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Follow Up: Fighting Bankification
Friday, August 10, 2007
Council member Gail Brewer's Upper West Side district could be called the ground zero of bankification. She joins us to talk about her efforts to devise solutions to the excessive proliferation of banks at the expense of local businesses.
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when I see a construction site on the corner of two cool streets in my neighborhood (like the one on 5th and Sackett), I always excitedly anticipate what will be there. A twin to Gorilla Coffee? A good restaurant? A cute shop? What a disapointment when it turns out to be a crappy Chase bank that, to top it all off, takes AGES to build for some reason! Boooooo!
If only banks would standardize the drinking and serving of Frappacinos inside their lobbies, then I believe that the logical next step would be easy: enlarging the lobbies and adding thousands of human dwelling units.
Rather than having to walk to an ATM now found in the former location of that 80 year old Pastrami place, or legendary local bookstore used to be, those already dwelling in the bank itself could enjoy a fully operational ATM as their headboard.
You might want to take a look at the East Village too. Three banks on three different corners of E 10th street between 2nd and 3rd aves, one of which used to be the Second Avenue Deli!!! It really is distasteful to say the least.
Banks are invading Brooklyn Heights, too. We had plenty, and more have come -- sometimes more of the same. I hate it.
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