Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Brush up on your biscuits and tangs, owners are in final negotiations for a lease.
Dust off your polos and pedal pushers. After reporting last week on a rumored shuffleboard club said to be planning a 17,000-square-foot home in Gowanus, Carroll Gardens Patch has received confirmation the whispers are true. It even has a name: Royal Palms. Founders Jonathan Schnapp and Ashley Albert reached out to Patch to spill more details and explain the genesis of the future game hall. "My grandparents used to live in Century Village in West Palm Beach, Florida," said Schnapp. "Every summer we would drive 26 hours down from Westchester. And I have great memories of being there, going to the pool and playing shuffleboard." Fast forward 30 years. After observing a resurgence in bocce ball, skeeball and ping pong around the city, Schnapp…
Thursday, April 26, 2012
The 97-year-old business across from Atlantic Yards will be closing its doors within weeks.
After just three months on the market, the iconic Triangle Sports building across from Atlantic Yards has been sold. Owner Henry Rosa declined to name the buyer until the contract is completed, but confirmed that the new business will be “neighborhood friendly.” Here's Park Slope reported news of the sale Monday. According to Sharon Davidson, director of the North Flatbush BID, there was a bidding war and the top five bidders were all restaurants. She said one of them was Hooters, but Rosa confirmed that Hooters is not the buyer. Hooters also approached the nearby Pintchik Paint and Hardware about selling, but the hardware store turned them down, Davidson said, adding, "I think they (Hooters) desperately want to open in the neighborhood, …
Veteran diner owner opens Z-7 Classic Diner in home of the shut-down Parkside.
When he sold Carroll Gardens Classic Diner in 2006, Gus Demertis thought he would settle comfortably into retirement. But six years of leisure was enough and now he’s back in the business. Last Thursday, the 40-year diner veteran opened Z-7 Classic Diner on Flatbush Avenue between Park and Sterling places, in the former home of Parkside Diner, which was shuttered by the Department of Health in October. He said he missed being with people and "cooking good food." "Working and being in contact with people is energy, I don't like to be alone," he said. But, he added, “This is my last diner.” Diners have been in the Demertis family for four generations, beginning with his grandfather, and all the way down to his daughter, who works at the …
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Second venture by owner of Prospect Perk at the corner of Flatbush and Sixth will have ample seating and a full lunch menu.
A new café is coming to Flatbush Avenue. The owner of Prospect Perk Café is opening a second coffee shop at the corner of Flatbush and Sixth Avenue, but the new spot, called “Hungry Ghost” will be significantly larger and have a much more extensive menu. “At Prospect Perk, it’s intimate, we have regular customers who come in all day long,” said owner Murat Uyaroglu. But with only a few seats at the Sterling Place café, Uyaroglu wanted to offer his customers a larger space where people could hang out longer. Uyaroglu hopes to open the new cafe the second week of April. Hungry Ghost will soon host community events, such as comedy and trivia nights, said Uyaroglu, and eventually he hopes to serve wine and beer. To start, the 30-seat …
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
The shuttered Flatbush Avenue diner will be reborn as a new, Greek-style diner, open 24-hours a day.
Last month, it was reported that the Parkside Diner on Flatbush Avenue, between Park and Sterling places, would re-open as a Greek Diner, and now Here’s Park Slope reports that the new spot will be called Z-7 Classic Diner, and will be open 24-hours a day. Here’s Park Slope says that a brand new awning was recently installed at the space, but was quickly taken down. From the looks of the awning, besides being open 24-hours, they will also offer free delivery. Parkside Diner had been shuttered by the Department of Health since October, the blog previously reported. Since then the interior was renovated, and the North Flatbush BID confirmed that a diner with Greek owners would be taking over the space.
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
The market was given the go-ahead to build a store five times bigger than what zoning regulations currently allow.
Eight years after legal battles, design changes and community opposition, the city’s Board of Standards and Appeals gave Whole Foods the thumbs up for their 52,000-square foot supermarket on Third Avenue and Third Street. The store will be five times bigger than current zoning regulations allow. Craig Hammerman, the district manager of Community Board 6 sees the Board’s unanimous decision to give the organic mega-market – which will have a rooftop greenhouse and electric car chargers – a zoning variance, as a great thing for the neighborhood. “We see this as a real positive investment in the community, we see this as an opportunity for local jobs and we see this as a way for the people in the neighborhoods surrounding here to have goods …
Monday, February 27, 2012
A day before the vote, the Gowanus Institute unveiled their alternative plans for the 4.2-acre lot.
Eight years after Whole Foods Market bought a 4.2-acre lot on the corner of Third Street and Third Avenue, a city panel will vote Tuesday on whether to approve a special permit for the store, which would be five times bigger than current zoning regulations allow, says the New York Times. At a hearing in January, local manufacturers and artists voiced their opposition to the 52,000-square-foot supermarket, saying that Brooklyn’s industrial and creative industries should be preserved and that a big-box retailer would hurt local small businesses. But last June, Community Board 6 approved the market, with amendments for a traffic study after it’s opening, an earlier nightly closing time, more plantings on the walkways, and a confirmation from …
A landlord dispute threatened the future of the restaurant back in November, but Christie's will remain open after all.
Back in November, it was feared that Christie’s Jamaican Patties would close after 45 years in business because of a landlord dispute – but now, Here’s Park Slope reports that the restaurant has worked out a deal, and will remain open after all. "We're still not out of the woods, but we're open and will be open for the foreseeable future," owner Paul Hayes told Here’s Park Slope. "[The landlord] decided to drop the lawsuit in exchange for $20,000 upfront, a new rent we worked out, plus $1,300 per month." Back in November, landlord Lina Feng charged that the restaurant was two months behind on rent, and speculation arose that she wanted the shop closed to make room for a higher-paying tenant once the nearby Barclays Center arena opened. …
Saturday, February 25, 2012
The Barclays Center is a veritable boon for commercial real estate, say agents.
Months before the official opening of the Barclays Center, local real estate agents say they have seen a doubling in rents for retail space, and no shortage of businesses who want to move to the neighborhoods surrounding the arena, according to the Wall Street Journal. Sharon Davidson, executive director of the North Flatbush Business Improvement District told the paper that the change in the neighborhood from five years ago is drastic, and now with the opening of the arena “the rents have doubled and I get calls from people who want to move to this area.” "This is my most expensive lease in Brooklyn, but it has the most visibility," Five Guys franchise owner Craig Cohen told the Journal of his Flatbush Avenue restaurant. "I expect a 20% …
Thursday, February 23, 2012
The restaurant, closed since October, will re-open soon with new owners and a new look.
The Parkside Diner, shuttered by the Department of Health in October, will re-open very soon as a Greek diner under new ownership, Here’s Park Slope reports. The manager at Kings Pharmacy next door said the diner would re-open “possibly by the end of the week,” and Here’s Park Slope confirmed that the interior was renovated. The North Flatbush BID also told the blog that a diner with Greek owners would open in the space, and the previous owners were “booted for back rent and unpaid taxes." Last February, after the Parkside Diner was slapped with a “B” grade by the DOH, an employee said that business had been “really slow.”
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