Celebrating Community
A few weeks ago, I went shopping at Caputo’s Bakery Shop, and Court Street Pastry in my old Carroll Gardens neighbourhood. During these hard times, there is nothing like ciabatta bread and sweet delicious pastries to bite back on that locked-in feeling. Thankfully, bakeries are considered essential businesses. Stopping in at Caputo’s first, I recognized a neighbour, Lorraine, who had […]
During a fraught week for our city and country, in which multiple pipe bombs were mailed to prominent figures and a murderous attack was waged on the worshipers in a Pittsburgh synagogue during Shabbat services, a timely banner was installed by Charles Roussim outside of St. Mary Star of the Sea Church in Carroll Gardens. Based on the Golden Rule, […]
I remember as a kid that perhaps the next best thing, if not better, to pizza was a calzone. In the neighborhood, House of Pizza and Calzones on Union Street was the place to head to if you were hankering for one. It was large, filled abundantly with ricotta cheese and mozzarella, and ham – except on Fridays in observance […]
On Tuesday, August 15, NYC Parks Brooklyn Borough Commissioner Marty Maher, along with elected officials, celebrated the official beginning of construction of the new St. Mary’s Park. The Carroll Gardens park had been closed since 2009 because of MTA work on the subway track above. “Parks are here to celebrate, and the community has a lot to celebrate with the […]
A version of this story first appeared in the Star-Revue’s August 2017 print edition. A burnt out bulb. A busted car. A broken knee. Future biographers might note a theme laced through Vander Carter’s culinary career: things keep breaking. But Carter — a Carroll Gardens entrepreneur behind the food startup JestGreen — only sees crisis as a chance for growth. […]
Girl Scouts Troop 2339 will be using a big portion of their cookie proceeds to create care packages for the 100 residents of the Park Slope Women’s Shelter. Christine Brower and Alexandra Carroll are the Girl Scout Troop leaders for his group of “Brownies” (11 girls ages 7-9). According to Brower, the troop sold a “whopping” 1,700 boxes of cookies. […]
Nino Pantano is an 81-year-old lifelong South Brooklyn resident and a man of many passions, accomplishments and interests. He has lived much of his life in and near the Columbia Waterfront District, where his father, Sam Pantano, owned Pantano’s Shoes at 215 Columbia Street. Nino’s grandfather gave Sam the shoe store as a wedding gift during the depression. In those […]
Friends of the Carroll Garden’s Library has been raising funds and sponsoring activities in support of the library for the past since they were formed in 2011. A highlight has been their annual book fair, with thousands of quality books donated by the community raising a tidy sum to enhance the service of the library to the community. The Friends […]