In Billburg, Clovis Press Morphs Into Bedford Cheese

Seems like Clovis Press, the cool used bookstore on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg closed only yesterday (well, more than a month ago), and now Bedford Cheese, currently located across the street in the mini-mall, is moving into the space. The good news is that a local business is going into the storefront rather than a chain like Starbucks.

Everyone's favorite $4.50 iced soy chai latte purveyor is probably waiting until certain parts of Brooklyn, like Billburg, are rendered safe for a Suckbucks Invasion and then will spread across the land like they have in Manhattan. Perhaps, they will wait for for the hideous Williamsburgh Square project with the 40 story tower to go up across the street or for one of the Billburg highrise waterfront developments to open, figuring they will be safe from glass etching acid taggers at that point because they'll have been pushed into Bushwick East Williamsburg, pushing existing residents to East New York, etc.

Oh well. Expensive cheese. Used books. Multinational corporate coffee. Same difference.