by Chris K Greenpoint is about to dot its map with another record store: Academy Record Annex, currently on N 6th St and Wythe Ave in Williamsburg, is coming to the hood sometime this September.
Academy, known for its nearly-impenetrable stacks of used records and its lived-in Williamsburg storefront, is moving to 83 Oak Street – a spacious, high-ceilinged, sunny building on Franklin St across the street from Cookie Road and a block north of Jimmy’s Diner (formerly…
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I’m confident Greenpoint will ever be as fugazi boho as Williamsburg. the spectre of pollution and the “awful” (its not that bad) G train will keep most away.
Yay for record stores! But is a J. Crew really coming to N. 6th? That’s really depressing.
They have been talking about that for a while now. I hope not.
I grew up on Oak Street…..WTF is Cookie Road??????????????? Very bittersweet for native Greenpointers…….
It’s been there for a while now. It’s an itty bitty coffee shop with amazing cookies and french macarons. It smells like heaven inside. You have to try it!
The owners are native Greenpointers: https://www.greenpointnews.com/entertainment/cookie-road-the-nabes-sweetest-new-addition
This makes me want to move to Greenpoint.
I agree with the ‘more the merrier’ judgement- when I find the time to go out to a record store I go to all within walking distance. So now we’ve got the Captured Tracks shop, Permanent, Record Grouch, CoOp 87 and soon Academy. They’re all great shops. I guess I’m gonna go broke now…