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i dont know who you been talking to, but the g is one of the dopest lines in brooklyn. it just gets knocked because its not a direct ride to the city, but if you take it 3 stops to hoyt and transfer to the A express, you get to the city in 15mins.

ive spoken this like a true brooklynite.

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Friday, 4 May 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

destroy all lines

― sexyDancer, Friday, 4 May 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

"true brooklynites" v "real new yorkers"

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 4 May 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

you better ax somebody

― sexyDancer, Friday, 4 May 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

g train ain't usually so good for pretty girls unless'n yer inta the artskool type.

― ian, Friday, 4 May 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

true brooklynites need speedy commutes to manhattan, true / false

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 4 May 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

"yeah and [XXXX] needs to commute to work and live by resturants to get a job, yaknow"

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Friday, 4 May 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

Also this is a girl who will be doing art stuff in soho and probably waitressing full time

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

i've witnessed children getting slapped around by their parents 3 different times on the subway, all on the same line. guess which one?

― sanskrit, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

/me is amazed that "g locked" isn't in UrbanDictionary.

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

i've seen the most abuse on the 1/9. the g, however, was where a pool of blood was seen.

― lauren, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

You know why else the G get's knocked? Because sometimes it stops at Bedford-Nostrand and you have to take a shuttle bus. Because sometimes you get mugged. Because sometimes it only comes once and hour. Because sometimes it's not running at all.

And most importantly to me...because it doesn't always run it's full length to Jackson Heights.

― dan selzer, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

the g train: it's just a crummy train.

― ian, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

I wonder how much Tr@vis spends a month getting cars to Astoria from Wburg/Gpoint?

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

i dont know who you been talking to, but the g is one of the dopest lines in brooklyn. it just gets knocked because its not a direct ride to the city, but if you take it 3 stops to hoyt and transfer to the A express, you get to the city in 15mins.

lol "the city"

― get bent, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

also, it hasn't run str8 to Coney in about a year. And I hafta watch empty ones go all the way past fuckin Church Ave to turn around.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

i just knock it because the average wait is so long. feels like it's always 15-20 minutes minimum.

― sleep, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

it's reliable during rush hours, i have to say. i actually prefer it to the f.

― lauren, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

the worst is where there's only one train running ping pong across north brooklyn

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

650 with utils @ Bedford-Nostrand

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

ill send you some pics, later today. as for living in brooklyn, all trains suck. The G, The L, The JMZ!

you can transfer to the F, A, or L trains off the G line.

if you live in greenpoint you will be dependent on the g line. if you live in carroll gardens, or cobble hill, clinton hill, you are dependent on the g line.

if you live in williamsburg you have the L train. and doesnt the L train stop running after a certain hour?

if you live in bushwick you are stuck on the L.

you could live in dumbo or rambo, but you'll still fucked.

if you work in the city, your best bet is to live in the city.

theres no way, you're gonna get around a fucked up subway problem in brooklyn.

im on the g which i can take to long island city, queens, green point, clinton hill, carrol gardens, target! the L train, the f to coney island, or les. i can even the jump on the jmz.

i choose where i lived because i have a roof to myself, and free parking. i really dont sweat transportation in the city. i ride a bike, and might just go out and purchase a vespa to zip around. it sucks cause people are starting to discover my hood, but i have a great love for where am at, so im not going to leave.

i dont know who you been talking to, but the g is one of the dopest lines in brooklyn. it just gets knocked because its not a direct ride to the city, but if you take it 3 stops to hoyt and transfer to the A express, you get to the city in 15mins.

ive spoken this like a true brooklynite.

ha!

GSDFJSDJNFJNKDSNFKJSNJKDFKJNSDFJKNSDJKF

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

ive spoken this like a true brooklynite.

spoken this like someone who will never have a job that has healthcare benefits

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

no ment of "mantyhose"

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

carroll gardens/cobble hill are served by the f as well as the g, and you're a 10 minute walk from borough hall a/c/e/4/5/n/r. duh.

― lauren, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

spoken this like someone who will never have a job that has healthcare benefits

omg racest

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

jfk

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

I hate people who can't use apostrophes or shift.

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

I wonder if he rides a fixed gear and has a Brooklyn Industries bag?

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

It won't matter after he nips out and buys a Vespa, so fuck it anyway!

― Laurel, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

As long as he chooses where he lived far away from me.

― Laurel, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

That the L train stops running after the witching hour will be news to the tens of thousands of people who live on it, I'll bet! Boy are they gonna be pissed.

― Laurel, Friday, 4 May 2007 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

and has a Brooklyn Industries bag?

a friend of mine bought one last month and it was broken the next day. QUALITY!

― chicago kevin, Friday, 4 May 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

I wonder how much Tr@vis spends a month getting cars to Astoria from Wburg/Gpoint?

car rates now even worse than when i used to do it all the time after the g stoped going to the steinway. dude charged me 17 on st. patricks day. he was not given a tip.

