Brooklyn Heights

Saul Bolton's Red Gravy Hits Atlantic Avenue

A new meatball-slinging Italian joint

New Restaurant Reviews: Share the Spreads at El Omda; Red Gravy Lays It on Thick

This week, our professional eaters sought out plates that reminded them of home -- if not theirs, then someone else's. In Astoria, Robert Sietsema enjoyed an Egyptian feast at El Omda, while Tejal Rao sopped up the sauce at Red Gravy in Brooklyn Heights. How did our critics rate their Middle Easte ... More >>

Catch Up with Our Critics: Sietsema at Lotus Blue; Rao at Cocina Economica

This week, Robert Sietsema introduces his meal of crossing-bridge-noodles at Tribeca's Lotus Blue through a Yunnan folktale. Further uptown, Tejal Rao reminisces about the highs and lows of restaurant staff meals before exploring the Upper West Side's new Mexican comfort-food restaurant, Cocina Econ ... More >>

A Month And A Half After Sandy, The R Train Returns To Full Service By Friday

If the 12/12/12 concert last week told us anything, it was that Paul McCartney's Nirvana fill-in was something we should talk about more as a society. And that, a month and a half later, there's still a ton of work to do in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.When the storm hit two days before Hal ... More >>

Give It a Few Weeks Before the R Train Returns

Yesterday, we reported on the MTA's no-refund policy enacted in the aftermath of Sandy. Although no reason was given, the situation provided enough explanation: the agency was out a significant amount of cash flow and paying back all those fares definitely wouldn't have helped. So straphangers are f ... More >>

Australians Do It Right: Avocado on Toast; Who Needs Butter?

[See More Good Stuff: What Should I Do with This Lamb Head? | Trying To Beat the Heat? Check Out Korean Naeng Myun | Photos: The New Amsterdam Market's Dairy Fair] Forget everything you thought you knew about what you wanted for brunch. No more gloggy, room-temperature eggs benedict or sugar stuff ... More >>

Bay Ridge Joins the Arab Peninsula

A Yemeni café brings the nabe its home-style eats

A Fatal Car Crash, NYPD Cop DWI In Brooklyn Last Night; Nassau Cops Get a DWI Grant

It was an eventful but tragic evening in the outer borough of Kings County.Late last night, on the Ocean Parkway in Sheepshead Bay, two cars met in a head-on collision after the driver of a BMW lost control and swerved into oncoming traffic, hitting a minivan. The man behind the wheel, Jamal Iq ... More >>

Catania Makes Brooklyn Heights Taste a Little More Sicilian

But not like Palermo

This Week in the Voice: Brooklyn on Film

​This week in the Voice, out today: James Hughes talks to director Walter Hill, whose early work, The Warriors, kicks off the Brooklyn Close-Up series at BAM on Halloween, followed by a screening of "his most underappreciated and airtight film," The Driver, starring Ryan O'Neal, at MOMA on Nov ... More >>

Robert Sietsema at Catania; Lauren Shockey at The Cannibal

This week in the Voice, Robert Sietsema discovers Sicilian in Brooklyn Heights, but not Palermo-Sicilian, at Catania. Lauren Shockey goes all carnivorous at The Cannibal.photo by Liz BarclayCatania; not Palermo!​ Eric Asimov approves of Salinas: "Classic, simple tapas like grilled bread sprea ... More >>

Open and Closed: Say Hello to Mas (La Grillade), Goodbye to Hollis Famous Burgers

Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. If you hear of any new openings or closings, let us know. Hollis Famous Burgers, in Jamaica, appears to be closed. The website is down, and the phone line disconnected. [Grub Street]​ Ci ... More >>

Truman Capote's House On Sale at Rock-Bottom Prices!

70 Willow Street ​Run, don't walk to go buy Truman Capote's former home in Brooklyn Heights. The property at 70 Willow Street where Capote once drank martinis all afternoon long has been on the market for some time, but as Curbed noted today, the asking price has taken a dive from $18 million ... More >>

Building on Bond Burglarized

Building on Bond​A friend of FitR writes in with the news that Building on Bond was broken into last night.

