Category Archive for New BusinessesA convenience store is slated to open on 43rd Ave (bet. 43rd and 44th Streets) within the next month. The store, which will be located at 43-25 43rd Ave., will be selling newspapers, candy, cigarettes, cigars, beer and lotto tickets. The space was formerly occupied by Quest Realty, which closed at the end of April. On this block, two Read More »
Village Voice Blog It was only a matter of time (and rents) before this happened, but little bits of Queens are starting to look like little bits of Brooklyn. Case in point is the newly-opened Salt & Fat, a restaurant whose name points towards the similarly pared-down North Brooklyn nomenclature favored by certain North Brooklyn Read More »
Juan’s Barber Shop, located at 42-09 Queens Blvd, opened for the first time yesterday. The owner is Juan Guallpa, an Ecuadorian immigrant who was a full time barber at Master Barber Shop # 1, which is located just two blocks away from his new store. Guallpa decided the time was right to start his own business and Read More »
Molly Blooms, a bar modeled on the life and times of Irish playwright James Joyce, opened its doors at 43-13 Queens Blvd. on Thursday. Ciaran Staunton, a long-time Sunnyside resident, named his new establishment after the fictional character in the Joyce novel Ulysses. The bar’s design is based on the Victorian-style pubs built in Dublin Read More »
Flagship Entertainment, the photo and video store located at 45-04 Queens Blvd., is closing and making way for a Thai noodle restaurant. Flagship has been a mainstay on Queens Blvd for more than 28 years and fell victim to new technology, according to its owner Tony Tang. He said that a growing number of his Read More »
A beauty salon is opening at 42-20 Greenpoint Ave at the former location of Sugar & Joe. Sugar & Joe, which was best known for selling cupcakes, closed in January 2010.
A tattoo parlor opened in Sunnyside yesterday, the second such establishment to do so in the past 18 months. The parlor, located at 42-16 Greenpoint Ave., is owned and operated by Brian Lynch. Lynch, who specializes in traditional American tattoos, said this is his first shop and he has spent recent years perfecting his art in parlors throughout New York and California. Read More »
(this photo is a rendering) A new restaurant is opening on Queens Blvd. that will be offering “new American, small plate” cuisine, according to Daniel Yi who will be the chef. The restaurant, which will be called Salt & Fat, is expected to open in early March. It will not be serving the standard appetizer and entree, Yi Read More »
A barber shop is slated to take the space vacated by Jennifer Accessories on Queens Blvd (between 42nd and 43rd), according to workers who are in the midst of renovating the space.
Karma Nails & Spa, which has moved into the space formerly occupied by Starberry, opened on Friday. The salon provides regular manicures for $10; regular pedicures for $25; eyebrow waxes for $8; and Brazilians and backwaxes for $40. The store is currently offering a grand opening sale of 25 percent off – on all its services through March 15. Karma will be Read More »
Most people thought it would never open. However, tomorrow, after the half-completed restaurant sat vacant for a year, Oasis Pizza and Gyro is opening. Peter Moundros, the owner of Oasis, said there were delays in putting in a new kitchen at the 40-02 Queens Blvd location. He said the previous tenant ran a drug store. Moundros, who also owns Pete’s Read More »
