The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

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

getting some hipster to say the same thing out loud probably wouldn't be that hard, but jeez

man maybe i could write for the times if i could quote twitter and then not even mention that 'OhMyRockness' is a pseudo-pitchfork site

I hate most instances of quoting Twitter in news stories tbh

― dmr, Friday, June 6, 2014 10:45 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yessssssss

ohmyrockness is a regional show listings site, nothing like pitchfork.

Kentile sign saved! Probably -- to be dismantled and moved somewhere in Gowanus.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/13/nyregion/kentile-floors-sign-stalwart-remnant-of-a-grittier-brooklyn-is-coming-down.html?_r=1

lol smh

people man

100% that sign never gets put back up cause of neighborhood opposition

I could not give less of a fuck about the preservation of something

god bless this sign for an out of business flooring company but you know all good things must come to an end when life closes one door it opens another namaste