The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

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.

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wha kinda fucking craxy map is that

mexico city awzom

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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.

^^^ i would pay good money for this

jhos we should have a margarita soon :) i don't know why i thought you liked lived with a girlfriend

i would prob just punch them w/words tho

real studio apartments seem like they're impossible to find. I was able to get one but it's like an old converted storefront. hopefully they didn't sell uranium or some shit.

The Clock Tower is the only thing that South Bronx has going on for itself, from the loft loving hipster douchething point of view.

the neighborhood also has one (1) quasi-artsy bar and one(1) dive bar, making it the total of two(2) bars in the area. not good.

the South Bronx has the highest asthma rate in the nation I think. Hopefully hipster douche parents aren't trying to raise their kid all "urban" and shit because "it's just so much more real here, you know?"

The Clock Tower is the only thing that South Bronx has going on for itself, from the loft loving hipster douchething point of view.

the neighborhood also has one (1) quasi-artsy bar and one(1) dive bar, making it the total of two(2) bars in the area. not good.

Yeah, that was exactly the impression we got. We had reason to move there as my wife teaches in The Bronx but the place in our price range didn't have enough space to realistically be used for both living and studio purposes without us killing each other.

BUT THE SOBRO ANTIQUES DISTRICT IS SO ADORABLE

EVERYONE, LET'S GO ANTIQUIN' !

We stayed in DoJo

alright what am i doing tonight?

hangin out on the stoop, cat callin' hotties.

uh, actually i was just telling a friend i gotta paper bag a beer on the stoop and look out for the hot neighbors.

i know how u roll.

probably tonight in downtown brooklyn we will eat a caesar salad.

"downtown brooklyn"

surmounter do you eat fish?
you should come to brunch with us some weekend.

do i eat fish, he asks. yessir :D that sounds lurvly.

oh yeah i guess you talked about salmon on that other thread i am kind of a dunce.

we'll get along just fine.

mm salad. i might go for popcorn instead though. movie popcorn. and air conditioning.

Moving in less that two weeks. WOOT!

Aw look at ian and surmounter gettin palsy on this thread <3

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hmmm

whats doin Monday in Brooklyn? i may escape my family & have day off.

Ian has monday off. Go see batman with him so he will stop whining about it!

oh, bitch please.

:P