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PARK SLOPE – “When we closed this place, many people cried. It was crazy,” Antonio Garcia said as he recalled Santa Fe Grill’s final night in September. “People came from everywhere. People were outside, they couldn’t come in.” L-R: Claudia, Maria, and Antonio Garcia, owners of Santa Fe Veracruzano
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Screamer’s Pizzeria in Crown Heights at 685 Franklin Ave. (Photo: Kadia Goba/Bklyner)CROWN HEIGHTS — The second installment of Screamer’s Pizzeria [http://www.screamerspizzeria.com/] opened in Crown Heights last month, fueling what they call a 1,500 slice-a-day [https://vegnews.com/2018/12/brooklyns-first-vegan-pizzeria-sells-1500-slices-every-day] craving for their
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Signs were taken down throughout the city by business owners fearing fines. (Photo: Justin Mitchell/BKLYNER).City Councilmember Rafael Espinal’s Awnings Act [https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=3458219&GUID=B0C7E025-D09E-4A05-A48B-7BCB7EBE7E33&Options=&Search=] overwhelmingly passed the City Council Wednesday, providing relief to small businesses
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Soda Bar at 629 Vanderbilt Avenue in Prospect Heights. (Screenshot: Google Maps) PROSPECT HEIGHTS — The Vanderbilt Avenue hot spot Soda Bar is looking to bring in a DJ on the weekends, but a couple of neighbors say, “Not so Fast.” Owner Galina Sokolova of Soda Bar [https://m.facebook.com/
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PARK SLOPE/PROSPECT HEIGHTS – Brooklyn’s first licensed medical cannabis dispensary, Citiva [https://citiva.com/], officially opened for business at 202 Flatbush Avenue on Sunday, December 30. “The store is designed to provide the most patient-friendly experience possible,” Carlos Perea, Chief Operating Officer of iAnthus Capital Holdings, said in a
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BROOKLYN NAVY YARD – Recruiting and training has begun in preparation for the long-anticipated opening of Wegmans [/wegmans-delayed-til-2018-fortgreene/] at the Brooklyn Navy Yard this fall. Rendering courtesy of WegmansLocated at 21 Flushing Avenue in the Admiral’s Row development on the Brooklyn Navy Yard campus, the 74,000-square-foot supermarket will hire
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Jeremy Stratton shaking up one of his signature cocktails at Bar Bayeux located at 1066 Nostrand Avenue (Photo: Kadia Goba/Bklyner)PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDEN — PLG has a new sultry cocktail bar and it’s called Bar Bayeux — a spin on the Bayeux Tapestry, [https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42713552] an
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PARK SLOPE – George de Boissiere, the owner of longtime mail service shop, Mailboxes on 5th [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mailboxes-On-Fifth-Ave/135877773128291?__tn__=%2CdkC-R-R&eid=ARCdfsU1jdJRSuq5F7SerhRetxvtHzVjuiWDZ5HquppreABfzwOQuHyyenkaia0xScVwn6le-BWgLaV8&hc_ref=ARQ33wpyjilmYCCPNVDKNyxYnt0ZNBauqCiAsWmIg7c-r3KJ8eVB6_TzqljlRQeBv_4&fref=tag] , passed away recently. Though details surrounding his death have not been made public, family
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PARK SLOPE – Following up on a reader’s Tweet that Talde Brooklyn [http://www.taldebrooklyn.com] was closed on Wednesday, January 2, and the restaurant’s social media accounts deleted, Bklyner reached out to Three Kings Restaurant Group [http://www.threekingsrestaurantgroup.com] which owns and operates the popular Park Slope
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GOWANUS – The city’s styrofoam ban went into effect Tuesday, January 1, 2019, a law reaching as far back as 2007 with fourth and fifth graders from Brooklyn leading the charge. Students from PS 15 in Red Hook joined the mayor and other public officials at the Hamilton Avenue Marine
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BAY RIDGE — Retailers continue to shutter in Southern Brooklyn and some of the more recent closings come after businesses have been in around for decades. Here are the latest additions to what has become a haven for vacant storefronts. Farewell postings of the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs in Dyker
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City Councilman Brad Lander (Photo: Screenshot of New York City Council site) PARK SLOPE – Brad Lander will take another victory lap for his anti-smoking legislation, this time as the bill to prohibit the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products at pharmacies goes into effect on January 1, 2019. The