“[A] very specific subgenre of the more familiar New American Cuisine. It flourishes in the bucolic hinterlands of Boerum Hill and Prospect Heights, the low country of Carroll Gardens and Williamsburg, and the great plains of Park Slope, and has as its common denominator a very New York culinary sophistication melded with a wistfully agrarian passion for the artisanal, the sustainably grown, and the homespun.”
(via Grub Street)
After many months of construction and hard work, new restaurant, Breuckelen (268 Clinton Street at Cobble Hill Park), is getting ready for its big debut. Taking the place of old-school Clinton Cafe, which closed last winter, this market-driven restaurant is just waiting for its final permits and plans on opening doors early September–dinner only at first, brunch coming soon.
(via BoCoCa Land)
Alarms have also been heard outside Manhattan. In recent years, curb cut disputes have arisen in neighborhoods including Dyker Heights, Carroll Gardens and Boerum Hill in Brooklyn, and Throgs Neck in the Bronx. There, some owners have paved over their front yards for off-street parking. But so-called “parking pads” enrage neighbors and, according to city planners like Ms. Burden, threaten the residential character of city blocks.
(via New York Times)