everything is realer in brooklyn

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true or false?

― tom t., Sunday, 9 October 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

what the fuck are you asking? keep it real, bro.

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 9 October 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

Man, I don't know that shit. I keeps it real, niggas.

― Jimmy Mod wants you to tighten the strings on your corset (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Sunday, 9 October 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

There were three series of shots by my house last night. You just don't that kind of ethnic flavor in Manhattan.

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Sunday, 9 October 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

I drove through Sunset Park yesterday. Lots of ethnic flavor. Cross the BQE over to 2nd avenue. Lots of Porn. Seriously, the sketchiest thing I've ever seen in my life...this giant 3 story building with one little doorway, signs all over DVDs, Lubes, Leather Goods, open 24 hours. There's dozens of these places along that strip. All under the BQE.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 9 October 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

False. Brooklyn is way overhyped. Faker.

― Will T. (Will T.), Sunday, 9 October 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

http://ccc.stpardoux.free.fr/Image_Michel/Fakir.jpg

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Sunday, 9 October 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

e not i

― Will T. (Will T.), Sunday, 9 October 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

after seeing all the latino resteraunts and record stores in sunset park, I drove up to south slope and went to Eagle Provisions, a large polish supermarket with the largest selections of beers, lambics, sodas etc I've ever seen. I bought some Lithuanian rye bread that is the best I've had in ages, some smoked turkey, some polish hot-dogs etc. Then I drove up to Capones in williamsburg where my friends were playing freestyle, electro and disco to some dudes who were having an impromptu break-dance battle. Brooklyn is the greatest place in the WORLD.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 9 October 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

dan = culture vulture!

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 9 October 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

You see one impromptu break-dance battle you've seen 'em all.

― Will T. (Will T.), Sunday, 9 October 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

not this one...man, one guy was yawning and the other guy, all like "your moves are TIRED!"

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 9 October 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

i walked by eagle provisions today. it is where i do most of my food shopping. then i bought records from annoying/weird old white dude who doesn't know shit. and i got an empanada from the empanada lady on 5th avenue)

also: prospect park.

― i4n jn09hnhsonon, Sunday, 9 October 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

sunset park is teh awesomeness. it's my favorite nyc ethnic identity crisis, next to astoria. also, i like the area under the bqe where the home depot is. what's that area called?

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 9 October 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

'96 i was in brooklyn, taking care of business.
got off the subway and smoked a fool.
turned around, went back to st mark's

― gear (gear), Sunday, 9 October 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

area under the bqe where the home depot is. what's that area called?

Gowanus!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 9 October 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

That area east of the BQE in the 40s-50s is like a post-apocalpytic wasteland. I've rode my bike through there plenty of times to get down to Bay Ridge from Park Slope (it's safer than riding on 5th, way less cars), and there are more potholes on 2nd ave than on the Cross Bronx. You can ride through there on a weekend for blocks at a time and not see a car or a person--it's creepy.

― Keith C (lync0), Sunday, 9 October 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

an ex-coworker of mine lives down there and I was picking his brain as my wonderful boerum hill apt is too much money now and he said he lived on the "industrial side of the BQE", some loft he found on craigslist with a bunch of musician dudes. He said once a week from like 5 to 6 pm you get to put out your garbage, any other time and you get a 300 dollar fine...and since it's zoned commercial, the utilities are way expensive. If I moved down there it'd be more on the 4th/5th ave side.

Ian, you live in south park slope area?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 9 October 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

move to kensington! that's where the action is now.

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 October 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

i first heard about kensington 6 years ago -- i'm surprised that it's remained a secret for this long.

i also think that a lot of parts of flatbush are really nice. dunno if flatbush has been discovered yet (i hope not).

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 10 October 2005 01:41 (twenty years ago)

depends which part. flatbush covers a lot of ground.

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 October 2005 01:42 (twenty years ago)

the area around brooklyn college has some beautiful victorian houses, but i'm not sure if there are that many rental apartments there.

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 October 2005 01:44 (twenty years ago)

Ditmas Park is the victorian area around Brooklyn College now? I've seen some amazing houses in the Ditmas Park/Kensington area...dudes from Ladybug Transistor and Currituck Co. have this amazing house with organs and pianos and a yard and a porch...

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 10 October 2005 03:15 (twenty years ago)

Dan: I live on 21st betweeb 6 & 7.

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 10 October 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)

Ditmas Park is the victorian area around Brooklyn College now?

the area is called "victorian flatbush" or "south midwood," depending on which real estate agent you're talking to.