― bb, Friday, 4 May 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

most people in cobble hill and carroll gardens have never even taken the G train.

― dan selzer, Friday, 4 May 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

Q train 4eva

― dmr, Friday, 4 May 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

lol @ "one of the dopest lines"

― dmr, Friday, 4 May 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

i'm casper the dopest ghost in town

― get bent, Friday, 4 May 2007 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

Art school = not knowing how to use shift key

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Monday, 7 May 2007 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

anyone have a lead on a room?

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

i think the last time I took the G train was 2 and a half years ago, when i stupidly left Mark Bar and decided to wait for the G with ian and Hstencil instead of catching a 10 minute bus ride straight to my house. DO YOU GUYS REMEMBER WAITING 45 MINUTES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SUMMER?

― Yerac, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

i am bad asian, my math ris wrong. 3 years ago.

― Yerac, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

the G is cold usually

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

not the G platforms.

― Yerac, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

The hottest train station seems to be BWAY-LAFFY

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

the only train station I have vomited in was Bowling Green.

― Yerac, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

I peed in Bway laffyette last summer

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 18:10 (eighteen years ago)

i fainted in the 86th st 4-5 station last summer.
they need to put fans down there :(

― bell_labs, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 18:12 (eighteen years ago)

I fainted bt bedford and 1st ave

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

i used to stand up for the G train a lot. now i have to take it everyday for a majority of its route and it kinda bums me out.

hottest station is 14th st for 2,3

― mizzell, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 18:26 (eighteen years ago)

the only train station I have vomited in was Bowling Green.

i was really, really hungover one morning last summer commuting to work on the 1,9. stepped off my train at borough hall, booted in a garbage can, wiped my chin, then got on the next one. definitely received some strange looks.

― sanskrit, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

Skipping 40 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

or oblique disco?

― dan selzer, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

The Queens Museum of Art is pretty cool, it has a permanent Worlds Fair exhibit and the incredibly awesome panorama

YES

― C0L1N B..., Wednesday, 9 May 2007 00:39 (eighteen years ago)

How come there's no direct way to get from Queens to the Bronx other than by car?

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 00:42 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sure there's a bus.

― elmo argonaut, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 00:44 (eighteen years ago)

Hopstop says no

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 01:06 (eighteen years ago)

Oh wait MTA map says there is one bus line from Flushing/Jamaica

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 01:09 (eighteen years ago)

It looks like there are two--the Q44 and the QBX1. It's a long ass trip on, but if you live on the F, V or E it's a pretty easy transfer to the D at Rockefeller or 7th Avenue. It's a much longer trip on the 7, N/W or R.

― C0L1N B..., Wednesday, 9 May 2007 01:22 (eighteen years ago)

on THE TRAIN, obviously.

― C0L1N B..., Wednesday, 9 May 2007 01:23 (eighteen years ago)

adam, was the girl from montclair the girl who had an encounter with g*****l b***e?

(sorry to go all jaymc on you)

― tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 01:43 (eighteen years ago)

hurting, i have been a dick to you regularly but in all sincerity i have to side with the others and recommend queens/greenpoint over sunset park. its a great place to visit though getting gentrified, but the distance involved makes it no closer than JC at probably a 1.5x to 2x rent.

― sanskrit, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 02:30 (eighteen years ago)

i mean, you don't want to wake up one day realizing youre in the same situation paying double rent

― sanskrit, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 02:30 (eighteen years ago)

No hard feelings - I tend not to take internet dickishness to seriously. Thanks for the recommendations. Queens/Greenpoint does seem like a better idea as long as we keep a car and my wife can drive to work.

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 02:39 (eighteen years ago)

er "too seriously"

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 02:39 (eighteen years ago)

Wait, are you Stencil? Who are you, anyway?

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 02:40 (eighteen years ago)

queens to bronx is no fun, take the 7 to the 4/5 or whatever. I love Sunnyside and Woodside and they're both close to greenpoint, but for an even more awesome neighborhood that's even cheaper with tons of trains, Jackson Heights is really amazing. As mentioned, parking can be a bitch there though. Hell, I made the mistake of driving through the Indian area on a saturday night a few weeks ago. Never again. But being NJ born and raised, I can say Queens is a much more NYC experience, while still being quite NJ. Like, we drive to the grocery store...or we walk to brunch, you know?

― dan selzer, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 03:51 (eighteen years ago)

i should probably just move to nyc next year, huh

― river wolf, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 05:27 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, my wife and I have often notice that walking around Queens or Brooklyn it just "feels like New York," regardless of neighborhood, in a way that Jersey City just doesn't - not quite.

