As DEP Assuages Sinkhole Fears, Residents, Businesses Concerned – And Inconvenienced

By on August 9, 2012  Featured story, News
Aug 092012
 

Okay. This is the last straw.

After getting the latest on Bay Ridge’s  rather stinky sinkhole situation from Home Reporter’s Denise Romano and Helen Klein yesterday, there was one small detail I happened to notice toward the end of the article. Something you could say touched a nerve.

After recounting how the 79th Street sinkhole had been repaired, followed by the usual quotes from concerned residents and elected officials, as well as the assurances by the DEP that everything is copacetic, there was one item that rather upset yours truly. Continue reading »

[UPDATED] Skinflints, Hinsch’s And How I Learned To Live With The Bomb Egg Cream

By on May 10, 2012  Food & Drink
May 102012
 

For that professional soda fountain look, invest in a soda siphon and make your own seltzer (via Wikipedia Commons).

While having lunch at Skinflints [7902 5th Ave] this past Saturday, after not eating there in several years, I came face to face with my nostalgic side. Continue reading »

Hinsch Luncheonette Reopening November 28

By on November 21, 2011  Food & Drink
Nov 212011
 

bks_Hinsch-Sign-150x300The Hinsch Luncheonette, located on 5th Avenue near the intersection with 86th Street, will reopen next Monday, November 28, according to a report by the Home Reporter & Sunset News. New owners Gerard Bell, Lola Bell, and William Gardella made the announcement at a meeting of the 68th Precinct Community Council according to the report. Gardella and the Bells – who own Skinflints along with a fourth partner – purchased the landmark diner after a sudden closing in late September by former owner John Logue. Logue cited general economic problems as a reason for the closure according to an earlier report by the Brooklyn Paper / Brooklyn Daily, which also noted that the closure was triggered by a Department of Health inspection.