Open Thread Wednesday

By on April 4, 2007 6:00 am in News

Blue Pig, Interrupted

Lots of things to talk about this week and I'm expecting lots of chatter from the BHB community on:

Moxie Spot? Does that sound like a "family friendly" restaurant? 

We know you're ready for Busy Chef and Oven to open on Henry, but a cigar bar? Is that true?

Anyone here on the coop board  know what the deal is at 80 Cranberry? When's the scaffolding coming down? What's up with your storefronts?

Remember the Laundry Bag Man of Court Street? 

How 'bout that Le Petit Marche facade? 

We'll be starting a new series "Heroes of the Heights" soon. Who should we interview?

Brooklyn Paper vs. Brooklyn Eagle. 

The Sublet Experiment is next week in the nabe. It's a PLAY in someone's APARTMENT. We'll be there. Join us.

And tonight BHB's Homer Fink and Qfwfq will be vying for valuable cash and prizes at Dick Swizzle's Sudden Death Trivia Challenge at Magnetic Field. The fun starts at 8pm.  See you there. 

 

Photo: Blue Pig, Interrupted  by Mrs. Fink via BHB Photo Club on Flickr

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  • http://bccy.blogspot.com frelkins

    if noodle pudding left i would probably die. i live on their papparadelle. now that i think about it, i don’t eat there often enough. . . must go next week.

  • BP

    “applied and been accepted for sidewalk seating?”
    Maybe it’s just the scaffolding making me claustrophobic, but I’d say there is scant room for tables, chairs and pedestrians along the Henry St. sidewalk at those locations.

  • http://www.selfabsorbedboomer.blogspot.com Claude Scales

    Results of a Quick ‘n’ Dirty ™ survey of empty storefronts on Montague:

    Cincinnati Photo: sign in window says “Prime retail space available”. (Sidebar: Last week I was talking with someone knowledgeable about Heights real estate goings-on who said the building is owned by the same people who own the Heights Cafe, and that they were asking for “exhorbitant” rent. This person also gave me the disturbing news that the leases of Seaport Flowers, Overtures and Hamilton Design, all in the same building but fronting on Hicks, may be in jeopardy.)

    Tasti D-Lite: Nothing going on (just a sign saying “closed”).

    Haagen-Dazs: Sign on door says they will re-open a week from today (Thursday, April 12).

    Upstairs above Jennifer and Ann Taylor: Same big sign offering retail space that’s been there for months. No sign of Jennifer closing, though apparently that space is being offered, too.

    Upstairs above Montague Custom Framing (former site of video rental that moved across the street): Work going on inside; apparently something’s moving in.

    Rose Valley: Nothing going on.

    Mr. Souvlaki site: Construction underway; I understand this is to be a dental clinic.

    So, of seven vacant spaces I spotted (please let me know if I missed anything), one apparently will reopen soon, two have work going on in preparation for new tenants, and four lie fallow.

  • B-girl

    Brooklyn Eagle vs. Brooklyn Paper:
    Brooklyn Eagle appears to be making a sincere effort to be a reputable paper. It’s a sleeper because of their weird web site policy, but the stories are more dependable in the long run. Brooklyn Paper, face it. Grabber headlines but many times I have actually been at the event described and obviously the Brooklyn Paper reporter has not… And as much as I too, care about Atlantic Yards, the Brooklyn Paper seems to just grab the cheapest, easiest way out, newswise.

  • BP

    Tapestry Spa on Montague (across from Key Food) is also closed.
    So that makes eight, total.

  • http://www.selfabsorbedboomer.blogspot.com Claude Scales

    Thanks, BP. I missed it because I was walking on the other side of the street, and didn’t notice it under the scaffolding. The last time I looked, there was no sign of a new tenant, so that makes five fallow.

  • http://www.selfabsorbedboomer.blogspot.com Claude Scales

    It looks like it may now be nine. A friend of ours who is visiting from Florida came back from a walk this morning and said she’d seen a sign in the window of “that place that has pizza and burgers and all kinds of sandwiches” down the street, saying it was closed. After some head-scratching and questioning, I said, “Across the street from Rite Aid?”, and she said, “Yes.” So, it’s that place at the southwest corner of Montague and Clinton, the name of which I never can remember.

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