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caek, good luck! Columbia buildings are perfectly nice and definitely convenient. I'm just bailing on it because I want to save money and be closer to friends. Still haven't found a good place (still crossing fingers on a bargain popping up in LIC, Sunnyside or Greenpoint but this is clearly optimistic), gotta be outta here by the 31st...eek.

hiyo!

i am in brooklyn and it is warm

too warm tbh

i have a boring coumbia apt. it sounds nice though!

I successfully moved to Bushwick! Saving some dollars, got a nice rooftop view, roommates seem all right so far. But like I said, those Columbia buildings are perfectly nice. Roughly where's it at?

119 st

looks fine on streetview

what is the commute like from bushwick. i looked at brooklyn a little, but only along the 2/3, and all plans for non-columbia stuff fell apart when my visa got delayed

at least an hour

I've made it in 50 mins but the trains had to line up perfectly. Working on getting my bike time down/finding the perfect route. I definitely think you beat it living on 119th. ;)

hey new york. I'm from Australia and I go to new york from about the 26th to the 2nd. FAP?

fappa fappa fappa

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quorum achieved!

let's do this. friday june 28? location?

you're up near columbia? and we don't know where sic is staying, but probably somewhere in lower manhattan for easy access from brooklyn? i'm not an authority on east village/lower east side drinking, especially for a group.

we don't know where sic is staying

looking like Chelsea. holy crap hostels in New York are the price of cheap hotel rooms elsewhere.

Stay here Best line from TripAdvisor reviews of the Hotel Carter in NYC

Report back.

i know a few dive bars in chinatown if you guys are willing to go lower lower east side

as low as we can go

i might be in if someone can remind me

Chinatown dive bar totally yes.

ha ha I almost considered staying there for the sake of the thread but amazingly it's booked out

although expedia can offer two of those nights for $865 each. what a deal!

what was that Chinatown karaoke dive bar I went to a couple years ago?

Winnie's? No karaoke. I mean I will not go to karaoke.

If there is karaoke, I will stay home and drink alone on my roof. I mean it.

Are you opposed to room karaoke or just bar karaoke?

winnie's has karaoke, there's also another one called the upstairs bar that has karaoke but i've never actually seen anyone do the karaoke

All. All karaoke. The whole form.

ok we dont have to go to a karaoke joint! or some night when we don't tell L.

i slayed "What's New Pussycat?" at Winnie's tho

winnies has karaoke but theres no reason that anyone has to karaoke its not like you have to get a room or anything. otoh iirc winnies is kinda pricey

winnies is fine for the area... $6 beers i think. problem is all the fidi bros who go there to do karaoke

theres a bar down the street that has private karaoke rooms. but i guess that's the opposite of what is being asked for

xp It's pricey, there's a drink minimum, which they were not that nice about the one time I went there. Aaaanyway, anywhere else will be fine.

lol what? that's never happened to me...i've never been on a weekend though.

It was a 2-drink minimum and there is probably no time in my life I have not had more than two drinks if I went to a bar so it wouldn't have been a problem, it was just a hot day and several people asked to start with water and the hostess was insistent.

may i suggest we find some place with a $4 or $5 shot & beer special for those of us who are underemployed.

yeah for sure - maybe 169?

what night is this again? next Friday? don't think I can do that :/
I'll try though.

there's a good free show at the Seaport on the 29th for anyone so inclined. Kurt Vile, Parquet Courts, Marnie Stern, a bunch of other stuff. at Pier 17 from 1 to 8pm. I will def. be at that.

i requested next friday 28/6, because i can't do saturday, but apart from that i am free for the next three years.

dive bar sounds good though!

Think I can do this.

would love 2 see james redd! you had some useful posts on the ILBooks "mystery/noir" thread.

are we thinking night time or happy hour time? I'm cool w either i think. pretty sure Helen is working that evening so i'm free all night.

i think i'm seeing ladysmith black mambazo in bk that evening but there in spirit

this driving license thing is bullshit! i have to take a test!

Welcome to the reason I don't have a DL!

if a bank says "you need a license to open an account", one of those non-driving DMV issued id cards will do, right?

and how much of an ordeal is getting on of those? all day in a queue type thing?