The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

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

also let me just reiterate, tepango on myrtle probably has the best tacos ive had in all of brownstone brooklyn

el cofre is good super cheap domincan

one of my delivery standbys

or as i like to call them places that made me fat

don't go there often but I co-sign Alibi, I like that place

was in there watching the World Cup when Zidane did that headbutt, that was fun

Tracer Hand made everyone go there for drinks once a long time ago, I remember that.

does the alibi have.... bbq? or chili?
that is my main concern.

it has booze

and a folder of delivery menus

i needs place to watch World Series, the pity is i'd have to skip pills to drink ('weird' sports bar?)

i vomed in the alibi in like 1990
good bar

buzza

pukers of yore

lol Nets debut postponed

Hey, general question, is there a thread where ILX NYC crew hang out in particular? Is there still a coherent ILX NYC crew to speak of? Just moved to the city two months ago. Considering display name change to "Doctor Casino In NYC."

this is a relatively dormant but u&k thread:

are we getting drunk tonight or what

thanks!

nice Brooklyn Rail piece that names all the major Barclays rats.

http://brooklynrail.org/2012/11/local/a-brand-called-brooklyn

i'm pretty used to all the noise here -- the honking, the garbage trucks, the children, the bqe, the fog horns, the guy who walks past at 4am singing slow jams, etc. -- but fuck hovering helicopters

hovering hov

Now you know why I complain on facespace about rooftop searches.