Vines & Voices 011
Hungry Thirsty and 6 NYC make the Michelin Guide, Columbia Street Waterfront District becomes Brooklyn's priciest and more.
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What I Wrote This Week
I wrote about Lynn Ban, the late jewelry designer, for Tara Donaldson’s The Literary Jewelry Box Substack earlier this week. Tara is the former executive editor of WWD, where I was a beauty editor. Though I only interacted with Lynn a few times, writing this story made me miss her. She was one of a kind, and I’m grateful to have had the opportunity to remember her in this way. Read The Piece I Wear to Channel My Inner Rihanna, here.
The Roundup
Hungry Thirsty and 6 NYC were added to the Michelin Guide 2025. Read our coverage of 6 NYC, the neighborhood’s most expensive restaurant, here.
Speaking of expensive… Columbia Street Waterfront District is officially Brooklyn’s priciest neighborhood, with a median sale price of $1.92 million across 12 sales this spring. In Carroll Gardens, the spring season median sale price was $1.33 million – a 32 percent decrease from winter. Interestingly, Carroll Gardens had NYC’s highest increase in sales at 129 percent, which NYPost says is “a sign that Carroll Gardens prices may be entering into alignment with buyers’ wallets.”
Nannies are avoiding going outside for fear of ICE. Rosemary Martinez, a domestic worker organizer with the Carroll Gardens Association, says she is seeing an unprecedented level of empty parks across Brooklyn.
A vote on the Brooklyn Marine Terminal has, for the fourth time, been postponed. It is set to take place on Thursday, July 24 at 3:30 p.m. Read our coverage of the controversial plans for the BMT’s makeover here.
Gus’s is hosting a dinner and wine series celebrating chef-somms, a.k.a. chefs and owners who are also sommeliers. The series kicks off Monday, July 28 with Cali Faulkner of Third Falcon. Seating is limited.
Public Records has released its community programming for August, featuring a run with Satisfy Running Club, a sound bath by Rhye, a plant workshop-slash-marketplace and more.