{
  "source": "Fashion Week Venues",
  "title": "Greenpoint Commercial Bakery and Cafe Space for Lease",
  "metaTitle": "Retail & Cafe Space Brooklyn | Rent 232 sqm Greenpoint",
  "description": "This commercial space encompasses a fully equipped bakery and a small cafe, offering a total of 2,500 square feet. The bakery is designed for efficient production, and potential tenants can inquire about specific equipment and schedule a tour. In addition to the front-of-house cafe, the layout includes a basement storage area. Amenities include internet access, air conditioning, a security system, as well as essential features like counters, fitting rooms, lighting, sound and video equipment, electricity, heating, and parking. An elevator is also available for convenience.",
  "metaDescription": "Retail and cafe space for rent in Brooklyn. 232 sqm in Greenpoint with full kitchen, fitting rooms, counters and basement stock room. Request availability.",
  "idealBrandProfile": "This space fits an independent or mid-scale brand with a 5 to 30 person team, 3 to 10 years of trading, and an established DTC customer base in the New York area, ideally with a community it can actually pull into Greenpoint on a weekday evening. At 2,500 sqft across a front-of-house cafe, a working commercial kitchen and basement stock space, the footprint carries an occupancy estimate of around 240 people, which is far more room than a first-season label needs and more service infrastructure than most short-run pop-ups can staff. Brands at this stage typically find the kitchen becomes the reason they book, not a bonus. Where we see mismatches is when a global house books this for a formal press day: the operational character of a bakery reads as neighbourhood, not flagship, and those brands are better served by spaces in New York with Manhattan showroom addresses. Equally, a solo maker doing a two-day sample sale will pay for square footage and equipment they never switch on. Aesthetic Fit Warm, tactile, craft-led identities work here without any fight against the room. Think natural-fibre apparel, workwear, ceramics and homeware, skincare and wellness, food-adjacent lifestyle brands, denim, and vintage or archive resale of the kind Greenpoint already supports through neighbours like LAL Vintage and Seven Wonders Collective. The counters, fitting rooms, garment racks and existing furniture mean a clothing brand can trade from day one, while the working bakery gives a genuine reason for people to linger rather than scan and leave. What does not work is high-gloss luxury: a jewellery house, a couture presentation, or a minimalist tech-luxury cosmetics launch will spend heavily fighting a room that smells of flour and looks like a kitchen, and the result usually reads as compromise rather than intention. If a brand needs a white box, our branded store design team will tell you honestly that this is the wrong shell to start from. Best Use Cases First choice is a retail activation with a cafe component, where the bakery keeps serving and the front-of-house doubles as temporary retail space with counters, fitting rooms and racks already in place. Second is a cocktail reception or launch party, supported by the kitchen, sound and video equipment, air conditioning and an occupancy figure near 240. Third is a private dinner or intimate press moment for a food, homeware or lifestyle brand, where the kitchen is the story rather than the backdrop. Fourth is a content studio booking, since the bakery, cafe and basement give three distinct set environments in one lease. Fifth is a multi-week pop-up shop or seasonal concept, viable because the lease runs from one day to 336. Sixth is a sample sale, with basement stock space and an elevator making replenishment straightforward. Seventh is a wholesale appointment or collection preview, workable but the least natural fit given the room's public-facing character. Our activation service handles staffing and build across all of these. Budget Signal This sits in the upper-mid tier for Brooklyn and reads as strong value once you price the kitchen honestly. Comparable square footage on a prime Manhattan retail corridor would cost considerably more per day and arrive as an empty shell requiring full fit-out. A hotel event space with catering capability lands in a similar or higher bracket but restricts trading and branding, while co-working venues and shared pop-up formats come in cheaper and give you neither a commercial kitchen nor a lockable stock room. In our experience the profile that gets the most from this price point is a brand that would otherwise be paying separately for a venue, a caterer and a photo studio. Run the numbers against alternatives with our budget calculator before enquiring, particularly if your activation runs beyond a week, since the longer lease window changes the daily economics significantly.",
