The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

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

I wish more of those high rise apartments weren't rentals

caek lives a couple blocks from target?
i live a couple blocks form target.

i hate it. almost never go.

NY Times just needs to let me know when i can get a $1200 studio

rockaways

not in a FEMA zone

i don't think i'd want to live in nyc very much

At 7 DeKalb, a new 23-story tower atop the City Point mall complex, the landlord is offering two months of free rent with a 14-month lease, and use of the building’s fitness center and other amenities for a year without charge. That means a one-bedroom, one-bathroom place can be had for $3,428 a month

This is not even remotely my price range and doesn't do ANYTHING for my housing market.

that can be had, alright

BookCourt closin

unrelated: F.O.B. filipino bbq is pretty good

author emma straub and her husband are supposedly looking to open a bookstore in the general vicinity

we should tell her

http://www.emmastraub.net/booksaremagic

bookcourt put out a press release but didnt say why they were closing, they own the building btw

Maybe they just felt done with the business and wanted to take advantage of the higher rents they could get, or sell the building and retire or something.

something like that

i think they're just retiring

new bookstore is just gonna sell the harry potter series i think

relatedly there is a new greenlight on flatbush ave btw

ha when they opened on fulton years ago i was all u will be out of business in 2 months u poor soft headed fools

re: retiring i don't think they're THAT old, or so old that they couldn't scale back their own hours (they already have worker bees) and just live THAT way. Also closing in 3 weeks is a really short window for an announcement if ur finna clean house and empty the store for a new tennant. I bet it's gonna be a turnkey sale