Prospect Heights (Brooklyn)

Theater Summer Guide: In Mr. Burns, A Post-apocalyptic World Is Held Together Only by The Simpsons

Say Goodbye to the Homebrew Department at Bowery Whole Foods

DIY food- and beverage-related crafts have soared in popularity in the past several years, and we'll bet you can think of at least one or two friends who have at least flirted with a homebrewing hobby. Though equipment-heavy and time-consuming, there are enough people making their own beer in this c ... More >>

Is Häagen-Dazs's New Ice Cream Really Gelato?

Having carved out its formidable niche in the gourmet ice-cream category with such flavors as dulce de leche and bananas foster, Häagen-Dazs has announced that it's expanding its realm and continent-hopping for its newest release, drawing inspiration from across the Atlantic for seven flavors of ge ... More >>

Meningitis Outbreak Accelerates in NYC Gay and Bi Communities

Department of Health calls for 100,000 vaccinations as fatalities climb in 2013

10 Best Doughnuts in New York

[See More 10 Bests: Gelatos | Pastry Shops] Doughnuts may just be bits of dough, dropped into hot oil, but a fine piece of fried dough can be a truly beautiful thing. From classic cake doughnuts and glorious yeasted beasts, to creamy stuffed buns, here are our 10 favorites in NYC right now. Don't ... More >>

Do You Know Jack?

Hoi Polloi open their own new theater in Clinton Hill

The Gories' Mick Collins Counts Down His Favorite Reunion Shows, The Best Gory Flicks, And More

High up in the pantheon of bands that didn't get their due until now, the Gories spent the dead end of the college rock '80s and the birth of alternative rock early '90s in Detroit playing neither, instead opting for an amazingly feral pound-down of '50s booze-blues and '60s garage rock that made th ... More >>

This Weekend In New York: yy/dd/mmmm Confound, Air Waves Charm, Bosco Delrey Holds A Dance Party, And Dive Gets Deep

In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. This weekend had a diverse array of musical entertainments, from the nails-on-a-chalkboard sounds of a crapcore experimental group to the genre-bending garage-hop of Bosco ... More >>

Councilwoman Letitia James: Family of Elderly Woman Burned Alive Have Been Victimized Twice

During a recent press conference, the family of an elderly Prospect Heights woman burned to death by a man they said she once helped discussed their loved one's legacy and the financial challenges they have faced since arriving in NYC to plan her funeral. Accompanied by Councilwoman Letitia James ( ... More >>

Jerome Isaac to Face Murder and Arson Charges for Burning Deloris Gillespie to Death in Prospect Heights Elevator [Updated]

​There are some updates in the truly awful story of a man who burned an elderly woman to death in her elevator at 203 Underhill Avenue in Prospect Heights this weekend. Jerome Isaac, 47, was arrested yesterday after he turned himself in, 8 hours after he killed 73-year-old Deloris Gillespie. C ... More >>

The Return of Mario Montez, Warhol Legend

Brooklyn Bike Patrol Escorts Women Home in Park Slope and Prospect Heights

Jay Ruiz​Last week we reported on the rally organized in Park Slope by a new community group, Safe Slope. We learned that Safe Slope is starting a Safe Walk program that will pair women walking alone at night with walking buddies, and a Safe Space program that will partner with local businesse ... More >>

Sam Mason Is Opening an Artisanal Mayo Shop, Signaling the Brooklyn Food Movement's Total Descent Into Self-Parody

This is your future, Brooklyn.​Oh, Brooklyn. We stood by you as your chocolatiers congratulated themselves on their "childlike curiosity." We had your back when the owner of your new-wave soda fountain described the mise en place required for making an egg cream. We even stuck around when your ... More >>

Open and Closed: Say Hello to Silver Lining, Goodbye to Asia de Cuba

Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. Asian fusion restaurant Asia de Cuba, in Morgans New York hotel, will close in October. The owners will replace it with a new concept. [Crains]​ Leske's, the last Scandinavian bakery in B ... More >>

Open and Closed: Say Hello to Neely's, Goodbye to Rockography

Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. Moran's has shuttered after 25 years in operation just two blocks south of the World Trade Center. Owners Brian and Abby Lydon cited business slowing after 9/11. [DNAInfo] The Carroll Gardens ... More >>

Memory Lane: A Look Back at the Campaign Against Atlantic Yards in Battle for Brooklyn

The Bluebird Coffee Shop Has Been Taken Over by Café Madeline

Rebecca Marx​We were somewhat saddened to learn a couple of days ago that the Bluebird Coffee Shop had been sold - in addition to losing what is in many ways the consummate neighborhood coffee shop, we now risk losing some of the best doughnuts in Lower Manhattan. But it seems like our loss wi ... More >>

Mike Franzetti Is Now the Chef at Dean Street

Edward Casabian/newyorknearsay.comMike Franzetti​Almost two months after Nate Smith's sudden departure from Dean Street, the restaurant's owners have found his replacement.

