Fairway Market Contributes $30k to Non-Profit ‘ReStore Red Hook’

By on May 21, 2013 in Featured, News, Red Hook

Red Hook’s beloved Fairway Market has donated $30,000 to ReStore Red Hook, a non-profit group dedicated to the recovery of small businesses forced to close after Sandy ravaged the neighborhood in October. Bill Sanford, Fairway president, notes, “Red Hook is a very close knit community and we are all connected and dependent upon each other [...]

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Wanna Own A Piece Of The Brooklyn Bridge? Urban Folk Art Gallery Offers Its Paint!

By on May 21, 2013 in Arts and Entertainment, Cobble Hill, Hipsters

Imagine slathering the trademark chocolate-brown paint used on the Brooklyn Bridge to decorate your own abode. As part of the iconic span’s 130th anniversary, Smith Street artist collective Urban Folk Art Gallery will sell $25 one-quart cans of surplus paint used on the Bridge at an upcoming art show. Adam Suerte, the gallery’s founder, bought [...]

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New Red Hook Eatery ‘RES’ Offers Artist In Residency For Budding Chefs

By on May 21, 2013 in Food, News, Red Hook

The proprietors of Carroll Gardens’ restaurants Frankies and Prime Meats and coffee shop Café Pedlar, will launch a new cooperative eatery in Red Hook. According to their website resresres.com, the new locale—RES— is “an artist residency for chefs, a non-commercial environment where chefs from around the world can present their very best work to the [...]

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What’s So ‘Unusual’ About A Luxury Brokerage In Boerum Hill?

By on May 20, 2013 in Boerum Hill, Real Estate

Is real-estate brokerage Stribling & Associates’ recently opened outpost in Boerum Hill “an unusual location”? That’s what the Wall Street Journal appears to believe in an item in its “What’s The Deal” column that ran May 20. Writer Carmel Melouney posits: “Stribling & Associates, (which) specializes in luxury residential properties, has chosen an unusual location [...]

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SUNY Downstate Hosts Town Hall Meeting Monday To Discuss LICH ‘Sustainability Plan’

By on May 20, 2013 in Cobble Hill

A town hall meeting is taking place today to discuss a sustainability plan for SUNY Downstate, the hospital that controls the fate of Long Island College Hospital. The meeting was held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at SUNY Downstate Medical Center’s Alumni Auditorium in Brooklyn. The Town Hall Meeting began with a presentation from [...]

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