The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

at&t park is a pretty good one

yankee stadium is like "in" the city but it doesnt really feel "integrated" at all. only sports bars and memorabilia shops for blocks and blocks

fenway

That's the thing - most stadiums are not properly integrated into the city, they're just plopped into some part of the city that already looks like garbage. Not that Atlantic Center Heights/PC Richardsville is beautiful, but the abutting neighborhoods are nice.

I do remember that Coors Field felt very nicely integrated into downtown Denver, like it was really pleasant to grab food and a beer across the street and then just stroll over.

I been to yankee stadium one time

I get the impression that that was more the 70s/80s model of stadium building: "Argh, the city is falling apart, maybe if we put a stadium here it will at least bring in some crappy bars and shops"

There's been a half-hearted effort to "integrate," particularly with the baseball stadia of the last 20 years, but more often they've been integrated into tourist/shopping/biz-hotel/nightlife areas: Baltimore, Denver, Minneapolis.

stadiums generally aren't gonna be well integrated because they are enormous buildings that you can't walk through and are rarely used. the best ones are walkable from downtown but not in the center of everything.

fwiw I wholeheartedly approve of the barclays center because it gives new yorkers one more thing to complain bitterly about, also I don't have to experience its ill effects... yet

it's just sad when these things get recession-pwned and then we have to live with the results for decades -- penn station is an example

stadiums generally aren't gonna be well integrated because they are enormous buildings that you can't walk through and are rarely used.

Yeah, the obvious problems seem like the mis-match of scale between the stadium and everything around it, and also that apart from a few main entrances, the back and sides of the building are kind of faceless and monolithic and have nothing to give to the street side except a huge blank wall. Both of which seem so stupidly obvious that there must be reasons no one bothers to design to those issues...? I don't know, not my bag. But yuck.

it's just sad when these things get recession-pwned and then we have to live with the results for decades -- penn station america is an example

― has important things to say about gangnam style (Hurting 2), Monday, October 1, 2012 12:03 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

the bigger problem w/ the area is flatbush and its hard to imagine the roads in that area getting uh, 'necessary renovations'. maybe after enough people die.

why couldn't they just have built the stadium in central park, I mean like nobody uses that gigantic waste of space

barclays has a small amount of street-facing retail along atlantic, currently occupied by a restaurant and a metro pcs store i think

Tbf that is how I feel about Central Park but I'm not a park person.

I think Laurel just won challops.

I guess it's nice that it gives rich people something to look at out their hi-rise windows.

it's not like you need a key for it

I like prospect park better

You can't drink or smoke in city parks, getting to the places in them requires walking, and bathrooms are too far apart and liable to be out of toilet paper and/or have lines. This rules out just about every comfort that's relevant to my life. Wilderness areas, I'm all for those as long as I don't have to go to them, but really big parks? Eh.

You can't drink or smoke in city parks, getting to the places in them requires walking, and bathrooms are too far apart and liable to be out of toilet paper and/or have lines.

most of this could refer to the rest of the city

It's hard being me.

I agree that New York in general and Manhattan especially is ill-set-up for loitering, which is probably my favorite pastime.

central park is a truly great work of art

I don't think it compares to the beauty of mccarren park

or Paley Park

I wonder how long it woulda taken me to figure out who in orbit is w/out this thread

Hi, sweetie.

the new condos around mccarren park have really meant that the vision is finally being realized. especially that beautiful one with the sun-god logo on it.

"vaccuum pie chest"

looool wrong thread

that is a good condo name

"vaccuum pie chest"

― has important things to say about gangnam style (Hurting 2), Monday, October 1, 2012 2:42 PM (25 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^

GIS for "vacuum pie chest" turns up several things that would be positive interventions in New York:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IdwlZBnsiWE/Tl3DZ1ycwTI/AAAAAAAABoo/TlQI42eta0k/s1600/backsheeshorlife00knox_0405d.png

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rsu5CUepWOM/Tl3DO_sf9YI/AAAAAAAABok/1sPs658wKkw/s1600/playmateapleasan00cundiala_0163b.png

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1103/5124198668_4a66616ae9.jpg

Posted this last night on facebook and for some reason nobody responded at 4am on a sunday morning. It was mentioned here so I thought I'd give it a shot. Anybody know anybody who's taught at 3rd Ward?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/23/nyregion/drug-arrests-at-a-brooklyn-bodega-rattle-a-neighborhood.html oh ralph

lol joe

“You should try to buy a special sandwich and see what they put in it,” said Emily Worthington, 26, who works in fashion and lives in TriBeCa. “I’m afraid to go in there.”

A third friend, as if on a dare, crossed the street and entered Ralph’s. She returned with a dose of Alka-Seltzer.

fn people srs

exposing myself as a fort greene n00b here but i was NOT aware of ralphs extracurricular

texan 20somethings, giving gentrifiers a bad name, cmon girls

ya i had no idea abt the drugs either despite living around the corner for years tbh, but ralph is such a nice guy, this is super sad!

otm, great bodega, did u know i live up on clermont & dekalb now

i did! sweet locale

have never lived in that hood, but I get my oxycodone at RiteAid.

its great, i endorse it

ralphs features heavily in this video which i had the great blessing to witness filming on my way to brunch one winter afternoon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U32J1Fj-EZg

Tbf I've bought beer and cigarettes in a lot of places where I wouldn't eat the lunch meat but presumably their customers do and no one has keeled over yet.

not ralphs related but i remember circa 2000 walking on Cumberland? in Fort Greene and happening upon a similar deli. just wanted a bottle of water and the place had 2/3 bare shelves with out of date hostess and entemmenns crap. i felt like reprimanding them at the time, at least put a little effort into your cover.

yeah my old bodega at bergen & bedford was like that

those women are stupid though, ralphs wouldnt even crack the top 500 sketchiest bodegas in brooklyn