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Celebrity butcher Tom Mylan is too busy to call us!
Shopping: This butcher shop is so cutting edge, it’s going to have a press preview. Comment.
Deli-aster! Robicelli’s closes in new cupcake push
Shopping: The minds behind Robicelli’s Gourmet Market in Bay Ridge have decided to close their beloved Third Avenue store so they can go national with their even-more-beloved cupcakes. Comments (9).
Bring the subway to your home
Shopping: Finally, a chance to pretend that your living room is the 2 train. Comments (1).
How do you like them apples? Baked, preferably in a pie
Shopping: So, you picked apples all weekend. Sweet Melissa shows you what you can do with them Comment.
Jeter who? Book lovers create uniforms honoring real heroes — writers!
Shopping: If your all-star team includes Henry David Thoreau before Henry Aaron, Edgar Allen Poe before Edgar Renteria, and Walt Whitman before … Walt Weiss, then you’re in luck. Comments (4).
Get some great food in a church basement!
Shopping: The best new place to get homemade, specialty and ethnic foods isn’t some fancy gourmet place, but a church cafeteria. Comment.
There’s a new cookie in town
Shopping: Little Buddy Biscuit Company opens in the South Slope. Comment.
Melissa’s back-to-school treat
Shopping: Our baker shares her Mom’s delicious lemon cookie recipe. Comment.
A wine-win situation on Sept. 11
Shopping: A Park Slope shop will mark our day of national service with some real service — a wine tasting. Comment.
Clinton Hill finally gets a super market
Shopping: A new grocery store is usually not big news, but in Clinton Hill, where residents have long complained of limited access to fresh produce, the opening of Fresh Fanatic earns headlines. Comments (11).
Make a ‘hajj’ to Brooklyn next weekend!
Shopping: Even the most intrepid Brooklynite can feel that he hasn’t fully experienced the cultural riches of our beloved borough. Comments (1).
A peach of a pie from Sweet Melissa
Shopping: As much as I hate to leave my beloved Brooklyn, I do enjoy going to my parent’s Jersey shore summer rental at the end of each July. Comment.
It’s a wine win! Greene Grape hauls in another honor
Shopping: The city’s famously wine-loving CEO has finally recognized what Fort Greene residents have known for years: The Greene Grape wine store and the neighboring Greene Grape Provisions is the best. Comments (3).
Our team puts a hit on the new ‘Sopranos’ wine
Smash or Trash: They gave us an offer we could not refuse: drink this bottle of red wine. Now! With video … Comment.
Red Hook says ‘Adios’ as LeNell seeks B and B (and B) in Mexico
Shopping: First Leon Trotsky and now LeNell heads to Mexico to seek fortune. Comments (4).
Life’s a picnic — with the Go Brooklyn field guide, that is
Shopping: June was a complete washout, so now it’s time to fully embrace the picnic — and the good news is that The Brooklyn Paper is here to help with our first annual park-by-park guide to the perfect picnic. Comment.
‘General’ discontent over new sign at DUMBO store
Shopping: A DUMBO entrepreneur has ended years of peaceful anonymity and started a riveting neighborhood debate by simply hanging a sign. Comments (1).
A ‘Whole’ reversal from organic megastore
Shopping: Whole Foods renewed its commitment to opening a store on Third Avenue — a 180-degree turnaround from last week when a spokeswoman for the chain told The Brooklyn Paper that the company had abandoned its contaminated site along the Gowanus Canal. Comments (6).
Arts and crafts for sale in Gowanus
Shopping: Monster bug sculptures? Made-to-order leather bags? Greeting cards created on an antique wood press while you wait? To-die-for quesadillas and hand-made chocolates? It’s all at the bi-weekly Makers Market at the American Can factory. Comment.
Breaking news! ‘Whole’ lot of nothing as food megastore abandons Gowanus site
Shopping: Exclusive: Whole Foods has shelved its plans to open its first Brooklyn branch on Third Avenue near the Gowanus Canal, The Brooklyn Paper has learned.
Comments (34).
Get out of the subway and onto one of his scooters
Shopping: A new Downtown shop wants you to save money, save gas and get into the Zen spirit of owning your own scooter. Comments (7).
‘Fix’ is in! Sound Fix to relocate — and live music will return
Shopping: Yes, one of Brooklyn’s best record stores is moving out of its home of five years, but Sound Fix owner James Bradley has some good news for his customers, too: Live music performances will return! Comments (1).
Ridge grocer finds the sweet path to success
Shopping: Robicelli’s Gourmet Market has found the perfect cure for the recession blues: cupcakes. Comment.
Union haul! Vendors upset over city plan to relocate McCarren greenmarket
Shopping: The McCarren Park greenmarket is slated to move a few blocks away from its current location because vendors are tearing up the grass. Comments (15).
The better the cheese, the ‘Larder’ they come
Shopping: Park Slope residents will be saying cheese when they visit Bklyn Larder — a new fromagerie that opened on Flatbush Avenue this week. Comment.
The G train is now the Brooklyn local!
Shopping: Forget everything you ever heard about the G train, because it is about to become the best subway line in the MTA system. Comments (7).
