I love Brooklyn for its vastness. Thomas Wolfe once wrote a story about being unable to truly know Brooklyn. Despite the truth of his fiction, I attempted the impossible. Last week was one of the first days when you can feel autumn in the air. The shadows get longer, the daylight is shorter, people are [...]
Between eggs, meat and now cheese, it seems like nothing’s safe to eat anymore…
Brooklyn blogger Nadia Ben-Marzouk has vowed to eat only from food trucks for an entire month, reported the Daily News last week…
So there’s a ghost stroller on Union and 6th. Painted the color of my butt cheeks during the winter, this artistic endeavor has confused and confounded locals for weeks now. The New York Times just ran an article about it. And everyone wants to know what it means. I think I know. 20 years ago, [...]
So I’m sure you know about the new ranking system of restaurant violations. The least violations earn the restaurant an A, and the more you get the lower the grade. Needless to say, I was utterly shocked when one of my favorite restaurants, Note Thai, on Bushwich Avenue, was shut down. Not only did they [...]
It’s my birthday today and I wanna go to Peter Luger’s. This is one of New York’s oldest steakhouses, and proudly it resides in Brooklyn, underneath the Williamsburg bridge. They are famous for serving the porterhouse. Also known as the short loin, the porterhouse is like a T-bone, which is cut closer to the front [...]
I have a love/hate relationship with Beauty Bar in Bushwick. I love it because it’s two blocks from my apartment, perfect for meeting someone when I don’t have the energy to wander far, and because I like the concept: you sit in genuine bright orange vintage beauty salon chairs (from Marlene’s Beauty Shoppe in Lancaster [...]
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