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 05:33 (eighteen years ago)

noticed

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 06:03 (eighteen years ago)

there may be a reason for that

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 13:40 (eighteen years ago)

Also I met a girl from "Montclair" who can take her bra off without removing her shirt

do you not believe in Montclair? I bowled there (about 8 years ago) and my cousin lives in it, along with Yogi Berra.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

Montclair was where I used to go hang out because I was too lazy to go to NYC. It's where the Crazy Rhythms record store was and where R. Stevie Moore worked the cash register when I bought Durutti Column and Severed Heads CDs. It's where the Montclair Book Center is, one of, if not the, best book store ever. It's where I used to go to Middle Earth to buy Love and Rockets and anime bootlegs. What else? "Something Else" a diner where kids used to perform in the back. Now it's all sub-NYC food with NYC prices and "Cafe Eclectica".

― dan selzer, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

Wait, are you Stencil? Who are you, anyway?

-- Hurting 2, Tuesday, May 8, 2007 10:40 PM (Yesterday)

yes

― sanskrit, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

no, I'm stencil.

― dan selzer, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

i like greenpoint.

― lauren, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

sanskrit is not stencil

greenpoint is cool but of the close-to-manhattan outer boro neighborhoods it has just about the #1 worst train situation, yes? to get to the city it's G to the L? I guess redhook is worse.

queens-to-bronx is a bad trip if you live on the 7 line. friend of mine in woodside works in a bronx hospital, takes her an hour-and-15 to get to work (7 to the 1/2/3)

and yeah queens to gpoint is easy with car, semi-impossible without

although the caveat is I'm not really a bus person, there might be a good one

― dmr, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

I have a really good time whenever I go to greenpoint.

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

we went to polish-bar-karaoke after one of those sonic youth shows last year, so awesome

― dmr, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

gpt/qns bus service seems good. for a lot of people, the preferred work commute is to bus it over the bridge then get the subway in qns. the train situation doesn't bother me because i mainly take the g during rush hour, when it generally comes every 5 or so minutes. otherwise, it's 15-20 minute walk or a 6-8 min bus ride to bedford.

― lauren, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

also there's a bus to the wmsburg bridge plaza for the jmz. i like buses.

― lauren, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

and yeah queens to gpoint is easy with car, semi-impossible without

Actually, there's the b24 bus which goes from the williamsburg bridge, up to sunnyside along greenpoint ave, hits queens blvd, turns around and goes to the pencil factory. I haven't taken it (got a car!) but it seems to me that this is the easiest way to get from sunnyside/woodside to greenpoint. Hell, I know people in greenpoint that take it through queens to get from one part of greenpoint to the other. Or you can take the 7 to the G.

― dan selzer, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

like I said I am pretty bus-ignorant, you all are schooling me

there's a prospect heights-to-wburg bus, right? I need to figure out that one. right now I take the Q to the L.

― dmr, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

Dave, there are a couple but you're smack in the middle between them. The B48 is the one I take, it runs north on Classon and south on Franklin, and stops all along Lorimer and up into the far east side of Greenpoint. The other bus is the 61, which I think runs up Smith or something like that, somewhere kind of far to our west -- for me, that's just too far to get to. The 48 is my winter savior, though, when it's not bike weather.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

hmm well maybe I'll forget the bus and just get a bike! and stick to the Q/L in bad weather.
thx for info.

― dmr, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

Yes get bikes! Then we can all pedal totteringly home together.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

― river wolf, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

Dave...how far a walk are you from the G at fulton? that's not that far from some parts of prospect heights. A bit of a hike but maybe better then 2 trains and going through manhattan.

― dan selzer, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 18:15 (eighteen years ago)

probably a half hour

not really appealing to walk that far for such an unreliable train

the Q is right on my block and totally reliable, it's just the L part thats a bit of a wild card

― dmr, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

take the Q to atlantic then walk 2 blocks to the G. That still has to be faster. Maybe not. There's always Arecibo.

― dan selzer, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 18:43 (eighteen years ago)

I dunno, it might sound stupid but all the little details of transferring & walking above-ground might cancel out the savings. Like, I hate to be a pedant about the time it takes to de-train, get to street level, wait for the lights, walk to Atlantic Center, get back downstairs and into the subway system, and wait for the next train, but I know that my company moved offices and in my quest for maximum efficiency I tried a few different routes to work, and transferring trains at Union Square added 10-15 minutes. (Ditto xfering at Atlantic St, but luckily at Nevins it's just across the platform.)

― Laurel, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 18:48 (eighteen years ago)

this italics thing sux

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe you should be more open-minded about computer code and message-board interfaces.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 18:55 (eighteen years ago)

Dan, doesn't that Gpoint-Woodside bus stop running at midnight?

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

Laurel, chillax

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

aw c'mon jw, i don't feel like laughing today and even i thought that was funny.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

Disagree!

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

;_;

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 19:15 (eighteen years ago)

poll needed

― dmr, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

Did not promise to change my judgemental ways until show tonight = still on borrowed time! :D

― Laurel, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

i know not about bus times. my car runs 24-7.

― dan selzer, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

ayo fagedaboudit maneurysm lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qD_OwH22EMr

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