Windsor Terrace

The Windsor Terrace Key Food Is Closing

The Key Food on Prospect Avenue, in Brooklyn's Windsor Terrace, will close at the end of the month. One Wendy A had a bad experience there in March and went on to review it on Yelp, writing "i literally hate this grocery store, and i wish it would go out of business and get replaced by something bet ... More >>

Long Live the G-Train? New Petition Tries to Preserve Park Slope Extension

Well, here are four words we never thought we would type: Save the G-train? Brooklyn's straphangers, known to love the looping line as much as they hate it, are now rallying in support of the G: District Leader Lincoln Restler has organized a petition to keep the MTA from cutting off full Church Av ... More >>

Say Goodbye to Falai Panetteria

It's a dog-eat-dog world out there. Here are some of the dogs who got eaten this week. Know of any restaurants or bars opening or closing? Drop us a line. Former Le Cirque Pastry Chef Iacopo Falai has shuttered his bakery, Falai Panetteria, after closing his flagship restaurant. The move marks an e ... More >>

Ask the Critics: New Zealand Cuisine -- Does It Exist in New York?

Fancy some hokey pokey ice cream?​Sarah M. asks: I just got back from a trip to New Zealand and loved it. What are New York's top spots for Kiwi cuisine? Dear Sarah: Unfortunately, New York doesn't boast many New Zealand restaurants. In fact, I only know of three. But they're definitely wort ... More >>

Cops: Attack in Sunset Park Last Night Doesn't Fit the Pattern Of Other Brooklyn Assaults

DCPILast night's attack in Sunset Park doesn't fit the pattern attributed to these suspects.​In the last few days there have been two sexual assaults in south Brooklyn, one in Windsor Terrace and the other in Sunset Park. The attack in Windsor Terrace, in which a young woman was groped from be ... More >>

Park Slope Sex Attacker Strikes Again; Last Night's Groping Is 12th Crime Since March

A woman was assaulted on Vanderbilt Street in Windsor Terrace last night, and cops say it's the work of one of the men behind the string of sexual attacks in south Brooklyn since March. A DCPI detective confirmed that the incident fit the pattern of the other attacks. This one is the 12th in the ser ... More >>

Open and Closed: Say Hello to Kibo; Goodbye to Hinsch's

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. Hinsch's, the beloved Bay Ridge luncheonette, has closed after more than 50 years in business. [Brooklyn Paper] The embattled space th ... More >>

In Light of Brooklyn Sexual Assaults, Activists Petition NYPD For 'Sensitivity Training'

It's been about seven months since the now-infamous south Brooklyn sex attacks began, and the NYPD still hasn't been able to finger a suspect. The police have ramped up their response after 11 crimes, but not without problems; women in the neighborhoods affected have begun to accuse police of handli ... 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 >>

Petition Requests Free Self-Defense Classes for Brooklyn Women; Rapist Still at Large [Update]

​Not to be alarmist, but there is a serial sexual assailant on the loose in Brooklyn. We've written about him here before, but he's still at large; he's suspected of one rape and five attempted rapes along Fourth Avenue in Sunset Park, on 16th Street in Park Slope, and in Bay Ridge. The most r ... More >>

Attention Locavores: Real Oaxacan Cheese Made in Brooklyn

​Real Mexican cheese now being coagulated in Windsor Terrace Porcelain-white Oaxacan cheese -- used all over Mexico, and indispensable to such signature recipes as chile relleno and queso fundido -- was prohibitively expensive not too long ago, costing as much as $10 for a 14 ounce baseball ... More >>

Gun-Toting, Violent Mugger Loose in Brooklyn

Scumbag armed mugger in Brooklyn​Cops believe the same armed mugger struck twice in Brooklyn in the early morning hours last Saturday, March 19. They don't have him, but they finally released what they say are photos of him. At 3:30 that morning, the robber came up to a 63-year-old at a bus stop n ... More >>

Brooklyn Man Stabs Parents, Jumps in Front of G-Train; F and G Delays Ensue

​Earlier this morning there were reports of delays on the G and F lines. Turns out this may be due to a 31-year-old Brooklyn man who reportedly fatally stabbed his mom and slashed his dad, then went to the G train's 15th Street station, where he jumped off the platform and into the path of an ... More >>

Cathie Black, Schools Chancellor: Liked by Nobody. (Updated)

