Brokelyn » Julia Bedell http://www.brokelyn.com Food, restaurants, shopping and cheap fun on a budget in Brooklyn NYC Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:52:12 +0000 en hourly 1 The Smith Street happy hour listhttp://www.brokelyn.com/the-smith-street-happy-hour-list/ http://www.brokelyn.com/the-smith-street-happy-hour-list/#comments Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:06:23 +0000 Julia Bedell http://www.brokelyn.com/?p=4688 Ourdoors at Pacifico. Photos by Lindsay Buckley. This week, we took it upon ourselves to make the rounds on Smith Street, trolling from Atlantic Avenue to Union Street to find all of the happy hour specials along the way. Although most of the 16 places listed below have similar hours and prices (weekdays 5-8, $3 [...]]]> The garden at Pacifico. Photos by Lindsay Buckley.

Ourdoors at Pacifico. Photos by Lindsay Buckley.

This week, we took it upon ourselves to make the rounds on Smith Street, trolling from Atlantic Avenue to Union Street to find all of the happy hour specials along the way. Although most of the 16 places listed below have similar hours and prices (weekdays 5-8, $3 beers), some standouts caught our eye: Camp’s Recession Thursdays run all night long with $3 well drinks, while Bar Great Harry offers 21 beers on tap as well as well drinks and bottles, all 2 for $5! Once the clock strikes 8 you can always saunter down the block to Gowanus Yacht Club, where $2 and $3 drinks are the norm.

Pacifico
98 Smith (corner of Pacific)
718-935-1294
M-F 4:30-7
$4 house margaritas ($5 with flavors), $3 tap, $4 bottled beer
outdoor seating

Bar Tabac
128 Smith (corner of Dean)
718-923-0918
no happy hour; occasional nightly specials

Apartment 138
138 Smith (between Dean & Bergen)
718-858-0556
M-F 5-7
$3 pints, $5 glass of house wine (red or white), $5 well drinks
Tuesdays all wine bottles ½ price
Outdoor seating; game room

Coco Roco
139 Smith (between Dean & Bergen)
718-254-9933
M-F 5:30-7:30
$4 cocktails
outdoor seating

Sample
152 Smith (between Bergen & Wyckoff)
718-643-6622
5-8 daily
$3 drafts & well drinks
different food specials every week
outdoor seating

Pane e Vino
174 Smith (between Wyckoff & Warren)
718-501-1010
M-Th 5-8
2 for 1 beer wine and sangria (normal price is $8)

Boat Bar
175 Smith  (between Wyckoff & Warren)
718-254-0607
M-F 5-8
$3 draft, bottles, well drinks

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Camp (above)
179 Smith (between Wyckoff & Warren)
718-852-8086
5-8 daily
2 for 1 beers ($5-$7)
“Recession Thursdays” $3 well drinks all night long. See the Obama posters reading “Yes We Camp!”

Ceol
191 Smith (between Warren & Baltic)
347-643-9911
M-F 3-7
$2 PBR cans, $1 off all other drinks
Wednesdays song club in back (local singers/songwriters)
$7 musician’s burger (plain burger with fries); one draft beer will be $3
Backyard w/ few chairs, but no eating

Clover Club
210 Smith (between Baltic & Butler)
718-855-7939
“Summer Specials” (not Happy Hour)
M-F 5-7
Rotating $6 cocktail menu, $3 tap, $5 wine glasses (red & white)
Discounted food menu: chef’s special deviled eggs, steak crustini for $4-$9

Angry Wade’s
224 Smith (between Butler & Douglass )
718-488-7253
3-7 daily
half-off all tap beers & well drinks (~$3 each)

Cocktails at Zombie Hut.

