Cheeses Christ!! Waitress Gets Naked at Roberta’s, the Internet Reacts

A waitress at Roberta’s in Bushwick said farewell to the eatery on Friday by doing her shift almost naked.…

BK History: Downtown’s Pepper & Potter Nash Auto Dealership

Following the January 4 BHB post that a Hampton Inn is coming to 125 Flatbush Avenue Extension (near Tillary Street) in Downtown Brooklyn, we relished McBrooklyn’s take on the biz that once occupied the space: Pepper & Potter Nash car dealership. McB notes, “While we remember the old car dealership as a rundown wreck of […]
(via Brooklyn Heights Blog)

Farewell DieHipster.com, We Hardly Knew Ye

DieHipster.com the Brooklyn based blog started as “A place for real New Yorkers to vent about the invasion of attention starved, useless adults that we know as hipsters” has thrown in the towel. In a January 5 posting its founder said goodbye. For the sane and beardless, it’s a missive worthy of framing:

Attention Stockholm – Here Comes Brooklyn Brewery

Williamsburg’s Brooklyn Brewery will be expanding to Sweden by year’s end according to a recent blog post. The company plans a brewery in Stockholm as part of a partnership and exchange program between Brooklyn, D. Carnegie & Co. and Carlsberg Sweden.

Friends Of Brooklyn Heights Library Offers Hart Crane Tribute January 9

The Friends of the Brooklyn Heights Branch Library is presenting “Dedicated To Hart Crane” Wednesday, January 9 at 6:30 p.m. at 280 Cadman Plaza West. The Chief Librarian of the BPL will introduce Prof. Langdon Hammer, Chairman of the Department of English at Yale University, who will give a short talk about Hart Crane, one […]
(via Brooklyn Heights Blog)

Director Enjoys Ménage à Trois in Latest Heights Players Production

The Heights Players present Charles Busch’s The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife this month (January 5, 11, 12, 18 and 19 at 8:00 p.m) directed by its president Ed Healy. It marks the company’s first production of a Busch play.

Healy discusses directing the play and its infamous ménage à trois scene in an interview with Local Theatre NY – watch it after the jump.
(via Brooklyn Heights Blog)

Molasses Books is a Place Where You Can Trade In a Book for a Beer

Bushwick’s Molasses Books, the shop that is known for accepting books as trade for other books, coffee or tea…

Downtown Brooklyn Sprouts Another New Hotel Property

A Hampton Inn is coming to 125 Flatbush Avenue Extension, according to a sign posted on the construction fence there.
(via Brooklyn Heights Blog)

Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Singapore Grip,” by J.G. Farrell

What is the Singapore Grip? Walter Blackett is the managing partner in the oldest British firm in Singapore (rubber…

NY Daily News Dedicates a Mighty 3 Paragraphs to “My Brooklyn”

No matter where you stand on the gentrification/improvement of Downtown Brooklyn battle, Elizabeth Weitzman’s 3 paragraph review in today’s New York Daily News of “My Brooklyn”, Kelly Anderson’s Fulton Mall documentary feels a little light.

Judge for yourself after the jump.