Ample Hills Creamery Will Technically Be a Dairy Plant

​Last week, Brian Smith alerted us to some new developments at Ample Hills Creamery, the ice cream parlor he's planning to open in Prospect Heights later this spring. Among other things, Smith told us that his will be the only Brooklyn ice cream parlor to pasteurize its own ice cream mix, mean ... More >>

Winter Guide: New York Theatre Workshop Uncorks Three Pianos

A guide to winter plays

Download: Victoire, "A Song For Mick Kelly"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Victoire (left to right): Eleonore Oppenheim, Eileen Mack, Missy Mazzoli, Olivia De Prato, Lorna Krier​Brooklyn five-woman chamber-rock collective Victoire is a wistful tuft of wailing strings, sombe ... More >>

Richard Boccato Discusses the Cocktail Collective at Forty-Four, Why Ice is Hot & the Best Old Whiskey-and-Beer Joints in Town

Richard Boccato​Richard Boccato has been a busy man this past year. He and partner Giuseppe Gonzalez opened the tiki bar Painkiller on the Lower East Side, he continues to run - and reinvent - Dutch Kills in Long Island City, and he's gearing up to launch the Tribeca outpost of the popular Wea ... More >>

Download: Callers, "You Are An Arc"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Aaron Wojack​Brooklyn's Callers make an indescribable, codeine-ready micro-ruckus that straddles some downtown-via-Bedford line between grandiose indie rock gestures, art-jazz slither, dusty folk, an ... More >>

Happy Hour at Cornelius in Prospect Heights: $1 Oysters

Bilvalvian bargains at Cornelius.​Happy hours tend to be skewed to boozehounds. But what about those of us who like to get high on life (and oysters)? The happy hour at Cornelius on Vanderbilt Avenue in Prospect Heights, named for the Staten Island-born tycoon for whom the whole street is name ... More >>

The National Is Uncomfortably Fun

Matt Berninger makes awkward look cool and despair sound hilarious

Freddy's Fight Comes to an End: The Bar Will Close May 1st, BUT Will Relocate to New Space This Summer

So long, original Freddy's. Hello, Freddy's Next Bar.​Following a fake eviction notice from its landlord last month, Freddy's Backroom & Bar is now really and truly being kicked out of its Dean Street space at the end of the month. Freddy's will open its doors in Prospect Heights for the last ... More >>

Kaz An Nou, New French-Caribbean in Prospect Heights

Spicy lamb lasagne with homemade pasta​"Kaz An Nou" means "our house" in the Creole language spoken in Guadeloupe, and the name is apt. A group of us trooped over to this new French-Caribbean restaurant in Prospect Heights on Friday night, and the small spot felt homey and warm, staffed by one ... More >>

Tip from a Pro: Lonnie Dyner of Cornelius on Making Your Own Canadian Bacon... Even If You're in Brooklyn

absolutely_loverly/flickrHow Canadian is your bacon?​It's a question for the ages: If Canadian bacon is made in Brooklyn, can it still be called Canadian bacon? Lonnie Dyner, the executive chef at Cornelius in Prospect Heights, says yes. "My philosophy is: anything that I can do in-house, I d ... More >>

Patrick Watson on the New Brooklyn Wine Exchange, the Best Wines to Bring to a Party, and Going Biodynamic

​Patrick Watson and his wife Michele Pravda have built a mini empire on wine and cheese--they own the cheese shop Stinky Bklyn, the wine bar JakeWalk, and the wine shop Smith and Vine, all within a few blocks of each other on Smith Street in Brooklyn. This week, they opened a second, larger wi ... More >>

Fall Guide: Reggie Wilson and Congo's Andréa Ouamba at BAM

Ciao, Manhattans: Tracy Westmoreland Needs a New Investor

​It's only 11 weeks old, but Tracy Westmoreland's Prospect Heights bar, Manhattans, is in danger of ending up in a place even more chilly than a certain region of the Russian Federation. As Brooklyn the Borough originally reported, Westmoreland's newest dive has found itself on tenuous ground sinc ... More >>

Spring Guide: Slurp Through the Recession

"Are You Ready For Some Futbol?"

For the second week, New York watches the World Cup

Critical Mass: NYPD Carries Smaller Stick This Week

Fresh Cuts

Brooklyn's greenmarkets hold their own against Union Square

Letters

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New Yorkers Hit the Ice to Protest Bush

Thank You, Grandfather

And that clever idea you had for canning vegetables in Switzerland

Letters

Drugless Ecstasy

Attaining altered states through shamanic dance and chanting

Letters

Blog of Fear

CJR Shoots Off a Few Rounds on the Web

Beyond the Pansy Patch

In the future shadow of the Nets, a Brooklyn nabe remembers what's at stake

Letters

Fish Story

Top Floor of 1919 House

Music

Two-Story Brick House

Political Putdown

Green Party Goes to Court Over Use of Paper Ballots