The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

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

http://www.aafp.org/afp/20071001/afp20071001p1004-uf1.gif

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

My dad had Bels Palsy and never went 100% back to normal. Sux.

um, Bell's

Batman is more likely to go to that w/ ian than I am

i had bell_lab's palsy for about a week a few years ago. v. weird feeling.

batman was kinda disappointing ;_;

So hey, solve my car dilemma. I move to Brooklyn Heights. It seems pretty obvious I will not find parking there. ASAP I will just sell my car but I have no fucking time right now. So do I:

A. Keep it in Jersey City and pay this woman in town to move it on street cleaning days (comes to like $30/$40 per week)

B. Bring it and try to park it in some abutting neighborhood (DUMBO, Ft. Greene, etc.) and just move it once a week for street cleaning? (I'm willing to park it like a mile away from my place if I have to) - and if so, what area is my best bet for parking?

C. Pay a whole bunch of money to keep it in a lot until I sell it.

having the woman move it for street cleaning sounds much cheaper than any monthly parking space you'll find in brooklyn. i don't know anything about parking in dumbo/fort greene but at least in my neighborhood opposite side parking is mon, tues, thurs, fri. if it is in really good condition and you want to sell it though, it might make sense to keep it in a lot because you are bound to get lots of dents from street parking.

do you have any family in the suburbs or something who you can leave it with for a little while? i know theres miles of unmetered, unchecked parking in central NJ, you could probably park somewhere and then hop NJ transit back when you need to get it.

note: this is probably a dumb idea.

i've managed to have a car in brooklyn for five years in various neighborhoods and only had it towed once, but i know parking in brooklyn heights is such a bitch. still, if you have an unusual schedule or are flexible during the days, it is possible to do it.

i can't really imagine fort greene is easier? all of the brownstone neighborhoods are really difficult for parking in my experience.

you know, right around my street isn't so bad sometimes. like whenever my friends come to visit they find a spot pretty quickly. ::shrugs::

(in the greene)

i clearly need to move to fort greene, crown heights is getting to be a pain in the ass!

you can pay me $50/week to move your car for you.