Designs of the times — a recession special at Brooklyn Designs
Shopping: Brooklyn Designs, the exhibition of the borough’s finest home furnishing makers, rears its sleek, contemporary head again next week. Even if you’re feeling the pinch of the recession, you don’t have to decorate your entire apartment only with Ikea products (not that there’s anything wrong with that). Comment.
Mother’s Day is coming up — look, you need a gift
Shopping: Here’s our annual Mother’s Day gift guide! Comments (1).
Brooklyn Flea coming to Brooklyn Bridge Park site
Bridge ‘Park’: The popular Brooklyn Flea will open a summer home — its third — inside the troubled Brooklyn Bridge Park site starting in June. Comment.
All’s ‘Fare’ as Downtown gets a fancy new supermarket
Shopping: The corner of Hoyt and Schermerhorn Streets in Downtown Brooklyn isn’t exactly known for its food, but that will change with the addition of Brooklyn Fare, an independent market that opened this week. Comments (3).
Jay-Z truck stop finally opens shop
Shopping: This is one shop that will really get your motor running — finally. Comments (5).
Flea bitten
Shopping: Brooklyn has become flea-ridden — and shoppers have got the itch. Comments (5).
What can you get when then the Flea bug bites?
Shopping: If one man’s trash is really another man’s treasure, then Brooklyn’s flea markets are the best places to find your fortune. In our search, we found some cool items (an Egyptian-styled top from the 1930s, $275 at Artists and Fleas in Williamsburg), nifty decorations (how about some toy ships in toy bottles — $1 each at the PS 321 flea market?), and the downright weird (like a pair of handball gloves, still in their package, $5 at PS 321!). Here are a few treasures. Comment.
Jay-Z’s truck never gets out of park
Shopping: Looks like Jay-Z’s Rocawear tractor-trailer ran out of gas. Comment.
Holding down the ‘Fort’ for New York wine
Shopping: The Greene Grape, a Fulton Street wine shop was just named New York Wine and Spirit Retailer of the Year. Comments (4).
How bazaar! A Park Slope flea market joins the crowd
Shopping: The borough’s newest flea market is about to land in a parking lot behind an Islamic School on 20th Street. Comments (8).
New sign sends up a ‘Flare’ in Greenpoint
Shopping: A Meserole Avenue boutique reflects its neighborhood in many ways. Comment.
There’s definitely a ‘market’ for produce in Ridge
Shopping: Bay Ridge’s popular farmer’s market will remain at the former Key Food parking lot on Third Avenue — even after a Walgreens pharmacy opens at the site this summer, The Brooklyn Paper has learned. Comment.
New fancy beer store in Greenpoint
Shopping: Buying beer in Greenpoint is about to become a gourmet experience. Comment.
Bug off! Flea market will return — but on Saturdays
Shopping: The flea market that filled the Bishop Loughlin HS yard every summer Sunday with arts, crafts, food and vintage tchotchkes — and angered a church next door in the process — will be back for a second go-round, but this time on Saturday. Comment.
Red Hook Ikea tops them all
Red Hook: Marty says it, so it must be true: The Ikea in Red Hook is already the busiest in North America. Comments (11).
Whole-y foods! Stalled Gowanus grocery back in action
Shopping: The long-delayed Whole Foods supermarket along the fetid Gowanus Canal showed some signs of life this month, as developers filed state paperwork that raised expectations that the controversial project will actually be built. Comments (19).
Monty: Let’s make a deal!
Shopping: There are now nine “For rent” signs flying on Montague Street between Clinton Street and the Promenade right now — but the news may not be all bad. Comments (3).
Uncorked! It’s going to be a very good year for Hook winery
Shopping: It’s almost the days of wine and roses in Red Hook. Comments (2).
NuNu chocolate, new home
Shopping: Atlantic Avenue just got a whole lot sweeter — just in time for Valentine’s Day. Comment.
Valentine’s savings
Shopping: Retailers and restaurateurs on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope are putting their hearts on sale for Valentine’s Day. Comments (1).
‘Warsaw’ no ghetto for record fans
Shopping: Just take those old records off the shelf and make room for new vinyl in your collection, because dozens of vendors are again storming Warsaw on Feb. 15 in what is fast-becoming a major musical event in the borough. Comment.
Macy’s to Brooklyn workers: You’re safe for now
Shopping: Macy’s will be laying off thousands of workers nationwide — but the several hundred employees at the chain’s Brooklyn flagship on the Fulton Mall are safe. Comment.
Bourbon joint on the rocks! LeNell’s to close...really
Shopping: LeNell’s, the Red Hook liquor store with more kick than downhome moonshine, will close on Feb. 21, but could possibly reopen near its Van Brunt Street location soon, its owner told The Brooklyn Paper. Comments (4).
Bushwicking! Get to this low-key hip neighborhood now
Shopping: Everyone meet Bushwick: Williamsburg’s cooler sister who doesn’t wear as much make-up. Comments (2).
Bee smart about health
Shopping: Why carbo-load on energy drinks when you can “bee” natural? That was Brooklyn Heights resident David Luks’s brainstorm last spring when the avid runner — and cancer patient — caught wind of new scientific research that touted the benefits of honey. Comments (1).
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