Streetlevel: Wassup at Court and Sackett?
As Lost City noted, the boarded-up former OTB location at 320 Court Street in Cobble Hill had some new building permits slapped up last week. The site’s been dormant for the past couple of years, and there’ve been beaucoup rumors floating around that the P.J. Hanley’s guys have something to do with this. There’s nothing…
As Lost City noted, the boarded-up former OTB location at 320 Court Street in Cobble Hill had some new building permits slapped up last week. The site’s been dormant for the past couple of years, and there’ve been beaucoup rumors floating around that the P.J. Hanley’s guys have something to do with this. There’s nothing incriminating among the DOB applications; it looks like just structural and systems work right now. Anyone know what the plan is? Update: Consensus building in comments in favor of oyster bar. GMAP
hopefully the hanleys people do a better job than their crappy bar or their lame south brooklyn pizza place.
I wish they brougt the OTB back, that place was great. I use to love watching the retired old skool neighborhood folk gambling away their pensions…
Before the boards went up 2 weeks ago, we noticed one of the permits in the window had the word “huîtres” (“oyster” in French) on it, so more circumstantial evidence for areakidsbrooklyn’s theory.
(Please be an oyster bar!)
The owner of PJ Hanleys owns the building and has been doing his restaurant renovation on and off for 4 years…..
They actually are very far along. It will be a french restaurant with oysters I think…. I have only heard the same concept since the beginning from the owner himself.
I own Area Yoga upstairs and can not wait for the work to be done finally!
Hey Pete I heard you are designing yoga wear for dogs and their owners to match ! Great idea!!!
Hanley’s are doing something new in the area i heard…
Walked by there the other day when the plywood was open where the doors would be– I could have sworn I saw what looked like the brick arch of a pizza oven?
OTBs are insolvent. They actually cost the state to run rather than generating a profit so they are being closed.
Oh Pete, if I’d flirt with you then I’d flirt with anyone 😉
i think i read an article somewhere that all OTBs are in danger of closing for some reason. i forget.
A few years ago when the space was initially de-OTB’d, it was being built out as a bistro kind of place. I wandered in there one day during the construction – looked like some nice woodwork going on. Then it just stopped. The owners were pretty nice – they gave me a small piece of sheetrock that I needed to finish installing a new medicine cabinet in my bathroom.