Vacant Spaces: What Would You Like to See Open in the Tarrytown Centre?
An occasional feature - as vacate spaces surface - asking what the community would like to see open in Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow.
Last week we asked if anyone wants to rent space in the sunny floor of offices at Franklin and South Broadway.
Now we're back to our regularly scheduled tour of vacant storefronts, asking the public: what do you want to see here, what's likely to come instead, do you have any memories of this space from ages ago, and pretty much anything else that comes up along the way.
Next stop: 138 Wildey Street
The former site of Van Tassel Cleaners, an old family name familar to those who know the movie and/or read The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Van Tassel used to live in the Van Tassel building on Beekman, then it came to the Tarrytown Centre complex, and now it's snubbed adjacency to McDonald's to be closer to Walgreens at the other side of the plaza.
Between Dunkin Donuts and the big drug store chain, Van Tassel has painted their new walls a vibrant grassy green (we like to call it "Patch" green), and is enjoying their roomier digs.
Next door to the former Van Tassel space a sushi restaurant is en route. But, still this narrow endspace remains up for grabs. What do you you think the complex/this side of town is missing? Tell us in the comments.
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Meanwhile, in the strange/sad news category, up the road in Sleepy Hollow, there's the Palmas Brazilian Grill on Clinton we wrote about a mere few weeks ago, interviewing co-owner Sam Masini. Then a reader commented that the phone number was wrong. So Patch went knocking (twice) to find out the number and found the door locked the first time and the owner of the building putzing around the empty dining room the second!
Bizarrely, after just some months under the old regime, the restaurant is apparently transitioning now to yet another management team who are going to see if they make a go of it. This time with a liquor license, as it just came through. Patch will try to find former co-owner Masini and find out what happened (and why did he go through the Patch interview?)
Stay tuned, and weigh in on the ex-Tassel space below.
joy
9:02 am on Thursday, February 16, 2012
Interesting article but some words deleted. You may want to double check final?
Krista Madsen
9:26 am on Thursday, February 16, 2012
Sorry some kind of system error seems to have deleted the hyperlinks. Thanks, will fix.
Krista Madsen
9:33 am on Thursday, February 16, 2012
Now that that's all fixed (THANKS JOY!), I'd like to weigh in and wish for a fresh produce shop. Just a little green vegetables! I can go to Walgreens for milk, cereal and trinkets for the next holiday three months in advance, but I walk by this complex 4x a day nearly and would LOVE to have healthy fresh produce somewhere.
Krista Madsen
9:33 am on Thursday, February 16, 2012
My 95-year old neighbor recalls the grocery store that used to be in Walgreens not so long ago. This side of town could use another one.
Francine
10:34 am on Thursday, February 16, 2012
I would like a clothing store or shoe store. Not a boutique that is too expensive. I really wish for a bookstore. Its kind of close to the train station so they could sell magazines and newspapers too. Unfortuately, I doubt book stores will make it with the introduction of the e-readers.
Phil
2:41 pm on Thursday, February 16, 2012
I think this empty space where the cleaners used to be would be good for a deli. Or maybe a chinese restaurant.
harris bank
3:29 pm on Thursday, February 16, 2012
I think an amusement center with arcade games & a pool table would be the best.
It keeps the kids off the streets in the summer, even I would use it. how about it??