The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

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

Perhaps the two sides could reach an agreement where the sign is dismantled and taken down but the residents can 'reclaim' pieces from the sign and repurpose them as coffee tables, baby strollers, and vintage denim

maybe we could alter it to say something Dunhamish

GENTILE BORES

jk, I love Dunham and Girls and that joke doesn't even make sense, but it was sitting right there.

i appreciated it

Perhaps the two sides could reach an agreement where the sign is dismantled and taken down but the residents can 'reclaim' pieces from the sign and repurpose them as coffee tables, baby strollers, and vintage denim

― 龜, Tuesday, June 17, 2014 5:59 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is a really good idea too

My idea was that they should keep the sign, build condos on the propert and call them the Kentile Floors Lofts

also a good idea we shd go into business u guys

GENTILE BORES

― dan selzer, Tuesday, June 17, 2014 6:51 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This reminds me of a thing I saw (maybe based on a true story) in a play once about Jews in WWII era Brooklyn where someone vandalized a JEWISH FORWARD sign so it said JEWIS FORWAR

Hannah sleeps with a lotta Gentiles

http://gothamist.com/attachments/jen/2014_06_kentilesigndown.jpg

http://gothamist.com/2014/06/19/breaking_kentile_sign_letters_being.php

breaking

I've said before I saw a utility-HQ sign being dismantled in Newark which read PUBLIC ___VICE

last night it was something like

***T**_
FLOORS

http://nowitsafuckingfroyoplace.tumblr.com/

don't it always seem to go

that you don't know what you fro till it yo

no

oh

http://nypost.com/2014/07/11/pregnant-tarantula-on-the-loose-in-park-slope

So Tony's Hardware on smith is oob -- hoping Tony is retiring bc it would bum me out otherwise. Also the MET on smith st is going out of business, which I am more agnostic about (because I am rich and can afford Union Market, TJs, etc) but jesus h christ it's a goddamn grocery store going out of business and likely served the Warren/Wykoff houses mostly and that is a real drag

i got off the F to shop there about once a month!