This connection was lost on Kostakopoulos. ![]() ![]() Neighboring storefront to Winners Corner in Greenpoint (Ben Weiss) Winners Corner, it turns out, is owned and managed by Jackpocket, an app that lets users remotely play the lottery. The manager, he claimed, admitted that their board games and gifts are “secondary products.” It was in a tense conversation with the store’s manager that Kostakopoulos’s suspicions were justified. The employees, he alleges, were “useless” and barely knew anything about gaming. However, he eventually told his friends that this wasn’t the neighborhood haven they were hoping for. Kostakopoulos, the self-professed leader of his “nerd group,” perused the store’s limited stock multiple times. “I have more inventory in one folder than they have in their entire store,” exclaimed gaming buff Stergios Kostakopoulos, a 35-year-old Greenpoint resident who owns his own real estate management company, in an interview. It stands in stark contrast to other local gaming stores that spill over with board games, collectible cards, and puzzles. Nestled into a line of boutique shops inside a repurposed warehouse on West St., Winners Corner has an airbrushed, dystopian feel. ![]() Greenpoint has a new gaming store-with very few games.
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