Open Thread Wednesday

Din Soup Dumplings is open! Has anyone been yet? I hope to check it out this weekend.

I wonder who wrote the execrable mea culpa. Someone who smoked too much perhaps . . . .

A few years ago, I heard something about a daughter of a Russian oil tycoon buying one of the JW properties.

https://brooklyneagle.com/a…

I did some searching because I thought maybe he had some connections to Putin. I think i found the same person, and it turns out he was arrested for “embezzlement” and died in a Moscow prison in 2017.

https://armenianweekly.com/…

Anyone who knows about Sergei Magnitsky and the Magnitsky Act knows that fake embezzlement charges are Putin’s way of punishing oligarchs who refuse to give him a cut of their businesses fortunes. Truly an evil man

https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

If anyone figures out how to use the new state law that allows you to see the beneficiary of shell corporations, I would like to know how many homes in our neighborhood have been sold to Russian oligarchs.

I guess the people who decided to open this never thought to read the rules and regulations governing opening retail businesses!

And another photo from the same vantage point, looking toward the Brooklyn Bridge:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/193f357719cd42c270f1970cb7cff2453f46a47924255a0cc1f9cb23906ed0a1.jpg

Inga’s Bar (NW corner of Hicks and Cranberry) opens next week.

I read that book last year. My family on my father’s side was very nautical. It was fascinating!

Citibank is moving from 181 Montague to the nondescript 195 Montague in June. Sure hope nobody is planning on tearing the Citi building down…

Yikes. That block is really going through an upheaval. It appears it’s landmarked, luckily:
https://www.brownstoner.com/architecture/brooklyns-landmarks-preservation-commission-2017-designation/

But don’t show up between 1:30 and 2pm; the pharmacy dept. will be closed. See my other post about this.

Agree, I did takeout today and had the Tayoyaki and Shrimp Fried Noodle (Kudai style). Both dishes were tasty and I’d go back.