Join us Saturday, June 25th at 11:00 am for our soft launch of our new pilot program, Destination Nostrand, intended to beautify, promote, enliven, and enhance Nostrand Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.  We’re taking a multi-pronged approach to showcasing the best of what is + the best of...

Nostrand Park – in collaboration with VAMOS Architects, Masai Marketing, NYC Dept of Small Business Services, and desigNYC – is excited to announce the launch of its new pilot program, Destination Nostrand, intended to beautify, promote, enliven, and enhance Nostrand Avenue: If you are...

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,...

Looks like St. Lucia’s tourist board is doing fun promo events in Crown Heights.  Got the word about this event from a friend, and figure we’d pass it along.  The pics from last year’s version of this event look nice.  Anyone attend? AKPC_IDS += "4663,";Popularity: 8% [?]

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...

Hey NP friends, if you are tired of the anonymity of lurking the blogs,  and want to meet some of your fellow Crown Heightsters you can, of course, try the old fashioned method of going next door and asking to borrow some sugar, but another route to sociability would be to hit up a local happy hour/...

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,...

Photo Credit – Lady Miss Kier – All Right Reserved This past Saturday, my good friend Lady Miss Kier invited me to the Shanghai Mermaid Party! Shanghai Mermaid is a highly secretive, very underground, prohibition era themed, rotating Burlesque extravaganza – evoking the 1920′s...

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...