New Waterfront Restaurant for Brooklyn?

The River Cafe may not be the only waterfront restaurant in Downtown Brooklyn (you can of course venture into Williamsburg or Sheepshead Bay for other waterfront dining options). From the New York Post:

"The city’s Parks Department is seeking a restaurateur to operate an eatery overlooking the New York Harbor on Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 6, this paper has learned.

The pier is located on the southern edge of the waterfront Park off Atlantic Avenue with breathtaking views of both lower Manhattan and New York Harbor.

“Parks recently sent a notice to (Community Board 2) that we are intending to issue an RFP (Request for Proposals) for a restaurant at Pier 6 in Brooklyn Bridge Park,” said Parks Department spokesperson Phil Abramson."

Also at Curbed.

Nine Good Teeth: Carroll Gardens, Old School

For an incredible video, head on over to Pardon Me For Asking, Katia Kelly's Carroll Gardens and beyond blog. The video is titled "Nine Good Teeth" and is about someone's grandmother, born in Carroll Gardens (then Red Hook) two centuries ago. The video is not only incredibly well done, but is touching and contains scenes of the neighborhood.

I won't put this video up, because she went through the hard work of finding and posting, but suffice to say that as someone whose own grandmother is from Carroll Gardens, I found it touching. So head on over there and thank Katia for posting!

Carroll Gardens' Lucali Continues to be a Friend

Lucali's friends of friends continue to make news. From the ever-reliable New York Post:

Colombo crime-family slacker Dominick "Black Dom" Dionisio -- who was accused by his probation officer of socializing instead of working at his Brooklyn pizza-parlor job -- is hoping to open a new restaurant for his boss.

While Dionisio waits for his federal racketeering trial to begin, his lawyer has requested that he be allowed to help his current employer, Lucali's Pizza in Carroll Gardens, open a new eatery.

"Mr. Dionisio's duties at the new location will require him to travel to [Manhattan] for, among other things, his food handler's license and permits for the restaurant," his lawyer, James Froccaro informed the judge. "He will be purchasing décor and equipment for the new restaurant as well."

Froccaro refused to say where the new restaurant will be. 

Refused to say? Come on, where's the investigative journalism?