It's time Cooper

Too much time. COME OUT!

Bip is gone

Friends on 5th

So 5th Avenue has one of the most inhospitable bike shops in NYC (see my last post), but a few blocks south is a deli fit for Kings county residents. The 5th Avenue Market (at the corner of Sackett) was our neighborhood’s collective dream come true when it opened a couple of years ago. It was the first real deli within a six block radius of me that kept its doors open 24/7. No longer would I have to cross the 4th Avenue speedway at 2 AM to buy a Diet Coke at a gas station with an attendant behind a bulletproof window. And the 5th Avenue Market beats out any deli or bodega in the lower Slope for its wide selection of gourmet treats, imported cheeses, imported beers and anything else you can imagine needing, morning, noon or as you stumble home from the bars. But what makes this place so special are the kind and charming guys behind the counter. After going here a few times I started calling them my friends. Now, half the Slope is calling them their friends. (But they were my friends first.)