Chalk one up for Team Gentrification in Red Hook. Per a tipster, the Narco Freedom Methadone Clinic at 134 Van Dyke Street has shut down (a move that should free up some seats on the Ikea shuttle, if this article is to be believed) and is relocating to 561 Court Street. The question now is what will...

Zuzu Ramen, the noodle joint from the proprietors of the Australian pub Sheep Station, is scheduled to to open today. While Zuzu doesn't have a menu online yet, TONY said to "look for creative varieties with international twists including a Thai-influenced green curry–miso ramen." Brooklynian's al...

Brooklyn just got a little more Godless. Timeless Treasures, the 5,000-square-foot Christian-themed store at 163 Livingston Street in Downtown Brooklyn, has departed for the afterlife, according to a post from McBrooklyn; the blog was unable to track down any specific reason for the closure. This is...

After getting an early look at the Pop-Up Park this morning, we swung back a couple hours later with the family in tow to sample the grub at the RICE cafe set up amid the picnic tables and mounds of grass. We were struck by the decidedly un-Asian tilt to the food selection. In fact, not a single pie...

The Bergen Street space that'll house Toys in Babeland is being gussied up by construction workers, one of whom told us that the adult-toys shop is scheduled to open in June. The interior (no pics allowed!) is still very raw, but judging from the test paint swatches on the wall, it's going to be qui...

Next Wednesday the somewhat moribund 7th Avenue retail scene will get a breath of fresh air via a new clothing shop opening on Lincoln. Except the clothing will actually be old, and the business in question, 1 of a Find, is a couple storefronts east of 7th Ave. The new store is the brainchild of a w...

Il Porto, which promises to be an oasis in the culinary desert that is Wallabout, is moving steadily toward it May launch. When we passed by this week, contractors were hard at work installing the two storefront window areas at 37 Washington Avenue. Contrary to what we wrote first time around, the b...