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A feast fi t for Kings!
Debut Dine the Boroughs event offers up local fl avor
By Aidan Graham
Brooklyn Paper
It’s a taste of Brooklyn —
and beyond!
Restaurants across Kings
County and other outer-borough
eateries will serve up
budget-friendly, three-course
meals to customers as part of a
unique dining campaign kicking
off on March 18.
The Dine the Boroughs
event will feature Brooklyn,
Queens, and Bronx restaurateurs
plating a variety of unique
cuisines, giving locals an affordable
opportunity to step
outside their neighborhood
— and their culinary comfort
zone, according to the beep.
“If you are used to Caribbean
meals, then go inside an
Italian restaurant, or an Asian
restaurant. That’s what we’re
really encouraging,” Borough
President Adams said at
a March 12 press conference
ahead of the event. “It’s great
for business, and it’s great to
Photo by Trey Pentecost
Borough President Adams joined Flaming Grill and Modern Buffet owners
John Chen, center right, and Lian Chent, far right, to announce the upcoming
Dine the Boroughs event at Borough Hall on March 12.
learn something new.”
All of the roughly 200 participating
restaurants in Brooklyn,
Queens, and the Bronx
will offer special prix-fixe
menus priced at $28 per person
throughout the event, which
concludes on March 29.
The eateries’ prix-fixe
menus will include three
courses, with most allowing
patrons to choose an appetizer,
an entree, and a dessert.
The number of participating
restaurants is a reminder
that some of the city’s most
mouth-watering food is served
outside the confines of the distant
isle of Manhattan, where
all but a few eateries in the annual
New York City Restaurant
Week are located, according
to Adams.
“Good food doesn’t stop at
the Manhattan Bridge. There’s
good food all around New York
City,” the beep said.
One local restaurateur
whose Sheepshead Bay eatery
is among the Brooklyn spots
participating in Dine the Boroughs
praised the event as a
way to introduce his establishment
to new customers from
his neighborhood and further
afield.
“This is our first time doing
an event like this. I think
it will definitely help get our
name out there, and get the
word out,” said John Chen,
whose Flaming Grill and
Modern Buffet at 3841 Nostrand
Ave. serves up sushi and
other cuisines. “It will definitely
help us serve the community
a little better.”
For a full list of participating
restaurants, see the special
Dine the Boroughs section
in this issue.
Building big on Gowanus banks
Massive distribution center to rise near mouth of canal
By Julianne McShane
Brooklyn Paper
Developers will erect what
they claim will be the country’s
largest distribution center on an
18-acre site near the mouth of
the Gowanus Canal, after purchasing
the massive swath of
land earlier this year.
The four-story facility will
occupy more than 22 football
fields’ worth of Third Avenue
land between 19th and
21st streets, which real-estate
firms Bridge Development
Partners and DH Property
Holdings purchased for
$255 million in early January,
according to Bridge Development
Partners executive Jeff
Milanaik.
The center will feature a
so-called “intricate ramping
system” to transport goods to
awaiting tractor trailers, which
will shuttle its yet-to-be-de-
termined inventory on sameday
deliveries to final destinations
in Manhattan, Brooklyn,
and Queens, according to the
developers.
The builders have yet to
court any prospective tenants
for the facility, said Milanaik,
and they currently do not know
how many trucks will be driving
to and from it each day.
But any increase in big rigs
on local streets is likely to
rile nearby Sunset Parkers,
who last year demanded the
city conduct a truck-impact
study as officials moved forward
Bridge Development Partners & DH Property Holdings
with their plans to revitalize
the commercial shipping
hub at the neighborhood’s
South Brooklyn Marine Terminal.
Work at the massive site
will begin in about two years,
and start with the demolition
of the current FedEx Ship Center
at 20th Street and Third
Avenue and more than other
nearby 30 buildings, none of
which are residential, according
to Milanaik.
The builders will construct
the distribution center under
the area’s current zoning law,
he said, so their scheme will
not require city approval via
the public Uniform Land Use
Review Procedure .
The developers claim the
forthcoming facility will create
new jobs on-site and in
the surrounding neighborhoods,
but Milanaik said it
is too early to determine the
exact amount or types of jobs
that may open up, adding that
the builders will keep locals
in the loop about the project’s
progress and employment opportunities.
“As we get closer to the start
of the demolition and redevelopment
phases, the development
company will coordinate
with the local community
to keep them informed as the
project starts and progresses,”
he said.
Developers plan to erect what they say will be the country’s largest distribution
center at an 18-acre site on Third Avenue between 19th and 21st streets.
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