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0622NYMainSt530_2023-06-22-06-20-10

This week, we are highlighting some of the amazing places and restaurants that make our borough so great. There's so many places. So this morning, we are heading out to Terrence Restaurant on Park Slope where we find our Storm Watch sea meteorologist, Mike Rizzo, who's all smiles. What's happening there, Mike, oh my gosh, Asia Christie. This place is incredible. Just look at behind it here. This is like an authentic, like Mexican diner experience. It is an amazing. We got owner Caesar. I'm gonna come over there. We're gonna say hello. We're doing well. Thank you so much for having us here. It is just beautifully decorated. I mean, the colors just bring you back to what it looks like uh back at home. And we're gonna hear a little bit more about that from Cesar, who's the owner and Cesar? Thank you so much for having us visit. You, welcome. Thank you so much. So, I wanna know what is the history of this place? What makes it so special? Well, this is a family owned business. We've been in the business since 1992 working for diners. You know, me and my brother, I emigrated in 1992. And my, my brother immigrated in 1993. I was 16 at the time, my brother was 15. So we've been working in this type of restaurants since then. And then, you know, this is a family owned business. This is a heart, you know, immigrating from Mexico with nothing, no education. We hardly finished elementary school but we had nothing and, and, you know, one of the things that I noticed here and, and that is remarkable because it is such an achievement. It's like, like you said, the American dream, we're talking before our commercial break, you make everything here from recipes back at home. And since it's family owned, you have something special about your mole sauce that you were telling me before I everybody, you, you gotta come here. Everything here is homemade. All the salsas. Listen to this one. Tell us about your mole. Well, our mole comes from Mexico as my grandmother's recipe. One of my young mates for us, we export about over 100 kg a year, maybe 100 150 kg a year. There is May in our hometown where we were born. It's incredible, incredible place. So you're open from when to when we open at eight and we close at 10. You know, full liquor, all the Mexican drink. You can imagine all the great tequilas, full bar. You guys welcome to coming authentic artisanal Mexican cuisine. It is great. I want to also point out these cups right here because they also make a lot of different cocktails. So what kind of cocktail goes into a traditional cocktail from tequila Jali where it was invented? It's called and it's fantastic. It very refreshing for the summer is a citrus tequila and a grapefruit soda mix. It's fantastic. Oh Man, Cesar. Thank you so much. This is awesome. Everybody, you gotta check this out right here in Park Slope and, and uh Christie, I think I gotta have uh whatever this is after work later. I love the cup and great food. And that sounds good. I think we found our next morning spot.

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0622NYMainSt730_2023-06-22-07-59-21

This week, we are highlighting some of the amazing, incredible places and restaurants and businesses that make our boroughs so great. There are so many uh and this morning we're heading out to a local art gallery and women's clothing store. This is on Park Slope which is where our news 12 store watch team meteorologist Mike Rizzo is there. You pick something out for me. You finding clothes for us. This is a forecast for the, you know what to wear. Yes, exactly. You know a Chris, I'm actually looking for outfits for you guys for the check this out guys. Look. What about this? I like the pink for you. You know Christie. What about this one? This is like, I think, I think you can do a thing in this. I can do this one. This one is one of the popular ones. Look, look here, this fits Park Slope. I love it. This is it. This is, oh my gosh, this is beautiful. This is great. You know, the clothing here at Saint Ruda is awesome. It's not just a store, it's, they don't just sell clothes and fashion from local designers and goods, but it's also an art gallery and here we meet with MS Bell and Nicole. Thank you so much for having us. It's so awesome. I mean, this art is incredible. So I know this is a dream come true for you. So can you tell us a little bit of the back story about this place and what it means to you? Yeah, I've been open up for four years now and um the story behind see her, it comes from my grandmother's maiden name and I just, it's to honor her and how she was very, she's a very fashion inspiration in my life and also pushed me in the arts. So right now as you're looking in the art gallery, we, we have um the theme is called Endless Summer with 13 local artists of all kinds of different backgrounds. We have um painters, we have photographers, we have abstract um all kinds of different art here. It's so beautiful and you yourself, you have a fashion degree, right? So this, this was a dream come true for you. I mean you also, so you, you source local um local women's brands. Yeah. So they're all, all the clothing is all done by women. They're also small makers. So they're small independent brands that is also an important thing about our shop. So um yeah, so make sure that we have women's clothing that also is represented with women. And then we have artists and they're all local artists so that way, you know, people get to experience local, right? And like we were saying before, people don't understand that fashion is also art, right? And you're combining what visual arts, right? Whether it be paintings and photography with some of the more like uh physical arts, like the the the art that you could wear. And this is an amazing concept. You have art openings as well, you said, so we have a lot of local artists in the borough. You're tuning in. Look at this, the art is on display. It's on TV. Now you want to check this out, Sa Adada, right? Yes. Thank you so much, Nicole. I so appreciate you and thank you so much for having us here today. And of course, Asia and uh Christy, I think this is a shop for you guys to come check out.

