The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

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

OMG I saw that place has Dough Donuts just the other day on some website!! I was wondering if it had reopened yet, I wanted to take my mom there. Boo.

ach, now I might have to go across the street and get one. They have an old world quality to them - I felt like I was eating a donut my great grandfather would have eaten.

I'd say Crown Heights is fine. There might be some cat-calling, but in terms of actual real danger.. probably not much.

this is neat http://www.newyorker.com/sandbox/business/subway.html

I am in Downtown Brooklyn. I just come here for the hummus.

Sahadi's? Damascus?

I would like to rep for what I think is the most underrated middle eastern spot in downtown: Waterfalls on Atlantic, especially the more unusual dishes on the menu.

Bedouin Tent is great too of course. I just ate at their other place, Black Iris in Ft. Greene and it was amazing, especially after lacking a good ME place for a while (although supposedly there is a good place that's just a block too far to deliver to me).

Waterfalls is good, but all the places on atlantic ave (tripoli, fatoosh, fountain) are and i don't hear much about any of them, so not sure which are underrated. Sahadi's is one of my favorite places anywhere. And i really miss Black Iris as I recently left Ft. Greene. I now live close to Mimi's Hummus which is maybe more delicious than them all but pricier and not quite the same.

mimis is good black iris i never really vibed to tho their lamb sandwich is dece

black iris has my favorite labana

also good lentil soup

yeah black iris is the ONLY place I've been that makes really good labane

black iris is great, so is sahadis, and damascus bakery. we go to sahadis & damascus weekly.
xp tho i prefer black iris overall, the lentil soul at zaytoons (myrtle ave location) is insanely good. and the fresh pita, so warming and delicious.

generally I think their (and bedouin tent's -- same food afaict) salads are the thing to get -- meat and chicken are good but pita/salads are amazing

fatoosh is pretty good, not quite as good as the others but close enough and insanely cheap or at least used to be. I don't think I ever tried tripoli.

damascus had the best spinach pies and desserts. Actually, I'm not sure there was anything Sahadi's legit did better than damascus, but it was a nice and fun place to shop overall.

Man, Downtown Bk during the day is really the home of the weird. And what do you mean Floyd's doesn't open till 5?!

i like how when sahadis calls out numbers and no one responds they announce the number is 'dead'

There's a decent bar near Floyd's with Skee Ball, totally blanking on the generic name now -- Downtown Ale House? Brooklyn Ale House? Atlantic Ale House?

I have hummus and pita chips and smoked trout, where can I get a beer right now?

ale hose, they shoot beer at u

Hmm I'll go by there and see.

middle eastern food is the fucking best
watefront ale house doesn't have skee ball, does it?

argh, I miss it there, so much. I miss Brooklyn. I still look wistfully at now-out-of-reach apartment listings. "HEY WAIT I CAN ALMOST AFFORD THIS TWO BEDROOM IN PROSPECT HEIGHTS...oh but our room would be 11x9 and the baby's room would be 6x8 and there's nowhere to put a dining table...but...but..."