I was surprised to see that Berg’n, the Prospect Heights food hall run by my former “boss” at Brownstoner Queens Jon Butler, was a Covid casualty. I would stop in whenever I was in the area. In 2020 I was planning an FNY tour in Prospect Heights and we would have had the postgame show there. Brooklyn has no shortage of (overcrowded) food halls that are reopening now, though. Berg’n had a casual vibe since it was in a nontouristy area. I have written about it before.
Berg’n was located on Bergen Street between Classon and Franklin Avenues, located just west of the Franklin Shuttle elevated tracks and a former Heinz 57 factory.
Old time Brooklynites — over 60 years old maybe — recognized the food hall’s logotype from the abbreviation used on signs of the IND F train Bergen Street station. The word “Bergen” was too long to fit on the platform columns, so it was contracted.
I was only in 3 or 4 times, but after a long hot weather hike in Brooklyn, I was ready for a hamburger and a soda or a beer. The vibe at Berg’n was a neighborhood eatery, nothing touristy or overcommercial about it.
Sick transit, Gloria! And feck Covid.
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5/27/21