Dr. Stuart Friedman has been practicing at Heights Vision Center on Montague Street since 1987. He is an alum of the New England College of Optometry in Boston. He sees patients from the age of 4 and up. His specialty is contact lenses and he fits all makes and types of lenses including toric, gas {read more...}
The Pre-War Ponies
Friday, Jan. 30, 9 p.m.
The Pre-War Ponies play songs from the '20s and '30s, but generally stay away from the standards, instead
performing obscure charmers that almost nobody knows, like 'The Gentleman Just Wouldn't Say Goodnight', 'Pettin' in the Park' and 'Pardon My Southern Accent.'
Pictured here is a condo townhouse on Willow Street in Brooklyn Heights featured by the Dowling Realty Group (located at 88 Bergen St.). There will be an open house for it on Feb. 1. According to owner Sandra Dowling, her group is known as “the Brooklyn Biker Brokers.” Her agents travel through the borough on their bicycles to show apartments, condos and brownstones. Not only {read more...}
The Sleep Inn, at 247 49th St. in Sunset Park, offers many amenities in all of their rooms. Among these are: flat-screen/plasma TVs, multiple phone lines and pillow-top mattresses. In some rooms, available upon request, the Sleep Inn offers an in-bath whirlpool. Pictured here are a room with a king-sized bed, a flat-screen TV, desk {read more...}
Heather Mancini (first photo, center),
retail manager at Korres, stands with sales associates Casheda Peters (left) and Nikah
McFadden (right). This season, Korres is having holiday sales and much of their stock is up to 50 percent off. Pictured in the second photo
is a stocking stuffer filled with a trio of shower gels: hot spiced
chocolate, sugar-glazed
clementine and honey spice.
The Court Street Merchants Association is having a tree lighting in
Carroll Park on Dec 12 at 7 p.m. Vincent Mazzone, president organized the event with Angela Vita of Vita Realty, Joan D’Amico of D’Amico Foods, as well as Dr. {read more...}
D’Amico Foods has been a family-run business in Brooklyn since 1948, when Emanuele D’Amico rented the storefront at 309 Court St. D’Amico’s coffee has been rated by NBC as the number one coffee in New York City. Joan D’Amico said that she has several seasonal blends for the fall and winter, such as her holiday blend and pumpkin spice blend. She also has a white {read more...}
Feel like giving to get in the holiday spirit? The Brooklyn Greenway
Initiative (BGI) is hosting a Greenway cleanup along Columbia Street
this Saturday, Dec. 13, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. BGI, along with the
Columbia Waterfront Neighborhood Assoc., hosts monthly cleanups to
keep trash and debris off the newest segment of the Greenway route.
To participate, RSVP to Brian McCormick (pictured with a {read more...}
The Moxie Spot is participating in this holiday season’s Shop Brooklyn
campaign. If you are shopping at Brooklyn merchants in the area, you can get a 15 percent discount off your bill at Moxie. Just show a proof-of-purchase for a gift of $10 or more from any local, non-food, non-chain merchant that you bought the same day. There are two more weekends to take
advantage of these
Brooklyn Bonuses!
First photo: Some of the staff at Scotto’s Wine Cellar, from left to right: Owner James Benedetto, Toni Ann
Carrubba, Jay Dileno (who happens to be a trained chef who graduated from the Culinary Instiute of
America) and David Barbieri.
Carrubba holds Fire Engine Red, a wine made in Sonoma. Scotto’s is the only store in New York that
carries it. Dileno has Court Street {read more...}
D'Amico's coffee (right) was rated by NBC as the number-one coffee in New York City. There are 90 different varieties of coffee (left) at the store, most of which are roasted on site. D’Amico also has a selection of organic fair trade coffees.
Korres has three flagship stores: one in London, one in Beijing and one in the
neighborhood of Soho. There are only 20 other stores throughout the rest of the world. They are in Athens, Paris, Geneva, Vienna, Madrid, Shanghai, Glasgow, Helsinki,
Istanbul, Frankfurt, Barcelona, Varna, La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland, and
Brooklyn. More were slated to be opened this year including one in Dubai and one in Nicosia.
All of Korres' products are developed based on four groups of natural ingredients: herbs
Ceol is an Irish pub, but it is open on Thanksgiving! The menu is $30 prix fixe and includes three courses and a side dish. Among the appetizer choices offered will be a butternut squash soup, a gorgonzola and pear tart, bacon wrapped shrimp with barbeque sauce, or an autumn salad with mixed greens, gorgonzola, chopped walnuts and sliced pears. Stop by for the full menu.
Laura and Nicholos Frank (first photo) are two of the
owners of NCH Studio on Court St. At their store, they sell work from “over 300 local, national and
international jewelers, glass blowers, potters and artists.”
Laura designs
jewelry pieces that are like “small scale
sculptures.” Pictured is a necklace from her
Golondrina Collection, made of brushed silver and freshwater pearls on a silver chain. Also
Brownstone Real Estate owners Vinny DiMartino (first photo left) and Stephen Raiola (first photo right) sponsored a party at the Eileen Dugan Senior Center on Court St. last week. Assemblywoman Joan Millman (second photo) spoke at the party about kits that were distributed to the seniors, to help
winterize their homes.
