Feb. 28, 2016 By Christian Murray
McDonald’s is closing its Greenpoint Avenue store for good, according to workers.
The workers at the 45-06 Greenpoint Avenue location said it would be shutting down tonight and they were not sure why. Customers who were in the fast food restaurant today were surprised to hear the workers tell them the news.
The company could not be reached today for comment.
The closure comes just months after McDonald’s closed a Woodside location.
The company shut down McDonald’s Express, which was located at 57-25 Roosevelt Avenue, in a sudden move.
The corporation did announce in June 2015 that it would be closing several US restaurants.
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The rents are so high and we live in substandard condiions. F the half assed restaur@nts, what àbout the residents. We pay top dollar to live with mice and roaches
Move to Sunnyside,pay $2500 to live in a apartment thar has bugs and vermin.real nice,, and restaurant owners oay 7k to 15k the place is infested,nobody wants to admit it and ill probably get thus post blocked because its true yeah neighborhood is hot right now ,we dont want the roach waterbug and mouse and rat p#roblems. What about the racoons %oo all rabid
gives a “FK: THE PLACE WAS A FILTHY RAT HOLE JUST LIKE MOST OF THESE PLACES ÀROUND HERE. YOU READ ABOUT IT MORE AND MORE. FACE IT SUNNYSIDE OS INFESTED WITH ROACHES AND MICE
Mayor Deblasio’s $15 per hour casualties.
There is nothing surprising about McDonald closing down restaurant where employees are going to cost the company some $35,000 a year, because the Mayor thinks that is what they should get. Instead, they are displaced.
Go to williamsburger on 37th and greenpoint for he best burger ever.
McDonalds is going down the drain all over the country.
Walked by this morning and it’s closed already. I’m pretty sure the gave the employees very little notice if any. The employees were nice enough but they were having problems with rowdy drunk customers at night that’s why they went from 24 hours to 10pm. $1 menu items were not profitable enough to pay the increasing rent that is facing all businesses in the area.
This is a sad day for the homeless people and the piñata abusers that called this place home. I will pray for all of them and for our little Sunnyside. Amen.
BTW: the Academy awards robbed me last night: #boxerslivesmatter
When the JW Church in the old Bliss Theatre across the way had breaks between services, McDonalds always got packed, with waiting lines out into the street. Where will all those people go now?…Maybe the McDonalds closing is just temporary— to combine the space with the empty store next to it. That has been rumored for years.
Thanks, libs: more unemployed minority people.
-RB You have got to be the biggest fool posting to this stream. LOL
Actually, Apollo Creed give that title to you, David. Maybe they closed because Cuomo and Diblasio want the minimum wage to go to $15 an hour and this was a preeptive strike along with other costs they have to incur? But since you are a brilliant business man, we all leave it with you!
-RB higher living wages are better for all participants of a consumer driven market economy. Fact!!! Go look it up!! McDonalds made billions in profits last year alone but the US tax payer had to provide billions to McDonald’s employees with tax payer substidies for housing, medical and food stamps. Do you normally enjoy higher tax rates so a multi national corporation can enjoy an even larger return on investment?
“A living wage?” LOL. Pay $20 for a burger, David; in fact, pay whatever you think is “fair” for the burger.
-Rocky Again your grasp of the issues comes shinning through. Hahaha How a true market economy works is: something is worth what someone is willing to pay for it. When companies like McDonalds “underpay” employees and direct them to Gov’t entitlement programs as a piece of their employee compensation package then people who don’t eat “burgers” at McDonalds are subsidizing the people who do eat at McDonalds. So if its $20.00 a burger and that is what people are willing to pay, that is what the market dictates so therefore a free market arrived price. In all, McDonald’s reported a profit of $1.31 billion, or $1.40 a share, up from $1.07 billion, or $1.09 a share a year earlier on $6.41 billion in revenue.Thomson Reuters. You are so easily manipulated by the propaganda you are eating up you don’t even realize you’re supporting government subsidies, expanding gov’t programs such as section 8 housing, EBT, WIC etc.. and driving up your own taxes so you don’t have to pay the “true” price of your burger. I have never seen a grown person like you,so poorly informed and so nasty to people because they inject a little truth and fact into the conversation. You need to educate yourself and pick up a little civility in the process. Have some self respect and get some pride, just because you’re hiding behind an anonymous tag doesn’t mean people won’t find out your true identity one day. Oh the shuttering of McDonalds on Greenpoint Ave. has to do with developers creating more retail and residential real estate. One level commercial space sound like practical use of real estate resources to you? Do you not see the trend all over the borough? Yes King Boulevard, Verdicchio, Corneilus Romanian Garden on Skillman Avenue etc. etc. all forced to close due to the increase of minimum wage..You’re ridiculous.
