The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

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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.

so what's up this weekend?

I wound up buying some 1960s off-brand fake Danish stuff off a dude who trucks it in from NJ regularly. He basically buys at a steal or gets it free from the Jerseyans, who don't give a flying fuck about mid-century design, and sells it to the New Yorkers who "appreciate it." Very cheap, decent looking and suits my purposes.

that sounds great! congrats

Link for said fake Danish stuff?

He just advertises on Craigslist. You can e-mail him at g o o d l i n e s 3 0 @ g m a i l . c o m (no spaces)

One nice thing is that the delivery charge is practically nothing since he just makes regular runs into many parts of NYC.

Just want to say that I like living here so much more than Jersey City that I will gladly eat a hat on which my words have been printed.

I saw Rawls from The Wire at Teresa's today. It was strangely more exciting than a lot of bigger celebrities I've seen, possibly because I had just been watching The Wire last night. He was extremely Rawls-like in his demeanor.

lol @ Rawls sighting. I have a joke to make but I don't want to spoilerize if someone's not up far enough.

glad you're liking brooklyn

big record sale tomorrow at brooklyn flea in fort greene. DFA booth got canceled but there's a bunch of other DJs and vendors selling vinyl. people from Other Music, etc.

Yeah, I know the joke you're making and it was the first thing I thought of.

He was with a woman his age that looked like probably his wife though.

Have you crossed paths with William Hurt yet, Hurting?

There appears to be an imminent Trader Joe's on Atlantic Ave.