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Diners continue their death march in New York City: The latest victim seems to be Happy Days Diner in Brooklyn Heights.The spot had been on Montague Street for over 20 years and had allegedly not paid rent since February 2020, according to Brooklyn Paper.A Marshal's eviction notice appeared on the door and the phone line is disconnected.

Dear Diary: My wife and I were walking back to our West Village apartment on a cold, rainy winter evening after an early dinner of Indian food in the East Village.As we approached Broadway and West 12th Street, it started raining harder.I glanced up at the sign above the entrance to the Strand bookstore.

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.What is worth standing outside in the cold on Christmas Day?That question came up while I was having brunch with my family at Lafayette Grand Cafe & Bakery in Manhattan and noticed a line forming outside the window of the restaurant.

Dear Diary: I was on my way in to see The Collaboration.A security guard who was checking my purse paused when he saw the small shopping bag I had.Looking inside, he was obviously curious about the 10 small bags I had there.These are candied pecans, I explained, hoping they wouldn't be confiscated.I'm meeting friends inside, and I always make them for the holidays.

1. Fini Pizza will be opening a new location in Amagansett, Long Island in summer 2023.
2. Fini Pizza will feature indoor and outdoor seating, wood-fired pizza and a variety of Italian dishes.
3. Fini Pizza is aiming to create a welcoming

Abdul Elenani, founder of Ayat in Bay Ridge, is at the forefront of ushering in a new legacy for halal food in New York City.Even with more than five openings under his belt - the Palestinian Ayat in Bay Ridge in 2020; Al Badawi in Brooklyn Heights in fall 2021, Ayat in Sunset Park, Fatta Mano, also in Bay Ridge, in 2022, followed by a Staten Island location of Ayat in 2023 - he's just getting started, with four more restaurants in the works.

Brownstoner magazine's Fall/Holiday 2022/23 issue is hot off the presses.Get your hands on a copy and check out:


     A Bed Stuy townhouse where interior designer Jennifer Morris pulled together a colorful, welcoming home for a growing family in record time.Brownsville attorney turned designer Busayo Olupona, whose wares draw on her heritage and employ artisans in Nigeria who create unique fabrics using traditional artisanal techniques.

Rose Noel, the former executive chef of Maialino Mare in Washington, D.C., is opening a seafood restaurant with Marcus Samuelsson, his first spot in the city in about seven years.Hav means ocean in Swedish, and Mar translates as honey in Amharic.(Both languages played a role in Mr. Samuelsson's life.)

Photo courtesy of Alexandra Steedman/Brooklyn Cat Café
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Cat lovers, film aficionados, and felines themselves will come together in Brooklyn Heights on Saturday for the 2nd annual Feline Film Festival at the Brooklyn Cat Café.

This week, a look back at four of our featured listings from six months ago focuses on homes in Clinton Hill, Windsor Terrace, Bay Ridge, and Brooklyn Heights.How did they fare?In Clinton Hill, the right buyer will need to have the vision and energy for a complete reno and have an income that fits the requirements for this flexible four-room walk-up apartment.

Growing up in a rent-stabilized apartment in Park Slope, 44-year-old Amy Hamberry remembers seeing the waves of gentrification roll in.At school, she started to notice differences with other kids, like not being able to go on ski trips, not feeling like she fit in.Having a Black father and a white mother just accentuated that, she said.

This week, a look back at four of our featured listings from six months ago focuses on homes in Brooklyn Heights, Bay Ridge, Park Slope, and Fort Greene.How did they fare?A tidy one-bedroom on the penultimate story of a Brooklyn Heights brownstone mixes original details with fun updates, including a minimalist kitchen with white cupboards and a blue counter.

This week, a look back at four of our featured listings from six months ago focuses on homes in Park Slope, East Flatbush and Brooklyn Heights.How did they fare?In Park Slope, this top floor one-bedroom has a few period details in keeping with the 1930s history of the building, a practical layout and four closets.

Broke into victim's apartment while she was sleeping

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS - The Brooklyn Special Victims Squad has posted "Wanted" flyers on lamp posts around Brooklyn Heights, bearing a sketch of a suspect in an alarming sexually-motivated burglary.In the early hours of Friday, May 12, an unknown man entered the North Heights apartment of a 43-year-old woman.

By Dean Moses Posted on May 14, 2023 A sketch of the intruder intruder responsible for a sexual assault in Brooklyn on May 12, 2023.Sign up for our amNY Sports email newsletter to get insights and game coverage for your favorite teams A Brooklyn woman woke up to a creepy intruder sexually assaulting her, police revealed on Sunday.

A Brooklyn woman woke up to a burglar sexually assaulting her in her bed, cops said Sunday.The 43-year-old victim was sleeping when the attacker broke into her apartment near Middagh and Henry Sts. in Brooklyn Heights about 1:55 a.m.Friday, police said.She woke up when the man got on top of her sexually assaulting her, cops said.

The Brooklyn Women's Bar Association hosted a Continuing Legal Education (CLE) seminar in Brooklyn Heights on Thursday night where members of the Law Offices of Regina Skyer and Associates presented on Special Education Law.The CLE was titled, "Special Education Law in Theory and in Practice in New York: A Primer on the Law and How to Help Your Clients Access Services for Their Children."

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A fugitive has escaped police custody in Brooklyn Heights on Monday evening, launching a widespread NYPD manhunt throughout the area.According to authorities, the man was being transported to Brooklyn Central Booking on Schermerhorn Street between Smith Street and Boerum Place, when he slipped arresting officers, and made off on foot.

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The 21-year-old fugitive who escaped from police custody near Brooklyn Heights last week is still on the loose.According to the NYPD, Joseph King managed to slip one hand out of his handcuffs while cops were taking him to Brooklyn Central Booking on Schermerhorn Street shortly after 5:45 p.m. on May 8, and fled the location.

