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Welcome to another week of openings and closings around Brooklyn. This edition includes a new spot from a Michelin starred chef, the loss of a beloved pie shop, and new things to come for Park Slope’s 5th Avenue. Estuary [https://www.estuarybrooklyn.com/]159 Bridge Park Drive, between Furman
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PARK SLOPE – After twenty years on 5th Avenue, neighborhood gay bar Excelsior [http://www.excelsiorbrooklyn.com/home.html] will pour its last cocktail next Wednesday, July 31. Excelsior, 563 5th Avenue (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner)Partners Mark Nayden and Richard Kennedy opened Excelsior in 1999 in a vacant storefront at
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GOWANUS – After Monday’s downpour [/heavy-rain-floods-4th-avenue-businesses-monday-night/] flooded the basement of Colony [https://www.colony274.com] at 274 4th Avenue, business owner Kitty Hernandez was optimistic about reopening her bar/restaurant after cleaning up the lower level, but a visit from the NYC Department of Health [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/
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Eater’s quarterly list [https://ny.eater.com/maps/best-new-york-restaurants-38-map] included 12 Brooklyn spots this summer among 38 best across the city. They included some old favorites, as well as new neighborhood standouts. This quarter two Brooklyn spots are among the six new additions on the list. Those two include
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PARK SLOPE – Members of The Black Institute [https://theblackinstitute.org/], Black Lives Matter [https://blacklivesmatter.com/], and Woodland patrons held a rally outside of the New York State Liquor Authority [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/cecm/permitting/new-york-state-liquor-authority.page] ‘s (SLA) offices on Wednesday ahead of another hearing on the
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Cena [https://cenabrooklyn.com], a new Mexican eatery and coffee shop in Windsor Terrace, opened on July 12th and neighbors could not be more excited. The exterior of Cena. The logo was painted and designed by Watman’s wife, Molly Watman. Ellie Plass, Bklyner.“That first weekend was bananas. We
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RED HOOK – The first-ever Tastes of Brooklyn Red Hook Food & Drink Crawl [https://www.facebook.com/events/343734006572211/] will debut on Sunday, July 28, inviting locals to sample the array of culinary options the historic waterfront neighborhood has to offer. Presented by Tastes of Brooklyn, who also hosts the
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Brooklyn businesses scrambled this week as they dealt with the impact of the blackout initiated by Con Edison. “Due to heat, about 14,000 customers in Brooklyn have been taken out of service for repairs. Service restored through today,” Con Edison promised yesterday. Not everyone was back to normal on
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Last night’s Community Board 6 (CB6) meeting ended positively for the two restaurants seeking liquor licenses. Although the board could not meet quorum on the rainy Monday night, the four members present unanimously voted to recommend approval of a full license for both applicants. Momosan Ramen and Sake [http:
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Scoops and Plates Photo: Kadia Goba/BklynerPROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS— Continuing their efforts to save Scoops, a longtime vegetarian restaurant and ice cream shop facing threats of eviction, Prospect Lefferts Gardens and Flatbush residents gathered under the store’s awning Friday evening to demand that Scoops receive a renewed lease. The
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BROOKLYN NAVY YARD – Earlier this week, the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation [https://www.brooklynnavyyard.org/lease/available-spaces] (BNYDC) released a Request for Expressions of Interest (RFEI) for the development and operation of a food manufacturing facility at Building 50 on the Navy Yard campus. Building 50 (Photo credit: Brooklyn
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Welcome back to this week’s edition of openings and closings. This week, eagerly awaited openings in Red Hook and Prospect Lefferts Gardens, and drama at the Time Out Market. Windsor Terrace Cena Brooklyn> [https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz_2xmjFzHg/] [https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz_2xmjFzHg/] 601