  "neighbourhoodMood": "Independent labels, food-led brands, photo studios and small production companies make up the working population of this pocket of Greenpoint, and most of them are within a ten minute walk of this address. The stretch of Franklin Street between Kent and Java carries the retail signal: Yoseka Stationery, Word Bookstore, Dandelion Wine, LAL Vintage and a rotating set of one-owner shops that lease in two to three year cycles. Greenpoint Avenue itself has become the restaurant spine, with Radio Star, Banks Tavern, El Pingüino, Di An Di, Kettl and Fulgurances Laundromat all inside a few hundred metres, which matters more than it sounds when you are planning a press day that runs into a dinner. Behind the storefronts, the old manufacturing stock along West Street, Kent Street and the Eberhard Faber blocks houses ceramicists, furniture makers, e-commerce studios and the daylight photo studios that Manhattan brands book for lookbooks. In our experience placing brands in this neighbourhood, the creative supply chain is genuinely local: your stylist, your set builder and your bakery partner can all be sourced within the postcode, which is why we route a number of client briefs here through venue sourcing rather than defaulting to Manhattan. Brands choose Greenpoint over SoHo, Nolita and the Wythe Avenue corridor in Williamsburg because 2,500 square feet with a working kitchen, counters, stock room and basement costs a fraction of what a bare 600 square foot Broome Street box commands for the same week. That trade is the whole decision. SoHo and Meatpacking buy you accidental footfall and tourist volume; Greenpoint buys you space, a functioning bakery, control over who walks in and a room you can rebuild without a landlord fighting you on every fixing. Access is better than the sceptics assume. The NYC Ferry landing at India Street is a short walk and puts Wall Street and Midtown East within a comfortable ride, and a car from Lower Manhattan runs twenty to twenty five minutes off peak. The honest caveat is the G train, which does not touch Manhattan and requires a transfer at Metropolitan or Court Square, so international press and buyers based in Midtown hotels will need clear directions and, for anything invite-only, a car list. What we consistently hear from brand teams who activate here is that attendance holds if the invitation is worth crossing the river for, and collapses if it is not. Model both scenarios in the budget calculator before committing. Arriving on this block feels residential first and commercial second, which sets a very particular tone for a showroom appointment. Mornings run on coffee and dog walkers between roughly seven and ten, with a steady flow toward the ferry and the Greenpoint Avenue subway entrance. Midday goes quiet in a way that suits back to back buyer appointments, then the street repopulates from six onward as the restaurant crowd arrives, which makes early evening the right window for a cocktail reception or a sample sale opening. The building's basement level and elevator are practical assets for load-in and for holding stock out of sight, and the existing bakery and cafe fit gives you a working F&B anchor rather than a rented coffee cart, something we lean on heavily when planning activation service schedules around press timings. Be clear-eyed about the limitation: this is not a high-volume tourist retail location and it will not deliver spontaneous walk-in traffic at any meaningful scale. Brands needing maximum street visibility or a hundred thousand impressions from passing pedestrians should be looking at Wythe Avenue, Bleecker Street or the SoHo grid instead. Greenpoint rewards brands who bring their own audience.",
  "faq": [
    {
      "question": "Is Greenpoint Commercial Bakery and Cafe Space for Lease available for pop-up shops?",
      "answer": "Yes — Greenpoint Commercial Bakery and Cafe Space for Lease is a vetted pop-up ready space in Brooklyn, 232 sqm. Request availability and dates through the inquiry card on the listing."
    },
    {
      "question": "What is the day rate?",
      "answer": "$1,800 / day. Weekly and press-preview rates are quoted on request."
    },
    {
      "question": "Is staging, branding and fit-out permitted?",
      "answer": "Yes. Fashion Week Venues runs the full production build — signage, fixtures, lighting, sound, catering and staffing — subject to venue rules. Include your fit-out brief in the inquiry."
    },
    {
      "question": "What is included?",
      "answer": "Included on-site: Internet, Air Conditioning, Security System, Stock Room, Counters, Fitting Rooms, Garment Rack, Lighting."
    },
    {
      "question": "How far in advance should we book?",
      "answer": "Fashion week windows book 6–10 weeks out. Off-season activations can be secured in 2–3 weeks."
    }
  ],
  "editorialFaqCount": 0,
  "city": "Brooklyn",
  "country": "US",
  "lat": 40.72992113,
  "lon": -73.96035488,
  "areaSqm": 232,
  "areaSqft": 2500,
  "priceLabel": "$1,800 / day",
  "priceEur": 1568,
  "coverImage": "https://fashionweekvenues.com/i/greenpoint-commercial-bakery-and-cafe-space-for-lease-ca334b45-1.jpg",
  "gallery": [
    {
      "url": "https://fashionweekvenues.com/i/greenpoint-commercial-bakery-and-cafe-space-for-lease-ca334b45-2.jpg",
      "caption": "Greenpoint Commercial Bakery and Cafe Space for Lease, 232 sqm, retail activation, pop-up rental in Brooklyn"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://fashionweekvenues.com/i/greenpoint-commercial-bakery-and-cafe-space-for-lease-ca334b45-3.jpg",
      "caption": "Greenpoint Commercial Bakery and Cafe Space for Lease, 232 sqm, retail activation, pop-up rental in Brooklyn, interior view"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://fashionweekvenues.com/i/greenpoint-commercial-bakery-and-cafe-space-for-lease-ca334b45-4.jpg",
      "caption": "Greenpoint Commercial Bakery and Cafe Space for Lease, 232 sqm, retail activation, pop-up rental in Brooklyn, second interio…"
    }
  ],
  "amenities": [
    "Internet",
    "Air Conditioning",
    "Security System",
    "Stock Room",
    "Counters",
    "Fitting Rooms",
    "Garment Rack",
    "Lighting",
    "Furniture",
    "Sound & Video Equipment",
    "Electricity",
    "Heating",
    "Parking",
    "Elevator",
    "Kitchen",
    "Wifi"
  ],
  "useCases": [
    "retail activation",
    "private event",
    "cocktail reception"
  ],
  "canonicalUrl": "https://fashionweekvenues.com/spaces/greenpoint-commercial-bakery-and-cafe-space-for-lease-ca334b45"
}