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September 22, 2009

New Restaurant/Bar for Fulton Street

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Some kind of restaurant and/or bar is currently under construction at 946 Fulton Street in Clinton Hill. Word first popped up in a comment thread last week and we've had a handful of readers write in about it. We saw a rather stylish gentleman dismounting from a single-gear bicycle and entering the space this morning, a sign perhaps of an equally stylish establishment? Fulton sure could use it! Anyone know any details? GMAP




Posted by Brownstoner at 11:01 AM | Comments (20)
Categories: Clinton Hill, Streetlevel

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How do you say awesome in English? Oh yeah? Awesome!

Posted by: wasder at September 22, 2009 11:07 AM

I laugh every time I see the latest lemming, moron, peddling in a circle at the stop light. Do hipsters drive model T's also?

Posted by: eh at September 22, 2009 11:07 AM

ya...pedaling.

Posted by: eh at September 22, 2009 11:08 AM

They put three windows in the back of the building to add a little natural light to a building that's like 80 feet deep.

They wanted a garden patio but the building takes up the whole lot depth.

I am a mother f*cking wellspring of information about this place.

Posted by: Lothar of the Clinton Hill People at September 22, 2009 11:33 AM

Good, finally a place to drink away the pain after a visit to the post office.

Posted by: WrathOfGates at September 22, 2009 11:47 AM

If you had been to the Williamsburg post office, you would not complain about the one on Fulton.

Actually, the one on Fulton seems amazingly nice to me. They never lose my packages. The line isn't bad. The workers are even nice.

Posted by: Heather at September 22, 2009 12:01 PM

Heather--you are clearly in an alternate universe where the postal workers are nice in the Fulton street post office. Wish I lived there.

Lothar--what kind of food?

Posted by: wasder at September 22, 2009 12:10 PM

awesome! i used to live right on st james and fulton - now im a little further away - but i'd still come here just because i love the neighborhood... when is the expected open date? [looking forward to more info]

Posted by: emilyahn at September 22, 2009 12:26 PM

"i used to live right on st james and fulton "

That's Biggie's corner!

Posted by: dirty_hipster at September 22, 2009 12:28 PM

In English (my native tongue) there's a word for this sort of news and that word is "Awesome"!

Let the comments commence. In fact, let me help out:

"Hipsters should be shot on sight, stay in Williamsburg, why is it you people only get excited about new businesses when they fit YOUR particular socioeconomic paradigm, the neighborhood was doing just fine without you gentrifiers, go back to Ohio, this place will fail, this place deserves to fail, this place will be worthless when Atlantic Yards is built."

Did I miss anything?

Hope this is the beginning of a new trend on our stretch of Fulton.

Posted by: houseowax at September 22, 2009 12:33 PM

"That's Biggie's corner!"

Hilarious and telling that there was more street cred to be gained from saying that was in Bed Stuy when its nowhere near the border of Clinton Hill and Bed Stuy.

Posted by: wasder at September 22, 2009 12:38 PM

I was told that it would be a Nigerian restaurant.

Posted by: stsaint at September 22, 2009 1:46 PM

Anyone notice that alot of oldtimers in the CH/BS area refer to Clinton Hill as "Clinton Hills" ???

Posted by: dirty_hipster at September 22, 2009 1:59 PM

YES - BIGGIE lived next door to where i lived. but i lived there 10 years after his death... 2007-2009. though i had the luck with living thru the filming of Notorious. [never saw the movie] - now i live above one of the main pipelines in the city - and between a gas station and a row of middle-income hasidic families. i love brooklyn.

Posted by: emilyahn at September 22, 2009 2:23 PM

Lothar- what kind of food?

pls not Nigerian. Or Senegalese. Or anything French-African. If African, Ethiopian would be nice.

Posted by: blowfish at September 22, 2009 2:41 PM

Since there already is an awesome French-African place (Kush) on Putnam and Fulton, I vote for something different. I remember when I was having dinner in the then Liquors looking at what was to be Loulou's. The waiter was evidently opening Loulou's and when he told me that I said "I hope it is anything but French." He, somewhat flustered, told me it would Be "Breton" and fish-oriented, not the French I was used to in the neighborhood.

Posted by: Putnamdenizen at September 22, 2009 3:22 PM

I hope it is not French-African as well. I love Kush, it is really good, but let's have something different. There's already Senegalese at Joloff too. A little variety would be great.

Posted by: 1842 at September 22, 2009 4:24 PM

I'm not sure what kind of food. I meant to ask the guy who was smashing bricks out of the back wall with a sledgehammer but I forgot.

I think the guy who said "Nigerian" is probably going to be correct though, since it's his one and only post ever at Brownstoner. He's in the know.

My neighbor told me Joloff was getting gutted today -- knowing the owner, I'd just assume its more renovation. Anybody know?

Posted by: Lothar of the Clinton Hill People at September 22, 2009 5:03 PM

Joloff gets more face-lifts than Cher.

I'm hoping this place is being started by the guy who used to work at L'acajou, my favorite hang in Manhattan for many years. He supposedly has been looking on Fulton for a location to open up a new place although I was expecting it to be down a block or so near the Funeral home. It was a traditional French food local hangout/old school NY bar with a great atmosphere. I'm not sure if that is what type of food they are going for here, but if it has any bit of the vibe of the place he used to work at, all will be happy.

And to be honest I would love a decent hearty Cassoulet this winter as opposed to just a Maffe all the time...but I'm probably wrong.

Posted by: brokestone at September 22, 2009 10:37 PM

That sounds awesome brokestone. And anyplace serving a good cassoulet on a chilly day would be great...

Posted by: 1842 at September 23, 2009 1:34 PM

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