Neighborhood Watch

Chinatown Gets Brick-Oven Pizza; Cupcakes in Court Square

Brooklyn: There are only eighteen Starbucks in the borough, but you can get coffee at one of 1,203 Dunkin’ Donuts locations. [NYDN]
Chinatown: There’s a new brick-oven pizza shop coming to the corner of Worth and Bowery. [Slice]
Flushing: What’s good at the U.S. Open? Try the shrimp-and-lobster salad but skip the beef-and-mozzarella churrasco crêpe. [NYC Nosh]
Forest Hills: The secret to quick checkout at Trade Fair is waiting at register two for register five to open. [Forest Hills 72]
Long Island City: Sage’s General Store will open in Court Square soon, with cupcakes. [LICNYC]
Park Slope: A&S; Pork Store is relocating (not closing, as many feared) to 312 Fifth Avenue after a 60-year run. [Brownstoner via Gowanus Lounge]
Ellis will open in South Slope on September 1. [Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn]
The much-anticipated (but unnamed) wine bar on Seventh Avenue should open in the first half of October. [Brooklynian via Gowanus Lounge]

Chinatown Gets Brick-Oven Pizza; Cupcakes in Court Square