Kingston Avenue, Beware

By COLlive reporter

A shoe store opening this week on Empire Boulevard in Crown Heights indicates how the block between Brooklyn Avenue and Balfour Place is becoming a new focal point.

While kosher restaurants didn’t have much luck here – both “Boulevard Cafe” and “Fish, Fish and Cannoli” closed – the two-way street has recently become an active crossroad and meeting point for many.

On the block are Empire Kosher supermarket with a bakery and sushi bar, the veteran Klein’s grocery, a pharmacy, a seforim store, Empire Shtieble and its Mikvah, and the Besht Center, a relatively new shul for Lubavitch singles and young adults.

The new store, “Little Feet,” sporting a neat blue design and child-friendly decor, is offering a wide range of shoes, sandals and other footwear – only for children.

“People won’t have to schlep to Boro Park to get shoes for their kids,” said Shuli Kahan, the manager of the 500 square ft. store, who grew up in this Brooklyn neighborhood.

The store is stocked with a full selection of beautiful shoes for Yom Tov and school, all at great prices. “Our prices are comparable to Boro Park, and we will be having seasonal sales as well,” he says.

Kahan says he has hired Meir Sacho, an experienced shoe fitter and will also have late hours once a week to accommodate working parents (every Wednesday from 1 PM to 9 PM).

Although his father Berel Kahn and brother Tully Kahn (of Kahan’s Superette) and sister Rochie Sufrin (of socks store “Little Toes”) run stores on Kingston Avenue, Shuli Kahan says “people can just walk over here and not worry about parking.”

And with the hassle surrounding the slow traffic and the endless construction on Kingston Avenue, Empire Blvd. might just be the convenient alternative.

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Little Feet
506 Empire Blvd, corner Brooklyn
718 778-0078

Store Hours
Sunday 11-5
Monday – Tuesday 11-7
Wednesday – 1-9
Thursday 11-7
Friday 11- 3 hrs before shabbos