The Day: Primary Day, Back-to-School Fashion and Fall Food
Good morning, Fort Greene and Clinton Hill.
It’s Primary Day here in New York City and that means it’s time to get out and vote. Whether you’re going to the polls to elect a New York City Council representative for the 35th District or just to narrow the field of mayoral candidates, here’s a Board of Elections website that can help you find your polling location. We’re sending out reporters to every voting station in the nabe, so if you see one of them taking photos and asking questions, be sure to say hello.
- School started yesterday, but we haven’t seen any photos of local children ready for their first day. We got a look at a few styling students in this photo gallery on The Brooklyn Paper, but none of them was from the nabe. We’re sure more than a few local parents snapped shots of first day outfits, so take a few moments to share a photo of your young scholars in The Nabe’s Flickr photo pool. If we get enough of them, we’ll post a photo fashion show on Friday.
- With an eye on the fall food scene in Brooklyn, the blog Brooklyn Based profiled the top ten new restaurants opening, including Peck’s in Clinton Hill. While the shop, located at 455A Myrtle Avenue, won’t exactly be a restaurant, it will offer traditional Eastern European deli dishes, as well as artisanal Brooklyn-made cheese, bread and more. Are you excited about the opening, locals? What other neighborhood restaurant openings are you looking forward to? Is there a seasonal menu at a local spot that we should know about? Let us know in the comments or email us at TheNabe@TheNabe.me.
- We read the story of 229-231 Washington Avenue in this post on Brownstoner. The homes, built for successful wholesale grocers John and Henry Van Glahn were designed in 1892 by architect John G. Glover – two years after he designed a warehouse only a few blocks away for manufacturing, packaging and storing the brothers’ goods. Click through for a full history on the houses and the families that lived in them.