Thirstbaravin seeking chef and servers

Here's the ads on craigslist. and here.

New plan passes for Washington/Atlantic intersection

Per brownstoner, take a look at the new traffic calming measures.

Shooting at Dean and Washington on Sunday morning

From Gothamist
Shooting
789 Dean St & Washington Ave
Brooklyn, NY
1/9/2011 12:20 a.m.
BROOKLYN: *SHOOTING* 789 DEAN ST & WASHINGTON AVE. PD O/S WITH A MALE SHOT IN THE LEG, LEVEL 1 MO

http://brooklynian.com/forum/prospect-heights/1206am-sunday-fireworks-or-gunshots

Thirstbaravin website is up

Check out Thirst Bar a Vin's website.

Located at 629 Classon Avenue, Thirstbaravin is a wine bar that also serves top-quality food, prepared by a former chef from Prune in the East Village.

New wine bar for Crown Heights

Thirstbaravin (think Thirst Bar a Vin) has opened up on Pacific and Classon in Crown Heights. It's a venture from the owners of Thirst Wine Merchants in Fort Greene. Of note, aside from the biodynamic wines, they have a Mirage espresso machine making coffee with 49th Parallel beans.

Here's the Village Voice review.

Food in the neighborhood

A couple of tidbits -

Bark Hot Dogs now serving a primo burger, as well.

A banh-mi joint is coming to Clinton Hill.

Dutch Boy Burgers in Crown Heights is opening tomorrow.

Trouble at the Hello Living project

Major troubles abound at the Hello Living project in Crown Heights. See the article in today's NY Metro section.

Two of the intimately-involved partners in the project are butting heads over management and selling of the units. Both being Hasidic/Orthodox, this even reached the rabbinical courts <-- are these legally binding courts?

Meanwhile, condo owners and persons in contract are caught in limbo.

Hello Living complex gets flyered

Per curbed, Hello Living Dakota potential buyers are being intimidated by a lawyer.

Hello Living Dakota units vary from $399K to $579K

Summertime gunfire results in deaths

Two men were murdered at Washington Ave and St. Johns Place late Saturday night. Fox News has some info here.

Brooklynian has a thread on it.

Hello Living artwalk

Hello Living is having an art exhibit in one of their buildings this weekend at 802 Dean Street. The date is Saturday April 25 between 2 and 6PM.

via curbed.

Frank White cafe a victim of the economy

As evidenced by the FOR SALE sign on the front of Frank White's windows, it looks like it may be over for the owners..or is it? As evidenced by this blog post, they are only moving a few doors down.

Gift cards to spur sales

The sellers of this Crown Heights condo are now offering co-brokers $2500 AMEX gift cards as a carrot.

932 Pacific Street townhouse on the market

Perhaps feeling a bit too boxed in by the Hello Living projects, an owner who purchased this townhouse for $550,000 in October 2004 has enlisted corcoran to market it for a whopping $1.24MM.

The three family boasts three floor-thru apartments at about 1,000 square feet for each floor.

587 Washington Condos now also renting

Judging from this craigslist post, the market is in dire straits. The owner of 587 Washington is now renting the duplex for a relative bargain at $4000 a month for a 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath and parking spot!

This only means one thing -- if you are looking to buy a place, you are sure to get a bargain here.

Warren Lewis and Brown Harris Stevens have listings for 587 Washington

Both websites are featuring the 4 condos, ranging in price from $585K to $695K.

The ground floor duplex has a private parking spot for only $695K. But imagine how loud it could be from all the speeding cars and trucks who make this avenue a speed alley.

587 Washington Condos

The condos at the southeast corner of Pacific and Washington now have their own website. This project may have been rumored to be a part of the Hello Living Condos, but it is not.

The project features 4 units, one of which is a ground floor duplex with its' own parking spot. The website is sparse and doesn't have list prices and mind-blowingly for a project in this area, does not mention the C train at Clinton-Washington as a viable alternative.

The biggest plus and minus to this project may be its' location. It is flooded with light on three sides, but also has to contend with the constant flow of traffic up and down Washington.

New Hello Living buildings now selling

The picture, at left, is not of a giant grill you would find on a barbecue, but the 'car spin' that is a feature of 802 Dean Street, one of the new Hello Living buildings in the Prospect Heights/Crown Heights border.

The Aguayo website has new listings for the Montana and the Austin. List prices are quite healthy, with the Montana at 802 Dean featuring mostly 2 bedroom, 1 baths for $495K to $599K (622 psf to 777 psf) and the Austin at 916 Pacific Street with a mix of 2 bed, 2 baths to 3 bed, 2 baths for $855K to $885K.

Latest Hello Living project

783 Dean Street lot for $399,000

Across from the Washington Condos, the owner of this auto body shop/garage is trying to cash in on the condo craze. This craigslist listing asks $399K for this corner parcel.

Hello Living update

The architects at Loading Dock 5 have a picture of the glass curtain wall going up at 904 Pacific Street.