Open Thread Wednesday

By on November 12, 2024 10:52 pm in open thread

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  • MaggieO

    apparently Fornino closed permanently at Pier 6. Anybody know who will take over there?

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  • Jorale-man

    Don't know, but I see there's a new Japanese restaurant down there in the condo building, and Ebb & Flow's future looks questionable.

  • Nosey Neighbor

    Where did it say it’s closed permanently? It’s only open seasonally from March through October.

    Time Out just did an interview with the owner:
    https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/20-years-later-this-pizzeria-is-still-one-of-brooklyns-finest-101824

  • MaggieO

    Hmm. My husband said it had a sign on it that said "goodbye Brooklyn"or something like that… could have misconstrued the meaning i guess

  • karateca2000

    That's good news. It should be 15, but 9 is better than nothing.

  • Jorale-man

    Anyone else suspect it's going to be a long winter of constant jackhammering at the former St. Francis College campus? If only they could have simply repurposed the current buildings rather than razing them.

  • Pineapple Street

    Looks like they finally fixed the subway entrance doors to the Clark Street Station. They still look horrible, like the entire subway station, but at least they open without scraping the concrete floor.

  • Effective Presenter

    There is a tremendous pool in one of the buildings, Heights Casino members were allowed to use the pool one night weekly we enjoyed the pool.

    NO aquatic center like Asphalt Green near downtown Brooklyn this could have been the local pool.

  • Andrew Porter

    1940 tax photo of 32-34 Poplar Street, I suspect long since torn down for the BQE:
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/941fe894df1692539d21000e8fe0f9c55dd8bd29395eae2094c4ea14a7893535.png

  • Andrew Porter

    I lived through the renovation of the St. George Tower, and then of 60 Pineapple Street into housing—which lasted for 5 years, including the wonderful 4am sound of empty dumpsters hitting the street—so buy some earplugs!

  • Andrew Porter

    My photo of the work being done back then (barrels of sulphuric acid upset, drivers ruining their tires driving through the acid, fire fighters hosing down and diluting the stuff):
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ae54b4df3bb49c436bbc55fe136a799ec0a53cd5d4659dbcc1532ffe0160c224.jpg

  • pizzalover

    yea They have that every year..they are also still in timeout market so they aren't leaving BK. They still lease the space. but its seasonal.

  • NeighboorHood

    Our local MAGA voters (many of whom i suspect opposed congestion pricing) just got their first unintended (but clearly foreseeable) consequence. Who’s gonna explain it to them? Wait till they learn how tariffs work. 😡

  • Cranberry Beret

    They ARE repurposing the center building. (The landmarked one.) Relatively easy since it was built as offices. The other two were custom-built for St Francis as educational so difficult to adapt.

  • Nosey Neighbor

    Identical to 206-224 Kane Street. Such a strange style of brownstone

  • BH Mike

    Enough with the labeling. Congestion pricing is nothing but a money grab “tax” that hurts small businesses among others. The MTA is nothing but a bloated largely inefficient municipal operation. They should look in the mirror and cut out a lot of the fat of its operations. There’s only so much juice you can squeeze from a lemon. Brooklyn Heights is the car haters capital of New York.

  • Jorale-man

    Better than nothing, I guess! Related, I wonder what will ever happen to that red brick building near the corner of Court that was once slated to be a hotel. Such a grand old building but it's really fallen on hard times, all covered in graffiti now. I assume no one will touch it until the St. Francis replacements are built in a few years from now.

  • Andrew Porter

    The MTA is NOT a "municipal operation." It's run by the state.

    Any other misinformation you care to share?

  • Andrew Porter

    That building in 1940, before the pyramidal roof was removed (old gas company building, now demolished, to its left):
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5e33c760a9461d7c64a16ca4389d4181c021dc1cdd443e43844d4ebc06f97595.jpg

  • Peter Darrow

    Re a post a few weeks ago about the Jackie Robinson plaque (that was met with some skepticism) here is the reply from Restler’s office.

    “We have ensured that the developers at 205 Montague are planning on taking the plaque to a safe location once demolition starts on the existing building, and the plaque will be restored once the new building is constructed.”

  • BH Mike

    Well it’s not a public company. Ok. A public benefit corporation. I’d love to share misinformation about you.

  • South Brooklyn Boys

    are you ok? Little grumpy today.

  • clarknt67

    It’s a beautiful building and the hotel proposal was a great repurpose. Pity it seems to have disappeared.

  • robertnill

    To think how briefly the undistinguished building that replaced the original BUG hq lasted. A little less misguided ambition and we'd still have it.

  • Effective Presenter

    The building with granite and glass had been the general office of Brooklyn Union Gas before they moved to 195 Montague Street, then to One Metro Tech Center to become KEYSPAN then National Grid.

  • Effective Presenter

    Thank you we know one had been the Brooklyn Union Gas building

  • Effective Presenter

    Thats good news thank you for your efforts to save the plaque

  • Stop Scams

    Kids in Brooklyn Heights are asking for basketball donations will grab your phone and quickly transfer thousands in your Venmo or Zelle app

    Make sure your Venmo or Zelle apps are password protected to access and do not access those apps in front of people you don’t know

    https://www.brooklynpaper.com/brooklyn-youth-basketball-donation-scam/

  • MaggieO

    I can't remember now where I saw this but I think there was some kind of issue with the city requiring direct access to the subway station from the hotel because it's part of a shared lot with frontage on court street… could be confusing with another site though… it is unfortunate that this building has just continued to decay.

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