Open Thread Wednesday

Became Fish’s Eddy, then Housing Works, then…

Had container of pickles on each table…

As I complain, every year I seem to get a year older.

Dining options in 1977, as written up in Brooklyn Law School bulletin (edited, cropped screenshot):
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Before Fish’s Eddy wasn’t it a magazine store for a brief moment and before that the Montague Street Saloon for a good while?

No great loss IMHO, that place was a zoo and only showed mainstream, usually crap, films.
I had to leave the screening of ‘Gladiator’, due to the cacophonous din form the “audience”. They gave ma a voucher but gave me a hard time when I went to redeem it a few years later, I wound up having to pay the difference of the ticket price (talk about petty). The film was ‘There Will be Blood’ That was the last time I was there.

Thank you Andrew for this additional history and that menu! I attended Brooklyn Poly. A quick lunch was Michaelangelo’s on Jay Street. A “nice lunch” was walking over to the Piccadeli.

Poly didn’t have dormitories, but it did have a handful of resident students. They were housed in the Bossert and, later, at the Pierrepont Hotel. It was pretty rundown, in retrospect, but not what it became. The bar off Love Lane was still there — we heard that Norman Mailer drank there. Never saw him, though.

Very much miss Heights Cinema. It wasn’t luxurious or state of the art but they showed films that actual adults would watch, not the mainstream Hollywood garbage that has dominated at Regal/Court.

You could walk there on a Saturday afternoon, grab a popcorn and be transported to Italy or Poland or France for 2 hours. OTOH, it never would have survived Covid, so its days were numbered any way you look at it.

Anyone know what all the fire trucks around Hicks and Remsen were responding to tonight?

I think Nomcebo is usually a female name.

Montague Street Saloon had the BEST hamburgers. On a toasted English muffin. Perfect.

And their fisherman’s stew was hearty and delicious.

Nomcebo Manzini was the name of a UN official active in women’s rights—who died a few years ago. For some reason, I do not believe this is the same person. Google them.

I’m homebound these days and wouldn’t remember how to edit raw footage if my life depended on it. hehe

The menu has what I’d call “Manhattan Prices”. Not sure if most the neighborhood will go for it. $23 for a hamburger?

There were a bunch of Poly students living on the top floor of a brownstone on Columbia Hts in the 1960s until 1970, when they graduated,

Where did you get this article?

A Google search, clicked on “images,” and there it was. Cropped from full page, heightened contrast and sharpness.