3 posts tagged “brooklyn”
Recently, my friend Walker's Brooklyn neighborhood was hit by a graffiti artist. Several buildings in the area were defaced, including the gallery he runs on Van Brunt and Union Street.
Ingenious.
(Update 12 August 2008: WORK logo hand-painted by Bowie Zunino. Thanks to Eve for helping me give credit where it's due.)
I have a policy of not waiting on line to eat at a restaurant. There are just too many dining establishments in New York City to justify the masochistic exercise of standing outside of a place (usually in the cold, or rain, as my luck would have it) because some critic or friend of yours said it was "real good." But sometimes, just sometimes, it is worth it.
On Saturday, I was dragged went to Tom's Restaurant in Prospect Heights, immortalized by Suzanne Vega in her song, "The Diner." It was really good. And it started from the second you step in line to the minutes before you leave. In the line outside [which was long, as pictured here] they give you free coffee, orange slices, sausage morsels, and strawberries & cream served on toothpicks. This place should win prizes for "Best Methods for Placating Irritable Customers in Line." Customers like me. And the women dressed in traditional African tribal wear behind us. And the hipsters behind them.
Inside, the proprietor, a rotund and friendly Lithuanian fellow called Gus, greets you with the warmly, as though you were a guest in his home. And he'll remember you. Trust me. He will.
I won't go into details of the meal (I promised, when I started this blog, that I wouldn't), but it was delicious. (Cherry lime rickeys and corned beef hash!)
When we left, Gus helped me with my coat.
"Ah, a true gentleman!" exclaimed a diner waiting by the counter.
"I'm trying out for a job at Syms," he laughed.
Doubtful. Tom's is where he belongs. For real.
