Prospect Heights Primer for the new to the nabe

ak217

Respectfully soliciting your local favorite establishments of eating, drinking shopping and getting things done close to home in Prospect Heights and surrounding neighborhoods, (but really mostly Prospect Heights). Particularly failure-to-plan-ahead grocery stops that one can walk home from...Please include rough location (is that allowed?) Things that figure mightily into your weekly routine...and your...sense of belonging, let's say, to the Prospect hieght economy.

coffee shops, restaurants, vegetarian restaurants, Fed-ex drop locations, grocery and bodegas, hardware, chi-chi retail shops, thrift stores...etc, and hey where's the local post office?


Thanks!

sweet tea

skip the local post office, trust me on this one.

you're better off at FB Enterprises, corner of washington and prospect.

apollonia666

Welcome to the neighborhood!

These are all topics we've covered a LOT -- you might want to poke around the site a bit, and look past page one of the Prospect Heights forum. I bet you'll find a lot of the info you need is already here!

Which reminds me -- maybe we should resurrect the Wiki one of these days?

michaelkeys

Subject: Re: Prospect Heights Primer for the new to the nabe

ak217 wrote: Respectfully soliciting your local favorite establishments of eating, drinking shopping and getting things done close to home in Prospect Heights... Thanks!

I'm the furthest thing from a foodie but fwiw, my favorite PH/PS/BoCoCa/FG/CH restaurant is Beast, on the corner of Bergen and Vanderbilt.

duke of flatbush

maybe we should resurrect the Wiki one of these days?

Is a resurrection really necessary? I believe that the wiki has been discussed at length on another post:
http://www.brooklynian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4167&highlight=wiki

If you're new to the neighborhood I highly suggest you introduce yourself to Earl, who can be found most afternoons sitting in the middle of the bar at Mooneys on Flatbush between Sterling and Park Places. He is one of my favorite things about the 'hood.

apollonia666

Duke of Flatbush wrote:

maybe we should resurrect the Wiki one of these days?

Is a resurrection really necessary? I believe that the wiki has been discussed at length on another post:
http://www.brooklynian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4167&highlight=wiki.

Well, maybe we have more people now who'd be willing to add stuff to it than we did when it was last active. And it seems like it would be a great way to help people who come here for the first time wanting to know about a really huge range of topics about the neighborhood that have already been discussed here, often repeatedly. Anyway, just an idea.

ak217

Thanks for the few posts that have come in. good to know about the local PO. I know that these topics have been discussed before on this site, but I thought it could be good to have it all in one thread? like a greatest hits album...and sadly I'm just not that skilled at coming up with search terms and ferreting out information like this...but I'll try.

innocent x

Some:

Coffee: Close: Joyce's (Vandy) Farther: Gorilla (5th Ave, Park Place)
Pizza: Close: N/A Farther: Pizzatown (5th Ave, Prospect Pl)
Good Restaurant: Close: Le Gamin (Vandy) Farther: Trattoria Mulino (5th, St.Johns) --- I'd suggest delivery for them.
Dive Bar: Close: Mooney's (Flatbush) Farther: O'Connor's (5th Ave, Dean)
Drop Off Laundry: Wing Fat (Flatbush)
Cleaners: Caree (Vandy and Park)
Buy Fruit: DNY (Flatbush)

innocent x

Also, word to the wise: If you decide to have any children in this neighborhood, know that you'll need to nail yourself up in your apartment and never go to any of the PH/PS establishments. Because if you go anywhere with the kid and the kid actually acts like a kid, someone on this site will start a post complaining about you and your offspring and what a terrible person and parent you are.

alafairnadia

A bit more east:

Good restaurants: Tavern on Dean, Gen, The Islands (though this one is painfully slow), Beast
Bars: Ripple, Sepia, Tavern on Dean, Soda, Beast
Drop off laundry: Ali's
Groceries: Fresh Direct, Met Foods
Household goods: Natural Heights, Yaba, Pintchik
Beer: beer outlet on Washington, Met Foods
Wine: just get a case from PJ's or go to Fermented Grapes.

shredder

Groceries: Met on Vanderbilt if you get there before 9pm; Key Food on Flatbush & Sterling is open late (all night?); Natural Land on Flatbush good for fresh seafood
Bars: Freddy's is excellent if you are westward, Soda is ok too
Fun: Brownstone Billiards on Flatbush and 7th Ave is an oft-overlooked place for good times
Eats: Amorina; and I don't particularly care for Tavern on Dean though I hear the brunch is good -- though Tom's is the BEST for breakfast (closed on Sundays)
Movies: BAM and The Pavillion