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Yasser “Max” Habib is opening The Grounds of Brooklyn next door to his popular Milk and Honey Cafe on Newkirk. Max has been quietly working on the space for the last two years, designing and fabricating much of the interior himself – as he did at Milk and Honey, and Qathra
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Photo courtesy of Poké NomBENSONHURST/BATH BEACH – Where there is one, there will be more – places offering poke bowls seem to be popping up all over Brooklyn and not just north of the Park [/bowled-over-3-new-bowl-eateries-to-try-in-brooklyn/], this spring. Poke Nom [https://www.yelp.com/biz/poke-nom-brooklyn] opened at the beginning of
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Three big, family-friendly events will take place this weekend. Brooklyn Half Marathon is this Saturday, May 19, and despite the almost 100% chance of rain, more than 27,500 runners are expected to race down from Prospect Park to Coney Island in the largest half-marathon in the United States. On
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SUNSET PARK – The New York City Economic Development Corporation [https://www.nycedc.com/project/south-brooklyn-marine-terminal] (EDC) hosted a tour Friday afternoon to kick off the reactivation of the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal (SBMT) in Sunset Park. South Brooklyn Marine Terminal (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)Congress Members Jerrold Nadler and Nydia
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PARK SLOPE – With Fifth Avenue’s vast selection of boutiques, restaurants, bars, and other small businesses, it’s easy to overlook the fact that it takes a lot of hard work to maintain the busy commercial corridor. Park Slope 5th Avenue BID’s Mark Caserta and Joanna Tallantire (via Facebook
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Marine Florists [http://www.marineflorists.com] at 1995 Flatbush Avenue, where Flatlands meets Marine Park at its northern tip, has been delivering flowers for every imaginable occasion – as well as “just because”- for 120 years. It’s 6 o’clock on a Sunday evening, and co-owner George Tsentzelis starts
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PARK SLOPE – Woodland, the controversial bar/restaurant that has been the cause of ire for many of its neighbors since opening in 2012, settled with the State Liquor Authority [https://www.sla.ny.gov] (SLA) last week to renew its liquor license. Woodland (on left), 242 Flatbush Avenue (Photo: Pamela
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Brooklyn does not have a shortage of great places to go for pizza, whether for a slice or an entire pie. Three new spots recently opened up in the borough offering their own unique spin on a New York classic. LBK, 669 Union Street (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)LBK [https:
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Photo: Macerich [http://www.macerich.com/Leasing/Property/159911]MARINE PARK – The highly anticipated grand opening of discount fashion chain in Kings Plaza, Primark [https://www.primark.com/en-us/homepage], will no longer take place on May 16th. [/discount-fashion-chain-primark-to-open-first-brooklyn-store-next-month-at-kings-plaza/] Primark cited “technical issues” to be the reason for the delay
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PARK SLOPE/BOERUM HILL – Restaurants serving meals in bowls for a fast, casual, and healthy dining experience have been popping up across the city in recent years. BKLYNER already recommended Prospect Heights’ PokéBowl Station [/the-bite-pokebowl-station-in-prospect-heights/] earlier this year. Now, two more bowl eateries have recently debuted in Park Slope and
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205 Water © S9 ArchitectureOn a bright morning late last month, I visited the Manhattan offices of S9 Architecture [http://s9architecture.com/] – a firm that has played a special role in the huge changes sweeping Brooklyn. You might not have heard their name, but you know their work: Since their first
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PROSPECT HEIGHTS – The first three commercial tenants for the 17-story, 278 unit, LEED Silver-certified luxury condo building [http://550vanderbilt.com/] located at 550 Vanderbilt Avenue have been announced. 550 Vanderbilt, between Pacific & Dean (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)550 Vanderbilt will soon be home to three Brooklyn-based businesses including Van