This vibrant and diverse community has just about anything you could want on a summer stroll. From great – and cheap! – food to spacious gardens, the city’s second largest museum, an abundance of specialty stores catering to Jewish and Caribbean residents, and vibrant nightlife, Crown Heights makes for a great day trip on the fly.
Despite the recession, business on Washington Avenue – the recognized border between Prospect Heights and Crown Heights – seems to be booming. Not sure the same could be said for its brand new condos, but if you build it, they might come (or not). Ahead of the October installment of First Saturdays at the Brooklyn Museum – a boon to local businesses who often pay their entire rent from first weekend festivities – here are some new offerings on Washington Avenue.
Must all good things come to an end? The English proverb, it seems, should not apply to dive bar aficionado Tracy Westmoreland yet again. With the economy in shambles, the main investor in Mr. Westmoreland’s Prospect Heights bar, the Manhattans, has started to get cold feet.
A toast from one bar to the other. St. John’s Place neighbors Franklin Park and the Manhattans bury the hachet and talk about the area’s expanding nightlife options.
Lovable, bearded bar czar Tracy Westmoreland has landed in Brooklyn. His new watering hole, Manhattans— at 769 Washington Ave. in Prospect Heights— will open on Friday, reclaiming the legacy of his former Hell’s Kitchen dive Siberia.
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About 1,140 feet inland from the banks of the East River sits the Navy Yard Cocktail lounge, also known as J.J.’s, a watering hole with no telephone and an unseemly reputation dating back to Brooklyn’s waterfront days of yore. A sign on the door screams PRIVATE.
Get past that sign and you’ll find a shabby bar with a few video poker screens and a sassy broad behind the counter. No big deal. However, this one’s a doozy.
Dubbed everything from secret stripper bar to the scariest bar in Brooklyn, neighbors often wear a visit to this dive, on the corner of Washington and Flushing Avenues, like a badge of honor; the bar as portal to a forgotten yesteryear.
Anyone who has ever tried to take a taxi from Manhattan to Brooklyn is familiar with the hostile tone of a cab driver that generally refrains a Brooklyn address.
But rarely does it come to blows as it did on Washington Avenue and Prospect Place on January 13. Around 10pm, one male and one female passenger in an SUV cab began arguing with the driver, who demanded payment after hitting the male passenger in the face. Shortly after, another car pulled up, the driver hopped out, ran up to the scene and hit the male passenger twice in the face.
So much for a hassle free ride.
