Open Thread Wednesday 4/16/14

What were the fireworks for last night?

The neighborhood has certainly changed. And I expect when the Bossert opens the hordes of tourists will be amplified that much more. :-/

For what it’s worth, it’s always the worst during the first nice weekend of the year. After the tourists are diluted across the season. And by late fall they’re more or less gone again!

I think for Passover. I think it happened last year,too.

Sorry to confuse: I meant CAR service

While i don’t particularly care for all the tourists, every spring and summer, you should have been here prior to 25 years ago. There were alot more prostitutes and vomit and crime in the heights. You should have been here in the 70s or seen what the SRO St. George looked like in its prime. Or the Clark st station every morning…it wasn’t such a ‘pleasant oasis’ back then, so be careful what you wish for!

Try Arecibo (718-783-6465) and Eastern (718-499-7177)

I don’t think that the Eastern # is correct?

While I welcome the return of the Heights Cafe after 6 weeks, I am disappointed at their new approach to food preparation, service and cost. On two recent occasions, I ordered two of their fish dishes (back in the old days they had a great chef for seafood), and I have to say, both times I was sorely disappointed. First, the presentation was dreadful and very poorly plated: two very small pieces of monkfish and three pieces of “jumbo” shrimp that were far from jumbo, swimming in a mound of some sauce for $27. Now, I don’t mind paying for good food (my favorite restaurant is Gotham), but this was far from good. The monkfish was overcooked and rubbery. There are excellent restaurants in this neighborhood (Sociale, Noodle Pudding, and Henry’s End), where the food is prime, and the prices are reasonable for the value you get. Unfortunately, the Heights Cafe has ceased to be one of them. They claim that their new chef has had experience at Henry’s End and Union Square cafe, but I doubt it was as a chef, from what I can see. My theory is that the Cafe owners are trying to cash in in expectation of the expected tourists and businessmen that will eventually occupy the new Bossert Hotel. Oh, and by the way, their new policy of no substitutions (a simple vegetable instead of potatoes) unless you agree to pay for an extra side dish is a bit posey. Far superior restaurants don’t do this. A sad return. My two different companions on those two occasions were also dissatisfied with their orders.

New wallpaper and possibly new floors; can’t see why that took 6 weeks.

I am told that H&A Upholstery, who have ads in the Heights Press, are very good! 53 Pearl St, 718.855.9664. I have used Double Queue from LIC. 917.653.7028. They did repairs, upholstery and reconstruction on severl pieces for me. Please mention my name if you contact them! Thank you!

I am a little confused, as Willow Street does not go through to Remsen (it stops at Pierrepont). If you mean Willow Place that also does not go through to Remsen (it starts at Joralemon). It would either have to be between Clinton and Henry or Hicks and Henry. How would it have been moved?

H&A in DUMBO are excellent. Have done several jobs for us and good at suggesting fabrics, reliable for appointments and on-time completion. They also make beautiful furniture — can replicate a favorite old piece.

No—we’re all like family here. What’s going on over there? You want one of my guys to talk to one of your “issues”?

We just went. The menu was better before. My husband had fish. It was overcooked and very small and served only with a few veggies and no starch. I went for the burger which is still very good. The reno was minimal – bathrooms, wallpaper, and new floor in the dining section. The bar area floor is the same. We keep going back, but we are always underwhelmed. It is close and spacious but over prices and lacks innovation. Meh.

well back then people weren’t paying half a million dollars for a one bedroom apartment either