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DINE AND DASH: Zaytoons owner Faried Assad closed the fl agship Carroll Gardens outpost
of his Middle Eastern restaurant on Nov. 20. Photo by Colin Mixson
ZAYTOONS
go with the burger makers, whom he
suspects will start serving their selfproclaimed
“healthy” grub as soon as
February.
“I love the neighborhood, and I
wanted something the neighborhood
could use,” he said.
Assad, a Brooklyn born son of immigrant
parents and a life-long Carroll
Gardens resident, broke into the
restaurant business in 1998 by opening
the Smith Street Zaytoons in the
ground fl oor of the building he said
his old man bought back in the ’80s.
Business boomed from the start, he
said, and customers from across the
borough trekked to the dining room
for a taste of his chicken shawarma or
pita-crust pizza pies.
But Brooklyn’s palate got a little
too hip for its own good over the years,
and these days there’s a halfway-decent
Middle Eastern spot in almost
every neighborhood, eliminating the
need to travel to Carroll Gardens for a
good kabob, Assad said.
“Things did change,” he said.
“People from Bedford-Stuyvesant and
Bushwick were like, why come here,
there’s one in every neighborhood.”
But competition wasn’t the only
factor that led Assad to close up shop.
Earlier this year, the entrepreneur
coughed up $10,000 to settle a lawsuit
fi led against his business under
the Americans with Disabilities Act,
and that payment, coupled with rising
costs of labor and other fi nancial
penalties he received from the state’s
Department of Labor, made its continued
operation infeasible, he said.
“It just became harder to do business,”
he said. “Things are changing,
and everything is more expensive.”
Still, the closure came as sad news
to current Carroll Garden residents,
many of whom don’t remember a time
before Zaytoons, which one local said
was among the fi rst places she visited
after moving to the area.
“This is one of the fi rst places I discovered
in the neighborhood,” said
Alex Kalita. “I’m really going to miss
it.”
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BOAT
— and more than 700 weighed in, with
Costas’s submission winning by a slim
30-vote margin, Gardener said.
The youngster’s inspiration, of
course, was the cloven-footed farm
hands the Alliance hired to help clear
weeds and unwanted vegetation in the
park’s Vale of Cashmere in 2016 and
2017 .
And his whole family partied when
they found out he won the competition,
his mom said.
“It was just a huge celebration in
our house,” said Jaime Costas.
In addition to eternal local fame,
the lad received Brooklyn’s Backyard
swag including a frisbee, water bottle,
and temporary tattoos — along with
the prized opportunity to cut class
early to attend the naming ceremony,
he said.
“My friends are only jealous that I
got to leave early,” said Costas, a student
at PS 154 in Windsor Terrace.
The boy also got what he called a
once-in-a-lifetime chance to drive the
vessel he christened, after Alliance
president Sue Donoghue and pols including
Flatbush Councilman Mathieu
Eugene formally announced its
new name.
“I felt really good, because I usually
only get to ride on the boat,” Costas
said.
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