The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/09/20/world/europe/mikheil-saakashvili-georgias-ex-president-plots-return-from-williamsburg-brooklyn.html?referrer=&_r=0

Melville house recently put out a previously untranslated Alejo Carpentier book Reasons of State, about a horrible dictator who's sad because (among other things) no one wants to hang out with him anymore. I thought it was a worthwhile read but this article is about as good.

Had a fantastic meal at Iris Cafe Store #9 in Bk Heights tonight. Apparently they've had it converted to a full restaurant for about a year.

http://newyorkyimby.com/2015/11/340-flatbush-ave-ext-revealed-brooklyns-first-supertall-skyscraper.html

jesus christ. no.

ew

yes

ugh at "yimby"

http://bushwickdaily.com/2016/01/lisa-levy-naked-on-a-toilette-performance/

Lisa says that the performance is “kind of a joke”

lol

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CbCgPQYXEAAwAZR.png

this is not news

Where can anyone live in Brooklyn anymore? I'm a lawyer goddamnit, and I'm drunk, and let's face it, queens sucks. But I went to the stupid Brooklyn Museum today and I saw David Byrne there, and I ate at a place called Gladys, and it was good, but Trulia says it costs $8 million dollars a second to live near Gladys. How is that possible, I'm a lawyer damnit, who can afford to live there if not me?

gladys is great

bed stuy, crown heights, prospect lefferts, flatbush, kensington, midwood.

I don't really know though because I moved to Queens which is totally awesome and pay way less than everybody I know in brooklyn for a way bigger space.

lmao bed stuy

my gf lives in a decent neighborhood in bensonhurst and the rent isn't terrible there, esp for a lawyer who works in manhattan

not downtown brooklyn tho

I still see relatively affordable prices in bed stuy.

i love u ny but i will admit that im glad to not have to get stressed out about those rents anymore

You can live in Bensonhurst okay but you won't be anywhere near the things that make you want to live in Brooklyn.

and u will spend a long time on the train every day

Jesus fucking yes

in my case there aren't any left, so i should consider it

i spend essentially an hour commuting each way for what's sposed to be a 'short' commute. ALL the trains suck shit.

i hate nyc, every fucking thing about it. the people especially.

Actually Bill maybe you would like it. If you live on the N, it's a pain in the ass unless you work within walking distance of a Manhattan stop but it's a fast train, powers express through almost all of Brooklyn. Bensonhurst is really nice and quiet and suburban or like Jackson Hgts or something.

lots of good eastern european food down there in bensonhurst i would think

I hate going there but that's because of the white political and community power structures, and the time is worse for me because I'm reverse commuting at rush hour. But if you can stay in an immigrant neighborhood, enjoy the food and stores and street life, and not have to deal with people who scream racist slurs and complain openly about new New Yorkers taking "their" schools, homes, etc, it would probably be fine.

i very likely wd go to Jax Hts (if i found anything affordable) or adjoining nabes before the Bklyn boonies.

The Times Real Estate sec... WHY do i look at it? Brad and Margaret from Park Slope bought a fixer-upper in SUNSET PARK WEST (yes, it's been split now), and they are renting out the ground floor unit for $1900 / month.

sunset sunset park

http://gizmodo.com/brooklyn-is-actually-going-to-build-this-awesome-megasc-1772109029

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--EoslGiq_--/lodkwjadnd6yantqio8w.jpg

http://www.ew.com/sites/default/files/i/2012/05/24/movie-theme-towering-inferno_610.jpg

Inevitable

i love awesome megastructures

it looks like the first pube

you know, the first pube when there's nothing else around it and it just keeps growing and growing much faster than any other hair you might have had at the time

happily ive forgotten

maybe this shit is super obvious/old, but a friend just pointed out to me the irony of people eating only organic food, refusing to use hygiene products with "toxins" etc. while living on the gowanus canal.

Or on the Newtown Creek!

just as long as you dont drink the water theyre prob not going to affect u at all

On the contrary people absorb toxins from the gowanus canal every day

just need to do a cleanse

man ive seen ppl kayaking in that canal tho lol

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/nyregion/the-market-is-saturated-brooklyns-rental-boom-may-turn-into-a-glut.html

uh yeah 6k new units in a city of 8.5m sell sell sell lol

also they are building another target there, right next door to the one in atlantic terminal.

i went into that target once on xmas eve

it was like high-rise

i live a couple of blocks away so i always go at like 11.30pm. recommended if you can. it's very relaxed. tragically though the starbucks is closed.

target is the most overrated store just my opinion

what's life like in suburbia? i have never heard anyone rate it highly here in the city.

i think where i live is more accurately categorized as "college town" or maybe "small city" i did (partially) grow up in suburbia tho and its p boring i guess not too much going on and even that was "inner suburb" with public transpo, bordered the big city and so forth

lots of nice houses and trees tho, high achieving teens