Bed-Stuy Gateway and the Fulton-Nostrand Revitalization Project

Profile a Business: Super Foodtown of Bedford-Stuyvesant

Super Foodtown of Bedford-Stuyvesant
1420 Fulton Street (at Restoration Plaza)
Brooklyn, NY 11216
(718) 623-1831
Official Website:

Hours:
Monday - Saturday: 7am - Midnight
Sunday: 7am - 10pm

Parking: Garage located underneath Super Foodtown, enter on Brooklyn Avenue south of Fulton Street.

Super Foodtown of Bedford-Stuyvesant, located at 1420 Fulton Street in Restoration Plaza is a 31,000 square foot multi-department, full-service supermarket, owned and operated by PSK Supermarkets, Inc.

Since its grand opening in late 2004, Super Foodtown of Bedford-Stuyvesant has won the hearts, or more appropriately the stomachs, of thousands of Bedford-Stuyvesant residents. Noah Katz, co-owner of Super Foodtown with his brother Daniel and father Sydney says, “We have pledged to earn the business of the Bedford-Stuyvesant community every single day,” and from the numerous satisfied residents that frequent the store, Super Foodtown looks to be doing just that. 

“We can totally tailor the product offerings to the unique needs of each community we serve,” says Katz. Super Foodtown has a full complement of departments, including a fresh bakery, a floral department, a fresh service deli, a service “over the counter” butcher department, a service “over the counter” seafood department and expanded perishables fresh food. With all of these amenities, plus the store’s commitment to first-class service, store cleanliness and competitive prices, Super Foodtown has attracted tens of thousands of customers a week. As a reward for customer loyalty, Foodtown offers S&H Greenstamps, a customer rewards program in which shoppers earn points that they can redeem for free and discounted groceries, as well as gifts in an 80-page rewards catalog.

“Traditionally, we reach out to every non-profit organization in every community we serve,” says Katz, “offering everything from product for fundraising events to loaned staff members for community restoration efforts. We’ve helped restore playgrounds, rebuild libraries and serve up strawberry shortcake at community festivals. Whatever each community wants and needs in the way of support, we’re there to help get it done.” Since arriving in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Super Foodtown has demonstrated this commitment to the community: It signed up as a corporate leader of the Fulton-Nostrand United Merchants Association, and Noah Katz serves as co-chairman of the Bed Stuy Gateway Business Improvement District Steering Committee.

By shopping at Super Foodtown, residents get fresh food at great prices and at the same time make an investment in the improvement of the Bedford-Stuyvesant. Through the rent paid by Super Foodtown for its space, Foodtown shoppers’ dollars directly support the community-based social, educational and economic development initiatives of Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation. “Our participation in communities is never limited to selling products and paying the rent,” said Katz. “We expect to be a resource for the neighborhood, a place that will bring people together.”

Profile a Business: Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill & Bar® of Bedford-Stuyvesant

Citing a lack of casual dining restaurants in the neighborhood, Apple-Metro, Inc., the New York Metro Area franchisee for Applebee's International, made a commitment to provide this service to Bedford-Stuyvesant and opened in February 2006.

Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill & Bar®

Bed-Stuy
1360 Fulton Street
Brooklyn, NY 11216
(718) 943-8005

www.applebeesny.com

Hours:
Monday–Thursday: 11a.m.–Midnight
Friday–Saturday: 11a.m.-1 a.m.
Sunday: 11a.m.-11p.m.

 

General Manager Oscar Rodriguez and his service staff views customers as guests who they are welcoming into their family home. Each guest is greeted with the door held open by one of the host. Being guest driven, Oscar wants to ensure that each and every person that enters to dine leaves satisfied and happy.

Applebee’s attention to customer satisfaction goes beyond service. Their unique menu includes Applebee's signature favorites accented by a constantly changing special feature, including a variety of seasonal appetizers and entrees, perfect for those diners looking for variety. The current menu includes dishes created by Food Network celebrity chef Tyler Florence.

Happy Hours:
Monday-Thursday: 4-7p.m.
(Summer, Fall) 10p.m.-midnight          
(Serving both top shelf and well liquors)

 

Bushbaby Coffee and Tea Gets Some Nice Web Exposure

We've written about bushbaby Coffee and Tea in these pages before and we're proud to see that the little coffee shop in Bed-Stuy has gotten a great marketing boost courtesy of VISA and MSN.

Previously: "Bushbaby" - Fulton Street's Beautiful New Coffee House

Link: Business Breakthrough - presented by Visa.

More Pizza For Sale: 1427 Fulton Street

King Pizza, no relation to the Burger King, is also abdicating his real estate throne at 1427 Fulton Street across from Super Foodtown and Restoration Plaza, making this the second house of pizza to go on the market in our neck of the woods.

