Brooklyn Habit
Neighborhood cafe and wine bar · 1 location · Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn
Brooklyn Habit is a Carroll Gardens café by day and a wine bar by evening. The people who opened it in 2018 have gone: the state moved its licence in 2026 to an LLC belonging to Ben Maran, who owns it with no investor behind him.
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Brooklyn Habit is one corner room in Carroll Gardens, coffee and pastries by day and natural wine by evening, with no outside investor anywhere in its record. The people who opened it in 2018 are gone: the state moved the beer-and-wine licence in May 2026 to Benitobeachclub LLC, whose owner, Ben Maran, describes himself as a finance professional turned operator. As a single storefront that has only just changed hands, it has little public labour or environmental record to weigh either way, and the person accountable for it is the owner himself.
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Company data last updated August 2026
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