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Michelin recognizes Bib Gourmand restaurants

By on September 30, 2009 in Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens, Food, Park Slope

picture-3Michelin released its 2010 list of New York’s more affordable Bib Gourmand restaurants, which means that two dishes and a glass of wine or dessert come in at under $40 (not including tax and tip). Of the 18 Brooklyn restaurants on the list, 4 are neighborhood favs: Buttermilk Channel, Char No. 4, Frankies 457 Spuntino, and Prime Meats. Park Slope and Williamsburg spots like Egg and Sette also made the cut.

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Tea Lounge closing

By on September 28, 2009 in Park Slope

picture-21Lost City reports that the Tea Lounge on Court Street, which opened in 2006, will soon close its doors for good. While the closing date isn’t certain (and the news seems to be mostly word of mouth), its last day of service could be as soon as the last day of September. UPDATE: We’ve gotten confirmation that the Court Street Tea Lounge will close after this Wednesday, September 30th. The Tea Lounge on Seventh Avenue and 10th Street in Park Slope was closed last July, making the Tea Lounge on Union Street in Park Slope the last one remaining.

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Amy Sohn at BookCourt Tuesday

By on September 14, 2009 in Arts and Entertainment, Events, Park Slope

picture-20Amy Sohn will speak about her newest book, Prospect Park West, at BookCourt tomorrow at 7pm. Could be pretty exciting if Smartmom shows up. From BookCourt:

Brooklyn’s famed Park Slope neighborhood has it all: sprawling, majestic Prospect Park; acclaimed public schools; historic brownstones; and progressive values. Among bohemian bourgeois breeders, claiming a stake in Park Slope has become a competitive sport.

In the park, at the coffee shops, and on the playgrounds of the neighborhood, four women’s lives come together during one long, hot Brooklyn summer. Melora Leigh, a two-time Oscar-winning actress, frustrated with her career and the pressures of raising her adopted toddler, feels the seductive pull of kleptomania; Rebecca Rose, missing the robust sex life of her pre-motherhood days, begins a dangerous flirtation with a handsome neighborhood celebrity; Lizzie O’Donnell, a former lesbian (or “hasbian”), wonders why she is still drawn to women in spite of her sexy husband and adorable baby; and Karen Bryan Shapiro finds herself consumed by two powerful obsessions: her four-year-old son’s well-being and snagging the ultimate three-bedroom apartment in a wellmaintained, P.S. 321-zoned co-op building. As the women’s paths intertwine (and sometimes collide), each must struggle to keep her man, her sanity…and her playdates.

From the perennially hot author and columnist Amy Sohn comes a smart, sexy, satirical peek into the bedrooms and hearts of Prospect Park West.

 

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New bar from owners of BGH

By on August 21, 2009 in Park Slope

The owners of Bar Great Harry are opening a new bar named Mission Dolores in Park Slope this fall. Mission Dolores is a Catholic Church in California, and the oldest standing structure in San Francisco. Think that’s where the inspiration came from? The bar’s going to have heated floors, and while it’s painful to think about heat coming from the floor right now, it’s going to be welcome come the winter.

Metromix: 249B Fourth Ave. between Carroll and President Sts.
The brothers behind Smith Street beer den Bar Great Harry are opening another brew-centric watering hole, right next to Cattyshack on Fourth Avenue in Park Slope. Mission Dolores, as it’s called, will serve 24 craft beers and one cask ale on tap-18 American, plus six Belgian and German-as well as a handful of DUB meat pies, like it’s done back at Bar Great Harry. The furniture and materials will mostly be salvaged, and the space is “bizarre,” according to co-owner Mike Wiley, who describes it as “a huge Vol de Nuit,” which as far as we’re concerned sounds great. Bonus: Heated floors. The better for lying on the ground in the winter? Pacific Standard, watch your thoughtful, pleasant back. (Late September/early October)

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Sex and the stroller moms

By on July 7, 2009 in Arts and Entertainment, Celebrity Residents, Park Slope, Real Estate

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As if the rumor that Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick are the new owners of Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany’s Prospect Park West townhouse wasn’t enough excitement for stroller moms up and down the streets of Park Slope, Publishers Lunch announced last week that HBO and Parker’s production company optioned Prospect Park West, a chick-lit book written by Amy Sohn. (Thanks to a tipster, we know that Sohn’s mother lives in Brooklyn Heights and used to own a business on Cranberry Street.)

