Even though some high-end stores in the South Slope are dropping like fies, it’s encouraging to see new shops opening anywhere on Seventh Avenue. This is the new Cohen’s Fashion Optical, which is having its grand opening at 298 Seventh Avenue, between Eighth and Ninth Streets. We fear for the fate of a lot of local businesses in this depression-like recession, so it’s encouraging to see new businesses opening. If we’re remembering correctly it replaces a place that used to give massages, do collagen injections and similar body- and appearance-related things.
8 responses so far ↓
1 Janet // Feb 26, 2009 at 2:09 pm
But we have lots of local optometrists, do we really need a chain store?
2 mag // Feb 26, 2009 at 6:48 pm
this is not a great sign, only major retailers can afford the rents.
3 ERIC // Mar 9, 2009 at 11:48 am
HI I’M A LOCAL NEIGHBOR OF THE NEW COHENS FASHION, AND IM IMPRESSED WITH THERE PRODUCTS AND STAFF
THEY ARE VERY HELPFULL AND KNOWAGEABLE. I WILL TELL ALL MY FRIENDS OF THIS NEW PLACE.
4 LS // Apr 8, 2009 at 11:53 am
This place sucks!! Incompetent amateurs!
They messed up every aspect of my situation AND
in the process cracked my amazing frames.
Pathetic. Immediately tried selling me some new fashionable frames saying they look better??!
I wasted time and money. No excuse for this kind of service.
5 Julie // May 19, 2009 at 10:32 am
I went here for an eye exam yesterday and was surprised at how attentive the doctor was for a big chain. I’ve always been a fan of mom and pops because I feel like they go the extra mile, but I must say that I was very happy with Cohen’s.
6 Dave // Jul 15, 2009 at 9:47 am
All in all, this was a positive experience, but if you are a NYC teacher, beware that they may not grant you your full union benefit. ($75 – Welfare Fund contribution)….and they do have an air of unsubstantiated know-it-all-ness…..
Still got some bitchin frames though…
7 RACHEL // Aug 16, 2009 at 1:19 am
THE BEST SERVICE AND QUALITY.. VERY KNOWLEGEBLE PEOPLE, GREAT SERVICE!!!
8 sarah // Aug 21, 2009 at 2:09 pm
This particular branch of Cohen’s is one of the most memorably incompetent businesses I have ever dealt with in my life. I had an eye exam with an extremely cold and rude doctor. Then I ordered contact lenses, which they told me would be in in 6-7 days, and they would call me when they received them. After 11 days, I stopped into the office to see if they had come in. They had been sitting in a drawer for a week with my name on them, and the manager insisted that they called me to tell me they came in. They had not. They had called a wrong number (even though I gave them the right one) and just didn’t bother to call the right one or leave a message – ever. When I had an eye doctor’s appointment for glasses at my home upstate, I asked the manager of Cohen’s Park Slope to send my prescription to my doctor. They didn’t fax anything over until I called to make the request a second time and then what they sent to my doctor was a receipt, including how much I paid for my contacts, and an eyeglass prescription scribbled in the corner with no doctor’s authorization or anything. My current eye doctor, understandably, could not use this as an official prescription and when I called Cohen’s a FOURTH time for the same prescription, the manager, who had passed off the request the first time, insisted that their “prescription form” was entirely appropriate and that he was (sarcastically) sorry it didn’t meet my eye doctor’s standards. When I told him that what was sent over by his office was a RECEIPT, not a prescription, he said he would send the appropriate form over “at his earliest convenience”. The employees of this establishment are not only laughably unskilled, but rudely defensive of it.