This morning, after hearing about the 2,000 jobs promised by the new Barclays Center arena, we turned our camera away from Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner and the rest of the gang and focused instead on the vast arena behind th... »
"I've been looking forward to this day for eight years," Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner told a crowd of reporters today from inside the increasingly completed Barclays Center arena. In particular Ratner, flanked by Mayor Bloomberg and Brook... »
Over the years we've seen many a video of impressive pizza tossers. At the same time we don't remember seeing even one video of impressive long-distance ice cream tossing. Until now. Witness two Cold Stone Creamery workers at the chain's Atlantic Termi... »
Mayor Bloomberg has made many plays over his two-and-a-half terms at leaving a lasting physical legacy, but none really worked out. The maybe-too-short One World Trade isn't really his, the Jets stadium never happened (and neither did the Olympics), At... »
A store selling only artisanal flavored mayonnaise opened on Sunday in the Prospect Heights section of Brooklyn, adding another notch to the borough's bedpost of pretentiousness. It's called Empire Mayonnaise, it's not a joke (in fact, we knew it was c... »
Residents of the neighborhood surrounding the Barclays Center plan to fight the arena's liquor license application at a special Community Board meeting tomorrow night, where Barclays reps will appear to answer questions about their application. Thus fa... »
Almost 1,700 members of the Park Slope Food Co-Op voted last night on the issue of boycotting the sale of Israeli products at the famously fussy cooperative grocery. So many people turned out that the meeting had to be delayed for an hour as a mas... »
This is too perfect: When the controversial Barclays Center opens in Brooklyn, the arena will serve "Brooklyn Water," which is produced in Florida. Norman Oder, a longstanding opponent of Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project, writes on Grub Street tha... »
The last time professional tinkerer Christopher Hackett was featured in a NY Times story, it was when an confetti gun he invented exploded in his face, an "ordeal ordeal that ultimately involved the emergency room, the Police Department’s bomb squad an... »
A Fort Greene bike shop has gone and broken the liquor license barrier, making it arguably New York's first bike shop/cafe/bar. Yes, really. But before you grab your pitchforks and light fires screaming about how cyclists are already enough of a danger... »
Anne Hathaway, the most recent incarnation of Catwoman, has moved to Brooklyn... from Brooklyn! That's right, Ms. Hathaway was living in Prospect Heights last year, but recently moved to a sleepier section of the borough: DUMBO. She and fiancé Adam Shu... »
In the time it will take Whole Foods to wrap itself around that landmarked building in Gowanus, the borough of Brooklyn may well already have gotten a Whole Paycheck to call its own. That's right, the Post is reporting that the loved and loathed upscal... »
The critically-acclaimed—and tough to get into—Brooklyn restaurant-in-a-grocery, Brooklyn Fare, will expand to Manhattan. The Wall Street Journal reports owner Moe Issa "has signed a lease for a space on 39th Street between Ninth and 10th avenues and a... »
The fascinating Coignet Stone Company building, which stands isolated on the edge of a massive vacant lot at 360 Third Avenue in Brooklyn, will be preserved when Whole Foods opens at the location. But some preservationists are still unhappy with the po... »
Two Brooklyn precincts have been vying for the right to police the still-under-construction Barclays Center when it opens in Prospect Heights this year, and now the Post reports that one has emerged victorious and won all the precious overtime that wil... »
