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Margaret Palca Bakes on Court Street, yesterday
The closure is viewed by some in completely unsentimental terms, especially after it was first announced in the Brooklyn Paper a month ago. “I had such a wrong impression [about Court Street],” Palca reportedly told the paper. “It’s just such a ‘has-been’ kind of street.” The comment was seized-upon by some Cobble Hill residents, who formed an ad hoc angry blogmob on the Cobble Hill Blog. “I’ve lived directly across from it since it opened and have gone in exactly one time,” one commentor wrote. “Uninviting with an identity complex. What the hell is it?! Good riddance.”
A walk down Court Street nonetheless reveals many empty storefronts, and a lot of shuttered restaurants. Last month, the corner building’s landlord told the Brooklyn Paper, “I have gotten a few [inquiries], but I want to make sure I get a tenant who will be successful.”
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sorry friends and neighbours.. but save for those who have lived here generations, i have lived within one block distance from court street the last 10 years..
if you don't want the label 'has been', well you won't get very far from it.. as most restaurants, small mom & pop bakeries, shops, barbers, pharmacies, shoe and clothing shops, deli's, video rentals, grocers, supermarkets, offices.. have shut down throughout the years to make way for new larger institutions and businesses.
fair enough some have tried and succeeded but some have failed too.
so not to say 'has been'. but it's a street who much unlike smith street who basically shut the majority of its business to make way for a mostly successful 'restaurant row' in its first few runs; court street has been middle of the road in accomplishing such. literally.
let's hope the next few or long few years will save us the rest of the past, like most lovely bakeries in carroll gardens who have been there before most of you or even me was here, and i mean here as in wasn't born yet!! let's hope we still have a local cinema, a local community bookstore, a local fruit & vegetable grocer who charges without thinking or judging and by so, pricing their products as if you're a recently moved in resident who can afford any price you ask of them..
after all the area has changed for the better, but that's not to say that what was here or is till left from yesteryear wasn't really good already. there's plenty of residents and landlords and businesses left that have been in the area possibly 10 times longer than me, surely there must be at least a few like so. and we really liked where we lived, live and plan to live.
so let us be without so much labels, and if someone dares to do so and in so dares to make you think of the past and of the ongoing deadset economy of the last 30 years which indirectly has put us in the position we are in today. how about we put our muscles away, our protest boards down for a minute and maybe liberally go back and hold a thought or few to those that were here before and through gloom or bright, led the way for you and me to be here today.
it will benefit us all in the long run.
Sorry to see this go. The food was good and relatively inexpensive. The cafe was a nice place to meet neighbors. The staff was always hard-working and kind.
Court Street is fine. This place never clicked for me. The service was always slow. It wasn't comfortable. It seemed like the floor was always wet. The coffee was not anything special. It looked like a cafeteria. Gimme a break acting like there wasn't issues here.
It needed some wood. Everything was plastic.