All those with the urge to start a food business – here’s your chance! As some of you may have read a few months ago if you are on our e-blast list, or if you follow the I Love Franklin Ave blog, NYC Economic Development Corporation is looking to have a food incubator hosted in Crown Heights. Well,...

On Saturday June 11th, the St. Marks Avenue Independent Block Association is hosting its 2nd Annual Summer Street Festival.  The festival will run from 10am – 3pm along St. Marks Avenue between Brooklyn & New York.  In what is quickly growing into an area tradition, The St. Marks Avenue...

We reported earlier that legendary singer – performer, Lady Miss Kier – of Deee-Lite – Grooves in Crown Heights, Brooklyn and we posted her HOT,  new DJ Video. Now on Saturday, May 28th, the legendary singer will be a Guest Deee-Jay @ BANZAI at The Red Lotus Room – 893 Bergen...

Photo – Abeni Garrett – All Rights Reserved – copyright 2011 Fisher’s Supermarket – which is scheduled to reopen this Friday – has been renamed Bob & Betty’s Food Market – in honor of owner Tony Fisher’s parents – the original owners. The...

Crown Heights – Brownstones East Of Nostrand Ave. cica 2010 – Abeni Garrett Curbed recently wrote an article about the Prospect Heights Condo Boom Swallowing Up Crown Heights and it’s in article renaming parts of “desirable” Crown Heights as “ProCro”. And...

After what, by all accounts, seems to be a very successful first couple of months, the owners of Pacific Oasis Cafe are already looking to expand.  Foiled by their plans to expand into the neighboring nail salon which would have offered ample space to open a full-service restaurant (they wanted to...

It seems like ages ago when we first broke the story that actor Anthony Mackie would be opening a restaurant on Nostrand Avenue.   Well the awning is finally up.  And there are pictures on NoBar’s new Facebook page (not sure how the pool table fits into the profile of a French Bistro tapas bar,...

Photo by: Abeni Garrett - All Rights Reserved - copyright 2011 Fisher’s Supermarket is a Mom & Pop type grocery store located at 805 Franklin Ave. at the corner of Lincoln Place. The supermarket has been a stable presence in this ever changing community for over 3 decades. And their long...

Photo: Abeni Garrett – All Right Reserved Chavella, the wildly popular Mexican restaurant on Classon Ave., has a new restaurant – Chavella’s on Franklin Ave. – which is almost ready for it’s Grand Opening! I passed by yesterday and spoke with one of the workers who said...

Folks around here have been craving a wine shop that offers more than just the standard liquor and Yellow Tail offerings.  Of course, there is a new wine shop opening on Nostrand Avenue further north in Bed-Stuy (they are having a grand opening and wine tasting this Friday).  But for those who want...