The Brooklyn Paper just posted this list of changes on Seventh Avenue.

• Cohen’s Optical opened near Seventh Street in what was formerly a gynecologist’s office.

• Big Apple Cleaners has opened between Fourth and Fifth Streets, replacing Knotting Slope, a knitting supply store.

• A new Turkish restaurant called Istanbul has opened in place of the defunct NoNo Kitchen near Seventh Street.

• The Cabinet Shop on the corner of Eighth Street has closed.

• Chickadee Chick, a fast-food-like poultry purveyor, is coming soon near First Street.

• The Laundromat that stood on the corner of Eighth Street for
decades is being renovated and will open as a seafood restaurant this
fall.

• Ha Na Bi, the Japanese-Peruvian restaurant at First Street, and the Grecian Corner diner, at Fourth Street, are undergoing renovations. Both claim they will reopen.

• Elementi, an Italian restaurant near Garfield Street that replaced the decades-old Snooky’s Pub only last year, has shut. A “For Rent” sign in the window hawks the location as suitable for another restaurant.

• Little D Eatery
near 15th is gone, and a Mexican restaurant called Fonda, owned by Chef
Roberto Santibanez of the Rosa Mexicano restaurants in Manhattan, is
moving in.