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Cooklyn Closes Prospect Heights Restaurant 15 Months After Opening

 The new American restaurant Cooklyn closed at 659 Vanderbilt Ave. this week.
The new American restaurant Cooklyn closed at 659 Vanderbilt Ave. this week.
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DNAinfo/Rachel Holliday Smith

PROSPECT HEIGHTS — After just more than a year in business, the upscale new American restaurant Cooklyn has shut its doors on Vanderbilt Avenue.

Paper appeared on the windows of the eatery’s storefront at 659 Vanderbilt Ave. this week, about 15 months after the spot opened in November 2014 with a menu that included lobster mac and cheese, octopus and venison wontons.

The restaurant confirmed the closing with a three-line goodbye on its website, thanking “the community and our customers for a great run.”

Eater reported the executive chef at Cooklyn, Anthony Theocaropoulos, has split from the owners of the restaurant recently and is planning to open another Cooklyn in Palm Beach, Florida.

Those plans have been in the works since last summer, but hit a snag in the fall when a local town council denied the restaurant permission to begin construction.

A spokeswoman for Theocaropoulos told Eater the chef plans to go back to Brooklyn eventually to open another restaurant “because that’s where his roots are.”