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BARS • First Round
Lingering on
For all of its charms, Brooklyn Heights is light on the kind of casually chic places you can drop in for a drink that maybe turns into dinner. Jules is helping to fix that.
The shiny, new bar-slash-pizzeria is as relaxed as it is polished, and arrived this fall feeling like it’s been there forever. Get there close to its 5p opening, and it’ll seem like you can sip well-priced pours around the gleaming marble bar all night, inviting as it is. A couple of hours later, as the adjacent dining room fills up and stools get harder to come by, the stated wait will be around 30 minutes.
To be fair, those crowds aren’t only there for the wine, the wonderfully cold martinis, or even the seemingly carefree, elegant vibe. Jules also has — with apologies to the folks lining up at the guidebook locales down the hill in Dumbo — the best pizza to be found from the Washington Street photo op all the way south to Lucali. Strikingly crisp, it arrives copiously topped with the likes of fragrant fennel sausage, dainty oyster mushrooms, and/or earthy Umbrian black truffles (the latter at an additional $40 per ounce).
Cancel your post-drink dinner plans. You’re staying for dinner. –Amber Sutherland-Namako
→ Jules (Brooklyn Heights) • 50 Henry St • Sun 5p-9p, Mon-Th 5p-10p, Fri-Sat 5p-11p • walk-ins only. Photo by Chelsea Palatucci.
FOUNDLISTING • The Hendrik
Modern Brooklyn duplex
AT THE HENDRIK’S SOUTHWEST CORNER: If you’ve been waiting for a townhouse-sized condo with indoor parking, a private wraparound terrace with water views, and a location at the perfect crossroads of Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill, Park Slope, and Fort Greene, then look no further. PH1B at The Hendrik feels like a massive treehouse in the sky. This rare 2,400-square-foot, four-bedroom, three-bath duplex sits on the top two floors of a 39-unit, full-service building. Enjoy the privacy, convenience, style, and sunlight afforded only by a penthouse in an intimately scaled building where design rules the day.
→ 509 Pacific St PH1B (Boerum Hill), 4BR/3BA, 2400 SF condo • Ask: $4.5M • parking space w/valet included • Deborah L Rieders & Sarah Shuken, Corcoran. [spon]
REAL ESTATE LINKS: Penthouse at One High Line sells for $47M, downtown’s biggest deal of year • Amenity watch: 111 West 57th touts city’s only private residence padel court • Fifth Billionaires Row supertall remains stalled • Residential conversion of One Wall Street has been a bust • In NYC, what is a landmark, and what should be? • Who is leaving tiny ducks around Chelsea?
GETAWAYS • Friday Routine
Field report
BRAD FORD • interior designer / founder • Field + Supply (a modern makers market)
Neighborhood you live in: Chelsea
It’s Friday afternoon, how are you rolling into the weekend?
I’m taking it easy — dinner and drinks with friends and reminiscing on the success of this year’s great markets.
Any restaurant plans?
When I'm upstate for our markets and planning, one of my favorite spots in Kingston is Lola (from Taavo Somer of Freemans fame). They've got the most delicious cocktails and wood-fired pizzas. This fall, we celebrated Field + Supply’s 10-year anniversary with a dinner by Heirloom Fire, which is quite a spectacle. Everything is locally sourced and cooked on open fires, and it's like watching a beautifully choreographed culinary dance. The chef, James Gop, is one of the most talented people I know.
How about a little leisure or culture?
We always have live music throughout the weekend at Field + Supply and plenty of good food, but there are some other great places to check out in the area, including Storm King Art Center, Westwind Orchard for apple picking, Stockade Tavern for amazing craft cocktails, and one of my favorite new restaurants in Kingston, Eliza — I highly recommend the roast chicken or the burger.
Any weekend getaways you love?
Upstate. There are so many great towns and quaint hamlets to discover, whether it's Tivoli and Brice Marden's Hotel Tivoli, or Mary MacGill's shop in Germantown, or Inness in Accord. It's such a bucolic part of the state filled with such amazing creative talent.
What was your last great vacation?
I have a place in The Springs out east, so I usually stay pretty local during the summer. But as it gets colder here on the East Coast, I always like to check out Palm Springs; another lovely area with incredible design sensibility, and there's something about the desert energy that is so calming. I'm also headed to Blackberry Farm in a few weeks for an Americana Music Weekend that I'm really looking forward to.
What’s a recent big-ticket purchase you love?
I recently got a George Nakashima console that I'm pretty proud of. His work is absolutely stunning and so timeless — the epitome of elevated craftsmanship.
CULTURE & LEISURE • Saturday Night
LCD Soundsystem • Knockdown Center (Maspeth) • Sat @ 8p • GA, $104 per
Pistons v Knicks • Madison Square Garden (Midtown South) • Sat @ 730p • section 107, $477 per
Geesefest • Music Hall (Williamsburg) • Sat @ 615p • preferred mezzanine, $48 per
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