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Prospect. Love Forth Garden. We are exploring your block today. It's impossible to hit all the businesses in the neighborhood in just one day. But News Twelve's Julia Joseph tried, she checked out quite a few spots and brings you to these local spots with her here in Prospect Left Garden. You can really find everything from AIC be breakfast cuisine. Smooth these T and right here at Bklyn Common looking for a place to do your work. Start a business. How about collaborating with other Brooklyn night? We don't have to go to the city when we have everything right here. We have all the innovation here, whatever suits your workflow. Bkly and Commons offers affordable rates in a good place to be productive. And yes, you're bound to get hungry. May I recommend peppers on Nostrand Avenue? They've been a staple in the community for 26 years and there's another family business right down the corner on this hair salon and it doubles as a wellness spot, a hair salon with a twist, busy day. I know, but you got to end with the treat. So head over to Hibiscus brews. You don't really find a lot of hibiscus or sorrel drink on the market. At least like this. This is very low in sugar and a special collab with the cafe is happening right now. The self love smoothie is inspired by my self love scrub. In every purchase. A portion of the proceeds go towards breast cancer research, lots to explore in this neighborhood. It's impossible to do in a day. But these four places are a good start in prospect. Le Gardens, Julia Joseph News 12 Brooklyn.

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Hello, a special. Hello to Prospect Leopards Gardens this morning because today we on your block and of course you can't start your Thursday without breakfast. Right. That's right. So we have news to Julia Joseph at Peppers on Avenue and it looks like Julia, you're tasting all of the Beijing cuisine there. And Christy, I always am. There's the problem. 730 comes around on Thursdays. I'm always stuffed because we have Winston here who's been feeding us all morning. And now finally the finale, we get to taste the be the Barbados national dish. What is it? The bar national dish is C and flying fish. It's made with cornmeal and okra and a little salt and this seasons to make it taste real good. And when you take a bite of it, what does it bring you back to? What does it remind you of? 00, of course. B and M it is just like it's done here and I mean, seeing you and your wife cooking it in the back. It was really quite the process. Very impressive. And next to it we got the Beijing bites. Beijing bakes Beijing. Yes. The other bakes are made differently, but we make orders like this and it's a little sweet. We will love it. Well, thank you, Winston. Thank you to your wife and all the team here at Cold Peppers for having us this morning. It's been so much fun. We are very full and guys stick with us all morning. We're continuing on your block to Hibiscus Brew right down the road. Keep falling back with us guys. We impressed prospect Le Gardens. Julia Joseph News. 12 Brooklyn.

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A special good morning of prospect Leopards Gardens. Because today we're on your block to kick off this Thursday morning. We're checking in with news 12 Julia Joseph. She's at Cold Peppers on No Avenue. Good morning Julia. We can smell that porridge through the screen now. Good morning. I'm sure you can Chris and say good morning. That's a good thing because the porridge here is one of their best sellers. And luckily, speaking of best sellers, I'm here with Winston, the mastermind behind this Beijing cuisine. H now Winston, you said when you first came to Brooklyn, you really felt the need to bring Beijing cuisine to no Avenue in Brooklyn in general. But I became the point that I found I was able to use it to the best advantage. And you guys have been here 26 years. That's a long time. What's the secret to keeping the business alive? Gee, that's work, work and more work. That's what it is. Nothing but work hard work. And I can see that in the making of your pastries, right? So we have here guys, we have four different pastries that you guys are known for. Choose your fighter. Which one are you taking tonight? I'm going to take the crescent roll. No, this is current roll roll roll. Sorry Curran roll. I'm going to take the coconut. Which one is this? Coconut roll? All right, let's start off our morning in a sweet way. Cheers really good guys. All right.

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Prospect. Leopards Gardens were falling back with you today exploring the gems that make the neighborhood unique. Our news 12 Julia Joseph already had her breakfast and now Julia, you've moved down the block to Hibiscus Brew where they have some incredible breast cancer awareness month initiatives going on Julia. So who do you have there with you? You have some company? Yes, I have. Alison done with me, the owner of Hibiscus Brew and I have CC here as well. I didn't get the pink memo. I'm sporting my sea foam green for the New York Liberty, right? But Alison's gonna tell us now about kind of the makeup of this cafe and why it's so special to the community. Thank you Julia. So I'm Alison Dunn, I'm the founder of Hibiscus Brew, a Wellness cafe located here in Prospect Leer's Gardens. And we have been open for about four years in the community. Bring in Wellness. We try to bring a slice of Jamaica through our Sorrel Hibiscus drink that we have right here that we use in a lot of our recipes, including our smoothies and, and drinks and those smoothies you're talking about. There's an awesome collab going on right now. So that's where we bring in CCCC. Give us a little rundown. So I'm the founder of Cocoa by Cece. This is our self love scrub. Smells really good and the self love smoothie at Hibiscus Brew is inspired by this scrub. We are both supporting breast cancer awareness month. So our scrub is pink. The smoothie is pink, both are vegan and made with amazing ingredients like coconut cream and the Hibiscus grape and the Hibiscus glaze. Amazing. And I think the smoothie is delicious too. So guys, and you can only have Sorrell for uh October. It's available all holiday season guys. So next up on your block, we'll be down at a beauty salon. Stick with us. All right. Good stuff there, Julie.

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Prospect Leopards Gardens. We've been on your block all day from breakfast at cold peppers to a snack at Hibiscus Brew and we're not done yet. News trolls. Julia Joseph joins us from our next location. Another community business that's been in the borough for over 20 years. Well, we're here in the salon part of creation and I'm here with the owner. No, Amy and no Amy. You're, you've been here for quite some time now serving up Brooklynites in the community Wellness hair treatment. Tell us a little bit about what you do. We do hair, we do natural hair, we do any type. Once this hair, we also have a area where we do facial skin treatment and also we incorporate Yogis that she do yoga upstairs for wellness so people can come in and they can get their hair done, they can get a facial and they can move their body and do yoga, a whole wellness experience, right? They do amazing. Well, thank you so much for showing us your business. If you do wanna come stop on by head to our website news twelve.com. All of the information is linked there in prospect Leer's Gardens. Julia Joseph News. 12 Brooklyn.

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News 12’s Julia Joseph is outside Culpeppers and Hibiscus Brew today.

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