Posts tagged boerum hill

Painter Ron Gorchov was spotted on Court Street…Boerum Hill, Brooklyn (via South Brooklyn Post)

Painter Ron Gorchov was spotted on Court Street…Boerum Hill, Brooklyn (via South Brooklyn Post)

The Brooklyn Circus Founder Ouigi Theodore…Boreum Hill, Brooklyn, NY (via Modern Destiny)

The Brooklyn Circus Founder Ouigi Theodore…Boreum Hill, Brooklyn, NY (via Modern Destiny)

From Gehry to Pre-Fab!

Developer Bruce Ratner will build the world’s tallest pre-fabricated tower as the first residential building inside his Atlantic Yards mega-project, dealing a blow to labor unions and architecture enthusiasts — whose original support for the development was conditioned on job creation and the promise of a mini city built by starchitect Frank Gehry.

Renderings released on Thursday by SHoP Architects reveal a 32-story building rising at the corner of Dean Street and Flatbush Avenue, just south of the under-construction Barclays Center. (read more at The Brooklyn Paper)

Opening Saturday: Dekalb Market

A new “shipping container” market featuring local shops, an incubator farm, an Internet radio station, and cutting-edge food vendors is scheduled to open on Fulton Mall in Downtown Brooklyn on Saturday, July 23.  Dekalb Market will be a new sustainable retail and community hub, with a portion of the market’s vendors housed in retrofitted shipping containers.

The market will feature a collection of shops, an educational farm, an internet radio station, and food vendors -  as well as providing fun and entertainment for people of all ages. Dekalb Market will be be open seven days a week and is located at the intersection of Flatbush and Willoughby in Downtown Brooklyn.

Trailer: Battle for Brooklyn

This documentary is an intimate look at the very public and passionate fight waged by residents and business owners of Brooklyn’s historic Prospect Heights neighborhood facing condemnation of their property to make way for the polarizing Atlantic Yards project, a massive plan to build 16 skyscrapers and a basketball arena for the New Jersey Nets.

Brooklyn's Ice Cream Social

We’ll admit it, we enjoy ice cream year round.  But it’s especially delicious when the temperatures are scorching - we don’t have to make excuses for how quickly we wolf it down!  We have our favorites (Van Leeuwen, Chinatown Ice Cream Factory, Louie G’s) but BrooklynBased has come up with a few suggestions that will expand our already heady ice cream knowledge and appreciation. 

Image: Earl Grey Ice Cream on Brioche Cookies from the Coolhaus truck (via Eating in Translation)

Van Leeuwen in Boerum Hill

Every time we see a Van Leeuwen Ice Cream Truck, we’re compelled to get a scoop, or two.  Our favorite flavors are Hazelnut and Peppermint & Chip.  However, if you’re craving some of their sweet and creamy treats, and you live near Boerum Hill, you can now walk to their new ice cream parlor for your sugary fix.  They’ll also be serving Intelligentsia coffee and the house-made pastries from the Greenpoint spot.

Van Leeuwen Boerum Hill
81 Bergen Street, Brooklyn

Tri-Annual Clam Shuck Learning how to shuck a clam is a time honored tradition during the summer months, especially at a family clam bake.  Yeah, it’s not the summer, but you can still enjoy mollusc at The Brazen Head’s Tri-Annual Clam Shuck.  Enjoy 1/2 Dozen Little Neck Clams for $4.00, Bluepoint Oysters for $1.00 each, bowls of Clam “Chowda’s” for $2.00 and great Long Island Craft Beers for $5.00 a pint! The Brazen Head228 Atlantic Avenue, Boerum HillSaturday, January 15th, 5-10pm

Tri-Annual Clam Shuck

Learning how to shuck a clam is a time honored tradition during the summer months, especially at a family clam bake.  Yeah, it’s not the summer, but you can still enjoy mollusc at The Brazen Head’s Tri-Annual Clam Shuck.  Enjoy 1/2 Dozen Little Neck Clams for $4.00, Bluepoint Oysters for $1.00 each, bowls of Clam “Chowda’s” for $2.00 and great Long Island Craft Beers for $5.00 a pint!

