There's no shortage of chitchat among a few neighbors [that I happen to know] of the former
Zips Deli on Avenue B at Fifth Street. Rumors abound that this space will become an upscale diner-type place, though I never report on unconfirmed facts, unsubstantiated rumors or other un-words. Oh, oops.
Anyway! Something is happening here...
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Yesterday, a worker was removing the graffiti from the front doors.
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And there has been plenty of hammering and nailing kind of thing happening behind the brown-papered doors. An EV Grieve tipster who caught a look inside said the interior is shaping up to look like an upscale diner-type place, though you likely already knew that by now.
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The EV Grieve tipster frets that what goes in this spot
could have a negative impact on the neighborhood...
if it's something obnoxious that attracts the let's-be-loud-and-pee/barf-in-the-streets-real-late-and-yell-for-a-cab crowd from outside the neighborhood. The people who are already going to a few places just south of here on Avenue B.
Related:
Check out this
shot of Zips on Flickr...