Wheated Brooklyn – 905 Church Avenue, BROOKLYN, NY 11218

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1 week ago

I am sad to see our Tenesee rye barrel pick go but even more excited to announce that our well rye is now a private barrel pick of Ragtime Rye from @nydistilling and @nydistilleryman. That is right, a NY rye private barrel is in our well. Just a little shy of four years old, we selected this barrel as the standout during a tasting a few weeks ago. Come in and try some tonight. I think you will fall under the spell for this juice like we did.
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1 month ago

NYC DOT has been quietly moving forward on a plan to install bus lanes and remove ALL parking along Church Ave from East 16th to Ocean Parkway from 7AM to 7PM M-Saturday to speed up bus service in the area. To me this impacts the area of my business significantly while not creating a large enough benefit. I would much rather see a more complete solution that also tackled East 16th to Flatbush and beyond as well as the same stretches on Caton. But that is not what the DOT is doing and THEY ARE MOVING FORWARD.

I would feel much better about this if I saw and heard genuine outreach to the community from the DOT letting them know what the plan was and asking for direct feedback. Instead they have whispered about it, and whenever asked, brag about the amount of outreach. This includes a recently sent survey for business owners - not about how the changes could impact their business - but a complex questionnaire that I can only surmise was created after the fact to help them rationalize the choices they had already made. The reality is that this has been in the works for a long time and up until very recently, no one in the neighborhood knew about it. And, even today, few know about it today because of the DOT outreach, surveys or whatever BS they are trying to show as having been done was not widespread or efficiently done to inform the public.

Please draw your own conclusions on the DOT proposal, but I urge everyone impacted to read through the article and think about it. If you feel strongly one way or another, please make your voice heard now so that the DOT is compelled to come back and hear from the community. You can reach out to the office of councilman Mathieu Eugene, (718) 287-8762 and office of Community Board 14, (718) 859-6357. These two offices are supposed to schedule a public meeting with DOT to go over this (not a review by the DOT buried in a CB14 meeting). It was supposed to happen before the end of the month and here we are halfway through and no meeting is scheduled. I would not put it past the DOT to only give a couple of days notice.

Please get involved and speak up if you have a stake in this matter. Thank you, David ... See MoreSee Less

DOT Proposes Dedicated Bus Lanes And Parking Changes Along Church Avenue - BKLYNER

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DITMAS PARK/FLATBUSH – Congestion along the 3rd busiest bus route in Brooklyn, B35, that traverses the length of Church Avenue from Kensington to Brownsville transporting over 29...

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Per an email I just received - Councilmember Mathieu Eugene has asked the Dept. of Transportation (DOT) to hold a community meeting on its proposed changes to Church Avenue buses, loading zones, and parking. When: Tues. July 30, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. Where: Temple Beth Emeth, 83 Marlborough Rd. at Church Ave.

We are huge fans of Wheated, so I'm curious how this specifically would impact your business? It looks like they are providing delivery loading zones and your customers have 2 subway stations and bus lines nearby. For safety, environmental, and quality of life reasons, our neighborhood desperately needs a less car-centric design.

As someone who’s been a Wheated customer since day 1, I think this is overblown. I obviously don’t have this data, but I can’t imagine a significant percentage of your customers are arriving by car. Everyone I know who frequents the restaurant or the bar walks there. I know one person who comes by bus from Windsor Terrace. Furthermore, I don’t believe that the DOT has any obligation to, or even should, ask for the approval of local businesses before they re-design streets. Their own data surely tells them that the overwhelming majority of people in this neighborhood and along this corridor walk or take the bus, and this planned street design reflects that. Church Ave is currently a mess of cars, many of which drive illegally or dangerously. I support any plan to fix that and improve B35 bus service. And of course the area between E 16 and Flatbush Ave is a mess and hopefully the DOT will address that too soon.

This is great news! Church Ave is infuriating to travel along no matter what kind of vehicle you’re in; bus lanes will be a much better use of this limited street space than free storage for private cars.

This is nuckin' futts! I'll share on local FB pages. Thanks for the heads up.

That’s really messed up but par for the course with this administration. The DOE changes they’ve made were similarly done. They would announce community meetings in odd places with a few hours notice. They then bragged about how much feedback they had received from the communities. They implemented this change on Kings Highway and it had the opposite effect, same amount of traffic with less lanes. Parking on surrounding blocks became worse and numbers of accidents seem higher. I don’t have data to be sure but according to De Blasio on his radio show, his administration doesn’t have data on it either. Hopefully it is stopped. Parking is important for businesses in any neighborhood to attract people from other neighborhoods.

Chaim Deutsch- any help with this? This shouldn’t effect small businesses.

Nat Meade, Nicole Meade

https://www.un.org/press/en/2019/ga12131.doc.htm

https://www.citylab.com/solutions/2015/03/the-complete-business-case-for-converting-street-parking-into-bike-lanes/387595/

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1 month ago

One of our critical coolers went down a short while ago and we will not be able to open tonight. So sorry for the inconvenience. Be back on Tuesday! ... See MoreSee Less