The Downtown Brooklyn 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

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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

also "special sandwich" i think refers to the marijuana not to the lunchmeat

that mario jam is tight

Oh haha you can see why I lived across the block from a crack house for 3 years and was oblivious.

lol

@ 1:22 "Sup bro I just bought some crack from Ralph."

oh sweet max we are neighbors i live on st. james & lafayette

also never knew that bodega was a front, have bought chips there before but not often cuz it is not the closest to my zone

!!! whaat i didnt even realize

we should HANGTIME brah.
i don't go out in the hood much
mostly just to mike's & hotbird, sometimes kum kau or the weird sports bar w. good happy hour ($3 pints with huge and often changing beer selection) at classon & myrtle. i do get a lot of takeout from castros tho.

yall need to update the xls, also frequent the alibi more

im still getting my hood sea legs. go to alibi sometimes but it gets really bro-y late. and rope but i guess its closing? and i love, love love romans but its $$ for a regular meal. tepango for mexican.

i love hot bird but it really blew up this summer, gets wayy too crowded

anyway ya we should kick it soon

one time on the way to hot bird this middle age guy half a block down from there opening his front door yells at me n my friends in a mock surfer accent haaay you guuuys goin to hot bird owwwww

The last time I went to HB on a weekend (hi, max!) there was literally a line outside in which you had to wait for people to leave before you could get in.

hot bird is kinda lame vibes imho but still nice to sit outside and drink a beer

its not that nice when the place is packed and ur surrounded by annoying ppl from the neighb who u like sort of know but dont really want to talk to or say hi to

alibi now carries many of the same unfortunate too-many-bros vibez between like 10-12 on weekends

one thing i always liked abt the alibi was just the completely random mix of people, everyone went there

ya i know!!! its still fun w/ good vibes almost all the rest of the time i have just had like several bad experiences trying to go at peak weekend drinking hours

for a while i used to be kinda i guess 2nd tier regular there, like i knew all the regulars, one day i went over to a friend who i was always drunk at the alibi withs sisters investment banking friends new multi million $ brownstone on vanderbilt just off dekalb and they gave us a tour showing the bedroom they were all yeah when we first moved in we slept over there gesturing at the larger nicer more master bed appropriate room at the back of the house but theres some bar back there that is so loud its actually quieter to have it on this busy street

we looked at each other just like so proud

hot bird is not so bad as all of that. especially off-season. sure, avoid it on a summer weekend (day or night) but weekday happy hour is a-ok by me -- $4 beers and the (rlly good) chili from next door. also it is pretty close.

never been to alibi.
rope is okay.

Thot Rope was RIP already, sad I never went there.

it was alright, you could bring yr own stuff n use their grills in the backyard of you wanted which was p sick

man ian alibi is way better than hot bird i promise and so much cheaper

ah man, used to live right by rope, had my going-away-the-first-time party there. i never went to alibi once the entire time i lived in that area, hit up hot bird a few times tho