Apparently, there was too much cvetching on Fifth Avenue!
We don’t mean “kvetch,” as in the Yiddish word for complaining, but CVETCH as in the “Committee to Verify Everything That’s Coming Here,” a nebulous group that posted a quickly removed sign in the window of a vacant space on Fifth Avenue asking passers-by that most stimulating of questions: “What kinds of shops would we like to see here?”
The sign, which was first reported on Brownstoner.com, quickly became a sounding board.
“Books,” wrote one passer-by.
“Indian food,” wrote another.
“Noodles!” added a third.
A second category — “But PLEASE no more … ” — was quickly filled (apparently, Park Slopers like to kvetch more than CVETCH).
“Spas,” wrote an anti-spa resident.
“Fundamentalist churches,” added a second writer.
“Books,” wrote someone who objected to the earlier call for a bookstore.
“Prohibitively expensive women’s clothing,” added another.
The party line was closed hours after it began. But that didn’t stop the commenting, which filled the Brownstoner Web site with everything from more requests for stores and eateries (“How about an Ethiopian restaurant?”) to the predictable breakdown in civilization (posters got into a vibrant debate about the shopping habits of whites and blacks).
