Category Archive for New BusinessesPetunia, a children’s boutique store to be located at 46-21 Skillman Ave., is scheduled to open Wednesday, Sept. 15. The store, owned by Woodside resident Jill Callan, will sell everything from hand-sewn dresses to gently-used clothes. Some of her inventory will be designed by local artists, with some coming from French, Spanish and Californian designers. Read More »
Lenny’s Pizza is opening tomorrow and its owners will be assuring their customers a “Taste of Italy in every bite.” The owners of the business are the Russo brothers, Lenny and Angelo, who have a long history in the pizza business. Their father started working in the business in the 1980s and they are following in his footsteps. Read More »
George Burles, a frequent contributor to the Sunnyside Post, took a photo of a new pawn shop that is about to open on Greenpoint Ave. between 46th and 47th Streets (next door to Chase bank). According to a local resident, the store owner put the signage up yesterday. The signs are in English and Spanish.
Greenpoint Beauty Supplies opened its doors for business yesterday moving into the space that was previously occupied by Quality Fashion Opticals. The store manager, Sohag Ali, said that the store is selling make up and other cosmetics. Its location is 42-16 Greenpoint Ave. Queens Fashion Optical moved to 43-09 Greenpoint Ave. earlier this year.
A Metro PCS store opened at the corner of 45th Street and Greenpoint Ave. last week. A new Thai restaurant is coming to the neighborhood, taking the space on the NE corner of 43rd Street and Queens Blvd, where the Korean restaurant, Shin Chano BBQ, was located. Manolo’s, the Mexican restaurant at 46-26 Greenpoint Ave., Read More »
A local resident is scheduled to open a children’s boutique clothing store on Skillman Ave. by Sept 1. The store, which will be called Petunia, will be located at 46-21 Skillman Ave., across the street from two well-known restaurants – Claret and Quaint. The previous tenant was a nail salon operator. Jill Callan, a Woodside Read More »
A new tenant has been found to replace the owner of the bodega at the corner of 46th Street and Queens Blvd. A pawn shop, aptly called “EZ Pawn Shop”, is expected to open in September.
The 2,000 sqf retail space, once the home of Nelsons Christmas Shoppe (spelling is correct), is expected to open in late August as a farmers market. The name of the new store will be Orchard Farmers Market, located at 42-24 Greenpoint Ave. Co owner, Okan Yuksel, who was renovating the store with his co-owner Sunday, said Read More »
Next month, Raja Shah, the owner and operator of the Dog Guru, will open a dog-rescue operation in Sunnyside, at the 5,500 sqf. warehouse space out the back of the former Nelson’s Christmas Shoppe. Shah has plans to take the warehouse space and bring in 15 rescue dogs, train them – and then adopt them Read More »
Lenny’s Pizza, which is the latest entrant in the Italian/pizza market place, is opening soon in a nicely renovated space. This was the former site of El Triangulo Bakery & Restaurant, a popular Colombian bakery that’s business suffered after it was closed by the NYC health department last November. Then, there appears to be a Read More »
Basmati Table, the much-anticipated Indian restaurant located on Skillman Ave (between 46th and 47th), opened on Monday. The restaurant is co-owned by Alim Maruf, who is the owner of Bliss Restaurant, an up-market French Bistro that is located diagonally across the street. Maruf and his business partner, Kumar Rajander, decided to establish Basmati Table, since Read More »
WARNING: The video below contains some stomach churning footage. Not for queasy westerners. A new Korean restaurant, Sik Gaek, debuted last Wednesday at 49-11 Roosevelt Ave., Woodside. This is a big step for the owner who has a well-established restaurant by the same name in Flushing. The Sunnyside/Woodside operation is its first venture outside of Read More »
A new steak house, with a Tex-Mex flavor, had its grand opening April 10. The restauraunt, called Real Santa Re Steak House, is fairly upmarket for the neighborhood. Its menu includes T-bone steaks, Filet Mignon and Black Angus Skirt Steak — all for between $16 and $18. Real Santa Fe is located at 47-08 47 Ave. It replaces Read More »
By Brendan McKenna Floresta, a new Argentinean restaurant focusing on soul and comfort foods, is opening at 41-08 Greenpoint Ave. (at the former location of Moment’s Argentinian Steakhouse). The furnishings have been set up and the employees are making finishing touches. The manager said the store is expected to open in about two weeks and Read More »
A Japanese restaurant has opened and two other stores are about to begin to operate shortly. Last Wednesday, Chikuran Japanese Restaurant opened at 39-11 Queens Blvd., Sunnyside. Tony Wan, the manager, said the restaurant is offering 50% off sushi and a 10% discount on other foods through March 31. He said the restaurant delivers (718-361-8232). Chikurin is part Read More »
A new threading and waxing business is expected to open on Greenpoint Ave. in two weeks. The awning went up in the past week and construction workers are in the final phase of completing the salon. They are currently working on the private treatment rooms. This site was most recently used by Mayor Michael Bloomberg as part of Read More »
Bank of America, which has recently repaid the US government $45bn in bailout funds, looks as though it will be opening the Sunnyside branch early next year. The branch appears to be nearing completion. Bank of America is the largest bank in the US, and has a massive mortgage lending presence across the nation. Many of those loans Read More »
