The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

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.

Last time I was at Cwealth I said, "I don't know who put the Embarrassment on this mix but I love it!" and Ray was like, uh wow really? Maybe I hang out with too many music nerrrrrrds.

I mock him mercilessly for the 1985-95 soundscape, but he's a prince.

i liked robin des bois. cute garden

Yes, Ray. I met him once, but I never hung out at Great Lakes. I was at Boat a lot during the prime Tony/Bill/Renata years.

So I need suggestions for good furniture flea markets / reasonable vintage & antique shops for furniture.

Basically I need a used desk and some bookshelves and after a really bad ikea experience culminating in me returning everything, I figured I'd just try to spend the same or more on used merchandise of better quality that will actually be worth moving.

new flea market near me in ft. greene supposed to be pretty great. sundays i think.

that sounds like a plan

Repop in Clinton Hill is a good vintage shop or so I hear, but the real Flea Market obsessives are gearing up for the upstate New York bonanza known as the Warrensburg NY garage sale! http://www.warrensburggaragesale.com/

I will be renting a van and no vintage dining room set in all of Herkimer county will be safe.