Italian Restaurant for Cobble Hill
There’s a ton of construction going on around the Bergen Street stop in Cobble Hill, with a laundromat coming, and two other buildings under construction on Bergen. As we first told you last November, one of those spaces, 68 Bergen, is going to be an Italian restaurant. While the construction has picked up steam in…
There’s a ton of construction going on around the Bergen Street stop in Cobble Hill, with a laundromat coming, and two other buildings under construction on Bergen. As we first told you last November, one of those spaces, 68 Bergen, is going to be an Italian restaurant. While the construction has picked up steam in the last week or so, it looks like they still have a way to go before opening day.
New Restaurant Coming to Bergen Street [Brownstoner] GMAP
I just moved away from President 9 months ago. It was bad. It might have just been the one tenant, but he has a lot of friends who hang around all day and night. And yes, he deals. Cars driving up to buy from him all night with their stereo blasting. And one of his brothers is a junkie who sits on the stoop all day in a stupor. From what I was told, they used to be much much worse, harassing people and starting fights.
I know the whole neighborhood isn’t like that. But its also not just this one guy.
Wait, an Italian restaurant for this area? Sending coal to Newcastle…
I heard at least one of them now carries around a baseball bat!!!! And you know what they say about red heads, so just be careful.
oh, yeah, well THOSE guys are notorious!
Actually, trokenmatt and vanessa, it used to be a big problem (you know what building I’m talking about) with lots of pretty, um, shall we say lively neighborhood types (not all of them were bad people, just loud), but the building was bought and the rowdy tenants dispersed… Except for one. The king of them all. And I don’t know of anyone having dealt drugs, just users. But that one guy… Man.
Vanessa, I heard about some red headed thugs on 2nd St / Smith too. Watch out!
trokenmatt,
i’ve heard about that block (pres bet/ clinton and henry) but I thought it was just one isolated tenant – is it worse than that? certainly not a lot of drug dealing and stoop drinking till all hours in most parts of CG i wouldn’t imagine
I would also like to add that one of the deralict looking warehouses on the north side actually houses a few old classic cars – abandoned really – I got a chance to go look them 2 years ago and it was pretty neat!
Not sure why all the hate for Bergen street. It may not be the prettiest block in Cobble/Boerum Hill, but it’s certainly one of the most interesting. Its got some great and some dilapidated shingled houses; carriage houses; art galleries; two elementary schools, a working iron works, and yes, some boarded up construction sites. The site where this Italian restaurant is going was a rat infested s**t-hole for too long. Does the block need a laundromat and an Italian restaurant? No, of course not. But better that than the abandoned sites that were there before. And yes, the actual corner of Bergen & Smith is wasteland (Dunkin Donuts, Dominos, 2 generic bodegas). But within a block in any direction from the corner, there’s great stuff: Hanco’s to the east, the Invisible Dog gallery to the West, Saul to the North, and Paisano’s to the South. You can do a lot worse.
And I live a few doors down from the Church. I can’t hear it from inside my apartment. They are a decent neighbor. Much better than some of the residential neighbors I’ve had to deal with in Carroll Gardens, drug dealing thugs sitting on their stoop drinking and smoking and carrying on until 4 am night after night. Walk down President Street btw. Clinton and Henry on any summer night and you’ll see what I mean.
And if you care whether this block is Cobble Hill or Boerum Hill, you either (a) need a hobby or (b) are seeking to buy or sell real estate on the block. Either way, this is a stupid question.