The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

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

i've never been to bookcourt. what do they have there?

court

Author readings approx 5 times a week; well stocked neighborhood book shop with great ambience. Always 5 or 6 people inside browsing; way more on weekends.

also i have seen actor M Shannon there

Cobble Hill's very good video store, which I patronized a bit several years ago before I was inundated with other options, is moving to the Alamo Drafthouse downtown.

http://www.indiewire.com/2016/12/video-free-brooklyn-alamo-drafthouse-theater-1201756310/

people talk about chains moving in to smith st or w/e but those places that have been run out of business are all empty storefronts. idk what chains people are talking about. there are the places that look like corporate fast casual which may or may not be small businesses (white maze...), places that look like mob fronts (sunken hundred...) & places that are bad taste (bornholm, or whatever it's called; the various and sundry tacky boutiques). I don't see the gap moving in, for example. certainly not in the critical mass that people keep talking about.

like, brooklyn industries has been there for years but I excuse local chains, no matter how pointless/shitty they are

RFI: what do you guys know about parking by the Greenpoint Ferry Landing? (asked on the Queens thread is well, not sure which is the best thread for Greenpoint)

https://ny.eater.com/2018/5/9/17336048/ganso-ramen-closing-downtown-brooklyn-nyc

*screams*

Essence of Park Slope

http://gothamist.com/2018/08/28/park_slope_bike_lane_blocker.php

this seems excessive

The city may have to shutter the Brooklyn Heights Promenade for 6 years during construction of the BQE, according to @NYC_DOT project manager Tanvi Pandya.

— Julianne Cuba (@Julcuba) September 20, 2018

hmm pretty sure the bqe already exists

nuthin's ever finished

http://gothamist.com/2018/09/24/bqe_crumbling_photos_brooklyn.php#photo-1

A major problem with the roadway is the concrete itself. It turns out it wasn’t really designed for heavy trucks. Pandya said if the 1.5-mile stretch slated to be repaired—between Atlantic Avenue and Sands Street—isn’t done by 2026, truck traffic will have to be restricted.

that seems fine?

good. shouldn't have given the waterfront to cars.

there's an existing waterfront park along the only part of the BQE that's close to the waterfront

the Belt Parkway is a disgrace for this reason though