Inside dino bbq brooklyn, new gowanus location, set to open June 14 manager told me as he took me on a sneak peak tour. I was walking by outside and took a few pix and when he found out I might post them online he said l, well don’t use that, come on in and get a good picture!
Capacity: 238 patrons
Smokers: 4 old hicks
Hired: 154
Biggest issue holding back opening: getting hooked up to gas lines
How they catering to local Nets stadium crowd: installing a few morw tvs than normal
Secret menu items: are secret
Ceiling beams: licked by fire, they decided to keep
Best quote: “that’s too nice, bang it up more” - manager Jay Williams to working installing decorative metal sheets on wall

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Gowanus Brooklyn Dinosaur BBQ opening mid-may, worker told me today as I passed by. They’ve got the neon sign up and awning installed. They’re hiring for all positions all this week out of a trailer and folding table setup in a lot two steps down. I saw a white man with a beard interviewing a Spanish man. They installed windows in the wall that had a neighborhood mural for two dead local boys, Raul and someone else. DNAinfo says they’ll be remade around the corner by a local artists. On the anniversary of their deaths, annually a small memorial of candles and flowers would appear at the base of the brick wall. Now cigarettes and scuff marks from the loafers and sneakers on the feet of Nets fans going to games at the Barclay’s center a station stop away will decorate the sidewalk nightly. PREVIOUSLY: SCOOP: DINOSAUR BAR-B-QUE OPENING UP BROOKLYN LOCATION AT FOOT OF PARK SLOPE High-res

Gowanus Brooklyn Dinosaur BBQ opening mid-may, worker told me today as I passed by. They’ve got the neon sign up and awning installed. They’re hiring for all positions all this week out of a trailer and folding table setup in a lot two steps down. I saw a white man with a beard interviewing a Spanish man.
They installed windows in the wall that had a neighborhood mural for two dead local boys, Raul and someone else. DNAinfo says they’ll be remade around the corner by a local artists. On the anniversary of their deaths, annually a small memorial of candles and flowers would appear at the base of the brick wall. Now cigarettes and scuff marks from the loafers and sneakers on the feet of Nets fans going to games at the Barclay’s center a station stop away will decorate the sidewalk nightly.

PREVIOUSLY: SCOOP: DINOSAUR BAR-B-QUE OPENING UP BROOKLYN LOCATION AT FOOT OF PARK SLOPE

new by me for NBC:  On Sunday, Chris Guillebeau, known as the godfather of travel hacking, turned 35 in Norway, the last of the 193 United Nations member countries he visited. More than 120 international fans of Guillebeau attended his birthday party, and most got there just as he did: for free. Coming to the end of a journey that has defined his life for the past 10 years, “feels great in many ways, also a little unsettling,” said Guillebeau. It’s “bittersweet,” he said, but, “I’m glad I don’t have to sleep on the floor in Dakar anymore.” The man who travel hacked the world High-res

new by me for NBC: 

On Sunday, Chris Guillebeau, known as the godfather of travel hacking, turned 35 in Norway, the last of the 193 United Nations member countries he visited.

More than 120 international fans of Guillebeau attended his birthday party, and most got there just as he did: for free.

Coming to the end of a journey that has defined his life for the past 10 years, “feels great in many ways, also a little unsettling,” said Guillebeau. It’s “bittersweet,” he said, but, “I’m glad I don’t have to sleep on the floor in Dakar anymore.”

The man who travel hacked the world