Community Corner
Bridging Brooklyn: Your Weekly Roundup of Big Stories
Here's a selection of stories from neighboring Patch sites that we thought were big news or just a good read.
I Scream, You Scream
Our neighbor on the other side of Atlantic Avenue will soon get Brooklyn’s first made-from-scratch ice cream shop. Ample Hills Creamery will actually be a dairy factory in the eyes of the law, which imposes all kinds of bureaucratic hoops on anyone who wants to pasteurize dairy products on-site. But it’s all worth it according the store’s owner, who says he’ll be making some of the finest ice cream Brooklyn has ever tasted. It’s expected to open late next month.
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Confectionary Confrontation!
A popular cupcakery abruptly closed its doors last week after the owner’s relationship with a high-profile investor turned sour. The owner, Sean Rich, said that his relationship with his primary stakeholder, who owns the Ricky’s NYC beauty supply chain of store, became acrimonious almost from the moment they met. They tried to change our name to Mama’s Café and they kept telling us that pie was the next big thing. It was ridiculous,” said Rich. Ricky’s NYC countered in a statement, “There is a saying that you can’t do good business with bad people.”
Everyone gets excited when Steve Buscemi shooting on your block — until a film truck knocks over a fire hydrant and breaks a water main! Residents in Quincy Street home are saying that the film crew from Boardwalk Empire is the culprit for a recent broken pipe that flooded their basement. On the day of the incident the city was struggling to find exactly where the break occurred, and told the residents they’d have to sue Boardwalk Empire for damages.
Smith Street is generally thought of as a lively — even pricey — strip of stores, restaurants and bars. But one block on Smith Street has remained a dead zone for years. The five storefronts are in a sorry state, and to just make the block even less appealing, it flanked by two construction sites. “These buildings are in really bad shape,” said one storeowner nearby. “They weren’t maintained well. It doesn’t make Smith Street look prosperous."
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