The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

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

BQE is the worst road.

I start to admire the BQE when I haven't been on it for a while. It's this great big fuck off road, rarely governed by any laws, spreading absolute mayhem across a large part of NYC at any time of the night or day. You really have to mentally prepare yourself to get on it as a driver.

the part between the prospect expressway and the battery tunnel entrance, where it goes over the gowanus, is always magical

ha, the next apple product event is at BAM on octobeer 30

Pacific Green (grocer) on court and pacific lost the battle w J Crew; last day tomorrow

Di Fara, the iconic Midwood pizzeria that has been around for more than 50 years, has been seized by the state after not paying taxes. pic.twitter.com/AN2UtvL4rC

— Morena Basteiro (@morenabasteiro) August 20, 2019

lol those 30$ pies were such a bargain too

it's about a mile from me and never made it there

nor did i. i live around the corner from lucali if i want to wait two hours for a $30 pizza

yeah i don't wait for... anything

I went a bunch of times a long time ago and it was fantastic. The wait was frustrating but it was really really good pizza.

i had it once because i happen to be walking by and there was only a small line . It was pretty damn good though but not mind blowing and the place is a dump ffiw

the government is eating all the pizza now

uhhhhhh

Does anyone know what the hell kind of chicken massacre happened in Boerum Hill? pic.twitter.com/Wfk73zm1jZ

— Sara Vilkomerson (@Vilkomerson) August 30, 2019

Well there goes chicken as a lunch option

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EDO8I4cWsAAqzF4?format=jpg&name=small

omg

see what you’re missing, hippie?

Has this been noted here?
https://bklyner.com/36-years-court-street-office-supplies-will-close-brick-mortar-location/

ppl are real excited abt this Wegman's place

It was a big deal when a Wegman’s opened up near my parents in South Central PA because I could get snooty city stuff when I visited. Don’t exactly get the point of one in an actual city, much less New York City.

— Splat! Prigge (@mattprigge) October 28, 2019

miss brooklyn today. could be enjoying the view of the cars queuing to park in wegmans from my house.

I used to go to Wegman's when I lived in central PA. It was really nice. It was the second best thing about central PA.

I'm kind of interested in the Sahadi's new Sunset Park location. I really like that they do (or at least used to) carry jelly babies in the bulk section.

wait, did Sahadi's move or does it just have a second location?

FWIW I loved Wegmans when I lived in Jersey but I really can't see spending 40 minutes on the damn BQE to get to one, it's not *that* good.

https://ny.eater.com/2019/8/28/20836646/sahadis-open-menu-industry-city-sunset-park-brooklyn-nyc

I still haven't been to InDustRY cITy.

the bulk food scene at sahadis was always so exciting

I don't know how NYC grocery shopping is these days but what I remember being so cool about Wegman's when I lived in Jersey was its scale. I remember NYC shopping as being "you are trying to find things crammed in a very small space and the store is too small to have all the things you need, and maybe you can muster the energy to go to another store while carrying all the stuff you bought from the first store" -- in its way, it was fun and felt very New York, but the opposite is also fun!

Or do people in New York just buy all their groceries off an app and have somebody deliver them?

The other thing is, I don't really think Wegman's would be that fun if you didn't have a car. People who live in Brooklyn don't drive cars now, do they?

mostly the rich pigs in the condo towers

tho i think ian still has a sporadically working vehicle

I had a truck for 10 years in blyn, but I had a driveway so it was convenient.

I could get all my groceries to last a week in one trip from Trader Joes, carrying them on the subway.

i had a car for a while. it was only good for going to fairway for groceries or dragging my gear to play hockey

oh and it's good if you have large dogs.

A lot of people would ask me to give them rides or pick them up from the airport. It took me two years to learn not to do that.

oh god yes

I don't know how NYC grocery shopping is these days but what I remember being so cool about Wegman's when I lived in Jersey was its scale.

Yes. It's like wandering into a food theme park.

My neighborhood now is absolutely shit for groceries. We get most stuff from Costco and supplement with fresh direct and a local Jewish/Russian/Israeli store (labneh, olives, pickles, bourekas, etc). The other options are a Key Food, a C-Town and a bunch of those corner green grocers. There's a Trader Joe's that's only accessible by car and has the world's worst parking lot. Still not driving all the way to Navy Yard though.

Are you talking about the Trader Joe's in Rego Park? I used to go to that one all the time when I lived in wburg. I would just automatically park in the larger lot behind it.

that costco in astoria is the most aggro costco in the world.