Publishers Lunch: Amy Sohn’s forthcoming PROSPECT PARK WEST, a sexy “mommy romp” set over one steamy Brooklyn summer as four women’s lives collide, sold to HBO and Sarah Jessica Parker’s production company, Pretty Matches, with Sohn creating and writing the pilot, via agent Daniel Greenberg at Levine Greenberg, with Creative Artists Agency.

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G train expansion: almost here!

By on July 1, 2009 in Park Slope, Transportation
Photo from Brownstoner.

Photo from Brownstoner.

We reported a month and a half ago that the G train route would be expanded south past Smith-9th Street to the Church Avenue F station, and thanks to the above photo sent into Brownstoner, it  looks like it’s finally happening.

This photo was just submitted by a tipster along with the comment, “Evidence that they may actually finally be extending the G train to Church.” In fact, service to Church Avenue is scheduled to start July 5. For more background on the track work and reroutings can be found here.

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Free jazz concert to kick off holiday weekend

By on June 30, 2009 in Arts and Entertainment, Events, Park Slope

Debbie Deane, a Brooklyn-based jazz-influenced singer-songwriter is going to play a free concert at Park Slope’s Tea Lounge (37 Union Street between 6th and 7th Ave) on Friday, July 3 to kick-off the 4th of July weekend. Debbie will be supporting her most recent album, Grove House, which was released on Ravi Coltrane’s RKM Records. This is one of Debbie’s very few local performances of the year. There will be 2 sets, at 9:00 pm and 10:30 pm.

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PortSide NewYork fundraiser tomorrow

By on June 12, 2009 in Events, Maritime, Park Slope, Red Hook

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Tomorrow, June 13, is the first-ever fundraiser held by PortSide NewYork, a young, innovative non-profit organization with diverse programs are about water and the waterfront. PortSide NewYork plans to create waterfront access, arts and recreational boating events, jobs, historical products and policy-programs for diverse economic groups and individuals. The fundraiser is taking place tomorrow evening from 6-9 pm at the Brooklyn Lyceum (227 Fourth Avenue @ President Street in Park Slope). Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, a major supporter of all things waterfront, will speak at the event, which will include food and wine. A large format multimedia installation of images and sounds from PortSide and the harbor will bring the waterfront inside. Proceeds from the fundraiser will support planning and interim programming in Atlantic Basin and shipping of the last two engine cylinders for the Whalen from Seattle. Tickets are $50 and may be purchased here. If you’re free tomorrow, go and show your support!

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Birth Dearth at LICH

By on May 28, 2009 in Health, News, Park Slope

According to The Brooklyn Paper:

jsw_babyLong Island College Hospital is in the midst of a precipitous drop in births this year, months after threatening to shut its maternity ward, a decline that is resulting in large increases in deliveries at other Brooklyn hospitals, including a record number of births in 48 hours at one medical center.

Last year, Continuum Health Partners, the hospital consortium that manages LICH, tried to shut down its obstetrics and pediatrics practices, citing high cost of malpractice insurance and low reimbursement levels. However, the State Department of Health denied Continuum’s application to close those departments, citing, among other things, the lack of capacity to handle patient overflow at other Brooklyn hospitals. Now those hospitals are, in some instances, being overwhelmed with additional deliveries, despite several LICH obstetricians having transferred their practices to one of them, Methodist Hospital in Park Slope.

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Sharif Abdallah death ruled a homicide

By on May 22, 2009 in Carroll Gardens, News, Park Slope

The death of 17-year-old Carroll Gardens resident Sharif Abdallah has been ruled a homicide, but according to the New York Times, the four people already arrested with assault charges would not face any additional charges.

The medical examiner ruled this month that the March 8 death was a homicide because the teenager, Sharif Abdallah, 17, of Carroll Gardens in Brooklyn, developed an irregular, fatal heartbeat after the fight because of a pre-existing heart problem.

NYT: But Jerry Schmetterer, a spokesman for the Brooklyn district attorney’s office, said there would be no change in the charges against the four defendants: Dominick Barbera, 18; Angelo Bracco, 42; and his sons Christian Bracco, 16; and Eric Bracco, 18. The credible testimony before the grand jury does not support making any change in the charges, Mr. Schmetterer said.

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