Hinsch’s reopening date set
A Bay Ridge landmark which abruptly closed its doors inSeptember will reopen under new ownership on Monday, November 28,just in time to great the hordes of holiday shoppers that willdescend on nearby 86th Street.
The new owners of Hinsch’s Luncheonette, on Fifth Avenue near85th Street – Gerard and Lola Bell and William Gardella – made theannouncement at the November meeting of the 68th Precinct CommunityCouncil where they, and partner Roger Desmond, were honored forhosting a free Thanksgiving dinner for senior citizens each year attheir restaurant, Skinflint’s.
Your good deeds didn’t go unnoticed, community councilPresident Ilene Sacco told the restaurateurs, who have providedboth Thanksgiving and Easter dinners to the elderly for threedecades.