Prospect Heights (and local businesses) in the NYT

Subject: proho is cool

in today's ny times.com, a photo spread of that hip new brooklyn neighborhood. have to believe there is a bit of a groucho club quality
to anything the times pronounces cool.

Subject: Prospect Heights in the NYT today

Prospect Heights is in the NY Times Travel section today, with 2 pictures of my shop! The photographer came a few weeks ago, and I totally forgot about it:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/travel/12surfacing.html?ref=travel
Nice!

Subject: Barrette makes the NY Times

Here is the review, so does Weather up, no love for Soda!!HAHAHAH

A friskier crowd gathers a few doors down at Barrette (601 Vanderbilt Avenue; 718-230-5170), a burlesque-inspired bar with red booths and a black-box stage where go-go dancers twirl.

MODS: we now have three threads on this nyt article. possible to combine?

yeah, true, the pictures could have been better, but i bet its going to pick up business wise.

NYtimes says its cool=Its days (of coolness) are numbered.

Mod note: Cobbled together bill c, sneaky, and SJE's threads.

My little shop frequently gets ignored, so I am thrilled! It was too short of an article to get everybody in, unfortunately.

It's pretty cold that the NYT put this in the TRAVEL section.

this is interesting ,but i'm puzzled. the nyt print on thursdays doesn't have a travel section..i wonder if this is online only...

there's usually a travel section on sundays only..

Nor'easter wrote: It's pretty cold that the NYT put this in the TRAVEL section.

That is pretty damn funny!

And shame on them for not mentioning Garden Cafe, which is top ten in the new Zagat. And yummy.

didn't garden cafe close? or did i miss something?

sweet tea wrote: didn't garden cafe close? or did i miss something?

For real. Is that place ever actually open? Looks like a dentist office or something more than a restaurant.

Eh. More good food for the rest of us if y'all stay away anyhows. Mmm.

no, seriously. this isn't a comment on their decor. i just seriously thought there was a great hue and cry on these boards a while back about GC closing.

has it not closed? (i'm not on that corner all that much to see for myself.)

Well, seriously. They went on vacation. Which was posted. I think on the door and on the answering machine. With a date when they would be back. Chicken Little said the sky is falling, and the hue and cry went. They reopened after the vacation. They also put an ad up to sell the place. Which they are serious about. But they are in no hurry, and as of last month, the place will still be open for the foreseeable future.

But yes, the end is nigh. Get it while it's hot and all. I find the decor fine. And the food beyond fucking fantastic. But I encourage all y'all not to go there so that I can walk in any night and get a table. Because, it is like small and all.

And in reference to the current topic, this place gets rave reviews and just placed in the top ten Zagats _again_ so I thought it might should rate a mention in the article. Ya knows?

Yummy. I'm getting hungry. Mmm.

thank you for the information.

sweet tea wrote: thank you for the information.

Well, you are _very_ welcome.

ltjbukem wrote: this is interesting ,but i'm puzzled. the nyt print on thursdays doesn't have a travel section..i wonder if this is online only...

there's usually a travel section on sundays only..

The "Published" date on the article is Oct 12, 2008 - so Sunday (even though it's Fri Oct 10 as I write).

A freaky little window into the future...!

nomad wrote: A freaky little window into the future...!

Will the wonders of the interweb never cease?!?

We will see if the article made a difference, i am expecting hoards of B&T, fratty, drunken crowd at all our local bars. So much for quality of life..!!

Soon it´s gonna come down to this on Vanderbilt!
Via Eater.com




Soho Fights Back: Drenching Delicatessen
Friday, October 10, 2008, by Amanda

2008_09_delicatessen.jpgWhat follows may in fact be one of the best reader emails of all time. We knew things were tense between Soho's Delicatessen and its upstairs neighbors—especially of course when we learned someone was peeing on their glass ceiling—but we didn't know the war was still raging on. We have some good old fashioned community organizing on our hands:

"Last night a friend and I were walking around SoHo and saw Delicatessen...Within five minutes of sitting at the bar, some young super-angry dude storms up to the bar and starts laying into the bartending staff screaming shit like, 'Fuck you!!! Fuck your restaurant!!! Fuck your hipstery little patrons who think they are so fucking cool!!! People fucking live on this block!!! I can hear these people screaming outside my fucking apartment all fucking night!!!' And all through his rant everyone, including the bartending staff, are just staring at this dude with big grins on their faces, clearly enjoying his rage...did I mention it's not even 8:30pm yet?

But it gets better.

As my friend and I are about to start our meal, all of a sudden a bunch of people in the apartments above the sidewalk tables simultaneously dump buckets of water down on the people dining below. (Luckily, my friend and I were just out of reach.) I don't know if they used buckets or pots, or if it was even water in them (I shudder to think otherwise), but it was a big sheet of something liquid and soaked at least four of five tables worth of patrons.

To add insult to injury, while these poor patrons were sitting in shock looking up at what happened, the people in the apartments then hit them with a second blast, scattering everyone for cover inside the restaurant, and forcing the waitstaff to have to reissue everyone's meals. Next thing you know, there's a bunch of patrons standing out in the street screaming up at the people in the apartments looking trying to instigate a brawl. Somehow, some way, the cops were never called and the situation quickly calmed down. (But of course no one would sit below those apartment units after that.)

Is this what it's come down to?"

Apparently it has come to this: people dumping water on the paying customers of Delicatessen. And we have a feeling this situation will get worse—flaming bags of dog crap, or perhaps plastic wrap on the toilet seats— before it gets better. Diners beware.

Congrats, sje. Not only a mention in the article, but two pics!

The real hipsters have always lived in Prospect Heights, not Park Slope.

"...drawing young couples and professionals who have perhaps outgrown Williamsburg and Manhattan’s Lower East Side" which why I moved to Ditmas Park which is drawing young couples and professionals who have perhaps outgrown Prospect Heights.

BrookFetish wrote: Congrats, sje. Not only a mention in the article, but two pics!

Thank you! These things are never comprehensive regarding the entire neighborhood, even one as small as PH...

Subject: Re: Barrette makes the NY Times

sneakyonstmarks wrote: Here is the review, so does Weather up, no love for Soda!!HAHAHAH

Weather up is totally a Times place. Soda is Daily News.

MeredithB wrote: The real hipsters have always lived in Prospect Heights, not Park Slope.

"...drawing young couples and professionals who have perhaps outgrown Williamsburg and Manhattan’s Lower East Side" which why I moved to Ditmas Park which is drawing young couples and professionals who have perhaps outgrown Prospect Heights.

Ditmas is a toilet you're so in front of the curve you're behind it. Sorry bout that.

Let me rephrase.

If you don't mind the shitty run down wood frame housing stock, the rampant crime or the hour plus commute to the city, it's awesome.

May as well live in Jersey you'll get to your office quicker and have a nicer rental for you money.

Lo Kee wrote: Ditmas is a toilet you're so in front of the curve you're behind it. Sorry bout that.

It ain't as much of a toilet as Prospect Heights east of Washington Ave.

Obviously, you need to expand your horizons a bit and stop being an interboroughphobe.

Let me rephrase.

If you don't mind being scared of walking home late at night from the subway, gangs of teenagers threatening you at every corner, and a total lack of amenities, it's totally awesome.

I'll take the Q/B train over the 2/3 anyday in terms of speed of getting to Manhattan.

And rental? Obviously, you like throwing your money away, not me.

Meredith, please stop with your white fear!!