On Wednesday night, Brooklyn’s own celebrity judges marched up, down and across a chilly but festive Atlantic Avenue to find the store windows that best exemplified this year’s “Celebrate the World on Atlantic Avenue.”
Children’s book illustrator Melanie Hope Greenberg, filmmaker Nicholas Entel, YWCA Executive Director Martha Kamber, Brooklyn Ballet Artistic Director Lynn Parkerson and advertising executive Frank Cusack all kept notes on the windows as they walked from Fourth Avenue to Hicks Street.
They escaped the cold into Pete’s Waterfront Ale House for much needed libations and intense deliberations. After much enthusiastic discussion the judges came up with three winners, a best “New Store Winner” and a new category, “Best Block!”
The winners of the “Celebrate the World on Atlantic Avenue”
#1 – Home and Abroad, 487 Atlantic Avenue
#2 – Dig, 479 Atlantic Avenue
# 3 – Gumbo, 493 Atlantic Avenue
Best New Store Window – Nest Egg Kids – 111 Atlantic Avenue
- Nest Egg Kids
Best Block – Atlantic Avenue Between Bond & Hoyt
Module R
B Moore Designs
- Downtown Atlantic
Bright Lynes
Food Shed
Opalia
Sterling Place
Jonathan Adler
Michelle New York
Circa Antiques
- Kimera
Kimera
Downtown Atlantic
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