The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

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.

not downtown, but there's theatre in the cemetery at midnight in June

http://green-wood.com/spoonriver

i h8 park slope family circus.

I've heard!

alright, this is a kind of silly and broad request, but I need a bar recommendation for somewhere in between (by car) me (forest hills queens) and bed stuy, including bed stuy. Going with a couple of very good college friends who live out of town, just want to go somewhere with good atmosphere, preferably decent beer list, not outrageously noisy or crowded but not dead on a monday night. I guess that could include Bushwick, Ridgewood, Bed Stuy, maybe Fort Greene

basically any bar in fort greene satisfies those requirements, tho alibi's beer list isnt great

yeah I need some x factor to narrow this down

say you needed to go buy an ink cartridge but didn't want to go all the way to williamsburg to mikey's hook-up. is there anywhere in park slope/downtown brooklyn/clinton hill/ft greene that is going to sell me an inkjet cartridge?

primarily hoping there is somewhere near fulton mall/court street cuz i am going over there anyway. on the bus because buses are so nicely airconditioned.

there's a staples at fourth ave. and third st.

:O thinks i never noticed but are good to know. thanks!

Oh, you could go to the Orthodox Jewish Office Supplies Store on Court Street! It's overpriced, but if you have a student ID they won't charge you sales tax (?!).

It's on the west side of Court, just north of Joralemon.

i wish i had a student id. that would be fun.

i think it almost makes the most sense to go to office max in atlantic center.

that place is sort of a pain, but that's where I go for ink.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/1011580_10153057124485304_397120286_n.jpg

(in one of the future storefront windows of One Brooklyn Bridge Park)

Really hoping that whole thing is the name of the future bookstore.

Or maybe "In One Place" is a bookstore/gourmet food store/shoestore

Although I will be shocked if a bookstore of all things actually goes into one of those prime retail spots.

especially if it features jack kerouak's corpse

Wouldn't be ridICulously surprised if a Barnes & Noble type deal did, except it's 2013 and that business model is struggling. But if there's anywhere it might fly, it'd be there, right? People with money to spare, moving around on foot, needing coffee and something to read for the subway...

I'd be surprised. Plus there's already a B&N very close to there on Court St. I do always find it a little surprising that chain retail seems to succeed in neighborhoods like that -- you would think they urban sophisticate, quasi-lefty population would prefer to stick with their boutiques.

J. Crew coming on Court St. btw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQCTIo1YlNE

so awful

incidentally I have really mixed feelings about the piers -- they have really cool features but no fucking shade whatsoever. I'm glad they got rid of the little baby frying pan climbing aparatuses, but there's still a lot of stuff on the playgrounds that gets hot in the sun. Maybe it will be nicer in fall.

I happened to be in the new park in LIC this morning and overheard a resident of one of the multiple new developments there saying that the one bad thing about the neighborhood was there was no shade. I was like are you kidding me? People will complain about anything.

IDK, I think that's kind of a thing. City heat gets nasty. But especially for a park/playground area.

from several months ago: Bedouin Tent is awesome (thanks to whomever recommended it). Yummy Taco is absolutely vile (i have only myself to blame for eating there once).

Is that one of those Sino-Mexican taco carryouts?

yup

OMG Taco yo

http://www.menupages.com/restaurants/omg-taco-2/

Hadramout is also good middle eastern fyi -- open 24 hrs! al Jazeera is on!

I liked Yemen Cafe too, but there was a weird vibe in there and I overheard this guy at the other table who kept saying something something Al Yahud ("The Jew" -- usually in the pejorative sense). So I didn't go back, meh.

Oh, I went to OMG Taco a few times when it was called Oaxaca. Pretty good. Same food?

basically! i also like them bc it seems to be run by a bunch of young ppl and i can support that. plus horchata

Not downtown, but I found out about a week ago that Jackie's 5th Amendment closed, so no Old Man Bars left in Park Slope? Of course, all the old men have died or been evicted.

i just jackie's open a few weeks ago. i guess they were finally able to secede from park slope.
old carriage inn is maybe not quite an old man bar but it's real shitty in there.

oh yeah, I go in there couple times a year to watch baseball. It's not quite up to J5A on the Calcifying Liver Scale.