All The Restaurants You Should Support in Crown Heights, Because ‘Bullet Holes’ Aren’t Appealing
And Summerhill hasn't gotten it right.
And Summerhill hasn't gotten it right.
Earlier this week, Crown Heights’ newly opened “boozy sandwich shop,” Summerhill made headlines for their attempt to profit off of symbols of poverty in a swiftly gentrifying neighborhood with predominately African-American, West Indian and Jewish roots.
The cocktail bar, located at 673 Nostrand Avenue, opened in June, but after owner Becca Brennan sent out a PR blast to a number of New York City publications, highlighting pricey cocktails next to a “bullet hole-ridden wall” the shop went viral — not for good reason.
“Yes, that bullet hole-ridden wall was originally there and, yes, we’re keeping it,” the release states.
Brennan, a 31-year-old former tax attorney from Toronto, later admitted to Gothamist that the holes in the wall, she promotes as “instagrammable,” may be in fact not have been caused by bullets at all.
“Just looking at the angle I don’t know if that is possible that that’s a bullet hole. We call it that because if you look at the history, someone seriously said, ‘Isn’t that the place where we could buy guns?,” Brennan told the publication.
Brennan described the history lesson she received of her bar’s location was from a local website where residents trade “gossip” about new businesses.
Last September, an anonymous commenter wrote to the website, “If I’m not mistaken this was the corner store where you could buy a ‘certified pre-owned’ firearm back in the day.”
Brennan admitted she couldn’t in-fact back-up that claim.
If that wasn’t enough for locals to scream boycott, the bar also serves 40 Ounce Rosé in brown paper bags as fun “shout outs” to the Crown Heights neighborhood.
The bar’s instagram account has been ridden with locals’ feedback and yearns for Brennan to “re-think” the bar or “get out of the neighborhood.”
Brennan sent out an apology to Gothamist and Hello Living — the website the real estate developer of her Crown Heights apartment building — that in short stated her “intention was misinterpreted” and that she “plans to give back to the neighborhood she inhabits by hiring local residents and providing culinary training to those who may not otherwise have access to it.”
Though personally I, a resident of Crown Heights for 30 years, whose parents have lived in the neighborhood for over 65 years, reached out to talk and received nothing.
Locals have planned to host a forum outside Summerhill on today at 2:30 p.m. to talk about the issues surrounding the opening. All are welcome.
In the meantime, here are the restaurants you should be supporting in Crown Heights:
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The Breukelen
710 Nostrand Avenue
French café with beers on tap.
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The Crabby Shack
613 Franklin Avenue
Small Black-owned seafood spot serving up full plates with sides, as well as in crab and lobster rolls, tacos & sliders.
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The Food Sermon
355 Rogers Avenue
Modern counter-serve Caribbean-style restaurant, specializing in build-your-own rice bowls.
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Café Rue Dix
1451 Bedford Avenue
Comfortable restaurant for French-Senegalese cuisine, including brunch & a weekly fixed-price options.
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Colina Cuervo
759 Nostrand Avenue
Simple, rustic Latin American café serving sandwiches, empanadas & tamales and a light breakfast and dinner menu.
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Glady’s
788 Franklin Avenue
Colorful Caribbean eatery with communal tables, serving up authentic Caribbean dishes and loads of cocktails.
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Chavela’s
736 Franklin Avenue
Mexican fare along with a selection of tequilas, margaritas & other specialty cocktails.
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Izzy’s BBQ Smokehouse
397 Troy Ave
Kosher BYOB barbecue restaurant serving platters, sandwiches, sides & desserts in hip digs.
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