Brooklyn – Flung

Public Spaces for Extrovert Faces: The Ace Hotel in Brooklyn

Sarah Stodola — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 16:46:02 +0000

On my first night staying at the new Ace Hotel in Downtown Brooklyn, I returned around midnight and, having realized that I’d forgotten to pack toothpaste, stopped by the front desk to ask for some. (It would be promptly delivered.) As I chatted with the night clerk, I remembered that I’d also been unable to find coffee in my room. He confirmed that indeed, as a policy Ace Hotels don’t provide coffee beyond the ground floor. It’s one of the […]

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The 5 Best Back Gardens in Brooklyn

Sarah Stodola — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 16:05:31 +0000

Despite its rise to global prominence over the past decade, Brooklyn still exists on a smaller scale than Manhattan. This extends to its restaurants (with the exception of prime Williamsburg locations), which often inhabit the ground floor of century-old brownstones. At their best, the gardens of these buildings whisk visitors away from the city altogether. The five listed below excel in this arena like no others… Colonia Verde (Fort Greene) My favorite of all the back gardens in Brooklyn, […]

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Fort Greene’s Mettā: The Chef’s Counter Is Everything

Sarah Stodola — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 16:48:51 +0000

On one of the more picturesque corners in Brooklyn, a new restaurant called Mettā opened this past March with a menu it describes as “sustainably sourced, vegetable forward.” As a vegetarian living amidst a Brooklyn restaurant scene that seems ever-more hostile toward vegetarians, I had some skin in the game of testing that description. On a recent weeknight, I got my chance. I showed up to a fairly packed house, the first in my party of two to do so, […]

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Home of the Brave in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Sarah Stodola — Wed, 11 May 2016 17:37:12 +0000

This pleasantly de-saturated home shop on Greenpoint’s Franklin Avenue has a lot going for it: beautiful inventory, an easy layout that encourages browsing, and a location in a stretch of Greenpoint that’s a treat to explore, with its happy mix of industrial activity and a palatable strain of hipster. It’s an offshoot of clothing and accessories shop Wolves Within, just down the street, with the same hushed artistry as a foundational philosophy. The only drawback for me was the lack […]

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The Farm on Adderly in Ditmas Park: Brunch Ground Zero

Brent Cox — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 14:41:05 +0000

While all of us were arguing about brunch—whether it was breakfast, whether it was lunch, whether it was just silly—brunch solidified into an institution. Sure, it’s fun to bicker over the semantics, but brunch just doesn’t care. The Farm on Adderly, in the south Brooklyn neighborhood of Ditmas Park, is brunch ground zero, especially at twelve noon on a lazy August Sunday. You can spot Farm from blocks away; it’s the place with the crowd of people waiting in front […]

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Walter’s in Fort Greene, Brooklyn: An Early-Evening Recommendation

Sarah Stodola — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:45:16 +0000

It was 5:45pm on a recent Tuesday evening in early spring, with the trees just starting to bud on the streets around Fort Greene Park. Inside the park’s corner entrance, a blooming cherry tree was busy single-handedly curing instances of seasonal affective disorder in passersby, while on the opposite corner, Walter’s’ two walls of windows were doing the same for the handful of customers already seated and gazing out of them. My boyfriend and I nabbed the two seats at […]

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