Photo by Adam Schneider
We’re always looking for ways to help out, even when no one actually asks us for it. Posting recently on Park Slope Parents, Inha asks where to find an “honest, reliable mechanic” for her down-and-out car. A fellow PSPer, “omatokai” chimed in with this favorite in Prospect Heights:
Nok Auto repair [...]
Who’s your favorite BK auto mechanic?
Monday linkage
Photos from the Brooklyn Mutt Show [Metromix]
Best happy hours in NYC [Time Out NY]
Prospect Park skating gone for two years (at least) [Daily News]
Greenpoint getting a green-way from Sunset Park [NY Post]
City may legalize bee-keeping [NY Times]
Women were [...]
Dine in Brooklyn: make those rezzies now
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The time of year has arrived to get out and splurge on a nice meal, but splurge a little less than usual. Dine in Brooklyn starts this Monday, Mar. 15, and over 200 of the Borough’s fine (and some really fine) restaurants are taking part. We’re excited about the $25 three-course dinner—or [...]
Monday linkage
NY Mag’s ‘Best of NY’ in BK
Lox not Kosher? So says some BK rabbis [NY Post]
Target launches Gaultier collection [Racked]
Artist filling city’s holes with Legos [Gothamist]
Spotlight on Vinegar Hill [NY Times]
Brooklyn Heights’ Oscar winner [BK Heights Blog]
NJ’s food bloggers [...]
The $5 dinner (for two) and other secrets of Not Eating Out
Cathy Erway. Photo by Amber Marlow Blatt
Brooklyn may be on the verge of its annual 10-day restaurant fest/dining-out extravaganza, but not eating out is a pretty big part of the borough’s foodie ethos too–Crown Heights food blogger Cathy Erway made her name from it. In September 2006, Erway, up to then a frequent [...]
Bar of the Day: The Diamond
This is the latest entry in our series on the venues featured in the Brokelyn Beer Book. Greenpoint’s The Diamond is the perfect place to sport your Biggie sweater for some rounds of ship-deck games, great brew in-hand.
THE DIAMOND
thediamondbrooklyn.com
43 Franklin St. between Quay and Calyer, Greenpoint, 718-383-5030
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Bar of the Day: Black Mountain Winehouse
This is the seventh in our series on the venues featured in the Brokelyn Beer Book. Today, The Black Mountain Winehouse in Gowanus, where the blazing fireplace will keep you warm through these waning weeks of winter.
BLACK MOUNTAIN WINEHOUSE
www.blackmountainwinehouse.com
415 Union St. between Smith St. & Hoyt St., Gowanus, 718-522-4340
Wednesday linkage
Freddy’s Bar vs. Atlantic Yards billionaires… fight! [Reason]
USPS pushing for an end to Saturday mail [via Recessionwire]
Babies-in-bars debate goes national [Brownstoner]
The dumbing-down of NYC restaurants [Eater NY]
BK connoisseur: how to drink wine like a pro [Daily Candy]
Air your MTA [...]
Monday linkage
Brighton Beach reality show calling all vodka-drinkers [NY Post]
When tenants don’t pay the rent [NY Times]
NY’s high-end cafés from elsewhere [Daily News]
Free drinks, anything goes on W’burg party bus [NY Times]
FYI: the best-selling snacks in prison [Gothamist]
Homemade carpet cleaners [Real Simple]
Downloadable [...]
Monday linkage
Cab-pooling coming to some routes [NY Times]
Pantry essentials for eating in [Not Eating Out in NY]
Why bar music is always too loud [Gothamist]
Project Runway hits Nintendo Wii [via Racked]
Brooklyn’s breast whisperer [NY Times]
Coney Island getting back old park, 19 new rides [...]
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