The sale includes the pizza shop and all the accoutrements therein, and the land, all 1,980 square feet of it (the lot is 18'x110), all for an asking price of $800,000 - just ask the guy who answers the listed number: (917) 584-9126

We think this might be a job for...Curbed Pricechopper.

This side of Fulton Street however, isn't looking so attractive and appealing for a small business lately. There's the building with the green siding to the left which has been vacant for a while and doesn't really present a pretty face, and the building with the white siding to the right, which is maintained only marginally better than the green building, and which to us seems to have a rotating assortment of temporary businesses save for a few exceptions (The Gospel Den and the Fish Market among them). It looks to us like this block is ripe for something big to happen?

More Fast Food Real Estate For Sale: Domino's at 1479 Fulton Street

On the heels of what seemed to be our on-again, off-again announcement of the probable demise of the only Burger King in Central Brooklyn comes this discovery that the building that currently houses Domino's, at 1479 Fulton Street between Tompkins Avenue and Throop Avenue is also for sale. Whether or not that means Domino's may also get the boot is unknown to us at the moment. City records indicate that the lot the building sits on is 1,850 square feet. The building itself has three 1,000 SF levels, for a total of 3,000 square feet of usable space, (1,000 retail and 2,000 residential).

We weren't able to get any more specific details on the offering as of this posting, but here's a number posted on the building that you can call if you want to find out more information.
(718) 417-0746

Profile a Business: TaJasia Soul Food at 1489 Fulton Street

Tajasia Soul Food opened it's doors at 1489 Fulton Street (between Tompkins and Throop) close to three months ago, (right around the time Applebee's opened) and it is a very welcome entry to the scene here in the Bed-Stuy Gateway business district. We are very happy to see a new independent and minority-owned retail offering that is in a category this district actually needs more of: in this case a restaurant with table service, a welcoming interior design, presumably good food (we haven't had the fortune of actually trying it yet, but we'll get around to that) AND live entertainment - hooooray! Tajasia boasts of "Homemade Soul Food" and offers live music starting at 6:00pm on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. We would love to hear what you think of Tajasia Soul Food. Please send us an email with your comments!

What: Tajasia Soul Food
Where: 1489 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11216 (between Tompkins Ave and Throop Ave)
When: Open for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. 6:00am to 10:00pm Monday - Thursday; 6:00am-midnight riday; 8:00am to midnight Saturday; 8:00am to 9:00pm Sunday3

Contact: (718)773-0093

We have your first cyberspace look inside Tajasia Soul Food after the jump.

Spring Savings from the Fulton-Nostrand United Merchants Association

Support Bed-Stuy's neighborhood businesses and visit these business members of the Fulton-Nostrand United Merchants Association. Pick up the March 1, 2006 issue of Our Time Press located at newsstands throughout Bedford Stuyvesant, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill and downtown Brooklyn and use the FNUMA advertisement located on pages 4-5 to receive special discounts and promotions good through March 15, 2006.

Coverage of Applebee's Grand Opening

Here is some coverage from Tuesday night's opening party at Applebee's Bedford Stuyvesant.
Restaurant Grand Opening Celebrates New Food, Jobs in Bed-Stuy - NY1: Brooklyn
Applebee's Grand Opening Photo Album - Bed-Stuy Gateway

Bed-Stuy Will Soon Be Eatin Good in the Neighborhood

Out here on Fulton Street in Bed-Stuy, the wait for a genuine full-service casual sit-down restaurant seemed interminable. Announcements about a forthcoming Applebee's kept coming, but the wait for the day when the restaurant would actually open seemed like it would never end. Well Bed-Stuy, the wait is almost truly over. The long-anticipated Applebee's Neighborhood Grill and Bar at Bedford Stuyvesant's Restoration Plaza (1368 Fulton Street, Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn) will officially have its public grand opening on Wednesday, February 22, 2006. Let's hope that the success of Applebee's will convince other restauranteurs to set up their kitchens in Bed-Stuy and give this community the choices and variety it deserves.

Finish Your Christmas Shopping Right in Bed-Stuy

 
Please thank and support the businesses displayed in the FNUMA Winter Ad (displayed above) that made it possible to install the Fulton Street Holiday Lights this year and which are also working with the community to make Bedford Stuyvesant a better place in which to live, work, shop and play. 

Click here to view a directory of businesses that support FNUMA.  You can also find the FNUMA Winter Ad, which is full of discounts to local businesses, on pages 4-5 of the December 16, 2005 issue of Our Time Press, available at newsstands throughout Bedford Stuyvesant.