The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

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.

;)

I am going to have a flexible schedule for car moves since I'll be full time schooling, and a lot of the streets I saw only have 1x per week street cleaning. Maybe I'll just chance it with street parking. If it turns out to suck, I have a mechanic in Tenafly who said he can sell it for me and I'll just drive it out there and take the bus back.

if you can time it to move it right after the street cleaning regulation is up, you should have no problem!

hmm, good tip

it's a beat up 2000 corolla so no worries about dents

TORNADO WATCH!!!

grillfriend:
tornado warning over

fuck

I just heard it live from Ernie Onastis. Normally I don't trust a dirty Greek, but I'll give it to him this time.

Car got towed today. No parking ANYWHERE. Bad idea to move it here. Selling it ASAP.

However, the food at Yemen Cafe on Atlantic was good, especially the salta, which is this awesome root vegetable and lamb sauce dish that comes out bubbling like crazy. And the place is coming together.

salta is really weird tasting

I like the Yemeni spice palate. Even the free broth at the beginning was really good.

parking gets easier below atlantic, if you're willing to walk a bit. also remember the magic of mysterious religious holidays.

Car got towed today. No parking ANYWHERE. Bad idea to move it here. Selling it ASAP.

-- Hurting 2, Saturday, 16 August 2008 00:58 (4 hours ago) Link

u know where the navy yard is now

Sorry hurting :(

Fatoosh is awesome though.

The less hoity toity the neighborhood, the easier it is to park. Of course there's a greater chance of your car getting set on fire.

Maybe you should stop parking in the 1970s

There was a huuuuge car fire and explosion a few blocks from my apartment a few weeks ago. Brooklyn's not like it was in 2006 or 7, that's for sure.

Car fire =/= car was set on fire

It was set on fire ... apparently a bunch of kids put a flaming mattress underneath the car and the whole thing exploded.

fuk

Brooklyn Heights will always be fine.

Just had an awesome run - went almost to Red Hook and then came back and went toward the water thinking I would hit the promenade, but instead I wound up running on this creepy deserted area below the promenade and BQE and feeling very diesel. Couldn't get back up to regular streets so I just ran until I hit DUMBO and then up and back. Probably 3.5 - 4 miles.

Also, some of the houses around here = WAU

So is Magnetic Field still a good spot? Anyone have any feelings about Last Exit?

I can't fucking sleep - half-built ikea shelf in the middle of my floor and law school starts tomorrow.

i like Magnetic Field. for some reason i thought it closed. they sell cigarettes.