@Rocky The overwhelming majority of closings in the area are due to rising rents but we know you’ll jump right to that Fox News talking point. David don’t waste your time with this twit he has absolutely no understanding of causality and the relationship between cause and effect in relationship to anything that is beyond two dimensional. He’s all for the socializing of corporate expenses and privatizing all corporate profits and he doesn’t even realize it. Not a thinking man.
-Rocky a number of the people who post to this stream appear to be right about you and your lack of ability to analyze facts and to recognize correalation. A burger is not going to cost $20, please provide the source of this hysterical fear? Sounds like Papa John crying over eleven cents a pie increase for health care coverage for his employees. You sound like a double talking clown who cries about people being over taxed and “conservative” ideals but when offered a market solution you sling insults. I have yet to see one idea or solution from you that is not buzz word laced propaganda sourced sophomoric idiocy. The others are absolutely right about you. You are the type who is easily tricked into voting against your own best interest.
-Rocky a brilliant business mind like yours could easily resolve the poor business owners issue regarding the incurred expense of labor. Just give them your kids as slave labor. That frees business of that annoying expense. How about voting for legislation turning all jobs into unpaid internships. That should resolve this matter. Oh as history has shown don’t expect lower prices.
The building trend in this area is to knock down all of the single level commercial structures and go up. They denied leases on 39th Place and Queens Blvd, now its in the process of being demolished, they did it at 48th street and Greenpoint Ave now its demolished (remember Boulevard Mens Shop), They did at 46th Street and Greenpoint Ave. Thank progress, capitalism and development, Rocky. It’s not a complicated equation son.
Nice! No wonder my co-op tripled in value in three years! fantastic news!
Looks like Rocky is still having trouble with truth fact and history. Such a frail minded minion.
Wendy’s is closing also — they will be building apartment buildings on that property —
Proof?
I actually heard this as well from a couple of business owners on the other side of the blvd. I was talking to them before New Years and they’d been told Wendy’s was selling that corner lot to a developer.
Sad :-/
I wish the new owner had to put in something that would take the place of the Sunnyside Garden Arena. We need it.
Best wishes to the McDonalds in their future endeavors.
Wendys and white castle around the block… Duh
If McDonald’s can’t afford the rent there, who can?
More unemployed people this is sad
Hopefully some non franchise independent owner
Operator will open a cool, local joint of some kind. Sunnyside desperately needs a music joint.
now where will sunnysides bottom 15% get their cheap food? this is an outrage!!
-Bernie White Castle Burger King and Wendy’s are still here. Not to mention the other McDonakds less than 7 blocks away this McDonalds…
bet they know certain people are going to target them for violence…..we all see the videos weekly……but shhh we cant talk about it in public.
well where are the weekly violent videos at other fast food places….
how about this from 2 week ago?
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/iraqi-vet-beaten-black-lives-matter-teens-article-1.2533590
damn this sucks. that mcdonald’s was great for late night munchies.
I’d like to know how much notice they gave the workers
Good riddance! I hope there will be a strip club opened instead so that the rents in the area will go down.
Yes, McDonalds are notorious for jacking up rent in an area
Here’s to seriously hoping that a real mom & pop burger joint opens up. its not difficult to form real ground beef into a patty and put it on a grill…something McCrappers still cant figure out while cutting corners and putting in who knows what fillers and chemicals in their paper thin “quarter pounder” burgers.