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...

A group of Prospect Lefferts Gardens residents are doing   large neighborhood cleanup on Saturday April 30th from 11am-3pm.  The conveners are asking everyone to meet at the offices of State Senator Eric Adams’ office at 572 Midwood.  This clean-up will cover a 48-block radius, which includes...

Add “gym” and “ballroom dance studio”  to the growing list of new stores that have opened on Nostrand Avenue of late.   The gym, called “Nostrand Fitness” is actually on St. Mark’s right off of Nostrand.  Compared to places like the Bed-Stuy Y, it’s...

We’re blogged quite a few times about Bob & Betty’s Food Market – formerly Fisher’s Supermarket pending Grand Opening. Well, as of this Friday, they’re finally OPEN!!!!! What are your thoughts and comments on the renovations, food selection, prices etc.? AKPC_IDS...

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...

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,...

Recently, the Washington City Paper published an article entitled “Confessions of a Black Gentrifier”, exploring the roles of black gentrifiers in changing racial and socio-economic landscape of Washington DC.  Though the treatment of this topic in the Washington City Paper city is, to...

We just spotted this press release on Brooklynian … Looks like Island Thyme will be having a Grand Opening tomorrow. Brooklyn, NY, March 28, 2011—ISLAND THYME CAFÉ ANNOUNCES GRAND OPENING. Vibrant and eclectic West Indian restaurant awakens Franklin Ave Brooklyn, NY giving it a burst of flavor...