The third branch of Broadway barker “TKTS” is up and running at Metrotech. From Crain’s:
The Brooklyn booth, which opened Thursday at 1 MetroTech Center at Jay Street and Myrtle Avenue, sold around 150 tickets during its first day.
But Victoria Bailey, executive director of the Theatre Development Fund, which operates TKTS, hopes the Brooklyn spot will […]
Per Brownstoner, the Universal store on PPW finally gets a tenant - and a cool one, too:
Is quiet Windsor Terrace going to become Brooklyn’s Lower East Side? No, but the owners of two LES shops are joining forces to open a bar and restaurant on 16th Street and Prospect Park West. One of the guys […]
On the morning of May 16th, 2008, beloved Kyung-Sook “Linda” Woo, who owned the Eden Dry Cleaners at 10th Avenue and Windsor Place in Windsor Terrace, was found dead in her store. Mrs. Woo had owned the shop for years after moving here from Korea and used to live across the street with her family […]
The Tea Lounge, a caffeine / lactation bar located at 7th Ave. and 10th St., will close its doors soon. Reason for its untimely demise? Rising rent. Gersh Kuntzman of the Brooklyn Paper, broke the story:
South Slope writers, mommies and, yes, even a few coffee lovers, were crying in their lattes this […]
All citywide pools are scheduled to open June 27, 2008, and will close September 1, 2008. How lame is it that they open long after Memorial Day and close so early in the year?
An out-of-town pervert was arrested after allegedly assaulting his third Brooklyn child this week, captured by the Shomrim citizens patrol civilians in Boro Park.
Ewww, can I just say gross? I was walking down the park side of Prospect Park SW this morning at 9:55 am, when I noticed a female park employee picking up trash along the fence inside the park. Apparently she didn’t spot me, though, because she stopped, unzipped her pants, pulled them down […]
Looks like the MTA will finally be working on the “Culver Viaduct” over the Gowanus, and the Smith/9th and 4th Ave stations for the F and, soon to be, G lines.
Rather than simply picking sides in the Babies vs. Bars battle, Parent Play has taught the two sides to kiss and make up.
Parent Play, founded a year and a half ago to help parents get a life, arranges to provide babysitters on site at restaurants and bars that have unused meeting space, and let parents […]
After years of struggling with being trapped in a neighborhood not of their own making, the Lefferts Manor Association has decided to zoom straight past speed bumps to gating off their private streets
