The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

fuckin pigs

so sad

ok this was in dc not ny but one time we went to fourth of july and i brought a picnic for me and my friends and included wine but there was a COP CHECKPOINT at the entrance to the park -- wtf. i was like fuck this, i am not giving the cops my wine, they will just DRINK it and threw the bottle in a bush and you know what? hours later when we left the park i checked the bush for lolz and the wine was still actually there!!

honestly i lost a lot of respect for dc's vaunted hobos that day

omg i just read the capsule review of loreley max linked. it took TWO ppl to come up with a paragraph that ends with "you could do wurst!"?

hope for the brat, expect the wurst.

btw, suggest Brooklyn bars where I can watch the WBC final Monday night. If it is USA-Cuba I will wear my Industriales jersey and yell "YANQUI GO HOME." (I wonder if the gals at Cattyshack wd be down w/ that.)

there is a big tv at o'connors by my place. tho there is NO BACKYARD anymore >:[

oh yeah, where I infamously had my back to the NFL playoff game.

oh, morbspants

hell O'Connors will have this dull NCAA hoops on.

would go to o'connors for sports fap

I guess I might see part of Sat night WBC semifinal at Alligator Lounge, if it's on.

lol what happened to oconnors "beer garden"

oof, i was at alligator last night. don't know if i can do it twice in a week.

i don't know if i've been

it's a wburg free pizza bar. pool table, sports, bros.

i know, i pass by it bunches, but i don't think i've been

silly me

oconnors "beer garden"

wtf is this shit

i have no idea what happened to the backyard at o'connors but they've completely rebuilt the wall in the back and there's no yard access anymore.

a brooklyn tragedy

it is!

4th ave's backyard is much smaller and involves a staircase, plus 4th ave is 2x as expensive as o'connors :(

"backyard"??? i had no idea that o'connor's had a backyard

it was more a gravel pit but it had picnic tables

when they opened it last summer there was a sign outside for a while saying check out our beer garden or some such shit - and then u know it was just yr standard old divey oconnors w/a backyard full of rocks

btw its spelled biergarten

youll have to mention that to mr oconnor when next u see him

Morbs, I would love to kick off baseball watching, but I have plans Sat. night. By the way, I now work with one of your Slant colleagues.

well, I've only met 4 of my colleagues.

i prefer to think of ilxors as "colleagues" than "friends" in general & fyi.

At the clover place again. I'm noticing the biggest disadvantage of the thing is that the barista has to explain the machine and the individual coffees in detail to EVERY SINGLE CUSTOMER WHO COMES IN. I guess maybe after a while they'll have a regular customer base who understands it though.

that's a lot of talking

They're having live loungy jazz piano right now. It's kind of funny and weird, but pleasant enough.

sounds nice tbh

i just did brunch at alchemy. they make really good bloody marias but their food is always so HUGE!

i've never had food there. it's cute though (kind of pricy?)

They have a great sounding grand piano, btw!

alchemy is kind of pricey? it seems regular price (for brunch), maybe a dollar more than other places but that's the whole 5th st strip quite frankly.

this isn't strictly downtown brooklyn related per se but guys

http://www.freshdirect.com/product.jsp?productId=slbsr_lbstr_live&catId=slbsr&trk=cpage&trk=cpage

what the fuck

should i force some poor unsuspecting fresh direct man to bring me a live lobster y/n

they are $1-2 more than goign to chelsea market and getting a live lobster tho

but the lolz!!!

hav a lobster party - i will bring the melted butter

i will eat 10 lobsters just fyi

well, i've only been to alchemy for dinner, and it was pricy for me. should try the brunch though.

For a similar price, I'd def. do Buttermilk Channel (for both brunch and dinner).

get the pickles.

i have heard the pickles are good

I was a big alchemy brunch booster but it's a short menu and never changes, I went too many times and got burnt out on it

(except the bloody marys those are still good)

returning to the back yard discussion, i have heard that the bar on 3rd ave near atlantic (which has some generic sounding name i can't remember) has a nice outdoor space. can anyone confirm?

omg a lobster party!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GENIUS

buttermilk channel >>>>> alchemy for sure but i've had dinner at one and brunch only at the other!

aaaaaaand back yards: are you talking about hank's??? i keep wanting to go in there but then forget about it! if there's a yard then 4 sure i am there.

Oh, I walked past Hank's for the first time, last weekend. I guess there was a show on Sat night and there were a bunch of boot-cut-jeans types hanging around outside? But I'd try it on an afternoon, for instance. Did not notice a yard of any kind but I didn't go in.