I've made a decision that I feel very good about: the theme of my summer fiction reading this year is going to be snobbery.This dovetails with my interest in the ways that status and hierarchies limit political change and fuel backlashes.But snob fiction is the fun, lighthearted cousin: books that focus on the odd habits and eccentric preoccupations of people at the top of a particular status hierarchy, and the wild flailing that results when an outsider tries to gain entry or an insider tries to escape.

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS - The 36th annual Saint Ann's Puppet Parade, a rite of spring in Brooklyn Heights, made its merry way down Pierrepont and Montague streets and along the Promenade on Monday.The parade, a Saint Ann's School tradition since 1985, features handmade puppet caricatures towering over the crowd, animals on strings, aliens and zombies.

When Andrew Colarusso was growing up in Ditmas Park, he used to get his haircut at Christyles barber shop at 1021 Cortelyou Road.Now, more than 15 years later, he is opening his own bookstore, Taylor & Co. Books, in the same building."Never would I have truly dared to dream, to allow myself to believe, that I'd open a bookstore in the neighborhood I grew up in," Colarusso told Brownstoner.

Writer Hernan Diaz in Brooklyn Heights, New York.Pascal Perich Argentine writer Hernan Diaz has won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, along with U.S. novelist Barbara Kingsolver.Diaz won the award for his novel Trust, which is set between 1920 and 1930, and focuses on the role money plays in human relationships.

When Bani Randhawa started wearing her new coat a few months ago, something funny happened: Strangers smiled at her as they passed.Babies in strollers pointed at her.Others stopped her on the street, all with the same question: Is that farfalle on your jacket?I have never experienced that while wearing another article of clothing, said Ms. Randhawa, 27, who attends business school in Cambridge, Mass.

With the holidays approaching, have you thought about how you'll accommodate all of your guests when they come for dinner?If you're expecting a big crowd, a small table with four chairs won't cut it  unless you're OK with asking people to stand while they eat.But, if you have enough space for a monstrous table capable of seating more than a dozen people, it can feel disconcertingly large and lonely the rest of the year.

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Creep arrested after deli robbery
A creep was arrested after allegedly robbing a Bond Street deli on Jan. 5.
Cops said the suspect and another perp entered the store near State Street together at about 1:30pm and started perusing the shelves.An employee watched as both alleged thieves placed beer in their pockets and headed for the exit door.

Photo courtesy The Brooklyn Studio
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Historic Brooklyn landmarks, including the Carroll Street Bridge, Park Slope row houses and the arch at Grand Army Plaza, have been turned into a buildable Lego model as part of a prominent Brooklyn architecture firm's anniversary celebrations.

Sections of the BQE's triple cantilever will be closed for three weekends between March and October next year while "emergency repairs" are made to areas around Clark Street, Grace Court and the Joralemon Street garage, Department of Transport reps told a community meeting last week.Queens-bound lanes will be closed for all three weekends, while Staten Island bound traffic will be less affected with just one lane closed on the first weekend, DOT Executive Director, BQE, Design Build and Emergency Contracts Tanvi Pandya told the 60-plus Brooklyn locals gathered on Zoom  for the presentation.

Art pop-up: Learn more about the key artworks in the Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.Each 15-minute tour is led by a seasoned Brooklym Museum guide, who will teach you all about the art and the artist!Free with museum admission.2-3 p.m. at the Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway between Washington and Flatbush avenues in Prospect Heights.

Sections of the BQE's triple cantilever will be closed for three weekends between March and October next year while "emergency repairs" are made to areas around Clark Street, Grace Court and the Joralemon Street garage, Department of Transport reps told a community meeting on Wednesday night.

The most popular listings on Brownstoner this week include a Bed Stuy brownstone, a Bay Ridge standalone and a Park Slope manse.Park Slope was popular again this week with other listings scattered from Bay Ridge to Brooklyn Heights.The least expensive on the list is a Park Slope rental at $3,250 a month and the most expensive is a Park Slope manse asking $9.95 million.

While final election results are not yet in, turnout for the midterm election was strong and steady in Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill and Downtown Brooklyn by midday on Tuesday.The polling site at 101 Clark St. in Brooklyn Heights was busy all morning, a poll worker told the Brooklyn Eagle."It's like a presidential election," she said.

Packed with details, this 1890s Sunset Park brownstone appears surprisingly intact, with multiple mantels, fretwork, moldings and built-ins.A kitchen renovation took a cue from the period style, with cabinetry mimicking original built-ins and the inclusion of a vintage stove.The two-family at 465 54th Street sits in the Sunset Park South Historic District.

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Bottle-swinging baddies
A pair of baddies attacked a man with a glass bottle on Gold Street on Oct. 19.The victim told police he was sitting on a bench near Myrtle Avenue just before 2pm when the two brutes walked up to him and started an argument.Things heated up, and one of the jerks punched him in the face - then took a 40oz glass botttle and swung it at his head.

This week, a look back at four of our featured listings from six months ago focuses on homes in Ocean Hill, Park Slope, Prospect Heights and Brooklyn Heights.How did they fare?Dating to the 1890s, this Ocean Hill row house offers some original details as well as sympathetic renovations that include updated kitchens and baths.

The most popular listings on Brownstoner this week include a Brooklyn Heights co-op, a Bed Stuy limestone and a Carroll Gardens brownstone.Park Slope and Bed Stuy were popular again this week with other listings scattered from Midwood to Brooklyn Heights.The least expensive on the list is a Downtown Brooklyn rental at $4,000 a month and the most expensive is the Carroll Gardens brownstone asking $13.995 million.