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Shopping in Brooklyn: Cortelyou Road

Where: Cortelyou Road [map], Brooklyn, NY, United States, 11218
November 8, 2007 at 12:30 PM | by | Comments (0)

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Gentrification and Brooklyn go hand-in-hand today, and Ditmas Park has become the latest front in the professional family's jihad against high priced real estate. With new boutiques, restaurants and coffeeshops popping up all the time, Brooklyn's fast becoming a destination apart from tourist-packed Manhattan. (And with the borough's first boutique hotel now open, you don't even have to sleep on the other side of the East River.)

For an afternoon of shopping Ditmas Park, there's only one place to go: Cortelyou Road. Close enough to the subway--the Q train from Manhattan--the road's primary hot spots are clustered close together for easy shopping.

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Starbucks Alternatives: Zibetto

Where: 1385 Sixth Ave. [map], New York, ny, United States, 10019
June 6, 2007 at 4:16 PM | by | Comment (1)

Let's face it: Starbucks has just about taken over Manhattan. But lo! A glowing white store front in Midtown is here to save the city from overroasted, overpriced oblivion. Her name is Zibetto, and she's here to help.

You won't be sitting down, plugging away on the next great American novel at this coffee bar, though. It's a straight-up, stand-up Italian-style spot, which may be why we like it so much. All your standard espresso drinks are on offer as are an array of Italian soft drinks. (We like the San Bitter when we're not sipping espresso.)

The newly added curtain along the back wall does lend a certain homey feel, but Zibetto has kept its cosmopolitan charm: You'll probably be squeezed in at the bar between a guidebook toting French couple and three English financial advisors with necktie knots larger than your fist.

Related Stories:
· Zibetto [NYMag]
· Coffee Shops coverage [Jaunted]

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