The mysterious “partners” who own and operate Corner of Cranberry have fired their first salvo in the rebirth of the location formerly known as Spanish themed restaurant Aficionada. On Sunday, BHB spotted a small sign in the papered-up windows of the restaurant begging the question to passersby “curious, aren’t you?” Well if your definition of […]
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This Town is Not Big Enough for Two Midget Ponies
This Flickr photo, via dietrich, was taken recently in the nabe. What’s up with that?
Nabe Man’s Company Behind Boston “Terror” Alert
As Boston continues to overreact to Cartoon Network’s Aqua Teen Hunger Force stunt gone wrong, word comes that a Heights man’s marketing company is behind Beantown’s faux “day of terror”:
Bedbugs!
While we detect a slight case of schadenfreude from the LA Times in today’s article about bedbugs in New York City, it does mention a Heights resident: LA Times: It’s Hard to Sleep Tight in New York: When Bonnie Friedman first heard about New York’s burgeoning bedbug problem, she felt lucky to live in an […]
Well at Least It’s Branded
What are the folks at the nearly totally empty businesses at 60 Henry Street up to while waiting for customers to show up? Creating a website and developing a “brand” of course! We noticed the URL, cornerofcranberry.com, posted in the window of the newly opened Blue Pig Party Place across from the triple threat now […]
Accosted at GROSStedes
A BHB tipster wrote that she was accosted last week by a homeless person INSIDE the Gristedes on Henry Street. “He was cracked out and was asking for money,” our tipster says. Disgusted, she ran out of the market without notifying the managers. Has this happened to you? Is this a new low for Grosstedes?
Nabe Blogger: “I’m Not Porn King”
Nabe blogger TwoFones has a doppleganger who runs a highly successful porn adult entertainment business. Both share the same last name but one goes by “Greg” while the other uses “Gregory”. Folks in the digital biz have confused the duo before, but a recent New York Times piece on the more “adult” Gregory flamed up […]
Who is that Guy with the Dog?
You know who we’re talking about — the portly older gent who walks his tiny white dog (perhaps a bichon similar to the one in the picture) around Clark Street and chastises people for “not knowing how to walk down the street around a dog.” Has he scolded you lately? Who is he? What’s up […]
The Homeless Museum
Nabe resident Filip Noterdaeme, is a Beligian born artist and curator of HoMu (The Homeless Museum) which is located in his Clinton Street apartment. He describes his museum to the NY Sun today as “a fictitious museum with many quirky elements, but, in the end, it is about a serious issue: The degradation of art […]
The Right (Pint Sized) Stuff
Premiere Magazine Senior Editor Tom Roston writes about the process of getting his daughter into a private pre-nursery school program, which includes an interview at the Montessori School, in today’s New York Times. New York Times: Natalie’s Triumph: Many New York private schools use the system of assembling applicants in a room and observing them […]
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