Photo by Edmund John Dunn
In the breaking news [🚨🚨🚨] department here at noon ET, the signage for Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen is going up at its new home at 442 E. 14th St., just west of Avenue A.
No word on an opening date.
This makes the second EV Popeyes: an outpost opened in October 2020 at 39 First Ave. between Second Street and Third Street.
The new 14th Street Popeyes combined two storefronts — the Lower East Side Coffee Shop, which closed here after 13 years in February 2021 ... and New Herbal World, which left in September 2019.
Now with a final signage shot via Vinny & O...
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This is wonderful news. I love Popeye's for many reasons. So glad its in our hood now. Welcome!
ReplyDeleteSadly someone spray-painted the windows. On account of No Good punk kids!
DeleteDidn't there used to be a Popeye's on 1st Avenue and 13th Street?
ReplyDeleteYes! It didn’t last very long. However with the ever changing demographic in the neighborhood now this one might fare better. 🤷🏼♂️
DeleteYes!
DeleteUgh. More chains. Exactly what the EV needs.
ReplyDeleteYes more jobs, tax revenue, lower unemployment, more street activity, fewer empty storefronts.
Delete"Ugh. More chains. Exactly what the EV needs."
ReplyDeleteANYTHING beats the vacant space of the CF that is now the south side of 14th Street between Ave A and 1st Ave.
I’m happy to see empty storefronts open for business again.
ReplyDeleteLove people with a brain recognizing that any business is better than vacancy outweighing the naysayers!
ReplyDeletePersonally I prefer KFC original recipe chicken. It tastes just like Kenny Roger’s Chicken from Seinfeld the one that Newman and Kramer were hooked on. “It’s the wood that makes it good”
ReplyDeletePopeye’s got the def chicken! But the biscuits aren’t as good as they were years ago.
ReplyDeleteKenny Roger’s Chicken is my favourite 🤩
ReplyDeleteYes, we'd rather we had the Lower East Side Coffee Shop than Popeye's, but Popeye's beats the crap out of a vacancy.
ReplyDeleteI'll happily take Popeye's chicken over Chick-Filet A any day :)
ReplyDelete@3:39 pm. Any business is not better than a vacancy. Have you ever lived above a bar or restaurant with a rear yard or front seating? Have you ever lived with the smell of barbecue coming through your window from a screwed up restaurant ventilation system? How about a hukah lounge where the patrons had a shootout with the police. Im not making tgis stuff up. Its all happened or is happening.It's an ignorant comment as there are plenty of businesses that ruin the quality of life of residents who live above or next door.
ReplyDeleteThat’s called living downtown in a city. There are plenty of places elsewhere you would be happy.
DeletePopeyes is 1000% better than an empty building with a drug bazaar outside.
I bet you hate all the ‘weed smell’ everywhere too.
I like KFC, Kennedy Fried Chicken.
ReplyDeleteAs chain junk food goes, in my opinion Popeyes is the best "guilty pleasure." But it's a guilty pleasure, and it's chain junk food. We occasionally indulge in Popeye's on road trips (indeed, Popeye's is the only chain junk food we'll indulge) -- but never in the EV (we've never been to the Popeye's at 1st Ave. & 4th St.), because of all the great local restaurant alternatives. Rowdy Rooster on 1st Ave near 10th is an addicting local fast-food fried chicken place. It's so superior to Popeye's that there's no discussion.
ReplyDeleteI once heard Howard Stern excoriate a New Yorker declaring his love for Domino's pizza. Stern's point was that Domino's might be a pizza last-resort in a food desert, but in NYC -- with all the NYC pizza -- anyone choosing Domino's has no taste in food. And here, the photo shows this particular Popeye's happens to be right next door to a...Domino's. In the EV, who would ever patronize a Domino's when our Gruppo on Ave. B at 7th delivers? Gruppo is fantastic.
I feel...sorrow, for whoever is patronizing EV Popeye's and EV Domino's. Their uninterest in our glorious alternatives underfoot betrays an inability to appreciate the joys of EV life.
Gruppo is *delicious* but it's also out of a reasonable price range for some EV residents. Domino's often has deals for $10 medium pizzas. Gruppo's cheapest pie is $12 and that's for the plain personal pizza. Their regular plain pie is $24. A chicken sandwich at Rowdy Rooster is $15. A chicken sandwich at Popeye's is about $4 and it's around $8 for a combo meal with a drink and side. Two people can eat at Popeye's for the same price as one sandwich (no side or drink) at Rowdy Rooster. You're surely right that some people just have no good taste in food, but there is also a real reason why a lot of people choose chain fast food like this over some of the arguably better, fresher, alternatives in the neighborhood.
DeleteElitist comment. People can't afford those places so they eat at Popeyes and order from Domino's.
DeleteThese one story buildings are an affront to housing. That location could easily support an extra 50 apartments.
ReplyDeleteI've seen Domino's boxes in the recycling in my building, and I want to know who bought it so bad, so that I can shun them!
ReplyDelete"Any business is not better than a vacancy."
ReplyDeleteI guess you have not been to the south side of 14th Street between Ave A and 1st for the past 2 years. Going back to the 70's "A Clockwork Orange", it's a true "horrorshow". Would I rather have the diner back versus any chain? You bet. But at this point, having a chain versus nothing is like voting today, it is a binary choice. Same MO for the SW corner of 14th and 1st Ave where one of these days Panda Express "may" open.
"That’s called living downtown in a city. There are plenty of places elsewhere you would be happy."
As a lifer here, this is just another version of the "move to" line which is beyond the pale and should never be used to make a point.
Boy oh boy. Lots of heated comments on here. Can we just welcome this Popeye's into our neighborhood and let the other stuff go? It is much better than a vacant, dilapidated space. And they have the best spicy chicken tenders ever. So why not :) Can't wait till they open.
ReplyDeleteAnything better than vacancy - Yes. Could care less about chains and the whiners - Yes. Popeye's better an KFC - Yes. But, La Pizza Italia on Ave A makes pretty damn good fried chicken too.
ReplyDeleteIf you want good chicken, head west on 14th to Mad About Chicken. It's more expensive than Popeye's and KFC, but is excellent.
ReplyDeleteYou can't beat the $4.99 Popeyes chicken sandwich, though.
Kenny Rogers FTW
ReplyDeleteThis discussion makes me want to eat at Bobwhite. And they even have a snappy app. Though the Popeyes chicken sandwich is nothing to shake a stick at.
ReplyDelete10am is SOOOO spot on. I'll step away from defending the chains are better than vacancy for a sec to say it is so true how sad and offensive it is that these one story blocks exist and are not chock full of housing instead.
ReplyDelete"these one story blocks exist and are not chock full of housing instead."
ReplyDeleteOh yes, small retail locations are doing SO well (zero) in the REBNY approved lux condo housing like the Steiner East Village.
Agreed I miss Kennedy Fried Chicken.
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