Carroll Gardens

Hey, Carroll Garden Residents: After Two Years, Your Smith-9th Street Station Will Finally Reopen This Morning

For the past two years, the inhabitants of Brooklyn's finest nabes have been without a major transportation hub. But that'll all end today.

With Nightingale 9, American-Vietnamese Street Food Comes to Carroll Gardens

The team behind Seersucker and Smith Canteen open a noodle shop

Kittery Brings a Taste of the Beach to Carroll Gardens

A sea worthy clam shack

New G Train Ridership Stats Prove Why a Full Line Review Is Needed ASAP

A few months ago, we learned that the MTA would bow to the demands of everyone and finally take a look at the dreaded G train. You know, the Crosstown Express, the green one, the one that comes whenever the hell it wants. A full line review and decision will come in July and, if yesterday's news is ... More >>

Homeless Shelter With Sexual Offenders Opens In Greenpoint, Residents Pissed

In October, we heard about a homeless shelter immediately opening in Carroll Gardens, much to the dismay of local residents. Since August, the Department of Health Services personnel had been (and continue to be) overwhelmed with the accelerating rate of the homeless population, unable to find space ... More >>

SISTER ACT

Solange steps out from Beyoncé's shadow

Carroll Gardens Residents Upset Over Plans For Homeless Shelter. Ugh.

Like most gentrified neighborhoods in New Brooklyn, Carroll Gardens looked completely different only a decade ago. There were no coffee shops or strollers on Smith Street and the brownstones were not obsessively recognized for their aesthetic charm just yet. It was a lower-income neighborh ... More >>

Say Goodbye To Plum Pizzeria, Mandy's Health Café and Juice Bar

Plum Pizzeria has shuttered on Second Avenue. No notice on their accounts. They opened in 2010 and an applicant by Alder Restaurant LLC was on the August docket to take over the space. [EV Grieve] Pomodora, the pizzeria on Second Avenue between 10th Street and 11th Street might be closed. Last mon ... More >>

10 Best NY Burgers, 2012

This way-downtown burger is a paragon of juiciness. [See More 10 Bests: Eats in Carroll Gardens | Hell's Kitchen Restaurants | Doughnuts] If America had a signature dish, what would it be? I think it must be the hamburger. And who doesn't adore a juicy ground patty of beef, lamb, turkey, seafood, ... More >>

The Battersby Crew Hates Brunch, Loves Fernet

[See More Clip of the Day: Awesome Dramatic Readings of Yelp Reviews | How to Drink Wine While Hula Hooping | Food Scenes from Mexico] The team from Battersby in Carroll Gardens stars in the latest edition of Vice's Munchies. Co-chefs Walker Stern and Joseph Ogrodnek show off their celtuce, discuss ... More >>

Soon There Will Be a Treats Truck Store

Treats TruckLife is better with cookies.​Some sweet news this Friday afternoon: Treats Truck is expanding their bakery business and will open a brick-and-mortar location in Brooklyn. Oatmeal jammy and brownie fans, rejoice!

Is It Okay to Eat Shark in Celebration of Shark Week?

​ Next week is Shark Week, when the Discovery Channel tries to educate the public about this noble animal by airing shows like "Killer Sharks" and "Jaws of the Pacific," because, as everyone knows, the best way to motivate the public to protect an oft-threatened species is to make people death ... More >>

Seersucker to Host 'Eat Fried Chicken, Do Good' Benefit for Tornado Victims Tonight

photo by Adam SchleimerFried chicken never felt so good.​With all the love New York City has for anything southern-fried these days, you'll surely want to give it up for the victims of the onslaught of deadly tornadoes that hit the Southern United States in mid-April.

Mafia Disorganized; 17 Killed in Tornados; Radioactivity Rises Off Japan Coast

​The Mafia is out of commission. Rather, the Mafia Commission, the caucus of leaders of the five main crime families, apparently hasn't met in 25 years. Cue "disorganized crime" joke. [NYDN] A tornado warning has been issued for parts of Georgia as the death toll from recent twisters rises to 17. ... More >>

Shorty Tang's Noodles Are Resurrected in Carroll Gardens

​When he was in the kitchen at Chinatown's Hwa Yuan restaurant, Shorty Tang cooked some of the most legendary cold sesame noodles in the city's culinary history. For a few brief, precious hours this afternoon, his grandsons Casey and Gilley are resurrecting the dish in honor of Chinese New Yea ... More >>

Red Hook Lobster Pound Gets Busy This Weekend

beckendorf/flickrLobster, lobster, everywhere.​The Red Hook Lobster Pound is about to have a pretty big Saturday. First, you can find them at the New New York Street Fair on 3rd Street between Bond and Hoyt in Carroll Gardens, where GreenHomeNYC will be teaching folks how to install and plant ... More >>

Nouveaus Sodas; Hip Sommeliers

​A roundup of "nouveau soda" places pouring fresh, housemade pop includes the Brooklyn Farmacy in Carroll Gardens and Northern Spy Food Co. in the East Village. [NY Magazine] In Arkansas, where they have been growing giant watermelons since the 1920s, a hot, dry summer could hinder the growth ... More >>

Gourmet Grocer 'Goods' Gives Up on Prospect Heights, Now Opening in Carroll Gardens as 'Court Street Grocers'

Prospect Heights' loss is Carroll Gardens' gain.​Goods, the gourmet grocer slated to open last fall in Prospect Heights, has finally given up on the Underhill Avenue space it rented last summer. Legal issues with the building kept delaying the opening, eventually leading the owners to throw in ... More >>

Buttermilk Channel's Brown Butter, Corn, and Mushroom Linguine

​Carroll Gardens' Buttermilk Channel has an entire menu dedicated to meatless dishes, so it's not surprising to find fine vegetarian fare at the restaurant. What is surprising, though, is just how extraordinarily delicious this simple plate of pasta manages to be.

