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The blogger at Stop Sugar and Plumm told DNA that the Upper West Side shop "'swept away...businesses run by average people to replace them with a chain owned by a member of the 1 percent club,' ...referring to Sugar & Plumm's CEO Lamia Jacobs, reportedly a former oil trader who grew up in Paris and now lives in Greenwich, Conn."
The Landmarks Commission, when reviewing Sugar & Plumm's architectural proposal, called the design “cutesy,” and “disheartening,” and said the plan "tarts up" the building, reported Stop Sugar & Plumm. The candy store people were told to "tone down" the "garish" facade.
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Oh my. Plumm Yummers!
ReplyDeleteWell, it's better than a ... well, no.
Curious how the potential new neighbors will react to this news.
Sure--sweeten up the sour times for the 99% who won't have the gelt for the glitz in any case--another cosmetic surgery (or us that sugery)--my addiction is throbbing!
ReplyDeleteWhat a Willy Wonka rip-off.
ReplyDeleteWhy do people fall for this shit?
I thought about it some more. I guess one should never underestimate the power of escapism.
ReplyDeleteThe West Village, and increasingly much of Greenwich Village, is basically Paramus East anyway.
ReplyDeleteOOOF, WHO is the landlord here???
ReplyDeletethey are quite literally destroying the village....
which one of these things is NOT like the others????
Looks like fun. Why the grouchiness?
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like it belongs in a mall in the midwest, a place I moved here to escape. Aaahhhh!
ReplyDelete"Schatsky told DNAinfo he thought the Occupy Wall Street-style jab was fitting because, to him, the arrival of Sugar & Plumm was another nail in the coffin for the Upper West Side's shabbier past."
ReplyDeleteYeah, that really killed the image I still have of the UWS shanties that dotted the landscape in the 1880s. So you say the monied elite are moving in? I hear old lady Ono is being priced out!
Apropos chain stores:
ReplyDeleteWalked by 7-11 on Saint Marks around 8:30 - 9PM and looked inside (from the outside)The score:
Employees 3 - Customers 0
Is that Lady Gaga? Oh, wait...wrong blog...
ReplyDeleteAlot of what this blog is chronicling is the cultural annexation of New York by the rest of the United States (or worse, the most f------ up parts of the US).
ReplyDeleteSo we shouldn't be surprised that the worst of it starts near the Hudson, in Times Square and the Meatpacking district among other places, and moves east. As long as this stuff keeps up, the West Village is pretty much doomed.
The people who are gentrifying the Upper West Side and the West Village will not take their children to Sugar and Plumm on a regular basis. Children of affluent families are typically fit and lean in this city. Park Slope mothers are trying to get rid of ice cream vendors in their playgrounds. The customers will be tourists and families who come from less affluent areas of the city where childhood diabetes is endemic. Bleecker & Cornelia is spitting distance from Bleecker & 6th Avenue which is loaded with free range teenagers who don't live there, and closeby to shopping on 8th Street east of 6th Avenue that caters to them.
ReplyDeleteCan't help but think of cities like Venice and Florence, in which few Venetians and Florentines can any longer afford to live, and where there are more tourists and foreign students on the streets than "natives," residents, going about their lives. The problem isn't that cities change -- or course they do, that's their life blood -- but that spectatorship has replaced living (or some such explanation). Talk about alienation.
ReplyDeleteRIPPING OFF ALICE"S TEA CUP!!! Am I the only one who sees his?! The entire business model is a rip off of a locally owned and loved establishment. Awful and shameful.
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