Bank on Trader Joe's Opening Next Friday

With interest accruing, the wait is almost over for the Trader Joe's Brooklyn debut.  Doors open officially on Friday, 26 September, 2008 at 9 A.M.  The beautiful new store occupies the 1923 Florentine-style palazzo that once housed the erstwhile Independence Savings Bank (originally, South Brooklyn Savings Institution) at the northeast corner of the Cobble Hill Historic District.  Greg Glei, the former crew captain at Trader Joe's in Hadley, Massachusetts, will be at the helm in Brooklyn.

The impressive banking floor will once again be a place for customers to pick up their dough (as well as many other foodstuffs, of course).  Artist renderings of iconic Brooklyn scenes—painted from old photographs of Downtown Brooklyn, Ebbets Field, Coney Island, the Brooklyn Bridge, and Prospect Park's Horse Tamers portal—overlook the groceries and the 18 registers from the southern wall of the mezzanine level.

Please click on the image above to view historical notes about this site.

The store's offerings are arranged in two distinct areas:  dry, packaged items on the banking floor; produce and other fresh foods under the mezzanine, to the left as you enter.  The architects have deftly combined old and new to create a spacious, light, and airy space.  Kudos to Trader Joe's Corp. for banking on this gracious building.

You'll still have to visit 14^th Street to find "Two Buck Chuck" (Charles Shaw wines), however.  New York state law limits a company's alcohol sales to one store only.

Trader Joe's

130 Court Street (SW corner Atlantic Av), Cobble Hill, Brooklyn

(718) 246-8460

http://www.traderjoes.com/

By train: 2,3,4,5 to Borough Hall; M,R to Court St; F,G to Bergen St
By bus: B61, B63, B75
 

Comments

[LindaTn]

Please, oh please....open up a treader Joe's in knoxville, tn.
Turkey Creek in Farragut, is perfect for your store. we all want you here so very bad. so many are here from Califrnia, and we all miss your store.
please, asap !!!