Ian MacAllen

New York

Founder and Editor at North Brooklyn Dispatch

Author Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American. Find me at https://t.co/ExdX7Cw5TJ or Spoutible and Post @ianmacallen

Articles

The Nature of the Self in "Open Up"

1 week ago | chireviewofbooks.com | Ian MacAllen

Emotional intimacy is at stake in Thomas Morris’s latest story collection, Open Up. The stories feature characters struggling to find connection with others, and not often succeeding. These results are particularly depressing given that many of the relationships Morris explores are those of families—fathers and children, especially. Too often these characters, who are expected to be close, end up with distance between them.
Reclaiming Her Story: "Care and Feeding" by Laurie Woolever

1 month ago | chireviewofbooks.com | Ian MacAllen

Celebrity chefs have grown into brands far beyond the confines of their restaurants. They’re sales platforms selling television shows and cookbooks and merchandise. That’s all possible because of the cultlike following in their fan base. It’s the public’s intrigue in their personal lives that likely will entice readers to pick up Laurie Woolever’s memoir, Care And Feeding.
Bookstore and Bar Coming to Montrose and Bushwick

1 month ago | northbrooklyndispatch.com | Ian MacAllen

The vacant storefront on Bushwick Avenue is set to become a new bookshop, cafe, and community space. The retail space had at one time been home to Danny’s Cafe, a casual sit down restaurant attached to Danny’s Pizzeria. The pizzeria remains in the corner retail unit at Montrose and Bushwick Avenue, but has since separated the kitchen from the other retail unit. A post on the new shop’s Instagram account shows a floor plan with tables, bar, and lounge area.
Da Francesco Reopens on Grand Street

1 month ago | northbrooklyndispatch.com | Ian MacAllen

Da Francesco’s is opening a small cafe and pizzeria on Grand Street. The shop had spent 22 years at 442 Graham avenue before rising rents pushed the restaurant out. We happened to stop by for photo day. The shops panini offerings. Da FrancescoWebsiteInstagram
Emack & Bolio’s Comes to Grand Street

1 month ago | northbrooklyndispatch.com | Ian MacAllen

Ice cream store Emack & Bolio’s has opened on Grand Street. The store celebrated its opening with an ice cream social this afternoon. The chain of ice cream shops is centered around Brooklyn, Cape Cod, China, and Korea, with a handful of other locations in random states. Emack & Bolio’s has undergone expansion and contraction seemingly at random. Over the summer the Yorkville location transformed into a different brand.
Brooklyn Eye Center Comes to Grand Street

1 month ago | northbrooklyndispatch.com | Ian MacAllen

Brooklyn-based opthalmology offices Brooklyn Eye Center has opened in the retail space of 597 Grand Street. The eye-care facility has nine doctors and offers full service eye care. There are three other locations in Crown Heights, Park Slope, and East Flatbush597 Grand Street had been a Key Foods, but was replaced with a luxury apartment complex that is wrapping up finishing work. Other retail spaces are still papered over.
Gratitude Leaves Opens on Montrose

1 month ago | northbrooklyndispatch.com | Ian MacAllen

Plant and flower shop Gratitude Leaves has taken up in the store front of Lucky Bird Cakes, a marriage made for the wedding industry. Lucky Bird Cakes had operated a retail cake and coffee shop in the front half of the store and baking cakes and sweets in the back. During the pandemic, the coffee shop closed and never reopened. Gratitude Leaves offers flowers for events and weddings, and offers bouquets and plants. The shop also offers subscription services for regular fresh flower service.
Minus Moonshine Brings Not Liquor to Greenpoint

1 month ago | northbrooklyndispatch.com | Ian MacAllen

Teetotalers have a new destination for the finest alcohol-free liquors at Greenpoint’s Minus Moonshine. Minus Moonshine offers a wide selection of booze-free beer, wine, spirits, and potions. There’s also plenty of mixers and bitters to choose from. The founders are self-described “late-diagnosed autistic person with debilitating ADHD and OCD” who quit drinking. The shop is stocked only with products they love. Minus Moonshone257 DriggsWebsiteInstagram
Diamond Slice Shop Brings Upscale Slices to Nassau Ave

1 month ago | northbrooklyndispatch.com | Ian MacAllen

The new, upscale slice shop opened on Diamond Street and Nassau Ave bringing fancy slices to Greenpoint. Just a few blocks down from the city’s hottest new pizzeria, Chrissy’s Pizza, this slice shop brings vintage vibes to the neighborhood with big booths and red checked tile flooring. The interior can feel sparse at times with tables set against the walls. But the restaurant feels warm and cozy, like a neighborhood institution, even if it still has that new car smell.
Savino’s Seeks Beer and Wine

1 month ago | northbrooklyndispatch.com | Ian MacAllen

The neighborhood pasta factory is seeking a beer and wine license. The grocery, deli, and pasta shop has a big retail space with lots of floor area. The menu includes Italian sandwiches, but they are better known as a pasta factory churning out things like like lasagna sheets, linguine, and stuffed ravioli. There’s also a selection of imported goods.

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Ian MacAllen @IanMacAllen

23 Apr 25

It’s a baby Michael. How much could it cost, $10?

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BREAKING: Trump Admin has been mulling ways to get more Americans married and having kids, including a $5,000 “baby bonus” for every new mom after delivery, according to a report.

Ian MacAllen @IanMacAllen

23 Apr 25

$5,000, also known as 6 weeks of daycare. Add some zeros, bro.