A & D Liquor

This is a tiny liquor store with bulletproof glass. It also sells lottery tickets which, in addition to the usual pint-​purchasing customers, draws all kinds of crazies up in there. Their liquor selection is adequate but not great. While they have wine, it’s mostly over-​priced bottom-​barrel stuff like Sutter Home and Kendall Jackson. Even if you’re ok with this, choosing a bottle of wine through dirty, scratched glass/​plastic and wildly gesturing to your selection, is not an ideal scenario. If you’re looking for a decent wine you should probably walk a few blocks over to Franklin Ave.
That being said, the owners are super nice. This neighborhood is changing so maybe one day they’ll be able to take this place up a notch.

In Manhattan, changes in the streetscape seem to be inevitably to the detriment of retail diversity and usefulness but on this corner, a nail salon where a male nail tech would use an obscene long pinky nail as an all-​purpose salon tool (ick) gave way to a clean, bulletproof-​glassed liquor store that stocks a few bottles of wine that are All Right. I’m really not a giant wine snob, but I do have standards, and until this store opened there was no place to buy anything even halfway decent around here. I consider a $ 21 Kendall Jackson Pinot Noir Decent. Not Exciting, but for around here it’s Fine. They also have a bunch of Bonny Doon Rose airplane bottles that they sell for $ 1. These make awesome movie buddies. Their prices in general are pretty standard.