Images of America: Fort Greene
Posted on 25. Aug, 2010 by David Sokosh in Hill Top Reviews
There is a wonderful new volume in Arcadia Publishing’s “Images of America” series: “Fort Greene”, written by Howard Pitsch; foreword by Paul Palazzo. All of Fort Greene is here – images of the Academy of Music, the Martyrs Monument, the Navy Yard and more, with captions by the author. Those who have enjoyed Pitsch’s distinctive [...]
Green in BKLYN Makes Living Greener Easy
Posted on 25. Aug, 2010 by Kate Hanley in Hill Top Reviews
Bed-Stuy resident Elissa Olin wanted to make earth-friendly shopping choices but found it hard to do so—one store might have green cleaning supplies but no recycled paper products, while another carried non-toxic hand soap but only conventional, chemical-laden shampoo. “Even though I was committed to living greener, it was a struggle,” she recalls. An event [...]
Stem is in Full Bloom
Posted on 25. Aug, 2010 by Suzanne McCaffrey in Hill Top Reviews
As you turn away from the bustle of Fulton Street on to the relative quiet of South Oxford, just past the tire-changing station, your olfactory senses may catch you by surprise, as the scent of peonies and garden roses waft under your nose. An anomaly for city dwellers, these beautiful country smells would draw any [...]
Around The World in 80 Minutes
Posted on 25. Jan, 2010 by Keith Flanders in Hill Top Reviews
“Autour Du Monde” is an apt phrase in the lives of Olivier Jimenez and Pauline Abd-el-Kader, who met in St. Maarten and literally traveled “around the world” to such far-flung places as Nepal, the Caribbean, Thailand, India and Morocco, eventually landing in Brooklyn and bringing with them a taste and love for world cuisine. And [...]
Choice Greene Delivers
Posted on 25. Jan, 2010 by Kate Hanley in Hill Top Reviews
I know what you might be thinking… does Clinton Hill really need a frou frou food market, with fancy-pants bacon and handmade ricotta cheese? But when said market offers many of the pastries from the perpetually crowded Choice Market with none of the wait, and you can also pick up a perfectly cooked organic rotisserie [...]
Outpost: Hidden in Plain Sight
Posted on 25. Jan, 2010 by Michelle Herrera Mulligan in Hill Top Reviews
Nestled in between a church and an empty lot on a deserted stretch of Fulton Avenue, The Outpost seems like a happy accident. If you walk in looking for coffee on a busy Sunday morning, you may think you stumbled into a 24-hour club instead of a café. You’ll see a glass chandelier sparkling over [...]
Hill Top Review: Castro’s Mexican
Posted on 09. Aug, 2009 by Keith Flanders in Hill Top Reviews
FIRST, there’s the burrito. That’s what Castro’s Mexican Restaurant is famous for. The two-pound, slightly browned coconut-sized sack of chicken, beef or, if you prefer, flounder is a go-to delivery option for many a famished Brooklynite who gets home too late to do anything useful with those leeks and onions acquired at the Fort Greene [...]
Hilltop Review: Il Porto & Mojito
Posted on 09. Aug, 2009 by Keith Flanders in Hill Top Reviews
At some point during the Hamptons real estate run-up a term was coined to differentiate the highly desirable coastal property from South Hampton to Montauk from the less fashionable areas north: “South of the Highway.” The same may be said about Fort Greene/Clinton Hill/Wallabout, if the highway in question is the BQE rather than Route [...]
