Bed-Stuy Gateway and the Fulton-Nostrand Revitalization Project

Lots of New Storefront Action

It's been a while since we've had a chance to really update this site with juicy tidbits of retail happenings in the Stuy, and we apologize. Please don't take our silence as an indication that nothing has gone on in Bed-Stuy Gateway, because as the following picture indicates, a place we speculated a year ago as a rumored site for a Dallas BBQ, has turned into a prime example of retail co-location: Gamestop and Children's Place - Genius! More news to come on other storefront developments.

Previously: Bed-Stuy Gateway: Heard on the Street: Do we smell BBQ?

Profile a Business: Thriftway Pharmacy of Bedford-Stuyvesant

Located at 524 Nostrand Avenue (between Fulton Street and Macon Street), Thriftway Pharmacy of Bedford-Stuyvesant provides quality products and personal service in the style of the old-time neighborhood pharmacy.

Thriftway Pharmacy
524 Nostrand Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11216
(718) 230-3009

www.thriftwaypharmacy.com

Hours:
Monday- Friday: 9 a.m.-7 p.m.
Saturday: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. 

Originally housed in nearby St. Mary’s Hospital since 1982, Thriftway Pharmacy was forced to relocate when that hospital closed. Wanting to remain in the Bed-Stuy area to service its existing customers, Thriftway was excited to open its doors at the present Nostrand Avenue location on December 7, 2005.

During the move, Thriftway was able to keep most of its customers and doctors due to the aid of dedicated employees such as Miriam who is the Pharmacy Manager and who has been working for the company for the past twenty-five years. She supervised the transition process and set up a post at another Thriftway location so as to not disrupt service to regular customers prior to the move.

Profile a Business: Shaping Bed-Stuy's Curves

For a woman, a walk into any fitness center typically means an encounter with complicated machines being used by body builder types with bulging muscles - an intimidating sight. The atmosphere is quite different when one enters the Curves Fitness Center for Women of Bed-Stuy, located at 1542 Fulton Street, 2nd Floor (Between Throop Avenue and Albany Avenue).

Here, the owner Sandra or one of her employees greets you by name with a smile on her face and an enthusiastic tone, ready to encourage you through your workout. After working as a public health nurse at St. Mary’s Hospital for over thirty years, Sandra had a knowledge of the health conditions (obesity, high blood pressure, cholesterol, depression, low self-esteem, stress) that particularly affect the Bed-Stuy community and wanted to open a business where she could continue change the health and lives of her former patients.

As a member of Curves herself, Sandra opened the Curves of Bed-Stuy fitness center in April 2004 as the perfect extension to her previous occupation and way of life. 

Curves of Bed-Stuy is here to service the needs of the women of Bed-Stuy and surrounding areas who want to stay fit and healthy.  For an introduction to Curves of Bed-Stuy and a free Figure Analysis, come in or call 718-771-0097.

Curves of Bed-Stuy
1542 Fulton Street, 2nd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 112163
(718) 771-0097

Hours:
Monday & Wednesday: 6am - 8pm
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 7am - 7pm
Saturday: 9am - 7pm

T-Mobile Set to Land at 1218-D Fulton Street

We knew it was going to happen. Hot on the heels of the news of SprintPCS's opening in the Bed-Stuy Gateway is this rumor which has since been confirmed of T-Mobile's entry into Central Brooklyn. T-Mobile is going to set up a company shop at 1218 Fulton Street, at the intersection of Arlington Place, in a double-wide space currently half-occupied by Gentleman's Quarters.

Gentleman's Quarter's is set to close shop by the end of June 2006 and T-Mobile will reportedly take over the space the next day and begin build-out of the store that will occupy the Gentleman's Quarter's space and the vacant storefront next door.

Previously: The Shiny Spaceship From Planet Spring has Landed - Bed-Stuy Gateway

Bed-Stuy Customers FIRST Excellent Service Award Winner - Birdel's Tapes and Records

    In an age where one can buy and illegally download music off the Internet, get fake CDs from bootleg producers and shop for music at big box chains, it would seem that there really isn’t any more room for the independent record store. But on Bed-Stuy’s Nostrand Avenue, one independent record store is still going strong after sixty-two, yes 62 years - Birdel’s Tapes and Records at 535 Nostrand Avenue, and you have voted this business the winner of the first Bed-Stuy Customers FIRST Excellent Service Award.
    Ben and Bertie Steiner first opened the doors of Birdel’s Tapes and Records to Bedford Stuyvesant in 1944. The name Birdel’s is a combination of Ben Steiner’s wife’s name, Bertie, and his daughter Della. In 1957, a local young music enthusiast by the name of Hardy Long started working in Ben Steiner’s record shop. When the Steiner’s retired in 1967, young Hardy bought the shop and has kept it open to this day. Mr. Long, who most in the community now know as Joe, still owns Birdel’s and is also the current president of the Fulton-Nostrand United Merchants Association (FNUMA).

 

 

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.

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.

Fulton-Nostrand Saver Sheets

Pick up a free copy of the November 1, 2005 issue of Our Time Press, now available at newsstands around Bed-Stuy and Central Brooklyn, where you'll find two pages of savings and promotions brought to you by the members of the Fulton-Nostrand United Merchants Association. 

Do your part in the revitalization of Bed-Stuy by supporting local businesses, whether in the Fulton-Nostrand Business District or elsewhere in the community. 

Discounts and promotions are valid 11/01 -12/01 2005.
Link: Fulton-Nostrand United Merchants Association