A new restaurant from the team behind Citroën will open in Williamsburg this summer.
Owner Dawn Eldridge told Greenpointers that she hopes to open her new spot, The Sparrow, by the second half of August.
The Sparrow will be located at 185 Broadway (at Driggs Avenue) in the Forman Building, which once housed the Sparrow Shoe Company. The shoe company’s owner, James R. Sparrow, was also the designer of the building in addition to other locations…
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Good luck to the owners. Their place on Manhattan Ave was very popular, good food but a tad expensive (then again isn’t everything).
James Sparrow also built all the houses on both sides of Greenpoint Ave. between Franklin and Manhattan Aves. from 1875 to 1885.
I live in one of them. My friend said they build houses much better today. I told him come back in 150 yrs. and see if you can still say that.
Most if not all of Sparrow’s buildings have landmark status.
Food so overpriced at their old spot and also very out of touch with local natives of the area. It’s a shame transplants can come into our neighborhoods but don’t actually try and make dining accessible to those without trust funds. Hopefully they will have more deals at their new location.