Brooklyn's restaurant, 4610 W. Fond du Lac Ave., celebrates its grand opening Friday, Sept. 5 at 11:30 a.m. The sit-down restaurant aims to present an alternative to fast food in its North Side neighborhood.
"We are happy Brooklyn's is settling in our district and giving
the residents of this area more food choices," said Ald. Willie Wade in a statement released Thursday.
"With recent debates over fast and fresh food choices in large cities, I'm proud to see our district step up and make positive change through business development like this."
The Fruit Ranch, which formerly ran a location at the same address, hopes to reopen there soon, offering produce, a deli and specialty food items.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
