Patrick Watson and Michele Pravda, the couple behind Smith & Vine, Stinky Bklyn, and the JakeWalk, will open their second wine shop in a few weeks, next to Trader Joe’s on Court Street. The shop will be called the Brooklyn Wine Exchange. It’ll be nice to have a wine shop right near TJ’s, but I [...]
Archive | November, 2009
Cobble Hill & Carroll Gardens walking tours
Lost City has announced walking tours of Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens. The Cobble Hill tour will take place on Sunday, December 13 at 11:00 am, and the Carroll Gardens tour will take place on Sunday, December 20, at 11:00 am. More information can be found here, and reservations can be made by emailing lostcitybrooks@gmail.com. [...]
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Leftovers Friday
Here’s to hoping everyone had a fun and food-filled Thanksgiving, and is having a leftover turkey/stuffing/cranberry sauce sandwich filled Friday. A few bits about what’s going on in the nabe: The Post reports that Lucali has been given the go-ahead to keep a mobster on its payroll, Jonathan Lethem has added another reading of Chronic [...]
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Great Gowanus Pilgrimage Pre-Thanksgiving Scavenger Hunt
Head to the Bell House (149 7th Street) at 5pm today for happy hour and to sign up for the Great Gowanus Pilgrimage Pre-Thanksgiving Scavenger Hunt. It’s $5 per person to participate, with 2-4 people per team. Free shots along the way! E-mail scavengerhunt@thebellhouseny.com to register.
In the mood for adventure? We thought so . . [...]
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Fire at Smith and Warren Streets
There was a fire today next to the barber shop on Smith Street. Brownstoner has pictures of the blaze, during and after.
The rise of the local chain
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CNN features a story on a “new” phenomenon: the local chain. And what better area to focus on than Smith Street, where Patrick Watson and his wife Michelle Pravda have a mini-empire with Smith & Vine, Stinky Bklyn, and the Jakewalk. Also mentioned in the story is Loretta Gendville, owner [...]
Inflated rents lead to empty storefronts
The Daily News spoke to Brooklyn small business owners who were left with no choice but to vacate the their space due to inflated rents. Mentioned in the article are Kyung Dong Oh and his wife Kyung Ja Oh, who closed the doors to their Cobble Hill dry cleaners for good in March of last [...]
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D’Amico’s 59-year coffee roaster
Featured in a NY Post article about New Yorkers who’ve been at their jobs for 40 or more years is Frank D’Amico, who started working at his father’s coffee shop, D’Amico Foods, on Court Street 59 years ago. Frank, 82, has passed the store down to his son, Frank Jr., but still works a few [...]
Tasti D Lite shut down
Following last week’s seizure of Tasti D Lite on Court Street, there’s now a large sign in the window that says “Closed, Thank you for your patronage.” Well, there go the two fully-punched cards I have waiting to be traded in for free medium-sized frozen confections. I’d like a self-serve fro-yo place take over the [...]
Spotted: Sotomayor on Smith Street
Politico reports a Justice Sonia Sotomayor sighting:
A rare benefit of being a Brooklyn based political reporter: Michael Crowley tweets, “It’s not every night you sit down in a Brooklyn restaurant (Po) and notice a Supreme Court justice (Sotomayor) two tables away.”
“She left her purse on a chair; stern-faced security guys came back for it about [...]
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