The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

i guess so!

what about TOFU ON 7th?

I can't believe u r failing me on a food topic!

i haven't lived anywhere near park slope for 4+ years!!

smiling pizza.

is there good Mexican near you?

http://www.indiescreen.us/?p=7014

Battle for Brooklyn showing this weekend in Williamsburg. Thinking about going Sunday.

I had tacos in b hill. They were good.

Oaxaca on Smith St. makes a reasonably good taco.

I used to go to fast and fresh deli on Hoyt just north of Atlantic for tacos weekly.

oh yeah that place is good

At one point I sort of thought of it as a best kept secret. don't know if it was really as slept on as I though though.

Hey anyone need or know someone who needs a roommate? I have a full-time job, know how dishes are washed, own and operate a pair of headphones, etc.

Purim party at Sharlene's bar tonight 8pm. Costumes, cookies, He'brew beer specials (?). I'll be busy looks like.

http://www.shipoffools.com/gadgets/food_drink/media/messiah_bold.jpg

think I have had one of those but can't remember

anyone been to bar corvo yet?

chuko has gotten pretty good, at least their appetizers/specials. still annoyed that its basically manhattan prices.

pretty nice day today

tried to go to Bar Corvo twice and it was too crowded both times. tried to go this past Sunday for dinner and got there at 5 minutes to 6 (their website said they open at 6), notice it's already packed, "oh, yeah on Sunday we open at 5, it'll be an hour wait at least."

kale salad at chuko is the business. if that place was more kid-friendly we'd be there constantly, as it is I've only gone twice.

chuko and bar corvo both crazy frustrating b/c theyre both obviously going for a "good neighborhood joint" vibe and both always have wait times -- bar corvo especially. (hopefully that calms down)

instead of Bar Corvo we went to Cheryl's Global Soul which was actually really good, dunno why we never go there

jamaican jerk wings yall

guess I assumed Cheryl's is always crowded too but that night it wasnt

Does anyone know a good source for bk neighborhood police blotters/crime news given that the Brooklyn Paper's website seems to be all kinds of screwed up? Very strange shit has been going on at my building. First two nights ago my buzzer rang and I saw two dudes on my intercom and one immediately put his hand over the camera (I threatened to call police, video went dark, nothing else happened). Then last night, police rang my buzzer wanting entry to the building but not for my apartment (normally I'd hesitate to do this without more info, but given what had happened the night prior I was willing to let them in). Then today the brand new security door is broken (although last night well after the police arrived it was still fine).

for my neighborhood the forums on Brooklynian are pretty good at covering that kinda stuff, not sure if there is a similar site for where you live

http://brooklynian.com/forum/prospect-heights/

I'm not sure where you live, if you mouse over Forum on that page I linked there are a few different neighborhood message boards listed

i went to bar corvo last night at 5:30 pm and got a table right away, its pretty good, even really good, but not 90-minute wait good

I liked it too. probably liked it better than Al Di La tbh. Menu at Bar Corvo is more my speed. Feels more modern.

Trying to remember what all we got ... lentil soup, faro salad, oh yeah I got lamb shank I think. It was solid.

Their wine is pretty affordable too.

Seems like there is finally some progress on the Kimchi Grill, I'm hearing end of March / beginning of April

i had the chitarra w/ octopus confit and the dandelion greens/fava puree, both were excellent, good wine, and yeah, affordable for the quality overall i thought. the guy says theyre opening the patio by the end of april

http://gothamist.com/2012/03/19/barclays_center_will_sell_bottled_b.php

bottled beyonce!

http://gifs.gifbin.com/1237129780_beyonce_booty.gif

in all seriousness tho brooklyn water should be sourced from the gowanus

http://skyjude.users.btopenworld.com/Images/casablanca02.jpg
I came to Brooklyn for the waters

^^^misinformed

20% rent increase.

Goodbye Brooklyn!

dang

ally & ghost rider are moving for the same reason : /

haha my rent hasn't gone up in the six years i've been here -- probably because a) dude is too lazy to figure out the process b) dude is so lazy that jacking the rent isn't worth dealing with renters who would complain far more than i do

that is nutty. I get my approx 4% hike every year.

Need a lazy rent-hiker's database.

dang, hurting! 20% is a lot. queens?

Yeah, I'm probably looking at upper Astoria (or Ditmars Steinway or w/e it's called), Sunnyside, Forest Hills, idk where else. I talked to a friend about Prospect Heights and that sounds about as expensive as here. Bushwick doesn't seem worth it - I can probably get something nicer and closer to work for the same money in queens. We vaguely talked about moving out of the city altogether but I think we're not ready for that. Met a couple who moved to Peekskill - hour train ride to New York, cheap houses, supposedly some semblance of a downtown.

when do you have to start worrying about daycare/preschool/schools (if not already)

already. That's one reason Forest Hills is on our list. I mean I haven't researched, but it seems more likely to have good options that Sunnyside or Astoria.

I mean we don't need full-time daycare yet, but we do want to live somewhere where in a year or two we have a good option for preschool.

man

In the same week, a break-in in our building and this:

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Cooper-Park-Mom-Water-Balloon-Attack-Girl--158960595.html

(worse than the headline makes it sound)

Kind of glad we're moving, given that H & K are home without me most of the day and don't have many places to go other than to that park or to get a $12 hipster waffle

Weirdly, the building just dropped the rent they were asking (in their listing) without telling us. I don't think we'd pay what they're currently asking anyway, but it still seems like a pretty shady practice, and also kind of dumb, since we're reliable, on-time-rent-paying-tenants and they're throwing away money on listing agents, prepping the apt after we move out, etc.

i finally ate at mr. fulton today.
my low expectations were met.

Surely one of you is going to a Jay-Z Barclays baptism show?

I wonder what my first event there will be. Leonard Cohen in December? (never seen Len)

cheapest Nets tix are $30 I read

I keep forgetting all the Brooklynites leave work to drink at 4 on Fridays.

I only left early to get a haircut! Think I know one person who has tix to the show and I can't help feeling she's being a bit traitorous even though she's never lived in Bk and doesn't have a personal stake in.