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The Georges-Andre Cafe at 558 Halsey Street in Bed Stuy now has a Parisian-style cafe terrace with iron barrier, along with a matching bike/stroller rack near the curb and a tree guard with wooden bench. The cafe had the iron work custom made earlier this month.

Owner Karine Petitnicolas, aka SuperFrench, called the seating area a “Parisian flair terrace” on the cafe’s Facebook page. Click through to the jump to see the bench and rack, which customers have also used to tie up their pooches. GMAP

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  1. I recommend that whoever decided to visit the Cafe on a rainy day to take a photo of the *outside* seating area, go check it out now (I was just there an hour ago, warm and sunny day, the front set up very nicely with benches and tables and chairs, people hanging out, having their morning coffees and pastries…) The photo shown does not do it justice at all, as the seating area is not set up (duh, maybe because it was a rainy, gloomy day…) I am wondering what the intentions of this article really are, frankly. (You can visit the Facebook page to see the proper thing!)

    Aside from the badly timed, badly photographed blurb that does injustice to the Cafe’s new outside seating, thank you for writing about the ONLY real, proper, cozy, comfortable cafe with delicious pastries and well-made, strong, not-burnt or overdone coffee in the neighborhood (one exception for good pastries and coffee is Saraghina, but they are not open before 8 AM, and I consider them more a restaurant than a cafe). It is difficult to find a place in Bed-Stuy (in a lot of neighborhoods actually) that has everything: comfy couches (instead of the bare table and chairs that look like a cafeteria or a canteen), good music that is not too loud (as opposed to banging loud music, which, no matter how much you may like the songs, is annoying after a while), neighbors who are willing to say hi and chat, an owner who is friendly and always looking to improve things, and friendly and knowledgable staff. The Cafe has its quiet times and rowdier moments, and if you want to experience the calmer moments, ask the owner for good times to visit. Neighborhood groups (block associations, parents with babies, etc.) sometimes meet here, so you may want to be a part of that or you may want to avoid those times, depending on your needs.

  2. I’m going to give them the benefit of the doubt and assuming they’re just being pretentiously tongue-in-cheek with the exaggerated description of “iron rail partition” that so many cafes have in NYC.

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