The Brooklyn Eagle reports on The Brooklynites, a new book by Seth Kushner and Anthony LaSala. It covers many of the borough’s characters including Emma Sullivan, owner of the Long Island Restaurant on Atlantic Avenue:
Brooklyn Eagle: Internationally famous Brooklynites are included: Spike Lee, Paul Auster and Jonathan Lethem, for instance. So, of course, are those well known only on their blocks, like Dominick Guarnera, a Bay Ridge barber, and Emma Sullivan, who has owned a Cobble Hill restaurant since she took over for her father 50 years ago. “Now everyone comes here to show me their babies and their family,†Sullivan says. “It’s still a family place. I just sold over $5,000 worth of Girl Scout cookies. I had to put the beer away just so I could fit the cookies.â€
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