Celebrating Community
The neighborhood known for the city’s best dive bars, fresh seafood, and a Swedish superstore, moonlights as a shopping destination. There is much to be discovered on the neighborhood’s iconic Van Brunt Street, including handcrafted ceramics and perfect-fitting vintage denim. There is no shortage of reasons to shop locally: investing in the neighborhood economy, convenience, better service. But in a […]
Star-Revue reporter Emily Kluver spoke to the owners and managers of three local business to check out this month: UBreakIFix, an electronics repair shop in Carroll Gardens; Toby’s Public House, a new Columbia Waterfront District Pizzeria; and Verona Wine Bar, which re-opened earlier this year under new management. Read on to get to know these additions to the neighborhood. UBreakIFix […]
Back in 1997, the Atlanta, Georgia-born sculptor and contractor Scott Pfaffman bought the 360 Van Brunt Street storefront — which was a leaky, abandoned dry cleaning place — for $45,000. He originally thought he would build an art studio there. Pfaffman and the storefront, however, would embark on a journey that would survive multiple businesses and Hurricane Sandy, and ultimately, […]
In an incredible overreaction, Kyle Kimball, head of the NYC Economic Development Corporation (EDC), announced that he was abandoning development of Sunset Park’s South Brooklyn Marine Terminal (SBMT), simply because City Councilman Carlos Menchaca didn’t give him what he wanted. SBMT comprises ten blocks along the waterfront in Sunset Park, southwards from 29th Street. It is an intermodal facility, named […]
Pier 44 is across from Steve’s Key Lime Pie next to Valentino Pier. Unless you get there on a Saturday, or occasionally Sunday, you would never know that Red Hook had an auction house. It was open today and I was pleasantly surprised as soon as I walked in. My college days were in Lancaster, PA, and in […]