​Mayor Bloomberg's announcement last week appointing Hearst executive Cathie Black as the city's new schools chancellor drew a lot of skepticism -- and ire -- from critics who think the magazine publisher isn't qualified enough (or...at all) for running the city's public schools. Last week, a stat ... More >>

The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday

Welcome to The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday, where we endeavor to remember the very best thing we stuffed down our gullets over the past 24 hours. Why? Because the only thing better than enjoying a meal is wallowing in the memory of one savored in the recent past. Today's fond reminiscences ... Rebe ... More >>

Brancaccio's Caponata Establishes Mediterranean Peace

Victoria BekiempisEggplant and tomato friends again in Windsor Terrace​ Eggplant and tomato sometimes have a strained relationship. The tart, red nightshade often steals the show in this combo, which is a longtime staple of Mediterranean cooking. From moussaka to samfaina, even the slightest e ... More >>

Animal "Butcher" Terrorizes Prospect Park

​The Brooklyn Paper reports that Windsor Terrace residents have been turning up sacks of slaughtered animal parts in Prospect Park, supposedly the work of a "demented animal killer" who's been at-large for months. Yikes.

Jake Zavracky of Lowlands Talks Happy Hour, Booze in Beer & the Allure of Miller Lite

zavracky.comJake Zavracky​Jake Zavracky is living the dream: tending bar by day and making music by night. Or is it the other way around? In any case, when he's behind the bar at Lowlands, the beer garden that opened in Gowanus earlier this year, he aims to please. What's on tap that's season ... More >>

New York Happy Hours, All Around the Clock

20 Happy Hours for every legal drinking hour in town!

Open & Closed: Say Hello to The Plump Dumpling; Goodbye to the Rockaway Lobster House

The Rockaway Lobster House in Jamaica Bay, which featured arguably the best views of the bay, has closed and is for sale. The space is now owned by the Wharf, a bar and grill hidden behind a gas station. [Grub Street] DUB Pies, the Australian pie joint in Red Hook, is shuttering its Columbia Street ... More >>

Home Stretch Interview with Reverend Billy, Candidate for Mayor of New York

Photos by Brennan Cavanaugh. (This is our third conversation of the campaign with Green Party candidate for Mayor of New York, Reverend Billy.) How's the campaign going? Are you confident? I'm confident that an accelerated evolution is now taking place. Could you elaborate? This government ... More >>

CRIMINAL MINDS

Chant 'Attica!' with Al Pacino in Bryant Park

The Early Word--Gialeti's Cafe

Mona's Middle Eastern 'Tasting Menu'Gialeti's Café in Windsor Terrace/South Park Slope, Brooklyn, opened about a month ago. It's a small, sunny operation on a block that can use some good cheap eats. The café is owned by two women--Gia and Lety, get it?--who bake pastries, make salads, sandwiches, ... More >>

Quick Hits

If you bought a Mr. Softee cone in Sunnyside or Woodside last summer, it might have been fake. A federal judge rules that Akop Papazian and the M. Pete Soft Ice Cream Corporation used the Softee logo under false pretenses. Get ready for the class-action lawsuit! How Not to Find a Jewish Wife in N ... More >>

Bloggers Vs. an Author: No One Wins

Thoughts on book tours, literary self-promotion, and one published writer's blog spat

The Second Battle of Bushwick

Thirty years after the blackout riots, it's getting hot all over again

Close-Up on Sunset Park, Brooklyn

Rabbit Hole

When the pope passed away and the whole new pope election—I thought their hats were neat

La Vie de Paris

I had friends here; the dollar was high. They have better sex clubs. Though at my age, it's a little . . .

Secret Church

It's cheerful on Fifth: "Hey, Bob, I'm just coming out of the barbershop"

Larry, Larry

There's ice all over the place—they said, make sex on the beach

Letters

Close-Up on Windsor Terrace

Two-Bedroom Co-op in 1963 Building

Flutist-Minister and Nurse Living With Poisonous Plant in Windsor Terrace

Letters

Close-Up On: Sunset Park

Park Slope Scramble

Is the 39th CD De Blasio’s to Lose?

One-Bedroom Co-op Apartment in 1938 Building

Two-Bedroom Apartment in 1937 Building

Slicing the Park Slope Pie

Could DiBrienza Wannabes Cost Lefties the Race?

Shelf life

Andrea Copeland (librarian)

Don't Choke

The Sprewell Chronicles