Open and Shut
Bed Stuy Lewis Gallery, which has been in the neighborhood for 21 years, is closing its doors according to Bed Stuy Patch. The will be one last fundraiser held at the gallery on March 25th. The proceeds will go to a social justice group for young women of color. Also, the Brooklyn Free Store, a…
Bed Stuy
Lewis Gallery, which has been in the neighborhood for 21 years, is closing its doors according to Bed Stuy Patch. The will be one last fundraiser held at the gallery on March 25th. The proceeds will go to a social justice group for young women of color. Also, the Brooklyn Free Store, a charming, if mysterious, shop/project on Walworth Street burnt down over the weekend. Bed Stuy Blog reports that there are plans to rebuild, but the new location is unknown.
Cobble Hill
Brooklyn Paper shares the good news that Book Court has expanded to the lower level, where it now offers an array of bargain books. Come summer, the space will become a saloon-style room, selling coffee, wine, and other non-reading materials. Over in Carroll Gardens, Carroll Gardens Patch wonders about the four empty storefronts on Smith Street, where “the shabby shape of these storefronts has begun to affect business.”
Williamsburg
Curbed reports that the Hotel Williamsburg will be welcoming in some chic “Brooklyn purveyors” including chocolatiers, cheese mongers, designers, a rental record station and an “urban rustic” restaurant. Eater also digs up a few details about the hush-hush Williamsburg restaurant on Wythe and South 2nd. “We hear that the chef will be Uruguayan toque Ignacio Mattos, recently of Il Buco. And more importantly, the vibe will be hippie, not hipster.” Finally, New York Shitty spots the grand opening of a bodega on Franklin Street in Greenpoint.
After the jump, Housing Works Comes to Park Slope and Seasons opens in the Heights…
Park Slope
Here’s Park Slope suspects the short-lived King of Cupcakes, which is closed for renovations, is permanently shut. HPS also takes a peak into Yogo Monster, which is reopening after renovations. An Austrian restaurant called Der Kommissar is planned for the corner of 5th Avenue and 15th Street in South Slope. HPS notes it will be opened by the previous owners of Open Source Gallery, which was displaced by a fire. Last but not least, there’s the exciting news that Housing Works is moving into the storefront at 5th and Garfield.
In Brooklyn Heights, BHB gets an early taste of Seasons, the new restaurant on Henry Street opened by the owners of Ditmas Park’s Picket Fence. Has anyone given it a try? Over in Prospect Heights, Prospect Heights Patch gets a sneak peak at Ample Hill Creamery, coming to 623 Vanderbilt on April 19th. Nostrand Park gives all the details on Franklin Avenue’s revamped Fischer Supermarket in Crown Heights, which we told you was reopening last week. Great news for Crown Heights residents: there will be an expanded organic selection, a “focus on fair pricing” and, best of all, will be open 24 hours! In other grocery store related news, Brooklyn Paper attended the grand opening of a new natural food market in Flatbush.
I think all will prosper, Jessi. When it comes to things like vintage stores, having more than one in an area seems to help because vintage shoppers really seek these places out and it now makes 5th Avenue even more attractive as a vintage/resale shopping destination. Just on 5th there is:
1 Beacons Closet
2 Odd Twin
3 Guvnor’s
4 Two Lovers
5 Housing Works coming
6 Life Emporium (amazing new place on 5th and 13th)
7 Monk
So it makes a nice day for those interested in resale to come and browse the whole strip….ya know?
11217 – do you think PS will be able to support all of the resale stores? Or will Housing Works knock the others out of the running?
CGar, sleep well tonight.
jessi, just got it when I read your post! As you may have read in the OT, I’m suffering from severe sleep deprivation from insomnia the past 2 nights.
Come on, CGar. You know this one. He’s trying to at least stop spelling it out to protect those that keep getting pissed off that he uses the term that he made up.
*rob*, I’m afraid to ask, but what’s “MF-ville”?
normally it would mean both ice cream shoppes would try to lower their prices to compete, but in the backwards world of MF-ville most likely they will both just out jackup each others prices instead! it’s like bizarro economics
*rob*
That new ice cream place is close to Blue Marble.
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a “focus on fair pricing”
that made me laugh
*rob*
I also had the same reaction about Book Court! Phew.
The new downstairs space sounds cool, but I hope serving food/drink there won’t change their dog-friendly policy upstairs… Browsing there with the pooch is one of our favorite neighborhood activities.