The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

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.

Hmm, it did look sort of closed-down when I walked by during the day but their website is still up.

i'm prolly mistaken ::shrugs::

We're living in Brooklyn. Imagine saying that in 1991.

BRO O K L Y N BROCKLYN BROCKTYLYN BROKKKLYN NLKYBROK NLKYOROB BRYNROCK LYCN SART WHINCART LYNCOCK BROKLYN

Imagine, I would've been your law school competition. Relieved?

My Dad lived in Brooklyn in 1978. And 1968. And 1958. Imagine that.

What about 1948? Ohio? [rimmshot)

buh duh buh duh buh clash clash chuhcuhcuhcuhcuchuchuchcuhuhaaaaa

1948 too - the last three months of it anyway.

Last Exit used to be the only decent place for miles. It was mostly the "cool" people who lived in Brooklyn Heights and a few from Cobble Hill, back before there were any bars on Court St. They're nice people, but the crowd can get too...Brooklyn Heights.

Magnetic Fields used to be Friends Tavern, a gay bar owned by the same people as the Friend's Tavern in Jackson Heights.

Magnetic Field lost their lease, which is too bad because they had shows with bands I liked. Web site may be up because they're trying/planning to relocate...?

Last Exit: Went there once prob 7 years ago because I met someone who DJed there. It seemed fine. No idea what it's like now.

There's also that bar on Atlantic with indoor bocce, I've liked the crowd and the feel there v much both times I've been.

floyd. yeah it's cute.

hurting there was a car set on fire on pierrepont in brooklyn heights about four months ago.

owned by the same people as the Friend's Tavern in Jackson Heights.
o wow, i wondered this when i was walking down roosevelt recently. i never went to the one on atlantic when i lived down the block.

Maybe you should check out Boat on Smith Street assuming it's still there, Hurting.

stay away. boat is mine.

ha! noobs.

I was one of the original Boat regulars. Rich from the Social Registry and I filled half the jukebox. Tony took some of the CDs when he left to open Buttermilk.

Hey, does anyone know of a provincial french place on Smith called Robin something? Was recommended to me, but I can't remember the exact name.

robin des bois

yup

The site refers to it as both robin des bois and sherwood cafe. Is it still the same owner?

Is DUMBO a theme park now? Mistakenly walked across the bridge to Grimmaldi's last night--at least 100 people in line. Went to the ice cream place--at least 50 people in line. That area by the water was overrun with tourists snapping the waterfalls. And I saw at least four double decker tour buses. Is this all waterfall-related?

naw tour buses stop down there regardless of local waterfall activity

yeah, actually the tour bus drop off or pickup point seemed to be at the very end of the weird deserted truck road I ran on

grimmaldis printing money

only the us mint is authorized to print money

o no did i blow their spot?

(sry grimmaldi!)

So that was your Neutral Milk Hotel CD on that jukebox, Dan?

oh now, that fucking CD used to have me running home.

that "now" should read "no".

All the original prime indie stuff came from the guy who's name I forget who was the main bartender at Great Lakes.

My pal Ray! (now co-owns Commonwealth)

Tony was great, too.