Comments on: Holiday trees available on Harlem's Cathedral Parkway

By: afineline

afineline — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:19:23 +0000

But if you go to Bloomies, Macys, Home Depot – any big store – you leave & get your own transportation. I Don’t think Bloomies or Macys or any of them care about having a relationship with a person who brings you home.
Ideally I would have hoped that our local livery people would have benefited from this.
It’s not a concern for me. But it is a dispointment.

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:50:11 +0000

I understand afineline’s concern about the car service, but I also understand why Costco would want to set up a relationship with a particular contractor. They would inevitably receive complaints if a car service were not “offered” in this context, and to the extent that Costco is able to set the terms of the provider relationship, they can exert some control over the number of cars in service, pricing, etc., and hold someone accountable if things aren’t as they should be.

By: harlemgal

harlemgal — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:04:34 +0000

E.D. and afineline, thanks for the comments. We will have to swing by Carolina Too to photograph their holiday products as well.
And thanks for the info on Costco’s car service. We did not know one car company has a hold on service there. What if someone wants to take a cab ride there? Do they get dropped off a block away?
HarlemGal

By: afineline

afineline — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:10:55 +0000

Carolina Too on 7th Ave/117th St said that he will be selling tree’s/garland/poinsetta’s.
It would be nice to support our local shops at this time of year.
By the way, I went to Costco yesterday. It is awesome but I was not happy to learn that Costco contracted with 1 car service to be ‘on-the-ready’ to take customers home. None of our local car services/taxi’s are permitted near the front door. Only the contracted car service.

By: E. D.

E. D. — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:52:49 +0000

They’re also selling trees across from Nectar, where St. Nicholas and FDB conjoin.