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flapjack212 t1_jdo3yrk wrote

i'll be completely honest with you, i've never been here but these two restaurants don't sound like substitutes... certainly not any more than any other lunch option would be a substitute, so i'm going to guess the Subway opening next to them will not change much

if you're looking for a $5 footlong no one is going to be able to help you but Subway. if you're looking for a real italian sandwich and you walk into a Subway you may as well be in mcdonalds at that point...

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Jussttjustin t1_jdocub3 wrote

>if you're looking for a $5 footlong no one is going to be able to help you but Subway

Maybe in 2009 but today that footlong is $9

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DontBeEvil1 t1_jdoqk8k wrote

But the sentiment remains. 2 completely different customers.

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JeromePowellAdmirer t1_jdoun7b wrote

With coupons you can get it down to 6 or 7 each for 2

Not that I would go there with Andrea Salumeria right next door

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arca650 OP t1_jdo5t53 wrote

That’s fair, I’m just tired of large chains running mom and pop shops out of business. You should give this place a try btw!

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DontBeEvil1 t1_jdoqec8 wrote

Agreed. But I'm even more tired of large developers and wealthy residential transplants running long time residents out of their homes.

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JeromePowellAdmirer t1_jdouwub wrote

If they get priced out and are tethered to the area by their job where else are they supposed to move? The real issue is NIMBYism in New York City blocking housing supply and causing them all to move here. Plus none of the Heights McMansion conversions would even be viable if new multi unit development was allowed by right.

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DontBeEvil1 t1_jdovq3f wrote

I'm priced out, so I will move to your neighborhood so you can be priced out. But the real problem is the people that caused me to be priced out. Way to take zero responsibility and shift the blame. Rents are astronomical only because there are people willing to pay them. They know people will move to an area, and pay outrageous amounts for small, poorly built, cramped highrise apartments, and will continue to pay it and do nothing but complain about the flooding, thin walls, bad HVAC, noise and all their other building issues, and neighborhoods on Reddit. Also, there's lots of places other than DTJC someone priced out in NY can move.

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JeromePowellAdmirer t1_jdow46w wrote

OK. They can move to a new other place. You understand that there will then be people in this other place who are priced out, right?

There is no solution other than New York City and its suburbs building enough supply.

Your idea of blaming the people being priced out solves absolutely nothing.

The Heights is a higher income area than Newark and Union City and has been that way for a long time. It has always been a middle class neighborhood. Many people priced out of the Heights go to those areas. Are they now the evil problem in those areas? Or maybe you should just tell New York City to build enough housing and stop the problem at its source.

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DontBeEvil1 t1_jdoygic wrote

You understand that the sheer action of moving does not automatically equal pricing others out, right? I'm actually not solely placing the blame on people moving into a neighborhood, unlike you, who's placing it only on "NY Nimbys."

"You lost your home, oh well, not my concern, it was the NY Nimbys that did this to you. By the way, before you move away can you tell me where the nearest Whole Foods is?"

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JeromePowellAdmirer t1_jdpj7px wrote

I ain't a Whole Foods shopper bud. There ain't no Whole Foods in the Heights and if there was I wouldn't go there. You're now getting mad at imaginary characters on the internet, what a fun life.

> You understand that the sheer action of moving does not automatically equal pricing others out, right?

Do state your theory of how more people can move into a neighborhood without expanding supply and manage to not displace someone.

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DontBeEvil1 t1_jdplt1d wrote

Even a casual read of my quote you're referencing makes it clear I didn't say anything about YOU shopping at Whole Foods. 🤦

What's is hilarious is that you have an imaginary scenario made up in your head about someone else getting mad about imaginary characters. Now THAT is a fun life. I guess.🫤

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JeromePowellAdmirer t1_jdovcp0 wrote

I find it funny that it's Subway (Subway!!) regarded as the "gentrification option" in this thread. If it was the Subway that already existed and Andrea Salumeria was opening up, the sentiment would be the exact opposite. The same people would be accusing the more expensive place of "gentrifying". Like all the people in the thread the other day saying we don't want good food in the Heights, it'll raise rent.

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