The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

gantry is super great

Also: in Greepoint, Franklin Street has a record store, book store, coffee shops, and lots of girly boutiques (if you're into that sort of thing). Manhattan Avenue has some Polish restaurants like Lomzynianka. Another nice part of Greenpoint you could walk to is the area by McGolrick Park. And in Williamsburg there is a newish park at Kent and 8th St along the East River. And none of this has anything to do with "Downtown Brooklyn." Have fun!

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/17/nyregion/17yards.html?

yr new skyline

oh yeah were gonna get frank gehry its gonna be a new era in bk soaring etc vision lol, naw actually lets just stack up some shipping containers nbd

middle-class projects

Personally I get excited about both pre-fab and specifically shipping container housing. Too down on the entire stupid development to feel any positivity about THIS, though.

ha yeah i feel the same way

i wouldn't want to live in a shipping container!

i kind of want to live in a shipping container!

or rather a series of shipping containers

or like a shipping container attached to a building

http://zerocabin.com/images/saltlake.jpg

its sort of my dream to purchase a garage and transform it into a house via stacking shipping containers on top of it

Meh, I kind of don't like Frank Gehry anymore anyway -- not into that wavery new Manhattan apartment tower he did, and generally kind of tired of the approach of planting a giant overly creative-looking identity building in the middle of nothing to put an area "on the map"

i love the approach of planting a giant overly creative-looking identity building anywhere really, it amuses me w/a childlike sense of whimsy, and anyway its like 1mx better than yr standard generic corporate architecture - too bad it has to be a symptom of late boom thinking - i mean people should start building these things in early boom years then wed have more crazy buildings around

Maybe I've been living in kinda crappy New York apartments for too long but an entire shipping container or two, all finished inside and all to myself? That's like a dream come true.

plus then you can ship yrself anywhere u want

I don't necessarily hate the boxy shipping container aesthetic but this prob won't even look like that it'll just look cheap and crappy. those super modern shipping container buildings are made by artsy Europeans, this is made by a guy trying to make the cheapest building he can possibly make.

yep

cr?m have you ever been to New Haven, CT?

listen man

I mean talk abt just plopping down giant overly creative-looking buildings everywhere!

new haven, connecticut altogether isnt any place to be learning life lessons

make u want to just give up right

listen man i'm just talkin baout architecture

oh we talkin abt ARCHITECTURE now? ARCHITECTURE? ARCHITECTURE?

talking about architecture is like dancing to music, I heard

true story: dell and I went to go seem Tim Sweeney the other day and we were dancing and it was awesome and then he started playing "I Feel Love" and I was all OH SHIT I LOVE THIS SONG and dell was just like "what are you talking abt? we have been sitting in my apt talking abt brutalism for 1.5h" and then I went to his futon and sobbed *TRUTH BOMB*

anyway instead of cool modern architecture I think brooklyn should just build more brownstone buildings, people like brownstone buildings, maybe build a brownstone empire state building and a brownstone chrysler building

luv it^

brownstone hiphop club

I'm staying in Downtown Brooklyn in early June, for a week, this thread has been a goldmine, so thx. Is it a good base for general NYC tourism, would people say?

ya downtown brooklyn is one of nyc's best transit hubs, you'll be gold

great, thanks!

http://gothamist.com/2011/03/27/marty_markowitzs_three_drivers_are.php

it's like if robert moses' only responsibility was to be a bitter dick in public but he still got the perks

lol whatre even u talking abt marty markowitzs only responsibility is to go to every place in brooklyn where more than five people are gathered shake their hands and give a three minute speech abt how 'the city of brooklyn' is much way than stupid manhattan

right but you don't need 3 personal drivers for that maybe one or maybe zero

I'm staying in Downtown Brooklyn in early June, for a week, this thread has been a goldmine, so thx. Is it a good base for general NYC tourism, would people say?

― Neil S, Sunday, March 20, 2011 12:21 PM Bookmark

Presumably the Mariott or the Nu Hotel on Court St? Yeah it's an amazing spot for transit -- better than many parts of Manhattan. And if you have a full week, I'd definitely recommend exploring DUMBO (to the North), Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill (to the south) and Brooklyn Heights (to the west) -- all reasonable walks from downtown.

I've stayed at the Nu Hotel the last four or five times I've been to NY and it's so convenient and easy. The desk people have been very nice and helpful too. Just ask for a room off the streets - view ain't much but the street volume gets cut dramatically.

If you want to splurge some of the bigger rooms have a hammock.

Smith Street was awash in blood Friday afternoon after a popular Carroll Gardens pizzaman with possible ties to organized crime was stabbed multiple times by a crooked bagelmaker a few blocks from the victim's acclaimed pizzeria.

http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/34/16/dtg_carrollstab_2011_04_22.html

i think "awash" might be a little strong but . . . doughpeople be fightin

wtf a crooked bagel even looks like

you don't even want to know

http://lafinjack.net/images/iconz/snoop_shake.gif

It's called a Bialy.

not complaining to that guy about forgetting my shmear.

Karloff = my new favorite spot

Ok, who in the FUCK is paying these rents in downtown brooklyn:

http://dklb.com/premier/two.html

idk, people pay a lot more to live in similar places 5 minutes away

that's to say, I think these people are probably similar to people who live in long island city. they'd ideally live in manhattan, but if they're gonna live in brooklyn at least they'll live on good transit and in a 'luxury' building.

But $7200 for a 2br? I'm sure it's a very nice building, but it's right off flatbush ave/fulton mall. I'd think you could get a very nice 2br in many nicer neighborhoods for that rent, even if it might be slightly less well-appointed and not have as many amenities.

Also the floorplans don't exactly look huge.