The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

ReBar is one of New York's cheaper wedding spots, I think. Was.

And being a bar/restaurant, prices probably included catering. Even if you count something like 150 per head for 150 people, that's 22,500, plus rental feels and whatever other costs.

Spoken as somebody who got married one month ago and another of New York's cheaper venues.

Yeah, when we got married in Jersey like 8 years ago the cheapest full-service caterer, alone, was around $100/head, and their food kind of sucked. I think in the end our wedding cost about $130/person all-in, and that was only because we did buffet style food from a Turkish eatery, hired our own staff, got the linens/tables/chairs from a separate vendor, did no cocktail hour, got a friend to do photos for a bargain, used a venue at our U with an alum price, etc.

Oh and congrats Dan

Thanks. I got married in Queens...but that's a discussion for a different thread.

this ain't Downtown Brooklyn related but we went to Brooklyn Crab in Red Hook on Sunday. I was into it. long-ish wait for a table but you can just chill at picnic tables and have a drink while you wait for them to text you. place is huge, we got seated up on the third floor -- water views and skyline views, beer, good seafood (somewhat wtf that they ran out of Maryland blue crabs by 5pm though)

What officially counts as Downtown anyway? Does it end at Atlantic Avenue on the south? Fourth Ave on the East?

I mean this thread in my mind is just kind of a catchall for "not Williamsburg/Bushwick/Bed-Stuy but gentrified/fying Brooklyn"

yeah I have no idea what Downtown is. I think of this thread as like, Cobble Hill / BK Heights / Carroll Gardens but I just now noticed JBR included Red Hook in the OP so I was wrong anyway!

i may be moving to just east of prospect park soon, but i really have no idea if that's close to the locations you all are talking about, and apparently i don't even know how to use google maps for crying out loud

i am just south of prospect park and may be moving to god knows where

ie just-east is a sort of island (my nabe is untallied on this map)

http://www.mns.com/brooklyn_rental_market_report

wow, looks like i'm moving to the relatively cheapo part of brooklyn (prospect lefferts gardens)

of the ones that are labeled and don't feel like Staten Island (Bay Ridge), yeah

this is probably full of errors, but i found it useful when i moved here

https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=202054879601397516990.000480b0c399504890edc&dg=feature

East village radio is shutting down

I stayed in leifferts garden when I was in ny and it was p great

xpost thanks! (bookmarked)

when are you moving here?!

late July/early August!

i'm gonna make it a point to exclaim "wow! the big apple!" every time i step on a crowded train so that everyone knows how happy i am to be there

Lefferts Gardens is suuuuper lovely, I knew people that lived in this gorgeous huge old duplex house (a whole floor for each couple, plus a kitchen/dining floor!) for like, $800 a person or something crazy like that.

But, it's in danger: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/realestate/prospect-lefferts-gardens-is-on-the-map.html?_r=0

anything nice is on the map. saw that large cleared out swath of land when I was back in that neighborhood a few weeks ago. other than that hardly anything had changed!

my aunt and uncle own a super massive beautiful rowhouse in lefferts gardens that they bought in the 90s. it's pretty nice. and he was just a musician who was temping until a fulltime job accidentally struck.

shoot they bought for a little over 500k. the place is huuuge and faaaancy.

i'm gonna make it a point to exclaim "wow! the big apple!" every time i step on a crowded train

The only words that register with one's fellow passengers are "I'm gonna be sick"

Karl Malone
Posted: May 14, 2014 at 4:01:20 PM
late July/early August!

niice

What officially counts as Downtown anyway? Does it end at Atlantic Avenue on the south? Fourth Ave on the East?
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Wednesday, May 14, 2014 11:05 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

In my head it's always been +/- 5 blocks on either side of Flatbush from the bridge -> 4th Ave, or bt Camden Plaza and Barclays.

shelsky's will now be on court btw atlantic an pacific (across from T Joes fyi) if y'all lazy. also the mob front "white oak" is now open on smith where 138 used to be. over/under on that one is 3 months

dude congrats karl malone

schlump are you in nyc too? i need to update my xls

aw, nuh-uh. i just loiter in this thread, lost in weltzschmertz. sometimes i apply for jobs there just for the escapist b-roll that plays in my head while i autopilot through hr questions. but really anyway just congrats!, ny is an awesomely distracting city, i hope it is a nice event on your horizon, & that you get some social .xls overlap

so freakin lame

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/06/nyregion/permit-shows-brooklyns-kentile-floors-sign-is-set-for-removal.html?_r=0

Someone should just buy the sign and the land around it and build a luxury condo called Kentile Floors. That's the nu-Brooklyn way.

you know what, I'd be fine with that. someone should LIVE IN the sign.

tear everything down, replace w houseboats

xpost - it has to be expensive to tear the fucker down, it's so big. I don't see the point.

KENTILE

maybe it's a liability. Could fall in a storm or if not maintained, people might climb it and sue, idk.

living in the sign

http://www.coffeecoffeeandmorecoffee.com/archives/artists%20and%20models%201.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/07/nyregion/brooklyn-will-vie-to-host-2016-dnc-de-blasio-says.html

no justice no peace if that shit happens

im rioting if its not hipster themed do political conventions have themes

Pigasus will be roasted over an open fire and served, snout to tail, on a bed of kale.

Clinton '92: Don't Stop Thinkin' About Tomorrow
Clinton '14: Losin' My Edge

Lena Dunham, Jason Collins to make HRC nom speeches

I was a volunteer at the '92 D convention

“If it’s true, RIP Kentile Floors,” wrote a Twitter user called OhMyRockness. “Seeing you always meant I was almost home. I rent. But if I ever needed a floor. I would’ve gone with you.”

smh nyt

lol

just passed it as always on the F, def work underway

smh nyt

haha yeah that was pretty bad

I hate most instances of quoting Twitter in news stories tbh