It feels like the latest addition to the Franks' empire, Prime Meats, has been soft opening forever, like a delicious breach birth. The latest "quietly opened last night" post comes courtesy TONY and it's true. Well, for drinks at least. Mr. Falcinelli, the blue-eyed co-owner with prominent incisors...

[Krieger, 11/24/08] Frankie Brunz takes the F train down to Carroll Gardens this week to file on neighborhood hit Buttermilk Channel, a newish restaurant that trendily sources everything from its sausages to its beer to its ice cream locally. Frank gives her a one:"All of this makes Buttermilk Chann...

Score another celeb catch for Brooklyn (still reeling from the Bettany/Connelly exodus), as Brownstoner reports that Grammy-winner Norah Jones closed on a Cobble Hill townhouse. 'Stoner's take: "Jones paid an astonishing $4,990,000 for the restored 4,100-square-foot house, a price that's hard to fat...

It's that time of year, the time when people's thoughts are put off the rails by the unholy specter of... sand. Reader email number one: "We were promised a a park and improvements on South and Pike/Allen Streets by the Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan. In the existing park, with beautiful views of NY H...

Carroll Gardens: Some vital news for the lovers of the recently shuttered Carroll Gardens staple Patois: According to a posting on a French Culinary Institute's job board, Alan Harding and Jim Mamary are planning a new Patois in Soho and a restaurant and charcuterie shop in Brooklyn. It had been rep...

Tumor buildings have been a point of contention in Carroll Gardens since people started putting growths atop their nice little brownstones. In fact, tumors were on of the things that got the King of Brooklyn Architects, Robert Scarano, in hot water. Well, one of the things. But it that, like, a gang...

1) It's a story that was already written by the Observer last month, but the Times' look at how residents in luxury buildings are dialing-down their concierge service needs is a how-to for living fabulously in difficult times. Some bits of advice: Raid your wine cellar and bring your own bottles to ...

RED HOOK — According to the Brooklyn Paper the new Stumptown Coffee Roasters Plant set to open soon in Red Hook will have a Frankies Cafe, "serving a smiliar menu to the popular Court Street eatery. [BP] EAST VILLAGE — As mentioned earlier, the Upright Citizens Brigade is trying to open ...

CHELSEA-ISH — El Chod is at it again. Curbed reports that the Kimpton Hotel group is opening a 54-story hotel/condo on 6th between 29th and 30th. It will have a ballroom, a spa, 8,000 square feet of terrace, and this: "Acclaimed restaurant operator, China Grill Management, will operate the res...

[Click to enlarge] If ever there were a rendering vs. reality comparison that leaves one breathless about how the pedestrian reality is oh-so-much-less nauseating than the rendering, this Robert Scarano at 110 Fourth Avenue (aka Brooklyn's Park Avenue) is it. Looking at the one on the left, we get c...