Open & Closed: Say Hello to Coppelia; Goodbye to TienGarden

Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. TienGarden, the vegan restaurant beneath the Bikram yoga studio on the Lower East Side, is closing its doors after 16 years in business. [Low Down NY] Sora Lella, the New York outpost of a Rom ... More >>

Top Chef Is Nearly Over, so It's Time to Start Thinking About the Next One

​Now that Top Chef: All Stars is finally drawing to a close, the folks at the Feast are determined to make us think about the next season. They attended contestant casting calls in four cities, including New York, and shone the spotlight on 10 attention-craving lunatics hopefuls who we may or ... More >>

Open & Closed: Say Hello to Colonie, Goodbye to Niko's

Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. Satsko on the Lower East Side has been shuttered recently and plastered with bright orange "seizure" stickers, apparently due to state taxes owed. [Bowery Boogie] Salt & Pepper in Midtown West ... More >>

Open & Closed: Say Hello to Fedora; Goodbye to Victory Café

Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. Gonzalez y Gonzalez, a lively Mexican joint near Broadway and Houston, is shuttering after 22 years in business. [Paper] The West Village beer and burger spot Stoned Crow has also closed, due ... More >>

Smashburger Sets Its Sights on Brooklyn Heights, Fort Greene, Et Al

A Smashburger.​We've known for a few months that Smashburger has set its sights on Brooklyn, but now Metromix has a few more details about the Denver-based burger chain's intentions. In an interview with the site, Jim Denburg, the guy who intends to bring the chain to Brooklyn, said he's pla ... More >>

Winter Guide: Cozy Up to New York's Warming Restaurants

Brooklyn Dudes and Upper East Side Republicans Show Early Leads in Love at the Polls

​As Foster mentioned earlier today, going to vote is not only about civic responsibility -- it's also about the opportunity to impress others with your "legendary prowess" and maybe even meet a cute politico, or someone who doesn't care that much about politics but has decided to vote anyway o ... More >>

Say Hello to Leona's; Goodbye to Pinch & S'Mac

Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. Lucy Browne's, the restaurant that replaced Steak Frites last summer, has closed. The owner, Andrew Silverman, filed for bankruptcy in February. [Eater]​ Pinch & S'Mac, the Upper West Si ... More >>

Open & Closed: Say Hello to Bosie; Goodbye to Montenapo

The owners of L'Age de The are opening Bosie in the West Village. Tea master Kiley Holliday selected the more than 100 teas, while Angelo Sosa of Xie Xie designed the menu. [TONY] Red Bamboo may have shuttered but the owner has reopened it as Poppa's Place. While the restaurant now serves meat, a h ... More >>

Few Surprises in Times Unemployment Map (Though Coney Beats Carroll Gardens)

​We are grateful for the Times unemployment map, which shows what New York neighborhoods are doing best and worst in these parlous economic times, though most of its findings come as no shock. The big loser is unsurprisingly East New York (also murder rate increase leader) with 3rd-quarter un ... More >>

A Peek at the New Iris Cafe in Brooklyn Heights

​ The pocket of Brooklyn Heights located almost beneath the BQE is now home to the Iris Cafe, an airy, high-ceilinged place that opened yesterday on Columbia Place near Joralemon Street. It's one of several storefronts in the historic Riverside Apartment complex, many of which are empty. One ... More >>

Man Revives Ancient Cliche, Jumps From Brooklyn Bridge

​Someone decided to leap off the Brooklyn Bridge Tuesday night, NYPD confirms. The Brooklyn Heights Blog says the suicidal man "kept police at bay for over 30 minutes last night as he threatened to jump... "The drama unfolded shortly after 10:30 p.m. with reports of a man, armed with a knife, ... More >>

News: Brooklyn Rents Topping Manhattan's

Ladies and Gentlemen, Is The Bronx De-Gentrifying?

NYC RFD: Tappan Zee Going Down, Christmas Lights Going Up

Weekend Peek-In: Pre-Labor Day Summary

Morning Papers: Drugstore Prices, Ugly Buildings Go Up

Growing Food without Knowing, Hope Breeds From Depths of Dirty Gowanus Canal, and 60 and Still Being Carded...

SATURDAY | 5.24

TAKE IT TO THE BRIDGE

Celebrating the Brooklyn Bridge’s B-day

Mourning Magnetic Field: Too Uncool to Be Forgotten

Toasting the final hours of the sweet club you were too busy to appreciate

Parks Department Seizes Bikes--That's Not Green!

On the Outs in Brooklyn

The city's complicity behind the borough's soaring eviction rate

NYC's Cheap Housing Policy: Too Pricey?

Neighborhood Watch

Simplicity is key at Brooklyn Heights newcomer

Baby Madness

How one young woman's delusions cost her years of freedom

Letters

Not Your Momma's MOMA

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Still Counting

The Big Term-Limits Primary Offers Some Surprises

Happy Talk

Dark City