The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

Haha I was gong to say, besides Ian's house to which he'll invite me now that he knows I have smoked fish.

lol

i don't want your fish.

i am just offering to share my beer with you.

I know, sweetie. I would have come by but I was getting increasingly irritated by just being out in public, and I want to go to my block assoc meeting tonight so I couldn't stay and hang and get drank w u.

It seems to be Pete's Ale House and it is open...because its a restaurant lunch destination for really old ppl.

― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Tuesday, April 16, 2013 4:23 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no the one I was thinking of is definitely Roebling Inn, but maybe Pete's (aka Waterfront Ale House or Pete's Waterfront Ale House) also has skee ball, idk. Roebling Inn has good beers and hot dogs and used to do damascus spinach pies but last time I was there I think they didn't have.

ale hows, a home brewing supply store

― lag∞n, Tuesday, April 16, 2013 4:24 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ale HOOS aka the stine filler

(stein)

xpost to laurel -- don't worry, i went out with my buddy arturo to brooklyn tap house and drank fancy beers for cheap.

h8 u ppl with your afternoons and everything

being unemployed is not ~that~ great. i mean, it KIND of rules, but..

being on leave kinda sucks, esp as i'm banned from restaurants incl Mimi's.

Speaking of hanging out outdoors, think of a plan for yr bday?

what about yrs?

hospital again?

Sunday's high temp forecast only 53, btw

friend in south wburg just got burglarized =O [not sure if this counts as downtown brooklyn but w/e]

what counts as "south williamsburg" these days? I always thought of that as being the hassidic part.

the north edge of s williamsburg i guess, my friend lives on roebling

oh actually I totally blanked and forgot that a lot of people call that area "south side" -- the blocks near the water in the south numbered streets

Had brunch at Clover Club today, still one of my favorite brunch places.

http://i.imgur.com/P2bMGTV.png

Ha!

I'm amazed at how much of Brooklyn is NOT "other brooklyn" these days though. Also slightly surprised Ditmas Park is other brooklyn but not, e.g., Kensington.

lol yeah if bay ridge is part of the club...

I guess bay ridge is a place where ex-manhattanites and ex-gentrified-brooklynites settle down and raise families? I mean I don't know how much so, but it seems moreso than bensonhurst or sheepshead bay

I've heard of a few hipsters ending up in Bay Ridge. It's better than a lot of the other deeper Brooklyn neighborhoods. Good middle easter food too.

lol Other Brooklyn is where all of the Jews, Negroes and Spanish people live.

there are still a few black people in bed stuy iirc

also, i'll be working at MetroTech for the next few months or so YO

even though the neighborhood around MetroTech is pretty shitty for somewhere that is not Other Brooklyn as per that map upthread.

you dont have to go too far from metotech to find some p sweet stuff

+you can eat at shake shack every day and grow enormous

Also slightly surprised Ditmas Park is other brooklyn but not, e.g., Kensington.

This mapmaker hasn't priced the restaurants in awhile.

yeah area around metrotech is kind of boring, mostly chains and crap pizza/deli places, but like 10 minutes walk you have a lot of options. I think Bedouin Tent is at Atlantic near Hoyt, that's probably not more than 10 minutes walk. There's also some nu shit on Hoyt before Atlantic that I never tried, and Fast & Fresh Burrito Deli, and Mile End, and obviously all the stuff on Smith and Court south of Atlantic if you want to keep walking, and all the Middle Eastern on Atlantic too.

before Atlantic = north of

wait that map is weird. the downtown/fort greene/clinton hill bit makes no sense.

downtown only to the east of flatbush? clinton hill *north* of fort greene? also dumbo including navy yard?

i've seens clinton hill as being north and east of fort greene, never knew which was more official.

East, Vanderbilt is the dividing line

yeah my understanding is that it is east, and extends to classon, after which bed stuy begins.

Fast and Fresh deli on Hoyt is NOT nu shit, it's been there for ages. I used to go get tacos there for lunch on weekends when I lived in boerum hill.

bed stuys official designation is between bedford and stuyvesant aves, colloquially its prob larger

who is the keeper of these official designations?

its just its named after those streets, like soho or tribeca the boundaries are right in the name

according to wiki The neighborhood name is an combination of the names of the Village of Bedford and the Stuyvesant Heights neighborhood.

psh like anybody in brooklyn uses wikipedia

lol that wiki is wildin

it's def beyond the border of bedford ave <-> stuyvesant ave.

upthread ... thanks for the food recommendation guys, i'll check out these places!

http://www.parkslopefamilycircus.com/

I reposted that to fb today and got quite the response.