Delta Force Army Navy store is NOT closed!
2 Feb
Open for business!
The Delta Force Army Navy store is in fact still open for business. We were 99.9% sure it was closed as we had tried calling all three numbers and got a disconnected tone and our email to them got bounced. Of course, the soaped windows and closed doors didn’t help.
Either way, we were wrong not to send one of our 17 investigative reporters out in the field to make sure they weren’t closing down. We were so busy inaugurating our new 6-story offices and hiring 10 more photographers that we didn’t get a chance to double check our story. Oops! Sorry! It won’t may not happen again. Promise.
In the meantime, we did speak to the owner of the surplus store and he was incredibly kind. He said that the storefront is open when it’s open, mainly because they are in the midst of organizing what they are selling. Most (if not all) of their business is conducted online and the reason their windows were soaped? “If they weren’t, we’d constantly get people coming in!”
So there you have it. In return for our error we’d like to ask all of our followers to check out their site, and yeah, buy something nice while you’re at it!
Don’t blame you guys. It totally looked closed. It almost always looks closed. But this time the windows were washed. And there was no sign of life. Maybe a sign out front that says “check out our website” or anything that shows some sign of life?
Maybe sites that provide information should not print an assumtion, because its readers assume it to be accurate.
Or, simply say “I assume the store is closed”, rather than jump to a conclusion.
Really? You had doubts that it was open? Please! I bet you MOST of the people in LIC thought it was closed for good even BEFORE they soaped the windows. They obviously tried calling and emailing. Did you not read above?
Yep, I read the above. It’s not a big deal. No harm done, (this time), and no excuses necessary. Just poor reporting.
Maybe you need to start your own blog.
Well, Vernon will certainly look more attractive with an apparently dead but not actually dead storefront! (And we still don’t have a hardware store.)
Come one man. What are you gonna do with a hardware store when you have Duane Reade? It has everything! Even a hardware aisle!
I’ve been in the nail hardener section of the nail polish aisle, but where is the hardware? Must have missed it between the chocolate and beer aisles…
If it is not closing then it should be because it provides no service to the community. I don’t understand why they don’t run their web based business from a local warehouse and collect the premium rent that space would command.
Considering that the owner of the store has lived in LIC his entire life, has had that shop there for years, and is also a landlord, he can do whatever he wants with it.
AMEN!
“we had tried calling all three numbers and got a disconnected tone and our email to them got bounced”
You did as much checking as I would have done.
Oh … another hooting at Queensbridge Saturday evening
That is SHOOTING. Still eager to see hooting!
There used to be two hardware stores, til the early 90′s. In the name of progress and Big Box stores like Home Depot…Lilien Hardware became what is now Tuk Tuk. Van Alst Hardware, around the corner from PS1, became an apartment bldg. Too tough to maintain a small business with Home Depot nearby. The butcher became “The Butcher” deli on Vernon and 50th, and I rescued an original meat hook rack, that made an awesome potrack, from the dumpster. With change, the mom and pops fall by the wayside. It’s wonderful that Gianna is carrying on Manducatis tradition, in her own way, and for the next generation. That’s a mom and pop and daughter story to embrace.
This place is an eyesore on Vernon. If 99% of their business is online, it doesn’t seem very business savvy of them to keep and pay storefront space. Hope they go out of business, soon.
This sucks!
Please leave!
For as much as the owner of Army-Navy says he is for the neighborhood, his keeping an eyesore storefront at a key spot on Vernon Boulevard is offensive.
Yes good idea to soap the windows over, because who wants customers to come into the store. Comon people think!
Their online business is so busy that they can’t spare the 20 minutes it might take for a prospective shopper to browse their inventory of gas masks? Have they heard of multitasking? I always suspected this was some type of shady operation, now I know they’re just the dumbest retail operation in NY.
Dumbest retail op? Show some respect.
They’re a part of the neighbourhood, can’t be that “dumb” if they make enough money and in this country you’re still free to do with your property whatever you want to do.
Is it the most beautiful on a changing Vernon Blvd? Well… Does that give any of us the right to claim that we’re to decide what to do with the owner’s property? No.
It’s called an opinion. Retail with a storefront means one desires to sell goods. Not doing so is ….
Their business.
Keeping the storefront like this is equivalent to having a neighbor that has an old car on cinderblock in his/ her driveway. They live in a free country that allows them to do that but it does not make it right.
Delta Force is not the the only guilty one on this block. The 108 Precinct literally parks banged up cars on the corner that everyone has to walk by, once you get out of the 7 train. They also park their cars on the sidewalk just like a trashy neighbor. Come on 108 and Delta Force you could do better then that.
those banged up cars rule, brah. give the weekenders in high heels something to pose in for their facebook pages. DON’T DEPRIVE THE COMMUNITY OF THAT.
Hahahaha! You’re totally right! Plus, makes you think twice about drinking and driving a subway car.
What’s wrong with drinking and driving a subway?
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I’m sick of seeing fire dept cars parked on my sidewalk on 47th Ave in front of the fire station. They are constantly blocking pedestrians and strollers. Who can I call about this?
so the guy runs a storefront and DOESN’T want foot traffic. guuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Pre-soaped windows it was almost impossible to shop in this place anyway. Am I the only one who actually tried to go inside and was physically blocked by mountains of detritus and the unfriendly and unhelpful store owner? I was hoping it was closed and already imagining what would be a nice addition to the neighborhood!
I tried once too, I was told its impossible to get to the other side of the store, I was told to go to the website so I went some place else. I just seen the website, it looks like something a 5 year old made on geocities in 1990. It would be easier to shop in the store.
I have to say I am sad. They should move elsewhere,
and let someone else open up an establishment that is actually USEFUL to the community.
The sentiment that he doesn’t want people coming in is more of reason that this place should for once, close its doors and take a home off street level. That’s what warehouses are for… LIC has changed and he hasn’t… nasty as ever I am sure.
Oh no, that’s really too bad. This store is a fire hazard, I am surprised it hasn’t been closed down by the fire dept.
If you want it to go away call 311 and report it. It is a fire hazard. They are probably in violation of fire codes and possibly Zoning laws too. They are in a retail space, therefore retail activity should be conducted there. Warehouses are industrial use property. Going to do some digging around…. You an do what you want with your property – within the laws.
You people are disgusting. Don’t you have anything better to do with your time than harass people?
Get a life man.
Hey, isn’t is obvious LIC is a haven for mobsters? This store, along with the Hungarian Bakery on Jackson (who knew the neighborhood yearned for such a huge retail space to be filled by Hungarian baked goods)are fronts for illicit businesses. C’mon people.
LMAO, you should do a show at Laughing Devil with your jokes.
How much funnier can you get?
At least you made me laugh instead of getting me mad.