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0622NYMainSt830_2023-06-22-08-46-02

Listen all week long. We have been visiting some of the amazing places in our borough that make Brooklynn just so great and there is a lot to tackle. So this morning we're heading out to private Picasso's art studio on Fifth Avenue. Maybe it's Mike Rizzo. There's yeah. Storm watching meteorologist Mike Rizzo himself. He's with the owner and I guess you're trying to paint the next uh masterpiece there or draw, what do you do something? It says 12, I think I painted the logo of News 12 because this place looks rejuvenated. I doesn't work. What do you think? Look at the, look at the microphone. I try like, I don't know, I think I did well, but listen, everybody this place is just invoking some real nostalgia. I mean, before I became a meteorologist, I thought I was going to become an artist, right? And I think to some degree I still am and this place just has the smell, the feeling, the visuals of what it is to be inspired by art. And you could see here this is just the display of some of the examples that kids could do when they walk into uh this particular location. So private Picassos is just not just for Children but for a adult as well. I mean, the display here is incredible. They do school programs but you know, you don't want to hear from me, you want to hear from the owner of and thank you so much for having us here. This is amazing. You have an incredible place and truthfully it, it brings me such a feeling of, of nostalgia and love for the art. So tell me, where was the inspiration for this? Well, I was raised by two artists and I think that was a really, really strong inspiration for me. And I knew I always wanted to be an art teacher. So after finishing up Pratt, I was like, I'm not really finding jobs that I like, I think I'll just start my own thing she's from. Do you know that she is from? She is like an all star artist for sure. So what kind of program specifically do you have for Children? Maybe even adults that wanna do something like this? Absolutely. So we operate our program here at our Park Slip Studio as well as throughout New York City here at our studio. We start at 18 months old. So even the littlest kids can come and do a toddler art class, they can do a drop in art making, we do birthday parties, a huge variety of things. And then throughout New York City, we could also basically bring our studio directly to you. It could be in your home, it could be in a school, it could be in your local park. We're basically art teachers for hire and we really want to let everyone get messy, have fun and make some art. That's awesome. So, what is the space uh space here? What do we do? What is this one of our most favorite projects? Basically, this is what we call is our large scale painting area. It's our paint palette. It was custom made. It's got a beautiful washable tempera paint for all of the kids to use. And they can do a giant painting right up here on the wall. The idea is that they can work in a large manner. You don't have to worry about the splashes. They get everywhere. They're not gonna be in your home. It's gonna be here. But that's, that's the environment of an art studio and of course, you, you embrace that kind of culture here. So vile. Thank you so much. This is amazing. I'm so excited to be here and listen. If you want to throw a party, you wanna come and just throw some paint around you, whatever this is the place to be in Park Slope, Asia Christie. I'm gonna send it back to you. I mean, come on, tell me this is an awesome. Yeah. No, it is. And it's such a creative party idea for kids too where like really get creative.

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0622NoonMainStWine_2023-06-23-09-50-41

This week, we're highlighting some of the amazing places and the amazing restaurants that make our borough so great. Today we head out to good wine on Fifth Avenue where we find Storm Watch team, meteorologist Mike Rizzo. Mike, what's going out there? It doesn't look like it has anything to do with weather. Yeah. No, not at all. Dan. I mean, honestly, this wine selection here is so unique and it's quite amazing. I, I was looking at this wine right here. It's one from New Zealand, believe it or not. They source wine from local small breweries. Uh I'm sorry, wineries across the world. Uh It is amazing and I'm here with one of the owners, Heather and Heather. This place is incredible. Yes. So can you tell me the inspiration? I came to this? You know, I have had a long history in food and wine. I was at a job. I didn't like I walked into my local wine shop and the owner said, do you know anybody who might want to buy it? And I was like, uh hold that thought and I eight years ago bought it just like I am just like that it's like boom, made a quick decision. So you offer a lot of different selections. Can you tell us about the varieties that you have here? OK. We have them from all over the world, all the wine regions and we focus on smaller producers. Uh a state run family owned, they tend to be organic or practicing organic um natural. That's a real trend now. Very important too because yeah, and less of everything, less junk. Let's let's inter more flavor and, and, and more flavor and um everybody who works here knows all the wines. So every time we make a sale, it's like a conversation. We're very neighborhood focused part of the community. I've lived here for 20 plus years, raised my daughters and we have a lot of viewers also tuning in just from this neighborhood to park. So, and if you look at the wall right there, you offer local delivery, right? So tell us how that works. You know, it, it has to be after four because we have two people here and you can either go online and order at Good Wine NYC or just give us a call and we'll put together whatever you want. Yeah. At Park Slope, you got an option for that. And one other thing they do too, they have different classes. We have wine wine classes, everybody. So head on over here to good wine and Park Slope. Of course, uh We are highlighting local businesses all week long with our main street, Brooklyn segment.

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