Pet-Sitting 11-Year-Old May Be the Perfect Man

via the New York Times/ Suzanne DeChillo​He's an entrepreneur, he loves pets, he lives in Carroll Gardens, and he earns enough to comfortably afford an iPad. Too good to be true, right? Yes, yes, of course.

More Breakfasts: Buttermilk Channel and Salume Now Waking Up Early

​Yesterday we brought news of No. 7 Sub Shop's new breakfast sandwiches. Now, two other restaurants have announced new breakfast hours: Carroll Gardens' Buttermilk Channel will serve Saturday brunch, and Soho's Salume will open for breakfast at 7:30. At the former, you can wake up with an o ... More >>

Key to the City: A Little Bit Lame

​Key to the City, a project by artist Paul Ramirez Jonas, kicked off last Thursday at their kiosk in Times Square. The venture has had a huge turnout so far -- with lines closing early on account of all the wannabe key-bearers. We tried to attain one of the hot-commodity keys twice before maki ... More >>

Vegetarian Delights of NYC: Roasted Vidalia Onion at Seersucker

​Seersucker may have opened in Carroll Gardens only two weeks ago, but it's already made a noteworthy contribution to the world of vegetarian entrées.

Nona Brooklyn Is Like a News Aggregator for the Brooklyn Artisanal Food Scene

​Given the number of local/artisanal/seasonal Brooklyn businesses that have sprouted over the past few years (to say nothing of the past few months), it was only a matter of time before someone noticed that a) there were a lot of them and b) barring Twitter, attempting to keep up with their pr ... More >>

Happy Hour at The JakeWalk in Carroll Gardens

The JakeWalk lets the sun shine in.​If you drop by the JakeWalk in Carroll Gardens on a Monday or Tuesday around five, you can enjoy the first hour of its weekday 5-7 happy hour by yourself. To keep things simple, there's just one deal: $2 off everything. That means that The River, a cocktail ... More >>

Posts of the Week

Friday afternoon is upon us. And so it is time to cast a gimlet eye towards the best posts of the past few days: We ranked Our 10 Worst Food Show Hairstyles. We discovered the true origins of Hawaiian pizza. Luke's Lobster's Luke Holden talked seafood, $30 rolls, and Maine pride.

South Brooklyn Pizza Will Open on First Avenue on Monday

scaredy_kat/FlickrA South Brooklyn specimen.​Last November, we learned that South Brooklyn Pizza was crossing the river from Carroll Gardens to open a new outpost in the East Village. It looks like it'll be opening its doors for take-out, sit-down, and delivery this Monday. Per a release, the ... More >>

Jamie Oliver Doesn't Approve of Potty Mouth; David Chang Wears Both Boxers and Briefs

​A Korean-born chef who used to work at Le Bernardin is the first food truck cook to be named one of Food & Wine magazine's Best New Chefs. [Reuters] Why you won't hear Jamie Oliver cursing out any chubby kids in Virginia: "I don't approve of [chefs] who swear... Sometimes you feel it's their ... More >>

A New Brick Oven Pizza For Brooklyn

More pizza​ Strolling south on Smith Street from Carroll Gardens toward the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and the Gowanus Canal, you stumble across this fledgling brick oven pizza joint, on a very industrial block across from a car wash and next to an eccentrically decorated notary office. It's j ... More >>

FASHIONABLY SPOOKY

Steampunks scare you in style

Dole Goes Public Again; Vendy Finalists Announced

​Dole Food has filed the paperwork to go public, the second time it has done so after going private in 2003. The company, currently owned by LA billionaire David Murdock, hopes to raise $500 million. [NY Times] Since Whole Foods CEO John Mackey publicly criticized President Obama's health car ... More >>

Open & Closed--Say Hello to Xie Xie; Goodbye to 87 Lounge

Turgut Balikci, who owns such UWS establishments as Bella Luna and AYZA, has opened Bar Luna, a wine bar serving small plates. Jacques Belanger, who has worked at Tom Valenti's restaurants, has taken over the kitchen since would-be chef Sean Chudoba, who formerly helmed AYZA, dropped out of the proj ... More >>

Columbia Waterfront To Get Carroll Gardens Zoning

Brownstoner tells us that the Columbia Waterfont District -- that nabe across the BQE from Carroll Gardens; landmarks, Korhogo 126 and the salt pile (hey, we used to live there, too -- this is turning into a theme day) -- will be "included in the Carroll Gardens re-zoning process" going forward, per ... More >>

Anti-Development Rumblings in Brooklyn

This Week's Voice: Waterboarding, African Music Blogs, and More

New Wine Bar in Brooklyn Teeming with Classy Hos

Beyond the Fence

Forget the doomed chickens—here's art!

This Weekend: Keep it Artisanal, Tipsy

Close-Up on Gowanus, Brooklyn

A Brooklyn standby sets up shop on Clinton

No Honky-Tonk, Just Well-Poured Drinks and Room to Relax

Sea of Peas

It's m'hammer time at small and cozy Red Hook Moroccan

Letters

Keep Moving, Son

Cops in Carroll Gardens are hustling schoolkids onto trains. Police call it protection. Parents call it harassment.

Voices Carry

Epistle to Andrew

Curries and Cook-Ups in Cypress Hills

Close-Up on Gowanus

Close Up On: Carroll Gardens

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