New Restaurant To Take Place Of Prospect Heights' James

PROSPECT HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — A grown-up 'Gertie' is moving from Williamsburg to Prospect Heights.

Actually the popular Williamsburg cafe isn't going anywhere, but a sit-down restaurant by Gertie's owners are opening a new spot called Gertrude at the Carlton Avenue home of the former James restaurant, which closed just months ago after 14 years of service.

Gertrude will have many of the same features of the James, according to its liquor license application — a full bar, 12 tables and sidewalk dining.

Food will most likely bring include much of the "Jew-ish" inspiration that has made owner Nathan Adler's Gertie such a hit in hip Williamsburg. Expect to see items with lox, whitefish and perhaps the chicken schnitzel with challah, a Gertie dish that EaterNY called "a banger."

Adler, who boasts an impressive food industry resume including working with Danny Meyer, and his fellow co-owners opened Gertie a year before the pandemic hit and quickly re-oriented to meet the needs of 2020 Brooklyn, serving as a soup kitchen, food pantry and helping get voters to the polls, according to the New York Times.

“Our lives were essentially: Wake up, worry about getting Covid and go to work and feed all these people who are also worried about getting Covid, come home, eat dinner and repeat,” Adler told the Times in 2020.

Gertrude is slated to open at 605 Carlton Ave. this spring, according to EaterNY.