Reading Eater this morning as they "broke" the news about the Frankie's 457 potential expansion down Court Street in Brooklyn reminded me that anything that's not searchable online almost doesn't count as news these days. As an Eater commenter mentioned, Edible Brooklyn covered the Frankie's expansion story in its summer 2007 edition:

While tight-lipped about precisely what the future holds for this half-block of Court between Fourth Place and Luquer Street, the Franks divulge that a new restaurant is on the way, and that a much larger kitchen, currently under construction on Luquer, will even have gas burners, allowing for a full-service catering branch this fall—food to be delivered with a vintage Mercedes truck. There's also talk of a forthcoming cookbook.

If I were to guess, the new kitchen won't go in the location that's in the photograph on the left, but two storefronts down at the corner of Luquer and Court streets, in a building whose ground floor wall was recently removed due to structural instability (that's what you call it when it buckles precariously and threatens to collapse the whole building, right?).

And while you're thinking Brooklyn, you should check out Edible Brooklyn. Its writing can vary wildly from fabulous to foggy, but it's a magazine wholly dedicated to the best edibles that Brooklyn has to offer--and who can resist a piece on the borough's eponymous gum?