Michael de Zayas

Teaches at Think Olio

Michael de Zayas is a stay-at-home dad and the man behind Neighborhoodies, Little Zelda, Hullabaloo, It Takes a Village, and Two Saints.

If you’ve hung around Franklin Avenue for any amount of time in the last couple years, odds are that you’ve run into a place run by Michael de Zayas. The affable Crown Heights stay-at-home dad opened coffee shop Little Zelda between Sterling and Prospect Place in 2012, named in honor of his baby daughter. Since then, he’s expanded into the space next door, which now dishes up fresh bagels and bread, and opened a pocket-sized bookstore called Hullabaloo. This Friday marks the opening of de Zayas’ newest place, a bar and cafe called Two Saints that he hopes becomes as much a community hang-out and friendly neighborhood institution as Little Zelda is.