The Brazen Head
228 Atlantic Avenue, Boerum Hill
Saturday, January 15th, 5-10pm

Self Made NY Presents BACK TO BASICS This aptly titled group exhibition celebrates the sometimes raw, sometimes polished, always fundamental, art form of drawing. Self Made NY531 Atlantic Avenue, Boerum HillOpening Reception: January 13, 2011 @ 7pm

Self Made NY Presents BACK TO BASICS

This aptly titled group exhibition celebrates the sometimes raw, sometimes polished, always fundamental, art form of drawing. 
Self Made NY
531 Atlantic Avenue, Boerum Hill
Opening Reception: January 13, 2011 @ 7pm

Where to See Santa in New York City and Brooklyn Are your kids begging you to take them to see Santa?  Or is your inner child yearning to sit on Santa’s lap and tell him what you want for Christmas?  Luckily, there are plenty of places in New York City to find him - from the very traditional Macy’s to the very unique pancake breakfast with the big man in red!  Read the full and inventive list put together by A Child Grows.  Where’s your favorite place to see Santa?

Where to See Santa in New York City and Brooklyn

Are your kids begging you to take them to see Santa?  Or is your inner child yearning to sit on Santa’s lap and tell him what you want for Christmas?  Luckily, there are plenty of places in New York City to find him - from the very traditional Macy’s to the very unique pancake breakfast with the big man in red!  Read the full and inventive list put together by A Child Grows.  Where’s your favorite place to see Santa?

Barclays Center Update!

The first steel girders of the Barclays Center rose above the corner of Flatbush and Atlantic avenues on Tuesday, a tangible sign that the future home of the Brooklyn Nets is moving forward. (Read more at The Brooklyn Paper)

Brooklyn Flea Outdoor Finale 2010!

This Saturday (November 20th) is the last outdoor Brooklyn Flea of 2010.  The weather is supposed to cooperate with highs in the upper 50’s and partly cloudy skies - It’ll be a perfect sendoff to one of our favorite outside shopping places.  However, starting Thanksgiving weekend, the flea goes indoors Saturdays (its always been indoors on Sundays) at One Hanson until next Spring.  If you were there last weekend, you might have run into Jerry Seinfeld!

Brooklyn Flea
One Hanson Place/Williamsburg Savings Bank
10am-6pm, Free Entrance

Smith Street Soup Festival

On Saturday, Oct. 23, Brooklynites will have the chance to taste over 20 different soups from local purveyors, on a stroll along Brooklyn’s beloved restaurant row between Atlantic Avenue and Carroll Street.

The festival will feature tastings from Seersucker, Verde, Lunetta, Bar Tabac and 17 others — and one $5 ticket ($10 for a family) gets you samples of all of them. (Via The Brooklyn Paper)

Barneys CO-OP Opens on Atlantic Avenue

Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue just got a little bit more fashionable with the opening of Barneys CO-OP - a less expensive sister store to Barneys New York featuring an upscale selection of new and established designers for fashionistas and clotheshorses. 

Barneys CO-OP
194 Atlantic Avenue, Cobble Hill/Boerum Hill

Brooklyn Eateries Getting All the Fanfare From New Zagat List

It’s no surprise that Brooklyn boasts some of the city’s best restaurants: old standbys such as Peter Luger’s Steak House in Williamsburg, Park Slope’s Italian Al Di La and Middle Eastern spot Tanoreen in Bay Ridge were again heralded as having the city’s “Top Food” in the newest Zagat restaurant guide.

Legendary Midwood pizza parlor Di Fara, where owner Domenico DeMarco, 73, still makes every pie by hand for lines of customers that stretch out the door, once again hit the top food list. (Read more at NY Daily News)