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― The Pinup Girls of YANK (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 03:40 (eighteen years ago) link

JBR, I hang on your every word. Spending the next five days in an apartment (an empty apartment!) in Park Slope, like, near 5th St. and 5th Ave. Will need interesting places to walk. Plz advise further.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 04:40 (eighteen years ago) link

go drink lots of beer here:
http://www.go-brooklyn.com/html/issues/_vol27/27_07/200fifth2.html

― The Pinup Girls of YANK (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 04:42 (eighteen years ago) link

It's a deal.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 04:43 (eighteen years ago) link

if you plan on going for a nice walk in the 'slope, may i suggest greenwood cemetery? i walked around there for an hour yesterday and wasn't bored one bit. it's right down the street from you! (5th ave. at 22nd st.-ish)

― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 04:47 (eighteen years ago) link

I love me some cemeteries. Good plan.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 04:49 (eighteen years ago) link

then you'll adore this one. it's MASSIVE. also: lots of famous people interred within its gates (leonard bernstein, wild bill hickok, boss tweed, to name a few)

― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 04:52 (eighteen years ago) link

i love that the correct spelling is "green-wood" (with the hyphen). it looks so stilted and wrong. the cemetery is terrific for birdwatching, if you're into that at all.

― The Pinup Girls of YANK (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 04:54 (eighteen years ago) link

It seems like no one's all that quick to assign names to those parts of Brooklyn (I've heard everything surrounding Metrotech -- Bridge St, Adams, Lawrence, Jay, etc -- given the "Metrotech" shorthand, but it must have been something before that).
-- stockholm cindy (jod...), March 16th, 2004.

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

― waxyjax (waxyjax), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:36 (eighteen years ago) link

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]).

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link

5th and 20th is kind of sunset park, right? the chinatown there is supposed to be amazing.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Walk down Flatbush to Grand Army Plaza, maybe up Eastern Parkway to the Botantical Gardens/Brooklyn Museum too. I live around there. It's pretty neat.

― Candicissima (candicissima), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link

breakfast or lunch at tom's diner is a good idea while in that area.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:16 (eighteen years ago) link

sunset park is more the 40s, i think.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 17:53 (eighteen years ago) link

>Park Slope, like, near 5th St. and 5th Ave<

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).

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 17:57 (eighteen years ago) link

there's a chip shop on atlantic avenue now if you make it down there.

― The Pinup Girls of YANK (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:13 (eighteen years ago) link

5th ave has all the great spots to eat. also al di la, belleville, blue ribbon... great lakes for drinks. nice all around.

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.

― jane (jane), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link

prospect heights is nice, i should go there more often.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link

I tried to go to that chip shop on Atlantic yesterday around lunchtime, but they weren't open yet.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Ack, a pox on Great Lakes! (it's personal)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link

I guess you don't like Boat either then.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:24 (eighteen years ago) link

i might go to gowanus yacht club tonight

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Since it's owned by the same schmucks who fired their best bartender, nope!

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

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:27 (eighteen years ago) link

i might go to gowanus yacht club tonight
-- hstencil (hstenc!...), May 31st, 2005.

i may go there tonight, too!

― waxyjax (waxyjax), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:56 (eighteen years ago) link

ok well since i have no idea who you are, well, have a good time!

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link

he is dafunkymunky, obv. Beware.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link

He is your long lost cousin from the bottle city of Kandor, Jorel.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 19:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Stay away from his red kryptonite.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link

: (

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link

kryptonite?!?! wow, this is getting good....

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.

― waxyjax (waxyjax), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 19:24 (eighteen years ago) link

and i'll be sure to cringe in embarassment.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 19:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Brainiac to thread!

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 19:32 (eighteen years ago) link

I killed the thread. For this I am sorry. Maybe if I fly backwards around the globe it will be restored to life.

― Kal-El (Ken L), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 20:28 (eighteen years ago) link

so i went to gowanus yacht club.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 02:35 (eighteen years ago) link

I went to Soda...it was packed!

― On the bass, 57 7th, he wrote this (calstars), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 02:47 (eighteen years ago) link

that's on vanderbilt, right?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 02:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Soda is the awesome! The burgers are the bomb.

xpost Vanderbilt between St. Marks and Prospect, indeed.

― Candicissima (candicissima), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 02:48 (eighteen years ago) link

that's not incredibly far from my house but i've never been.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 02:49 (eighteen years ago) link

when your neighborhood watering hole is the alibi, well, you go to other neighborhoods.

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

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 02:50 (eighteen years ago) link

man, bars have the dumbest names these days.

― The Pinup Girls of YANK (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 04:07 (eighteen years ago) link

neither of those bars are new

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 04:08 (eighteen years ago) link

there's a skeezy biker bar down the road from me here where the sign outside always reads "big ass chsburg $4." now that's a bar!

― The Pinup Girls of YANK (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 04:11 (eighteen years ago) link

the place has no windows.

― The Pinup Girls of YANK (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 04:12 (eighteen years ago) link

I spent the weekend before last in Crowne Heights/East Flatbush. It was pleasant, not much going on though.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 04:58 (eighteen years ago) link

'gax, are you on the SF-NY shuttle?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:35 (eighteen years ago) link

so i went to gowanus yacht club.
-- hstencil (hstenc!...), June 1st, 2005.

was it packed? i got home and was too tired to go ;-\

― waxyjax (waxyjax), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:52 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't think I've had a drink on Smith St since the night of the August '03 blackout, when I stopped into boat for some WATER on the trek home.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link

it was packed, yeah. we had a nice l'il corner table tho.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link

'gax, are you on the SF-NY shuttle?
-- Dr Morbius (wjwe...), June 1st, 2005 7:35 AM. (Dr Morbius)

Hopefully not for long (cross yr fingers!)

Also, I will reply to your email this afternoon.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:49 (eighteen years ago) link

BOAT! I thought that place only existed when charltonlido is here, like as soon as his foot steps on the solid earth of America, this one storefront in Carroll Gardens flips around transformer-style and becomes Boat.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link

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

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 21:56 (three years ago) link

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

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 22:53 (three years ago) link

BARGE PURGES SLUDGE, SINKS SANK SUNK

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 28 January 2021 02:05 (three years ago) link

HELPLESS SLUDGE IN TOPPLED BARGE

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 28 January 2021 02:10 (three years ago) link

SLUDGEBURN ‘21

― calstars, Thursday, 28 January 2021 02:22 (three years ago) link

eleven months pass...

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

― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 23:44 (two years ago) link

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

― calstars, Thursday, 6 January 2022 14:29 (two years ago) link

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.

― dan selzer, Thursday, 6 January 2022 14:38 (two years ago) link

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

― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 6 January 2022 18:07 (two years ago) link

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

― calstars, Thursday, 6 January 2022 21:31 (two years ago) link

B-b-but what about The Lismar Lounge?

― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 6 January 2022 21:44 (two years ago) link

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

― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 6 January 2022 21:44 (two years ago) link

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"…

― veronica moser, Friday, 7 January 2022 01:43 (two years ago) link

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

― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 January 2022 02:19 (two years ago) link

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