u/Tempest_Fugit

I dont know if they still have a location in Ft Greene, but this Demu Fish and Meats popped up in P Heights about a year ago, but, as other users have pointed out, doesn't operate like a real store and likely never will. It clearly exists for a different reason, but what reason?

• It's almost never open. It does not keep regular hours.
• When it's open, it's aggressively unappealing to customers. There are a few cheapie folding tables and fish trays with minimal ice and even less fish, a solitary, grumpy guy who may or may not be sleeping, and a "CASH ONLY" or "ALL SALES FINAL" sign scrawled in angry text, hastily taped to the door. Sometimes they don't even both opening the gate all the way up.
• One explanation is that it operates as a "point and grill" store, that functions purely as a partnership to the nigerian restaurant next to it in Fort greene. Because it operates almost exclusively as a pipeline for the restaurant's fresh grilling, the shop doesn't maintain open, brightly lit display cases for retail foot traffic. When Buka isn't active or the fish shipment hasn't arrived, the storefront completely shuts down, looking totally vacant.", However this makes no sense in this neighborhood- there is no restaurant next to it in p heights.
• It does not exist on Google Maps as a business.
• People on this site who've purchased the fish (usually from the ft greene location)have said the fish is questionable
• One user has stated that Demu is Mabadeje Demu, the owner of 484 Waverly ave, a long abandoned, humiliating eyesore of a building on the northwest corner of fulton and waverly, just up the street from Demu Fish and Meats in Clinton Hill. According to google, "Mr. Demu has been embroiled in massive, decades-long civil lawsuits and complex property disputes involving deed fraud claims on his various properties across Clinton Hill and Fort Greene. These endless legal stalemates are the primary reason the building has sat completely frozen in a state of decay rather than being repaired or leased out"
• A money laundering scheme seems too obvious an explanation.
• The most believable explanation is offered by AI: "The Legal Freeze: As mentioned before, Mr. Demu has been locked in exhaustive, multi-million dollar property ownership disputes across Brooklyn. While these endless legal battles play out in the courts, keeping the commercial spaces in a bare-minimum "operational" state blocks the city or outside entities from easily seizing the buildings under abandonment or blight law"

Thoughts?

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