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HANK’S FOR COMING!: Hank’s Saloon owner Julie Ipcar stands behind the bar at the new location, inside the Hill Country
Food Park Downtown. Photo by Julianne Cuba
BY ALEXANDRA SIMON
She wrote from the bottom
of her heart.
A Jamaican-American
actress from Brownsville
will celebrate her new book
with a Valentine’s Day–
themed launch party in
Greenpoint on Feb. 9.
First-time author Jacinth
Headlam said that
Hank’s Saloon
reopens above
D’town food hall
Hank’s for stopping by!
it quietly re-opened on the second
fl oor of Downtown’s Texas eatery
Hill Country Food Park. But the
watering hole really kicked off at
its grand opening on Saturday,
which featured the new spot’s
fi rst live music, from the New
York Fowl Harmonic. The bar’s
owner is eager to see how the saloon
month after closing the original
Hank’s on Third Avenue.
the neighborhood wants, how we
can make it better for everyone,”
said Julie Ipcar. “It’s going to
be really interesting and really
fun to do it again. I’m sure we
will have some of the regulars in
here from the old place.”
her memoir “Love After…”
Fans of the century-old honkytonk
dive bar Hank’s Saloon celebrated
“We’re just trying to see what
The new iteration of the bar
refl ects her survival
of childhood abuse and a
messy divorce.
“This book came from a
time in my life where I was
at rock bottom and I was
broken,” she said.
Headlam, best known
in the United States for her
role in the indie fi lm “Diary
BY JULIANNE CUBA
its revival on Jan. 28, when
fi ts into its new home, just a
Continued on page 6
of a Badman,” was a married
mother of two when
she learned that her husband
had cheated on her,
and was expecting a child
with the other woman.
Devastated, she took
the kids and moved into
her mother’s attic, where
she poured her heart into
LPC pans proposed
makeover of theater
BY JULIANNE MCSHANE
The builder planning to redevelop
Coney Island’s Shore Theater into
a hotel and spa must amend its
plans to include a sign that better
recalls the majesty of the storied
vaudeville theater’s old placard,
and more details that honor the
history of the iconic site and its
home neighborhood, demanded
members of the city’s Landmarks
Preservation Commission.
“The building would benefi t
more from a more comprehensive
look at the history of the district,”
said commissioner Michael Goldblum.
“It just feels like it’s missing
the Coney Island-ness of the
site.”
Architects tapped by builder
Pye Properties — the fi rm behind
the redevelopment of the landmarked
venue — presented their
proposed exterior renovations
to the theater at a Jan. 15 public
hearing, after members of the local
Community Board 13 unanimously
voted to support the designs
in December.
The proposal called for re-
BY JULIANNE CUBA
It’s not dirt cheap!
Dirt in Brooklyn
Heights is more expensive
than that found most anywhere
else in the country,
according to a new report
in the Washington Post.
An acre of land in
America’s fi rst suburb,
known for its charming
Brownstone-lined streets
and sweeping views of the
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GET OUT: Jacinth Headlam
wrote her book to help others
in abusive relationships.
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so Shore
B’Heights dirt is Local’s book confronts abuse
nation’s priciest
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