Wednesday, March 3, 2021

This is the new tenant for the NW corner of 2nd Avenue and St. Mark's Place

If you guessed bubble tea, then you win! 

Yesterday, we noted that the long-vacant storefront — most recently Nobletree Coffee — on the northwest corner of Second Avenue and St. Mark's Place received the plywood treatment. 

A deeper dive in public records (thanks Upper West Sider!) reveals that the leasee is the Taiwan-based Xing Fu Tang, a bubble tea chain that specializes in brown sugar boba.

The bubble tea is rather plentiful already along this corridor. And last month, we reported that Gong Cha, which describes itself as "one of the most recognized bubble tea brands around the world," is opening an outpost at 27 St. Mark's Place between Second Avenue and Third Avenue.

Photo yesterday by Steven

10 comments:

david said...

Can you buy tea cups in the Bubble area?

Anonymous said...

Bubble tea is still a thing ?

Anonymous said...

Good luck... unless they got a friggn great deal on rent, I’m guessing it will last as long as the vegan ice cream episode.

Gojira said...

I am glad to see the EV's glaring need for bubble tea is *finally* being addressed.

Anonymous said...

Hmmm. I did notice the Massage Parlor upstairs has jacked up the footrub from $29 to $36 !

hywel dda said...

Bubble tea? Is it carbonated? Similarly to "vegan ice cream", I honestly don't know what bubble tea is and have little inclination to find out. I had hoped for something useful. Silly me.

Giovanni said...

All this bubble tea on St Marks Place and no Gem Spa egg creams anymore? How hard would it be for these bubble tea places to serve an egg cream?

bill said...

Beware the bubble tea wars....

Ronnie said...

Bubble Tea? Really? How very 2007!

Anonymous said...

I don't know about tapioca balls & a lot of funky flavors. But to each their own.