The Nostalgia Continues.
A cult favorite wine & cocktail bar in Greenpoint serving natural wines, classic cocktails, and nostalgic small plates in a space that feels like your stylish friend’s living room.
Heaven & Earth is a natural wine and cocktail bar in the center of Greenpoint that blends modern hospitality with a deep sense of nostalgia. At its core, it is a place built around taste, culture, and connection. We highlight hybrid grapes because they represent where wine is going and because they let us offer guests something they have never tried before. The beverage program is seasonal, intentional, and balanced. Wines are low intervention. Cocktails are sustainability focused. Our house made adaptogenic drinks seamlessly tie in creativity and wellness.
H&E is owned by Tecla Esposito and Ian Cronin. Tecla is a Brooklyn born creative operator who both built the visual identity and conceptualized the food & wine program from the ground up. As the wine curator, her focus centers on low intervention producers, hybrid grapes, and bottles that tell a real story about place and method. Ian is the cocktail master behind Heaven & Earth. His background in hospitality, bar management, and hands on spirits work informs a beverage program that feels smart, balanced, and grounded. His operational approach supports the day to day rhythm of the bar and helps anchor the overall guest experience.
H&E is built as an ode to the real ones who made this city what it is - service workers, immigrants, artists, night-shift parents, first-gen kids. It feels like the living room of old New York: regulars at the bar, mid century Knick knacks, neighbors dropping in after work, strangers leaving as friends. It’s where you go to take the city back to its roots. The result is a room that feels warm, personal, and alive. People come in for a quick glass and end up staying for hours. It works for a martini, a nostalgic snack, a date, or a deep conversation. It is a neighborhood bar with depth and soul, shaped by two people who built it from their lived experiences.
Our Design Story
In the words of owner Tecla Esposito
For years people told me these little objects were just clutter.
Luchador masks from random markets in Mexico, a couple of vintage cameras that might not work, tarot cards, lunchboxes, dolls, clowns, tiny tiger salt & pepper shakers, botanica candles, Black Americana collectibles, porcelain fruit, you name I had it.
These were things I picked up while traveling, thrifting, mourning family who had transitioned, wandering around New York with no real plan, saving what others had thrown away.
Then, when we opened Heaven & Earth, I realized something.
All those weird little objects were time capsules. Memoirs of a lifestyle that didn’t exist anymore. Proof that objects collected over a lifetime literally tell a story.
While building Heaven & Earth these curiosities taught me that nostalgia isn’t about being a specific type of vintage or carrying a theme, It’s about memory. Objects that feel like they’ve already lived a life before they got to you help invoke that memory in others, and collective memory is a magical thing.
Heaven & Earth has now become an extension of this sentiment. Behind the bar, pieces that have lived their own lives are now reused regularly to invoke life in others.
The nostalgia that these items began to bring up in every individual who walked through the doors was so palpable and beautiful because they whispered to those memory triggers some people forgot were there. In fact, aren’t we all just artifacts from different worlds sitting together, making a room feel alive?
I used to be told I was just hoarding trinkets.
Turns out I was preserving a language