Zombie Hut (above)
273 Smith (between Degraw & Sackett)
718-875-3433
5:30-closing daily
$2 PBR, $5 well & special house drinks (one is called planet punch)
outdoor seating

Em Thai Kitchen
278 Smith (between Degraw & Sackett)
718-834-0505
5-7:30 daily
$3 beer, sake cocktails
$15 tasting menu (appetizer, main course, dessert)

Bar Great Harry
280 Smith (corner of Sackett)
718-222-1103
M-F 2-7
Impressive draft collection (21 choices including Yuengling, Victory Harvest Ale, IPA), bottles/cans of Bud, Bud Light, PBR, and well drinks ALL 2 for $5
encouraged to bring your own snacks

Union Smith Café
305 Smith (corner of Union)
718-643-3293
M-F all night
$4 draft, $5 pint glass of mohitos, sangria and margaritas served at the outdoor bar
outdoor seating
[UPDATE: Currently, drafts are $5 and mohitos, margaritas and sangria are $6]

Gowanus Yacht Club
323 Smith (corner of President)
718-246-1321
open 4-closing M-F, 2pm-closing weekends
no official happy hour, but cheap beer & wine ($2-$3 for most)
outdoor seating

]]> http://www.brokelyn.com/the-smith-street-happy-hour-list/feed/ 11 How much to recover my ugly brown chair?http://www.brokelyn.com/how-much-to-reupholster-my-ugly-brown-chair/ http://www.brokelyn.com/how-much-to-reupholster-my-ugly-brown-chair/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:17:04 +0000 Julia Bedell http://www.brokelyn.com/?p=4020 upholstry-chair1Home redecorating may not be for the brokest of Brokelynites, but that doesn’t mean we should be destined forever for the furniture we’ve had, well, forever. If you can manage to scrape together enough change (from inside that dingy couch), you might find that a living room spruce-up can do a world of good, especially with how little you’re probably leaving the house these days. So, we thought we’d find out just how much cushion change some small-scale reupholstery would actually take. We called the following upholsterers and, when possible, sent them a photo of the tired-looking chair above, purchased 10 years ago at a flea market. What follows are their quotes in order of increasing price, delivery fees if any, and the amount of time they said they’d need to do the job. What it doesn’t include: the fabric. While several of these places do sell it, we have a hunch you can do a lot better on EBay. None of these businesses has seen the chair live and in person, so it’s possible the actual prices may differ. Finally, we cannot vouch for the quality of the workmanship at any of them, because the chair is still in its pre-makeover state. For now.

BUSHWICK
F L Upholstery
1096 Broadway (corner of Dodworth St.), 718-383-5165,
$200-300 including pickup/delivery, 1 ½-2 weeks

WILLIAMSBURG (though a commenter—below—informs us it’s actually BED-STUY)
Herbert Upholstery Shop
155 Tompkins Ave (between Willoughby Ave. & Hart St.), 718-782-5896
$249 + $75 pickup/delivery, 2 weeks

FORT GREENE
Workroom
544 Park Ave. (corner of Sandford St.), 718-852-4500,
$385 + $125 pickup/delivery, 2-3 weeks

EAST FLATBUSH
Raynolds Upholstery
5602 Clarendon Rd. (at E. 56th St.), 718-629-6170,
$450 + $70 for pickup/delivery, 3-week deadline, around a week for a chair if needed

GREENWOOD HEIGHTS
Rifi Furniture
775 Fourth Ave. (between 26th St. & 27th St.), 718-369-8282,
$400-600 including pickup/delivery, 1 week

MIDWOOD
Royal Cushions & Upholstery
1815 Coney Island Ave. (between Ave. N & Ave. O), 718-375-7866,
$450 + $60 pickup/delivery, within 2 weeks

SUNSET PARK
Masters Upholstery Corp.
50 Bay Ridge Ave., #10 (corner of Narrows Ave.), 718-779-3102,
$450-550 + $100 pickup/delivery, 1½ weeks

DITMAS PARK
Das Upholstery
1312 Cortelyou Rd. (between E. 13th & E. 14th Sts.), 718-284-1079,
$600 + $100 pickup/delivery, 1-2 weeks

PARK SLOPE
J & Y Upholstery Workroom
552 Fifth Ave. (at 15th St.), 718-499-8304
$625 including pickup/delivery, 2-3 weeks

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS
Gerard Theuns Upholstery
89 Atlantic Ave. (between Hicks St. & Henry St.), 718-237-4619,
$750-800 + $75 for pickup/delivery, 3-4 weeks max

So Bushwick wins this round, and Brooklyn Heights loses. (A shocker!) Next: Where to get cheap fabric?

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