Photo from The Feed.
Remember when we reported a while back that Marco Polo would be expanding to a wine bar? The Feed has a first look at Enoteca on Court, the wine and small-plates bar opened up by Marco Polo owner Joseph Chirico and his son, Marco, that replaced Marco Polo To Go. Enoteca on Court features an international wine list along with pizzas, panini, and small plates (the food, wood-burning oven and outdoor garden area seem to be left over from Marco Polo To Go).
To celebrate its opening weekend, the BKLYN Yard (formerly known as the Yard) is hosting Parked!, a celebration of the city’s best food trucks, including Pizzamoto, Red Hook Huarache Vendors, Green Pirate Juice Truck, and more. The event is free and open to the public from noon to 7pm this Saturday, May 23, at the BKLYN Yard, 388-400 Carroll St (btw Bond and Nevins).
The G train route will soon be extended south past Smith-9th Street to the Church Avenue F station.
Brooklyn Eagle: The through service to the new terminal, which would make repairs on the overhead “Culver Viaduct” over the Gowanus Canal easier, will begin on June 7. The viaduct has deteriorated to the extent that much of its exterior structure is shrouded with black netting to protect passers-by. If the trains turn around at Church Avenue, further south, it will free up some of the tracks on the viaduct for needed repairs.
There were two shocking crimes in the neighborhood this week — a violent mugging and a subway slashing.
First, three punks mugged a 56-year-old man on May 13, punching and kicking him before stealing his wallet. The incident happened in front of a Wyckoff Street parking lot, near Court Street, at 3:50 pm. The man was walking with a friend when the kids jumped him, and then fled eastbound down Wyckoff.
And then, on May 15, a 14-year-old girl was on the northbound R-train at 7:30 pm when a man came up to her and tried to steal her Sidekick cellphone from her hand. The girl refused, and the man pulled out a knife and slashed her hand, before darting out of the car at the Pacific/Fourth Avenue subway station. The girl left go, and called cops when she got home.
Senator Daniel Squadron and Assemblywoman Joan Millman have drafted a bill that would require car owners to buy permits to legally park in Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, and Boerum Hill. The proposal would allow the city to sell the residential parking permits to drivers, but would keep commercial streets open for metered parking. This would benefit residents downtown Brooklyn communities, which are popular places for commuters from further into Brooklyn to park their cars during the workday to have a shorter subway trip into Manhattan. The money raised from the permits would be transferred to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to use on subway and bus improvements. Continue Reading →
The Geen Ween Band (the newest inventive rock group from Gene Ween, the iconic frontman of the critically acclaimed, seminal alternative band Ween) will play at a benefit for the arts at PS 29 this Thursday, May 21. The show, presented by the PS 29 PTA to benefit the arts program at the school, will take place in the PS 29 auditorium at 425 Henry Street (between Baltic and Kane) at 7:00pm (doors at 6:30). Tickets are $15 for adults and $8 for children and PS 29 staff and can be purchased here (they will be under your name at the door).
This interesting tidbit arrived in our tips mailbox today:
Tonight at Goodbye Blue Monday, there’s a showcase of (almost) all bands from Trader Joe’s Brooklyn (click here for info).
Maybe people would come out to support the crew members they pester
incessantly about when the goddamn veggie riblets are coming back
(SOON I SWEAR I SWEAR OK?)It’s not officially endorsed by the company or anything, but a bunch
of the bands (who are all friends of mine) were able to work something
out together. That store is like a hothouse of struggling musicians
trying to get a break.
Who’s gonna check it out??
Photo from the Daily News.
It may have opened only a week ago, but Watty & Meg is already full of history, thanks to bar shelves from an Astoria bookshop, banquettes that were once church pews in Harlem, and wall tiles from the old City Hall. Continue Reading →
Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America) debuted his latest play at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota this weekend: The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures. The play is set in Carroll Gardens, and examines the connections between three Italian-American siblings – two of them gay – and their families. The siblings gather over a long weekend in 2007 to deal with their suicidal 75-year-old father, a longtime widower and retired union longshoreman who’s watched his leftist belief system rendered irrelevant over the years. Let’s get this play to Brooklyn!
Ralph Gorham got back to Brooklyn late last night–his truck packed with ice and about 500 pounds of fresh Maine lobster. ”These were in the water five hours ago,” he told us as he started unloading the lobsters into his suddenly-hot hole in the wall in Red Hook, the Red Hook Lobster Pound, on Van Brunt Street.
The table-maker turned lobster-runner knows his way around the docks in Maine, and drives up every Thursday, hunting down the freshest and best-looking lobsters you’re likely to find in the City. Once he’s filled his truck, he hauls it back to Brooklyn, puts the lobsters in tanks, and usually sells out of the entire haul by late Friday. Why go to Red Hook for lobster? How does $9 sound?
Gorham admits he’s a little bit crazy, but totally devoted to bringing the best seafood he can find to his ‘hood, and giving families who can’t afford to eat lobster in a restaurant a gourmet meal without leaving them broke.
The catch goes quick–so call ahead to see what’s still swimming in Ralph’s tanks: 646.326.7650. And watch the site later for a video post on Ralph and his Maine runs and why he’s pickier about your lobster dinner than you are.
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