According to the Post, "Manhattan city slickers will soon be able to embrace the beloved suburban Dairy Queen."
The new location will be at 54 W. 14th St. between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue... at the former site of Fabco Shoes.
A DQ opened earlier in the year at the St. George Terminal of the Staten Island Ferry. And more locations are planned.
I love Peanut Buster Parfaits!
ReplyDeleteE 14th street is becoming a slice of middle America and not in a Norman Rockwell way. I purposely walk on 13th street to avoid the strip mall ugliness.
ReplyDeleteDairy Queen in the day and Ray's at night! I'm set for life!!!:D
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ReplyDeleteNo you're not. You're set for diabetes.
Funny, I went to college upstate and couldn't wait to get back here to have options other than Walmarts and DQs. And the DQ upstate where I went?, closed and became a Starbucks.
ReplyDeleteI don't begrudge the burbs their chain stores, but really, why the fuck does anyone go to goddamn Domino's when they could get a nice slice anywhere or, if they've got the scratch, go across First Ave. to Luzzo's or Motorino? Why the fuck would you go to DQ when you could opt for Big Gay or Van Leeuwen or The Store Formerly Known As Lula's, or any of several dozen other places for your brownie sundae fix? Who are these assholes going to Starbucks on First Ave. when they could be in The Bean or Native Bean or B Cup or 9th Street or Mud Truck or...
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ReplyDeleteI think it's been well documented on this website that not everyone living in the village was born here. Chain stores are a comfort food, a reminder of food that you used to have as a kid. I don't think anyone would argue that a local slice is better than domino's, or a cone from Big Gay ice cream is better than DQ. It's just that sometimes you want the food that tastes EXACTLY like the foods you used to eat and love when you were younger. They are a reminder of old times. I certainly don't think you should call someone an a-hole because they want to have a blizzard from dairy queen.
as long as it's not a 7-11, it's apparently ok...
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ReplyDeleteBig Gay ice cream is not that great. It's good, and the people there are friendly, but I got the pretzel/caramel cone once and there was way too much pretzel in it.
ReplyDeleteSometimes you don't want a steak; sometimes you want a burger.
I heard the asking rent for the space is $165/per sq. ft. That's about $34,000 per month. How can a fast food joint afford the rent. Also Five Guys next to it how can they afford it too.
ReplyDeleteI have a vague memory of the first Burger King opening in NY, or maybe it was the first in Queens. I must have been in elementary school, and I remember being excited about it, like we were getting something the rest of the world already got to have. Sort of like getting cable after Long Island and Manhattan had it for years. In a way I feel the same about this.
ReplyDeleteWe always stop for a blizzard when visiting the inlaws in Montana, the only place I've ever had it, and it's special because it is foreign. I think to has more to do with ice cream love than memories of childhood. Ice cream is awesome in any brand. It's hard to fuck up ice cream. I will always love a rocky road from Baskin Robbins or a vanilla Carvel cone with chocolate sprinkles (does that even exist any more?) and those stores have been part of NY for decades without complaint I've ever heard.
The difference is the proportion of chains and franchises vs regular stores, which seems to be increasing every day, and that is where the spirit and texture of ny retail and street life is at risk.
Dairy Queen is more of a small town America or rural mainstay than it is suburban.
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