The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

new bookstore is just gonna sell the harry potter series i think

relatedly there is a new greenlight on flatbush ave btw

ha when they opened on fulton years ago i was all u will be out of business in 2 months u poor soft headed fools

re: retiring i don't think they're THAT old, or so old that they couldn't scale back their own hours (they already have worker bees) and just live THAT way. Also closing in 3 weeks is a really short window for an announcement if ur finna clean house and empty the store for a new tennant. I bet it's gonna be a turnkey sale

i've never been to bookcourt. what do they have there?

court

Author readings approx 5 times a week; well stocked neighborhood book shop with great ambience. Always 5 or 6 people inside browsing; way more on weekends.

also i have seen actor M Shannon there

Cobble Hill's very good video store, which I patronized a bit several years ago before I was inundated with other options, is moving to the Alamo Drafthouse downtown.

http://www.indiewire.com/2016/12/video-free-brooklyn-alamo-drafthouse-theater-1201756310/

people talk about chains moving in to smith st or w/e but those places that have been run out of business are all empty storefronts. idk what chains people are talking about. there are the places that look like corporate fast casual which may or may not be small businesses (white maze...), places that look like mob fronts (sunken hundred...) & places that are bad taste (bornholm, or whatever it's called; the various and sundry tacky boutiques). I don't see the gap moving in, for example. certainly not in the critical mass that people keep talking about.

like, brooklyn industries has been there for years but I excuse local chains, no matter how pointless/shitty they are

RFI: what do you guys know about parking by the Greenpoint Ferry Landing? (asked on the Queens thread is well, not sure which is the best thread for Greenpoint)

https://ny.eater.com/2018/5/9/17336048/ganso-ramen-closing-downtown-brooklyn-nyc

*screams*

Essence of Park Slope

http://gothamist.com/2018/08/28/park_slope_bike_lane_blocker.php

this seems excessive

The city may have to shutter the Brooklyn Heights Promenade for 6 years during construction of the BQE, according to @NYC_DOT project manager Tanvi Pandya.

— Julianne Cuba (@Julcuba) September 20, 2018

hmm pretty sure the bqe already exists

nuthin's ever finished

http://gothamist.com/2018/09/24/bqe_crumbling_photos_brooklyn.php#photo-1

A major problem with the roadway is the concrete itself. It turns out it wasn’t really designed for heavy trucks. Pandya said if the 1.5-mile stretch slated to be repaired—between Atlantic Avenue and Sands Street—isn’t done by 2026, truck traffic will have to be restricted.

that seems fine?

good. shouldn't have given the waterfront to cars.

there's an existing waterfront park along the only part of the BQE that's close to the waterfront

the Belt Parkway is a disgrace for this reason though

BQE is the worst road.

I start to admire the BQE when I haven't been on it for a while. It's this great big fuck off road, rarely governed by any laws, spreading absolute mayhem across a large part of NYC at any time of the night or day. You really have to mentally prepare yourself to get on it as a driver.

the part between the prospect expressway and the battery tunnel entrance, where it goes over the gowanus, is always magical

ha, the next apple product event is at BAM on octobeer 30

Pacific Green (grocer) on court and pacific lost the battle w J Crew; last day tomorrow

Di Fara, the iconic Midwood pizzeria that has been around for more than 50 years, has been seized by the state after not paying taxes. pic.twitter.com/AN2UtvL4rC

— Morena Basteiro (@morenabasteiro) August 20, 2019

lol those 30$ pies were such a bargain too

it's about a mile from me and never made it there

nor did i. i live around the corner from lucali if i want to wait two hours for a $30 pizza

yeah i don't wait for... anything

I went a bunch of times a long time ago and it was fantastic. The wait was frustrating but it was really really good pizza.

i had it once because i happen to be walking by and there was only a small line . It was pretty damn good though but not mind blowing and the place is a dump ffiw

the government is eating all the pizza now

uhhhhhh

Does anyone know what the hell kind of chicken massacre happened in Boerum Hill? pic.twitter.com/Wfk73zm1jZ

— Sara Vilkomerson (@Vilkomerson) August 30, 2019

Well there goes chicken as a lunch option

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EDO8I4cWsAAqzF4?format=jpg&name=small

omg

see what you’re missing, hippie?

Has this been noted here?
https://bklyner.com/36-years-court-street-office-supplies-will-close-brick-mortar-location/

ppl are real excited abt this Wegman's place

It was a big deal when a Wegman’s opened up near my parents in South Central PA because I could get snooty city stuff when I visited. Don’t exactly get the point of one in an actual city, much less New York City.

— Splat! Prigge (@mattprigge) October 28, 2019

miss brooklyn today. could be enjoying the view of the cars queuing to park in wegmans from my house.

I used to go to Wegman's when I lived in central PA. It was really nice. It was the second best thing about central PA.

I'm kind of interested in the Sahadi's new Sunset Park location. I really like that they do (or at least used to) carry jelly babies in the bulk section.

wait, did Sahadi's move or does it just have a second location?

FWIW I loved Wegmans when I lived in Jersey but I really can't see spending 40 minutes on the damn BQE to get to one, it's not *that* good.

https://ny.eater.com/2019/8/28/20836646/sahadis-open-menu-industry-city-sunset-park-brooklyn-nyc

I still haven't been to InDustRY cITy.

the bulk food scene at sahadis was always so exciting