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Holiday Food/Wine Pairing with Joseph Grillo

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Photography Daniel Håkansson / Styling Kaitlyn DuRoss

By Joseph Grillo
Northside Discount Liquors and Wines
105 Berry St
Williamsburg
(718) 963-9463

Christmas, and the holidays in general, is a tricky time to start pairing wines when meals are smorgasbords of food jumping all over the map—from turkey to ham, to yams to carrots—that one yearns for a simple and balanced wine with just a hint of acidity, that stays out of the way while keeping your palate fresh. Here are a couple of my favorites for this time of year:

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Allegria Children’s Boutique, Pure Joy to the Burg

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owners of allegria children's boutique in williamsburg

Melanie Gomez (left) and Lula Aldunate, recently opened their shop on North 3rd Street, offering a whimsical enclave of one-of-a-kind toy designs. Photo by Colby Blount (cblountphotography.com)

There are many unique children’s boutiques in the area, but Allegria takes the cake. In fact, their new store window on North 3rd Street is filled with impressive crochet-cakes handmade from wool sweaters; they’re soft, strange, and artfully crafted—a perfect preview of what’s inside.

The shop, which opened in September, is the love-child of Melanie Gomez, a designer who lived in France, and Lula Aldunate, a stylist who has worked for Elle and Barneys, but who found herself doing mostly nurseries and baby showers.

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“My Brooklyn” Is Lost to Real Estate Lust and Political Chicanery

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Junior's today.

The 82-minute independent documentary, My Brooklyn, directed by Kelly Anderson, presents a comprehensive historical overview of the transformation of the Fulton Mall, the last “stubborn holdout” against gentrification. Anderson, a self-described gentrifier who began her residency in Fort Greene in 1999 and later lived in other Brooklyn nabes, chronicles the impact of the 2002 rezoning.

The rezoning allowed much taller residential buildings in a traditionally commercial area near Fulton Mall, resulting in the construction of about 19 luxury residential buildings comprising thousands of units. They include the towering condos Toren, Avalon, and D’Oro along Flatbush Avenue and the conversion of the nearby former Verizon and Williamsburgh Savings Bank buildings.

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