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East River Ferry Adds Food Service

Starting today, there will be food service on the East River ferries that connect Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens, making a stop at Fulton Ferry Landing at the foot of Old Fulton Street. DNAinfo.com: Beginning Monday morning, passengers will be treated to a new menu of locally-produced goodies, including cupcakes from Butter Lane Cupcakes, retro-style u-bet […]

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Channel 7 on Carrots at Colonie

Channel 7, ABC Eyewitness News reporter Lauren Glassberg visited Colonie, talked with some diners and with sous-chef Bryan Redmond, and watched him prepare a carrot salad. Video after the jump.

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Best Eats in Brooklyn Heights – Keep Talkin’!

Before it’s time to move on to the voting phase of the Best Eats in Brooklyn Heights,  we’d like to continue the nomination process.  Join the conversation on the original thread here.

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Local Pizzeria ‘Della Rocco’s Of Brooklyn’ Cooks Up June Opening

BHB EXCLUSIVE: The commercial spaces at 214 and 216 Hicks Street, which were demolished in February to carve out a single larger parcel, will soon make good use of being “unsliced.” In June, 100% local Della Rocco’s of Brooklyn will begin cooking up brick-oven pizzas, along with a beer & wine bar specializing in borough […]

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Help Needed for BHA House Tour

The Brooklyn Heights Association’s annual House Tour (the photo was taken in one of the houses on this year’s tour) is coming soon, on Saturday, May 12. You can find more information, and buy tickets, here. The BHA needs “house volunteers” who “are asked to take a shift, watching rooms to be sure there is […]

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Heights History: 1940s’ Mammy’s Pantry, 122 Montague Street

Long before there was a Housing Works Thrift Shop or a Fish’s Eddy—or for that matter, a Brooklyn Heights Promenade—122 Montague Street was the location of beloved Southern-style restaurant Mammy’s Pantry. In the 1940s, the eatery served up a lunch and dinner menu of such goodies as Maryland Crab Cakes, Southern Fried Chicken, Shrimps Creole […]

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Reminder: Downtown’s Dekalb Market Is Mad Fun

If you haven’t had the opportunity to check out the wonderfully novel Dekalb Market yet, the weekend is coming! This new community destination in Downtown Brooklyn—which was voted Best New York Architecture in 2011 by the New York Observer—is uniquely housed in a collection of salvaged shipping containers, and includes an incubator farm, weekend events, […]

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Hey, Want To Open A Restaurant In The Heights? Uh, Not So Fast…

Anyone that has lived in Brooklyn Heights for more than five or so years has seen that wonderful new restaurant open its doors up the street with so much promise, a great menu and meaningful ambiance… only to shutter a year later, supplanted by a nail salon or cell phone retailer. Sigh. The Real Deal […]

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‘Nona Brooklyn’ Profiles Noodle Pudding Owner Antonio Migliaccio

Brooklyn foodie website Nona Brooklyn offers a lengthy and delectable interview with Antonio Migliaccio, owner of Brooklyn Heights’ longtime fave Noodle Pudding. The Italian restaurant has been open at 38 Henry Street in the far northern reaches of the neighborhood for 16 years. The interview begins: “Most restaurants have a moment. They arrive on the […]

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Mr. J. Checks Out Le Pain Quotidien on Montague

How does Karl love LPQ? Let him count the ways…. Video after the jump.

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