The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

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.

Q for people living in *the neighborhoods people seem to be moving to now* -- i.e. bed stuy, clinton hill, crown heights, sunset park, etc. -- do you know anyone with school-aged kids there? What do people do if they can't afford private school? Are the public schools in any of those neighborhoods relatively ok? I feel regret at bailing on brooklyn sometimes, but I'm not sure what we would do if in one of the neighborhoods we can actually afford.

Do any of you bed stuy folk frequent Dough Donuts? I tried one today and it was quite tasty, although something I could only eat once in a very long time -- huge, fluffy yet dense, very rich (almost had an animal fat taste to it), subtle flavors in both the dough and frosting even though it was just a standard chocolate frosted.

I've had it both at the main location and at Smorgasburg. A nightmare doing that in the summer...you wait on line forever, get a doughnut then it's so hot the chocolate just melts right off!

Good solid doughnuts though for sure. I'm still a Doughnut Plant fanatic though.

Yeah I haven't ventured to Smorgasburg since the baby - seems like it would be a nightmare with the ever increasing crowds. Generally the nice parts of Brooklyn feel more crowded to me than they used to but maybe I'm just more conscious of it.

Ooooo, no, I would like to but that's actually pretty far from where I live.

I only really love cake doughnuts though, and not ones covered in sugar glaze.

Anyone here think a 25-year-old single woman would/could feel uncomfortable living in Crown Heights? I encouraged a co-worker from the west coast to move to Brooklyn over Harlem thinking she'd like it better, but then when she said she had probably found a place I felt a last minute pang of panic that I was sending her somewhere unsafe, which I guess is dumb.

is everybody moving to brooklyn heights?

ha what in orbit didn't realize is that we had a dough donuts place about 500 feet from our apartment, but they are now closed for "kitchen expansion" (maybe? or maybe they're just closed for good who knows)

lol crown heights most definitely =/= brooklyn heights

is that near flatbush heights?

I think it's near Canarswick

anyway she took the apartment, so...please, please please do not get mugged dear coworker...

is crown heights really that much more dangerous than harlem? in any case both things can mean a lot of different places

idk actually, and yeah "Harlem" does mean a lot of things, probably more varied even than Crown Heights.

yeah. crown heights ime is pretty safe as far east as kingston ave, and id guess the rest of it is pretty safe too. ppl get mugged everywhere in the city

people do seem to get shot in crown heights more often

but not 25 y/o white girls