Gutter Cafe

We read months ago in The Brooklyn Paper that the New York Department of Transportation was planning on planning on bringing a new program to Brooklyn this summer season, the "pop up cafe". This basically means that parking lanes would turn into outdoor cafes for some neighborhood restaurants. Among the neighborhoods most interested in Brooklyn, Park Slope, Cobble Hill, and Carroll Gardens were top of the list. Well, the results are in! The Post reported last week that the first Brooklyn Cafe to participate in this program will be Ecopolis Cafe, at 180 Smith St (between Wyckoff St & Warren St). Obviously this program stirs up a little aggravation when it comes to the loss of parking. Thankfully the design for Ecopolis will only take up one metered spot. Not too much of a burden and in return patrons can sip their cappuccinos and have a snack, maybe a cookie (Delicious fact: Ecopolis carries City Bakery cookies!) in the sunshine.