The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

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.

when is Antic? 10/5?

in fact, yes

http://www.atlanticave.org/antic2008/antic2008.htm

HAY GUISE WAS IT JUST ME OR WERE THERE FIGHTER JETS AND SHIT FLYING OVERHEAD LAST NIGHT? (nb. I have been hearing things lately...)

that was me in my plane

i got bombed yo

i've seen military copters in manhattan. lots of people in town for UN/CGI - police escorts all over midtown and dudes with helmets and assault rifles outside hotels.

dude, didnt you read--it was me in my plane bombing jho

how much are real estate prices in bk gonna fall over the next year

DEPENDS ON IF U KEEP BOMBING

do u think well all be able to afford entire blocks by december

do you think well be able to afford to live anywhere by december

Ok, where is a good lower price liquor store for party beer and wine?

I'd tell you if you were nicer to me

ice cold, morbs

do you have a car, h? there's a big, warehousey place on 3rd ave around 9th street that's good for bulk-buying beer and mixers.

that's still there?

it was last year. you think it's closed?

are those 2 places on court st in cobble hill still open? american beer and something else?

american is still there.

anyone been to this annual clam shuck at the Brazen Head? (this Sat)

rereers: theres also that place next to home depot

"re beers:"

Trader Joe's stocks good beer now.

Also, this place is awesome:

http://www.hibino-brooklyn.com/blog/

They change their obanzai every day and they're really good. Good cheap sushi as well. We left full for like $11 each.

Does anyone have any experience with what the trick-or-treat scene is like in this area? I'm wondering if I need to stock up on candy, or if kids are only going to knock where there are pumpkins and shit.

A couple of years ago, I put a sign on our front door saying, "We have candy! Ring the top buzzer!" No response. I ended up eating a lot of candy that week.

So is that Trader Joe's open now?

i get no trick or treaters in my hood. the kids seem to go out to the business on the main streets rather than to the apt buildings.