A new Target store is slated to take over the space formerly occupied by Barnes & Noble at 7000 Austin St., in Forest Hills, the Daily News has learned. The store will be the first flexible-sized location in Queens for Target, which has recently been offering more compact shopping experiences for city-dwellers.
Target inked a deal for a 15-year, 20,795-square-foot lease and is slated to open at the property in mid-2016.
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Will you be able to buy a book in the new Target?
Target sells books. Have you read Curious George Goes to Target?
The big Targets got a crummy book selection george. Not sure the little ones will have anything.
Is that space even big enough to house a target there?
It's going to be a "Target Express", a very scaled down version of a typical Target store.
They must have chosen Forest Hills because of the great parking available. :)
*** THE BAYSIDE LOCATION IS ALSO CLOSING ***
I thought it was a big draw to Bay Terrace Shopping Center.
What about parking spaces?
Exoensive ink on paper publishing is about to become a thing of the past, except for specialty books offered at premium prices.
If Guttenberg were here now, he'd be using a tablet. Progress is progress! You can't stop it.
Granny will always say that the good old days were better. For some things they were!
A lot of B&N book stores have become a browser's paradise...a place to buy coffee in an overpriced cafe.
I see very little buying of books compared to browsing them.Then the over handled stuff they expect to get full price for.
Barnes and Noble started off on 5th Ave then they overextended by opening up stores all over.
Their flagship store is on Union Square north. Take your insular lives on the subway to Manhattan.
Where is the Central Queens Historical Ass-ociation? LOL!
Do Forest Hill's new Bukharian sheep herders read?
Dean Koontz wouldn't exist without Target. Same for all that hack teen fantasy/dystopian society dreck.
Are there any actual authors with any influence or impact in the past 10 years (Besides John Franzen, and not Elmore Leonard since he's dead)
Bay Terrace has astronomical rents for commercial business to cope with.
The Barnes and Noble there doesn't do much real business compared to Boston Market to the left.
Scratch the only reason I have to board a Q28 from164th Street to go to Bayside, when B&N goes.
High cholesterol Bens? No! See a movie? No! Manhattan has better viewing options and only 23 minutes from the Broadway station.
Cord Meyer better wise up. Their overpriced rentals have killed a lot of businesses that would have drawn shoppers.
So, what do you have left...a few lousy chain restaurants... and flashy-cheesy overpriced boutique clothing stores?
No thanks! Let the Bayside Gabkes crew support that lousy mall. And I'll bet they do not...preferring miracle mile in Manhasset.
Queens folks use cars. The supermarket will remain as one of the few anchor stores. Local people gotta eat.
Are there any actual authors with any influence or impact in the past 10 years (Besides John Franzen, and not Elmore Leonard since he's dead)
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Robert Crais
Lawrence Block
George Pelecanos
Dennis Lehane
chumps don't read no books in Queens anyhow
BN considers themselves lucky if you can leave with 2 books in a bag.
Target needs people to leave with full shopping carts and for most humans, that means you bring a car to where you do the major grocery shopping. An abundance of parking is required to eliminate the hassle factor.
If the Target Express wants to be a throwback to Woolworth's, a better-stocked Duane Reade, Key Food, or Associated, this will be interested to see.
You nostalgic throwbacks looking for ye olde Forest hills days had better look to move along past your fantasies.
Plant some trees. Don't worry. Be happy. This is the 21st century, not the 1920s.
this has been a rumor for the last two months. used to buy paper books for my kids and switched to Kindle versions. $1.99 for some on sale compared to $8 at B&N. I've been reading ebooks for years now.
barnes and noble is getting killed by ebooks. i see kindles and people reading on tablets all the time now. rarely read a paper book myself. as soon as i heard about the B&N closing a few months ago i started to experiment with kindle books for my kids. cheaper than paper books and now i'm not going back
Forget books. That is why B&N failed. Today it is all digital. Target shouldn't waste space on books. Certainly it won't waste space for old people to sit around and browse. It is a retail store, not a hostel.
It is a good addition to the area. Low cost merchandise in the center of a high cost boutique shopping area. It will be fine. Lots of people live in walking distance.
Think of it as an upscale Dollar Store or Family Dollar.
The hell with books going digital.
The movie companies have got at least one digit up my ass. Yesterday I paid $12 senior rate to see a film on 42nd Street.
My next trip,to P.C. Richards is to buy a Roku streaming device and put my pay per view movies on a giant TV screen. It's cheaper in the long run.
Soon digital discs will be outmoded.
We have become a digital log cabin culture. We order in our food, entertainment, medical advice, etc. You name it, it's easier to order online.
Say goodbye to most bricks and mortar stores. The exception being specialty shops, if the owner can afford the rent.
Sears Roebuck should have taken a lesson and moved their famous catalogue operation into the 21st Century.
They were dummies. They took a huge tumble. Are there any of their stores left?
Art books might survive but you can order them on Amazon much cheaper.
No car fare, traveling or lugging....delivered to your door.
Why fight the hassle. Our new age offers easier living. We've been catalogue shopping for holiday gifts for years.
They pack it, wrap it, and ship the gifts to our California and Colorado relatives in time for the holidays.
No more Excedrin headaches!
Electronic books, electronic sports, electronic experiences, electronic politics, electronic relationships, electronic sex........WTF?
This truly sucks. There is already a Target on QB. No way will I support them. They're going to destroy the few small businesses left.
I just heard a hilarious digital joke. Let's see if I can tell it right:
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I kill me!
You're all missing the point: B&N was a place where all ages could rest, refresh, and expand their mind for a bit, or just relax with a couple of friends. What is really lost and mourned here is a community center that was free of dirty bums, violent kids, and not overloaded with charity cases. Not saying B&N deserves to foot the bill for all this, but it still a pressing need not filled by the library, YMHA, or senior centers. It was just tolerant enough to keep out the riff raff and relatively clean.
Won't last.....
That is what community centers are for. If you want to relax go to a park or a cafe.
Why should any retail operation have to subsidize loungers?
Thems the facts. Nobody parks there ass for free anywhere except public places.
Stores have to make money. Nursing a cup of coffee in a book store does not help pay their rent.
Book stores are in trouble EVERYWHERE! The days when "intellectuals" could hang out in a book emporium
went with the 1920s. This is 2015. Get with the program.
The only businesses that are guaranteed to do well in the malls are the food courts.
They rarely lose their leases.
I can remember when B&N first opened up in various locations. They furnished their stores with comfy lounge chairs and bookish decor...attempting to recreate a Parisian biblioteque atmosphere.
So what did they get? Loungers, bums...hanging around sipping coffee while reading books.
They soon realized their mistake and pulled the wing chairs.
Now some "customers" sit on the floor, with the stacks at their backs, reading. But are they buying?
Not as much as they are perusing. That is why B&N cannot make their rent.
B&N is not a public library that serves lattes. It is a business that has failed due to their incompetence at predicting the market trends of the future. They deserve to go under. However, we do not deserve to lose the only interesting place in Bay Terrace.
Burp...belch! Thanks for that sip of "greptz water". I have had it with Ben's highly indigestible , artery clogging menu.
So give me a good reason to travel to Bayside from Flushing instead of Manhattan?
Michael the tree planter must be seething.
Has anyone signed any online petitions to save B&N?
LOL!
So much fuss about a local bookstore closing with what's going on in the world that's far more serious.
Par for the course in insular Queens. That's what happens when it's average citizen walks around with his or her head up their asses all day.
What they do not see beyond the block where they live, does not affect them.
"Let the sun shine....let the sun shine in.....the sun shine in"!
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