Celebrating Community
It looks like Brooklyn Bread might have broken the jinx that affected a string of failed restaurants on the corner of First Place and Court Street, in Carroll Gardens. Their expanded deli looks like a hit! The move was only one block away over on Court Street, but was much more significant for the cafe, as it has allowed the […]
Sahadi’s, the James Beard Award-winning specialty grocery that spans three storefronts on Atlantic Avenue, has become a part of Sunset Park’s commercial fabric after opening in Industry City two months ago. It’s just a few blocks from their production facility, which houses an 18-foot-tall roaster that freshly roasts top quality nuts and seeds, stores thousands of pallets of imported delicacies […]
The 200-foot-long Doyers Street in New York City’s Chinatown was infamously known as the “Bloody Angle,” due to the street’s natural sharp bend and the criminal activity and bloodshed that took place between warring gangs in the early 1900s and late 1980s. More recently it’s been recognized in singer Justin Timberlake’s 2013 “Take Back the Night” music video, with Timberlake […]
Barbetta – the oldest Italian restaurant in New York and oldest restaurant in the Theatre District at 113 years old – is outfitted in four townhouses that date back from 1874 to 1881. Its outside is deceiving, given the brownstone façade and shielding trees, and you might pass it by during the day if you don’t carefully look to see […]
If you live in Brooklyn and have eaten bagels and lox during a Sunday brunch, there’s a good chance that the fish came from Acme. Acme has been distributing smoked fish from its Greenpoint warehouse since the mid-1950s. But the story didn’t start then. A brief history Russian immigrant Harry Brownstein came to Brooklyn in 1905 and distributed smoked fish, […]
Pickles are one of those condiments that you either love or hate. Brooklyn Whatever, a Flatbush-based pickling company, does pickling differently. For starters, they do not sell pickles – instead they pickle every other kind of vegetable you can imagine. Beets, string beans and carrots are just a few. To stand out from the crowd, their lines of products all […]