The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

Okay let's go talk in the Going To Law School thread then

lol now you have to drink @ teh brazen head BLS dude

no good food on Montague but further up in fancy-ville there's some decent stuff. Noodle Pudding is good italian.

Actually, I used to love the burgers at Grand Canyon, both the Montague location and the Park Slope one.

oooh i shoulda read this entire thread a month ago when working on my marketing project. now it's too late. i can't absorb any more info!!!

screw fine dining; after 2 years in Kensington/Greenwood Cemetery I just want a nabe w/ more than one digestible takeout option.

I guess Brooklyn Heights was just never poor so it has no bodegas or Italian delis or anything.

It did have some down-at-heel days in the 50s and 60s I think

Which is how baby boomers managed to snatch up all those brownstones whose back yards abut the Promenade

argh WANT

http://www.amazon.com/Desperate-Characters-Novel-Paula-Fox/dp/039331894X

My dad told me he used to go Christmas caroling in BH with other music students when he was at Brooklyn College. He said people would invite like 20 of them in and pour them all sherry.

And then they went for a dip in the Olympic pool at the St. George?

lol my college voice teacher (rip :( ) was in the american boys choir in princeton as a kid and once caroling they were invited in for hot chocolate by... einstein!

The only downside being they had to listen to him saw on his violin.

(Intentionally did not use the word "fiddle")

It's on.

shit just got real

HAHA!
that's going to be some comedy

Is there really no better way to get from Downtown/Heights area Brooklyn to L-Train land than via Union Square???

Did you check the bus?

I think the B61 might be just the ticket.

G train at Hoyt/Schermerhorn, assuming the G still runs.

I usually go Q to the L and it's pretty fast. during the week I'll take the G but on the weekend no way

but I guess the Q doesn't help if you're in B Heights

the 5 to union sq for the l should be pretty speedy, especially if you're just going to the immediate bedford area.

I dunno, I take the G to W'burg on weekends (if it's running) and it usually is OK.

it's a pain for me to even get to the G stop in Ft Greene so I'm kinda biased. I'll take it way up into Greenpoint but if I'm just going to Bedford or Graham the L seems faster

I'm basing the question on Hopstop, which sometimes comes up with weirdly counterintuitive but right answers and sometimes just spits out some bullshit.

it seems right to me

I guess I'm not coming to Brooklyn after all. Sorry, and thanks for you help.

I am going to be in upstate New York though.

http://www.urbanrail.net/am/nyrk/nyc-map-centre.gif

wha kinda fucking craxy map is that

mexico city awzom

http://www.urbanrail.net/am/mexi/mexico-map.gif

Just found out our assigned apartment is only 400 sq. feet. fuk.

at least you can air condition efficiently

I'm vaguely considering finding a rental elsewhere, but it's like two blocks from the school and the wife's train, and it's supposed to be nice.

I'm thinking we might be able to make do by:

1) Making the 20" iMac the only entertainment device (I'll store the TV and stereo for a year), with all music burned onto the computer and all physical music stored.

2) Getting a smaller coffee table

3) Putting some kind of stand-up closet in the bedroom, provided it's big enough.

4) using one tall bookshelf for the two of us and storing the rest of the books

5) keeping non-seasonal clothing in storage

Unfortunately we can't break the walls, or else I'd put in some wall shelving.

The music and entertainment stuff alone probably saves us like 40-50 square feet.

Oh yeah, also desk hutch seems key.

love a good hutch

really great that I decided to get out of the subway last night to eat dinner, coming back from wkend with family, on the very strip of Smith St where the power was out.

uh oh...

it was always so funny when the power was out on the long island. u'd get the call from your friend and then like drive to the beach.

so i'm BORED. i just got back into town and it was pride today. happy pride. i'd like to go out for a drink or six. no but really. is everyone at home like me? or are people enjoying the city...

hurting, 400 sq ft isn't quite as terrible as you think it is; i lived in a 500sq ft if that (most of that extra ~100ft was in the kitchen? wtf?) and really it was ok. depends on the layout. and that's real talk a month late.

i am now a person who lives on a bergen & 4th.

downtown bklyn is so 2003

south bronx is where it's at

I mean SoBro.

well hello there the schef (adam schefter ha ha)

yeah, actually I got the room dimensions and it sounds livable

We thought about moving to SoBro at one point - we looked at places in the Clock Tower building. They weren't bad.

i was trying to convince ppl to move to sobro (i mean bro is in the name) but no one would bite.

the "boogie down" they call it

i live in a 400sq ft apt in downtown brooklyn and its lovely - tho im only one person and its pretty perfectly laid out. i think if someone actually said sobro in my presence i might punch them.