Dunkin’ – the on-the-go coffee and beverage brand formerly known as Dunkin’ Donuts – is set to occupy the space at 2264 Broadway between 81st and 82nd streets.
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This particular address holds historical significance as the former home of The Eye Man, whose storefront gained fame through its appearance in the 1998 rom-com You’ve Got Mail, starring Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks. As we previously reported in January, The Eye Man made the decision to relocate across the street to the corner spot at 2261 Broadway.
In an interview with ILTUWS, Shafi Karim, The Eye Man(ager), shed light on the rationale behind their move to the other side of Broadway. Contrary to the prevailing trend of rising rents, Karim revealed that both Broadway addresses, #2264 and #2261, commanded ‘roughly’ similar rents of approximately $16,000 per month.
Karim further explained that the previous location at #2264 had a damaged entrance ramp that would have taken months to repair. Given the necessity of this repair combined with the loss of revenue during the closure, it was imperative for The Eye Man to eye another spot.
The Eye Man’s original location
New York City real estate is a little like playing the lottery. Karim felt they had a winning ticket being able to settle into the 2261 Broadway address: its proximity to their original location, the excellent condition of the ramp and enhanced visibility as a corner store. Again, Karim saidf the monthly rents for both locations are within the same range of around $16,000.
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Adding to their good fortune, The Eye Man was able to keep its original location open while they set up their new establishment. This seamless transition allowed them to continue operating without interruptions, with the new store opening in March 2022.
The Eye Man joins the ranks of other beloved Upper West Side establishments, such as Schatzie Prime Meats, Emerald Inn, and The Vitamin Peddler, that have successfully changed locations while maintaining their loyal customer base.
An opening date for Dunkin’ has not been determined.
Barf… this might be good non-food news in Ron Duh Santos or Ted Cruz country but sugar, cheap enriched bleached white flour and generic coffee sourced from some mediocre plantations far outside old growth coffee areas is just NOT what locals need or want. I’ll be surprised if they last 6 months.
Sell your snobbery elsewhere. I’m happy to have a cheap local coffee option to grab after a morning jog right in my neighborhood.
Re: “snob”:
Sorry, we can’t all have yachts and Maseratis, but most every coffee is in a plebe’s price range. It’s in yours- you can get a good fair trade non gmo sourced pound using your EBT card.
While it’s important to have a diversified group of folks with diverse tastes in any town, having these cheap, low brow, plastic joints that hold minimum wage at basement levels and pitch more refined junk food into our collective burgeoning waistline and clog up our hearts with big ag corn oil in the name of quick profit is a very false and evil business.
Think before you approve of another junk food joint enriching stockholders and franchisees from elsewhere selling us “snobs” garbage that’s bad for all. Making your dollar work for positive things is good for us all up here on the UWS. Choosing real food and snob coffee will contribute to help solve bigger issues we all face and might get you around the reservoir quicker, too.
Yup, just what we need: ANOTHER coffee shop. Soon, the only things we will have are coffee shops and nail salons. 🙁
I hope this doesn’t hurt business for the DD at 86th and Amsterdam. Those guys are the sweetest. So kind to customers and so nice to kids.
As a fellow UWSider, I truly believe that this is good for the “working class” in our neighborhood. We need to realize our privilege and realize that not a lot of people in our community has the privilege to afford $7 coffee every single day…We have plenty of other locally sourced coffee in our area please go to those and stop complaining about a store opening that’s clearly not for you.
2 Donuts (negative food value): $6
Large Dunkacino (sic): $8
Plus city, state, fed tax and a 20% Ny tip =
$20
Now what’s for breakfast?
The sole food value? Pay for a little real milk in your coffee.
Cut with the “pity on the working man”. It’s soooo… plebeian
First of all no one orders a Dunkacino anymore, it’s no longer available… DD does not allow tips anymore. I don’t see why someone would buy a donut when they have a good variety of breakfast food. The only person that I see buying a donut in the morning is a child.
The most I have spent at DD is $10, even less when using their offers/rewards. At Forever Coffee the BaconEggandCheese is $9 and a small iced latte is $6, do the math and let me know what my total is.
Like I said in my previous comment, get off your high horse. One day you’ll end up just like the rest of the plebeians