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 October 2005 03:31 (twenty years ago)

victorian houses are realer in brooklyn.

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 October 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)

I've gone to midwood a lot for Difara's pizza, and driven up Ocean Parkway from JFK, that area is pretty fascinating. I think I've only been to Flatbush once, driving back from Difaras there was an accident and we were turned off Ocean Parkway as we left midwood, I think went though Flatbush and eventually ended up in Kensington, where I was able to find my way home.

Ian, when I lived on 14th st some friends of mine lived on 22nd near the Cemetary. Saturday on that drive down to Sunset Park I past the entrance to Greenwood I'd never seen, with the ancient florist shop accross the street. That was amazing.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 10 October 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

"There were three series of shots by my house last night. You just don't that kind of ethnic flavor in Manhattan."

There is something really fucked up/wrong about this comment.

realer = more ethnic

wtf?

― kevin says relax (daddy warbuxx), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

shots = ethnic?

― Victorian Sunbeams, Monday, 10 October 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

WELCOME TO BUCKTOWN USA
http://www.scoopsnoodle.com/dykerheights.jpg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

kevin and Victorian, yeah, that is a racist thing to say and would get you shunned from any party I was at, but what's new

the availability of beer in ft. greene after 11pm is not very fucking real

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 October 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

yeah - can we talk about the tragic closing of the yellow deli with the 24 hr window? and where the crackheads went?

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

Duh. The crackheads came to MY neighborhood. The post office has redirected their mail to the south-east corner of Franklin & Bergen.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

ok i guess that makes sense - did they bring the furniture or just scrounge a new set once they got there? Cause they were pretty settled in.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

Must have brought it with 'em, because NOBODY throws out furniture in Crown Heights, or if they do it's in charred, moldy, cat-urine soaked pieces and even the crack attics(*) won't touch it.

*courtesy of my Aunt Pat, cf also "fustrated".

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

Tell us about Midwood, JBR, official ILX Brooklyn historian. I've knew a few interesting people who went to Midwood High.

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

There were three series of shots by my house last night. You just don't that kind of ethnic flavor in Manhattan.

October 9, 2005, 10:57 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) _ One man died and three others were injured after a
shooting in a Washington Heights building on Sunday, police said.

Authorities said the incident started when another man entered the
building around 3 p.m. and started firing. One victim, a 25-year-old
male, died. A 30-year-old male victim was listed in critical
condition, and two other men, ages 40 and 21, were in stable
condition at local hospitals, Detective Louis Camacho said. The
21-year-old received a slash wound to the back, not a gunshot wound,
police said.

realer = more ethnic

shots = ethnic?

Can't a bro make some Puerto Rican jokes once in a fucking blue moon

― TOMBOT, Monday, 10 October 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

You guys probably HATED The 25th Hour

― TOMBOT, Monday, 10 October 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

Assuming them to be Puerto Rican? Do you have a problem with Puerto Ricans or something?

― Victorian Sunbeams, Monday, 10 October 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

who doesn't!

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

i mean, uh, no

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

Look, it's Bobby Orlando!
http://www.globaldarkness.com/articles/images/bobbyo.jpg

― TOMBOT, Monday, 10 October 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

http://www.cadnet.marche.it/federica/images/cutepigeons.jpg

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

I've knew a few interesting people who went to Midwood High.

midwood's a good school. one of my best friends graduated from there* and she's done well for herself in life. i got into midwood too, but i didn't go.

*she failed the stuyvesant entrance exam by like half a point

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

Is the sarcasm in the Onion too hard for you idiots?

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

Their news stories have always struck me as under-researched and often factually lax.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

nine months pass...

move to kensington! that's where the action is now.

Hmmm, define "action," as I may be doing this. It looks like I'd buy a lotta take out in Park Slope and reheat at home.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/16/nyregion/thecity/16bear.html

disappointing url

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

Somebody clipped the "Now the hipster beard is experiencing its first summer" graf and put it on the Personals board at the Commonwealth bar.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

twee doods shaved their shit a year prior

― Rev. PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie 2), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.cuppatea.org/oldham.jpg

derrr 2006 nytimes deerrrrr

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

ny times is ripping off the Beardo ILM thread

― fongoloid sangfroid (sanskrit), Monday, 17 July 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

Washington Heights is either sketchy or not sketchy depending which side of Broadway you're on. I stayed with my sister-in-law, who lives near Columbia-Presbyterian in a nice neighborhood near the 168th St. subway. But two or three blocks east, you've got one of the NATION'S biggest drug trafficking spots.

