The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

My knowledge of "downtown" Brooklyn extends to, essentially, Albee Square Mall on Fulton St.

court street is the main drag for cobble hill/carroll gardens, and that's a slightly hipper, younger demographic. yuppie-mom twee. lots of maclaren strollers and pet-grooming stores. carroll still has a couple of old-holdout italian restaurants and bakeries; they're probably not in any danger of closing because if they've survived this long, they're owned by the mob. (the amazing latticini barese is sadly no more, though.)

boerum hill/smith street is past its prime, but faan and the boat bar are there.

fort greene is great. just absolutely super-great. if you're gonna be a tourist in any neighborhood, do it there.

http://www.brooklynmenuguide.com/menupages/140.php?id=140

ft. greene just got a weird new solar cafe place!

my friend calls it RAMBO--Right After the Manhattan Bridge Overpass

Prospect Park, dood. And the zoo therein. THEY HAVE RED PANDAS. My GF lives at 21st between 6th&7th, and I will soon live there as well. There's a good taqueria on 5th and 20th street (and if you eat there they'll give you fresh chips & yummy spicy sauce [though not what we gringos would call salsa, necessarily]).

Lotsa good eating: the Chip/Curry Shop, New Stone Park Cafe (tho I haven't been there yet). Drinks: The Gate (3rd St), Commonwealth (12th).

i'm prospect heights. near the park but without the fancy of the slope. oh and we've got the brooklyn musuem and botanical gardens. AND tom's diner. i've eaten so many pancakes there it's incredible.

Commonwealth has Embarrassingly Honest Personal Ads on index cards tacked to the wall. Pop in and see if you can spot mine!

http://newyork.citysearch.com/profile/41544222/brooklyn_ny/commonwealth.html

i may go there tonight, too!

i was going to propose a meet up...but i've often flaked on going to the yacht club on account of its crowdedness. if i do show up there, i'll be sure to scream out your screename real loud until i find you.

xpost Vanderbilt between St. Marks and Prospect, indeed.

i guess i should go to rope one of these days tho.

despite the facade

dang, I don't think I've ever seen a building collapse like that

Since 2005, inspectors with the city’s Department of Buildings have issued at least eight fines to the building’s owner for large cracks throughout the property, including a 40-foot “bulge” on the wall facing Union Street, according to city records.

supposedly there was one person inside, who escaped with minor injuries (!)

when i lived in ft greene the building next to me partially collapsed while i was home

it was loud, basically the face fell off of it, while there were guys working on it on scaffolding, who some how didnt fall even those the shit got all bent, i looked out my window at them from like 5 ft away seconds after it happened, they were all extremely wtf

walked by there twice today. of all the buildings in the neighborhood to collapse i would not have picked that one on its face

Walked by where Rose Water used to be in Park Slope and saw that it's gone - I used to love eating there when I lived a few blocks away, but the owner apparently closed it in November 2019 to go work for a non-profit, so he couldn't have picked a better time to get out of the restaurant business.

Rose Water was discussed a bit in the "Redd's Roster of Restaurants" thread at the time it closed. One of my favorite restaurants in the Slope for many years. Was heartbroken by its loss, with the silver lining that the owner never had to struggle with pandemic fallout.

the barge containing material dredged out of the Gowanus has now also fallen into the Gowanus https://t.co/GKrz2ugQLi

— Tim Donnelly (@timdonnelly) January 26, 2021

Omg
Gravitational pull of the sludge is undeniable

strong "nyc not dead" energy imo, feels like a very old school piece of news

just let the sludge be in the canal if thats what it wants

BARGE PURGES SLUDGE, SINKS SANK SUNK

HELPLESS SLUDGE IN TOPPLED BARGE

SLUDGEBURN ‘21

TIL Brooklyn Inn and WCOU Radio/Tile Bar have the same owner.

Brooklyn Inn is a cool place - that’s the old one on the corner, big space, used to have a pool table, right? Haven’t been in a minute.
Not familiar with the other one

Tile Bar is in the EV, what was it like 7th st and 2nd ave or something? Had a decent jukebox.

I have mixed feelings about Brooklyn Inn though I know it's a classic. It's also the bar that appears in Motherless Brooklyn.

When I lived in brooklyn and would go to bars I found the crowd there to always be a bit older, a bit wealthier, more like a hipster yuppie longstanding brooklyn vibe. I had friends for whom that's their local.

1st. Jukebox was good, maybe not quite as good as the one at Downtown Beirut.

In the east vil my spots were Blue and Gold and scratcher.

B-b-but what about The Lismar Lounge?

I think Alex in NYC blogged about a lot of these places.

I went to the tile bar for like 20 years, lived on 4th and 1st… I would very often play "caroselambra" (which is the closest thing to Wyatting you can do for LZ cuts) and PJ's "A Place Called Home"…

I went there for many years without living in that neighborhood, but not for quite as long as you did.