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Holiday Pet Event at Hope Vet

By on December 14, 2010 in Boerum Hill, Events, Pets

On Friday, December 17th from 7-9pm, Boerum Hill’s Hope Veterinary Clinic (390 Atlantic Avenue at Bond St.) will host a holiday celebration for pets and owners. Photographer Jillian London will be on hand for holiday pet portraits (with or without Santa) for $10. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Infinite Hope Pet Adoption. There will also be free wine and hot apple cider.

The event is part of the Shop & Dine Late Nights promotion happening along Atlantic Avenue this month. For more information on Hope Veterinary Clinic, visit their web site.

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Mile End Offers Holiday Bagel Special

By on December 10, 2010 in Boerum Hill, Food

image via Remodelista.com

Boreum Hill delicatessen Mile End is offering customers holiday specials on their shipped-from-Montreal bagels. Regular pricing is $25 for the first dozen and $15 for each additional dozen. During the holiday season, bagels will be available at $36 for two dozen, $60 for four dozen and $85 for six dozen.

All gift orders will be shipped with a customizable holiday greeting, directions for freezing and a history of Montreal bagels. Or if you’d prefer to pick them up in person, use the promo code GO HABS GO and get a third dozen free when ordering two for pick up on December 10th or 17th. The promotion is in part a thank you to customers on Mile End’s first anniversary.

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Carolers Hit the Streets Tomorrow

By on December 9, 2010 in Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Events

Keep your ears open tomorrow night and you just might hear caroling on the streets of Cobble Hill. Alumni members of The Trinity Pipes from Trinity College will be singing acappella Christmas carols throughout the neighborhood and surrounding areas.  They will make stops on streets from Carroll to Kane between Clinton and Hoyt, with some stops in some bars on Smith St. to warm up.  The group will likely be out from 8:30 to 10pm or so.

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Eagle on Effort to Downzone Boerum Hill

By on November 29, 2010 in Boerum Hill, Landmark Preservation

The Brooklyn Eagle writes about the effort to downzone Boerum Hill to limit building heights to 50 feet:

Brooklyn Eagle: Now it is Boerum’s Hill turn. In an e-mail to his neighbors, Boerum Hill Association President Howard Kolins said that the association’s “proposal to downzone our neighborhood to R6B [maximum height of 50 feet with a setback] is moving forward so that future development remains consistent with today’s low-density character of largely three- and four-story brownstones.”

Kolins explained that the Boerum Hill “effort began when much of Carroll Gardens was rezoned R6B . . . and we realized that Boerum Hill was the last brownstone area that was not more fully protected.” The Carroll Gardens enterprise “set a fire under us,” Kolins told this newspaper.

Dwight Smith, a Boerum Hill Association (BHA) vice president, took the leadership role, and after Community Board 2 gave its blessing, the BHA approached the Department of City Planning.

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Atlantic Ave. BID closer to reality?

By on November 5, 2010 in Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill, Real Estate

Brownstoner reports that an Atlantic Ave. Business Improvement District (BID) is gaining steam and could become a reality in July 2011.

After a couple of years of consensus-building, the effort has started to make some very concrete progress in the form of public support from Community Boards 2 and 6 recently… Once established, the BID would cover all properties fronting Atlantic Avenue from the BQE to 4th Avenue and one block north and south on all side streets within the district. (Properties from Court Street to Smith Street on the north side are excluded—they’re in the Court-Livingston-Schermehorn BID.)

According to the Atlantic Ave. BID web site, the organization would provide

marketing and promotion services to bring additional foot traffic to the Avenue, beautification and streetscape improvements, sanitation and improved advocacy work.

The BID committee next has a tentative meeting with the City Planning Commission on December 1st.

via Brownstowner


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Opening Night at Athena Mediterranean

By on September 9, 2010 in Boerum Hill, Food

Jazz &Jill photo

Nabe bloggers Jazz & Jill report on the opening of Athena Mediterranean [213 Smith Street, 718-625-2616]: Continue Reading →

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213 Mexican Now All Greek to Us

By on September 3, 2010 in Boerum Hill, Food

Jazz & Jill photo

Nabe bloggers Jazz & Jill report that a Greek place called Athena will be opening in the old 213 Mexican space on Smith Street:

Jazz & Jill: We couldn’t be any more excited! At the old 213 Mexican address – 213 Smith Street – the new spot looks almost ready for opening. Tonight there was a logo projection moving across the sidewalk. Tacky, yet eye-catching! It was introducing Athena Mediterranean. The front of the building has a Greek relief type sculpture. Again, could be tacky – but in Carrie Bradshaw’s words “Most people would say she’s Eurotrash, but I think she’s fun.”

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Atlantic Avenue Gourmet Kosher Food Place Opening Soon

By on August 26, 2010 in Boerum Hill, Food

A “gourmet” kosher food restaurant is coming to 497 Atlantic Avenue Brownstoner reports:

Brownstoner: According to the new business’s Facebook page, Pardes, as it is called, is scheduled to open at the end of September. The menu looks Asian-inspired, with heavy Indian and Japanese influences. Based on the comments on the Facebook page, it looks like there’s a big pent-up demand for some good kosher food on this stretch.

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Boerum Hill Corn: The True Story

By on July 27, 2010 in Boerum Hill, Neighborhoods

Photo: Keith Olsen/The Brooklyn Ink

Brooklyn Ink dives deep into the story of that corn at the corner of Smith and Bergen created by artist Christina Kelly:

Brooklyn Ink: Nestled just steps away from the Bergen subway stop, across the street from a Dunkin’ Donuts and adjacent to a Domino’s, the raised-bed garden has become home to what Native Americans called the three sisters: corn, beans and squash.   The term is derived from how all three plants grow by complementing one other: the beans fix nitrogen for the corn and soil, and the squash keeps the soil moist.

After participating in similar gardening activities at the Lefferts House in Prospect Park last year, and at P.S. 115 in Canarsie, Kelly crafted a grant proposal to fund the project.  She chose the Smith and Bergen location after the city expanded the sidewalk significantly.   The larger sidewalk would allow for visitors to look at the corn, as well as maintain regular walking traffic.

(via Brooklyn Bugle Around Brooklyn)

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Jodi Arnold NYC Opens Atlantic Ave Boutique

By on July 19, 2010 in Arts and Entertainment, Boerum Hill, Fashion

This Saturday, July 24th, contemporary women’s fashion designer Jodi Arnold will celebrate the grand opening of their newest retail location at 347 Atlantic Avenue (at Hoyt). Ms. Arnold, a neighborhood resident, is thrilled to have a location in the hood:

“Brooklyn isn’t as transient as other parts of the city; it reminds me of home. Most people wouldn’t put Brooklyn and Birmingham in the same sentence, but they both have a sense of community and warmth. This lack of pretense – what I call “soul” – is the essence of our brand.”
Jodi Arnold NYC’s grand opening sidewalk party runs from 1 PM to 5 PM this Saturday. In the meantime, check out the photos provided by Ms. Arnold of her new retail space.
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