink article is filled with misinformation and outright lies. If I owned a business and bloggers were going around saying I was closed I would be PISSED AS HELL!
Thank you for exposing all of the lies in that article. I hope the owner of Triangle gets in touch with whoever wrote that article to reprimand him/her for saying their stores was closed.
Please no McDonald's in the Triangle Sports space! That would be terrible.
1. McDonald's sucks and doesn't belong in the neighborhood.
2. Triangle Sports is awesome. Everyone in there is really helpful and cool.
Andy,
I agree that another McDonalds is not needed, but your comment that McDonalds doesn't belong in the neighborhood doesn't really make sense since there are already 2 McDonalds already in Park Slope and have been for YEARS. One on 9th Street between 4th and 5th Avenue and another on 4th Avenue around Carroll. McDonalds is not the end of the world and that is obvious by the fact that Park Slope has and is a wonderful neighborhood despite the fact that there have been a couple McDonalds for the better part of a decade, perhaps longer i can't really recall when they came in.
Please no Mcdonalds....... we have enough low lifes on Flatbush ave already! Wait untill the Brooklyn Nets arena opens up.
Yea those lowlifes buying their $75 tickets and $20,000 suites to watch a basketball game! Or is it the lowlifes that will go to the U.S. open events to be held there? Or the just announced horse riding competition? Maybe you are referring to those horrible lowlifes who will bring their kids to Disney on Ice and the CIRCUS!
BTW, the new businesses on Flatbush in the last year or two have included:
1. BKLN Larder (very upscale cheese and provisions)
2. Burger 67 (Very nice/good burger place with another location in Ft. Greene)
3. Duane Reade now looks like freaking Barneys with the reno.
4. Carlton Park (new seasonal menu restaurant opening soon)
5. Entire strip of shops along Bergen between 5th and Flatbush (each more cute than the next)
6. The list goes on and on and on.
None of these things seem to attract "lowlifes." They seem to attract yuppies and those who will be able to afford very expensive tickets at the new arena.
I don't eat at McDonalds personally but to suggest that only "lowlifes" eat there is really incredibly rude and ignorant in my opinion.
"low lifes" is rather obvious codespeak...