Hugo Smith

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Grill N Dine’s Lunch Special Might Be the Best Deal in Brooklyn

Grill N Dine is the kind of place you could pass every day and never really notice. Nestled next to an antiques store along Coney Island Avenue’s long stretch of auto body shops, it’s just south of Cortelyou Road, a block down and across the street from the

1505 Cortelyou Road

First Cuts, Longtime Customers & A History That Runs Deep: An Hour In The Life Of Vincent’s Barber Shop

If you walk down Cortelyou, right before the train station, you will see a small barber shop with a half faded sign claiming “Vincent’s Barber Shop,” a family-run operation. Last Friday afternoon, I decided to document an hour in the life of Vincent’s. In those 60 minutes alone,