COBBLE HILL — RETAILER URBAN OUTFITTERS HAS quietly closed its last remaining store in Brooklyn, Brownstoner reports. A sign in the window at 166 Atlantic Avenue in Cobble Hill said the store’s last day was Sunday, June 23. Urban Outfitters closed its Williamsburg outpost in April. The Cobble Hill location opened in 2007. The landmarked […]
Teddy Wayne is an award-winning author and Cobble Hill resident who recently published “The Winner.” The novel, which is being developed into a film, is about Connor — a tennis coach in Cape Cod — and the moral quandaries he encounters from pandering to the rich. “I had, from the very inception, the idea that […]
This month, the Atlantic Avenue Business Improvement District (BID) paid tribute to a successful restaurant that has thrived for 52 years on the avenue. Opened 52 years ago by owner Mohamad Salem, he named the restaurant after his home city, Tripoli, in the north of Lebanon. Originally a furniture designer and wood carver, Mohamad opened […]