Open and Shut

Park Slope
Fornino‘s Park Slope location is officially closed. The owner will operate a concession stand at Brooklyn Bridge Park this summer, as well as open a location at 849 Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint. (Photo by jmoranmoya.) Here’s Park Slope wonders if Le Pain Quotidien is moving into the old Moutard spot, where paper has been up on the windows since early December. Grub Street checks out the new Franny’s on Flatbush Avenue and the Italian restaurant that’s moving into the old location, called Marco’s. An Indian/Chinese restaurant called Fusion City is moving into 310 9th Street, at 5th Avenue. A bar with a lounge feel will open in six to eight weeks at 223 7th Avenue. Landhaus left its popup shop on Union Avenue; it will be replaced by People’s Pops in April. Landhaus will sell at the Brooklyn Flea and Smorgasburg this summer.

North Brooklyn
Eater tours OTB, a Williamsburg tavern “with a racetrack theme.” It just opened at 141 Broadway. The fashion boutique Sword-Smith is holding an official opening party this Friday at its shop on South 4th Street. And in Bushwick, Fritzl’s Lunch Box is open and serving soups, salads, fish, pasta, wine and beer.

Elsewhere
Over in Gowanus, a Checkers Burger Chain set up signage at 3rd Avenue between 13th and 14th streets. Brooklyn Flea fave PizzaMoto is seeking donations to open its first brick and mortar restaurant in Red Hook. The Kensington Food Co-Op is set to open by September 2014. It’ll operate as a “buying club,” much like the Flatbush Food Co-Op. The land on which popular Sheepshead Bay diner El Greco sits has been put up for sale, asking $17.5 million. The business is not part of the deal. Finally the fro-yo chain Orange Leaf will open at 345 Adams Street in Downtown Brooklyn. The commercial space in the building is now 100 percent occupied.