Brooklyn’s Fulton King Hot Dog Forced to Move After a Rent Increase | Eater NY

"I've long considered the place to get hot dogs in Downtown Brooklyn: Fulton Hot Dog King, an old-school counter on the corner of Fulton Street and Elm Place that's offered fast service and affordable food since 1987. It was there years before New York University had a campus in the area and decades before Trader Joe’s, but now its future is uncertain — owner Danyal Shahzad says the hot dog counter was recently forced to close after the landlord raised the rent and “didn’t have further interest in having us at the location,” leading the family to post a big red sign reading “Lost our lease.” Shahzad hopes to reach an agreement to stay, but if not they plan to relocate down the street to 25 Elm Place near Livingston Street, where the family owns a deli; the menu and prices would remain the same, though the new space would be smaller, without doors opening onto the sidewalk or counters to stand and eat at. I still think there’s room for an old-school hot dog counter in Downtown Brooklyn, even if it has to "suck in its gut" to fit in amid the neighborhood's real-estate development and institutional anchors like Borough Hall, the courthouses, and NYU’s engineering school." - Luke Fortney