Goodbye to Socrates
Another Greenpoint establishment goes out of business. Socrates, despite its close proximity to the Nassau G stop and the busy intersection, somehow couldn't keep up with the times. Of course, we don't know what the rent was, and if it was raised, and if the building changed hands, or anything else; no one nearby seemed to know what had happened and why they were suddenly gone.
This end of Manhattan Ave. is one of Greenpoint's crossroads (Manhattan and Greenpoint Ave. being the other), not coincidentally because there's a subway stop there. But it also gets all the foot traffic of people coming up Bedford Ave. from the L stop, and three buses stop there as well. It's a great location for the right kind of business, one that can benefit the neighborhood because of its location and benefit the business because of its location. That assumes, of course, that the rent is not Bedford Ave.-unreasonable already on Manhattan Ave.