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August 3, 2010
EXCLUSIVE: Toys ‘R’ Us coming to Downtown!
The Brooklyn Paper
by Andy Campbell
It’s Christmas in August!
Toys “R” Us will open a “seasonal” store in the empty Sid’s Hardware store on Jay Street, bringing toys, games and Geoffrey the Giraffe to the otherwise all-business Downtown area through Christmas.
...It’s unclear what will happen to the shop once the Christmas buying season ends — or if Toys “R” Us would even want to stay, given the “high” rents that developer Bruce Ratner is apparently asking.
In February, Sid’s workers told us that the shop was forced to move to Gowanus after its initial sweet deal with Ratner expired, and the landlord upped the rent.
NoLandGrab: It's Christmas every day for Bruce Ratner, and New York's taxpayers are Santa Claus.
Posted by eric at August 3, 2010 1:38 PM