Ample Hills Creamery for Vanderbilt and S'Max
Remember when we told you about Lucas Fine foods closing, but with the promise that Ample Hills Creamery, the ice cream sold there, would open a storefront in Prospect Heights this spring? From the Ample Hills Facebook page comes word that a lease was signed on a corner storefront at Vanderbilt Avenue and St. Marks…
Remember when we told you about Lucas Fine foods closing, but with the promise that Ample Hills Creamery, the ice cream sold there, would open a storefront in Prospect Heights this spring? From the Ample Hills Facebook page comes word that a lease was signed on a corner storefront at Vanderbilt Avenue and St. Marks Avenue. We’re guessing it’s the charming storefront at 623 Vanderbilt, which is pictured. As the Fork in the Road notes, “Together with the Blue Marble outpost on Underhill Avenue and the $9 gelato sold at Bklyn Larder, [this] may establish Prospect Heights as an unlikely artisanal ice cream vortex.” GMAP
DH, you have the luewellean (so?) ice cream truck in WB.
I would pay extra for hand cranked (or faux hand cranked) icey creamy plain ice cream like from when we were kids growing up in hippie California in the 1970s. Also would pay more for ice cream with fruit flash frozen at the peak of ripeness, but all of these use some boring jam like purée they buy, ho hum.
Hello all…
Just wanted to say hi, and thank Brenda from Flatbush for actually getting the reference to Walt Whitman’s ample hills! Thank you! My wife told me that all people would see was a porn name… Yes, she warned me, but the literary and historical pull was too great…
Our plan is to open in April. We’ll feature 28 flavors of house-made ice cream, along with custom ice cream cakes and pies… and we’ll make everything on-site. In fact we’ll be the only ice cream shop in Brooklyn to pasteurize our own mix, starting with local milk, cream, eggs, sugar, etc., and we’ll do it all in full view of the public.
We had a great time last weekend, giving away some free samples on that beautiful Sunday, meeting people. We’re looking forward to opening, being a part of the community.
thanks, Brian
yurban trash love rebranding shit so of course they will turn st. marks into s’max. they are SO original! barf
*rob*
St Marks Ave, not Place, but — fwiw — I’ve never seen that abbrev either.
Eek- that’s right. For what it’s worth, I’ve lived a block away from both at different times, so honest mistake.
But I like the idea of people running around calling it smax ave. (or smax place, which it pretty much was when I lived in the east village…)
How can anyone hear “ample hills” and not think of “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” by Walt Whitman? (“Brooklyn of ample hills was mine.”) They put the quote on their website for the poetry-impaired…
St Marks Ave, not Place, but — fwiw — I’ve never seen that abbrev either.
Perhaps only of interest to neighborhood history nerds like me, but Vanderbilt Ave was once well known for its ice cream parlors. Apparently between the 1920s and 50s, parishioners from St Joseph’s (the huge RC church on Pacific St, one of the biggest in the borough) would stop for ice cream, milk shakes and the like along the avenue. The bar SODA is a relic of that era.
I used to live one block away from St. Marks Place, and have never seen it abbreviated in the way that the title of this post does. Is that common? S’Max?
The Salted Caramel Apple Pie at Four and Twenty Blackbirds in Gowanus is the best thing EVER!
BrooklynIsHome, thank you.