Streetlevel: The Return of Chicory on Degraw
Chicory, a popular Cobble Hill spot for an affordable meal or reliable take-out which closed earlier last year, looks poised for a re-opening. The storefront space at 243 Degraw Street has paper in the windows and workers have been spotted coming in and out in recent days. We’re not sure whether the re-opening is happening…
Chicory, a popular Cobble Hill spot for an affordable meal or reliable take-out which closed earlier last year, looks poised for a re-opening. The storefront space at 243 Degraw Street has paper in the windows and workers have been spotted coming in and out in recent days. We’re not sure whether the re-opening is happening under the auspices of the restaurant’s founder or whether there’s new management—the place was for sale last year for somewhere north of $200,000. GMAP
BH- I’m more looking at the next 10-15 years out. Take the areas recently gentrified. Now look at the public school system. Take the rate of growth in the grade schools recently filled by new Brooklynites. Multiply that into the non existent middle school system and into the crippled at best high school system.
2010-2020 NYC DOE better be ready if the optimists plan on staying.
I disagree with you prodigal son and think Brookyln can be a great place for kids as they grow up. I’ve lived in Brooklyn 24 years (mid forties guy, so by not a lifer) and have raised two teenagers in here. Lots of kids that my children grew up with are still here. They all seem to be doing very well.
” its nice to know there are some locals left here..”
Same here lifer, same here.
There are a good number of us – dwindling, but we’re still here!
99- a “lifer” I believe is someone who was born and raised here. And an emphatic “no” as to the influx of families adding a potentially bigger lot of “lifers”. Lots of newcomers arrive here and stake a claim. Once they get the kids into the various grade schools, a smaller group stay for middle school and even fewer go the extra mile to actually send their kid to high school in Brooklyn, public or private. New Brooklyn has an oddly optimistic view of how great it is here. It gets worse when the kids get older. And the next 10-15 years will give people many reasons to go back to wherever they came from.
What makes a lifer? And aren’t the influx of families that have moved into the hood over the last few years adding a potentially bigger lot of the next generation of lifers?
Cobblehiller-Judging by most of your posts I am sure we at least have mutual friends, I too was a product of P.S.29 ,I wont turn this into a “remember when” post but its nice to know there are some locals left here..
cggirl, that was Ebel’s – I loved that place! – where the laundry/cleaner’s is now.
Hindy was the grocery next to Sam’s – it’s a Korean owned grocery now. I think Hindy’s family still own the building?
Dom was the best! Was Hindy’s the ice cream parlor on Court St?
“Having grown up around the corner”
Lifer, I think I must know you, at least by sight?! : )
I remember Dom’s very well. I could walk there at a very early age because I didn’t have to cross any streets to get there…in fact, I still can!
I hope they do reopen, but I also hope they can manage the menu a bit more evenly. It wasn’t unusual to call for a delivery only to find that they were out of stuff.
Bet you remember Hindy’s too!?