I wish I'd spent more time in Brooklyn when I lived in NYC. I guess it helps to have a car if you're really interested in exploring the outer reaches.

― mike a (mike a), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure it does, Mike, but the parts of Brooklyn where people on this board live and/or discuss aren't "the outer reaches", either -- or do I misunderstand?

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

except when we zing momus

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

I have been driven through parts of Brooklyn where apparently all the Russian mob bosses live, though, and I think I pulled something in my groin laughing so hard at the blocks and blocks of astoundingly ugly residential architecture/lawn ornamentation/totally OTT security systems.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

lol apparently the next season of The Real World is gonna be in Red Hook.

― The Brainwasher, Friday, 18 July 2008 19:15 (seventeen years ago)

you know what was real in Brooklyn last night? Sixtysomethings doing the Mashed Potato at the Brian Wilson show.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 18 July 2008 19:23 (seventeen years ago)

so you had fun, huh

― some dude, Friday, 18 July 2008 19:23 (seventeen years ago)

yeah you're the "winner"

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 18 July 2008 19:57 (seventeen years ago)

I'd like to visit Brooklyn

― admrl, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:04 (seventeen years ago)

maybe you can bring gabbneb

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:05 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/not-an-editors-letter-melissa-auf-der-maur/17485

― velko, Monday, 5 April 2010 08:25 (sixteen years ago)

"But there’s some bad stuff happening along the river. The architecture is so cheap and gross there and the people who move to those buildings are people who would otherwise never set foot in Brooklyn. They’re part of that no culture, one-size-fits-all capitalist mentality, in which as many people as possible get squished into one property.

If you go to Paris, where people live this beautiful lifestyle, you’ll see that they’re not knocking things down. Paris is the perfect example of a huge, bustling city that’s still functioning within old architecture. New York is the closest thing this country has to Paris, but those new buildings in Brooklyn are ruining the neighborhood. The apartments are ugly. Families aren’t going to live in some sexy
condo for millions of dollars. "

In Paris, rich people live the "beautiful lifestyle" in the city and "families" get squished as many into one property as possible.

― hills like white people (Hurting 2), Monday, 5 April 2010 16:44 (sixteen years ago)

http://horizons.typepad.fr/photos/uncategorized/banlieue_pourrie_2.jpg

If you go to Paris, where people live this beautiful lifestyle, you’ll see that they’re not knocking things down. Paris is the perfect example of a huge, bustling city that’s still functioning within old architecture.

― max, Monday, 5 April 2010 16:50 (sixteen years ago)

so you all move to NYC because that's where STUFF HAPPENS and it's COOL and you get there and realize you're all underpaid because HELLO NEVERENDING LABOR SURPLUS and the rent is too high because OH LOOK COROLLATING CONSTANT HOUSING SHORTAGE so the best you can do in the middle-income bracket is BROOKLYN which is fine because everybody you know and get along with is also just scraping by so they're also on the brooklyn scheme and then you keep at it for a few years and go nowhere because, because, because, woulda coulda shoulda but REALLY it's down to the essential, intangible difference between YOUR strength of character versus the utter GABBNEBBERY of manhattanites, and later you realize it's not even just the gabbnebs but anybody who might dare to even ASPIRE to live closer to work and wait wait wait for it YOU'RE ALL A BUNCH OF HYPOCRITES I'M ONE TOO BUT I SAID IT FIRST I WIN no seriously? I think I've had it with you people. I think you all have a disease.
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― Aerosol, Monday, 5 April 2010 16:52 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

i'm going to be renting in prospect lefferts gardens. can get a sick 2BR for a good NYC price, right next to the park, not bad trains

pumped about it thank u very much

― surm, Monday, 25 March 2013 10:40 (thirteen years ago)

what's the guest room like?

― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 March 2013 12:18 (thirteen years ago)

It's nice down there, and I hope you're very happy. Lots of nice old buildings and as you say basically right on the park. Lovely.

― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Monday, 25 March 2013 12:32 (thirteen years ago)

more and more friends i know live there, and it's really - there are some beautiful patches, and i think the storefronts will be picking up in the next few years

it's exciting

― surm, Monday, 25 March 2013 19:47 (thirteen years ago)

Sounds nice. I still sometimes think about moving somewhere like that, but it's the whole needing to be somewhere four years from now with a good public school thing that gets me. Schools change a lot more slowly than storefronts.

― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Monday, 25 March 2013 19:58 (thirteen years ago)

word, i don't know much about the schooling

― surm, Monday, 25 March 2013 20:01 (thirteen years ago)

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