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August 18, 2009

Closing Bell: The New Yorker's Nod to Brooklyn

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Check it out! Brooklyn Bridge Park's Thursday movie series made the cover of this week's New Yorker. If you saw this cover already, by the way, and you didn't recognize immediately that this is a rendering of the weekly movie screening in Dumbo, then you have clearly been spending your Thursday evenings poorly.




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I'd rather be drinking in a bar with a bunch of losers on a Thursday night than in a park watching a free movie.

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at August 18, 2009 4:06 PM

ROFL, Dave, though I'm told only "pathetic" losers hang out in bars drinking on Thursdays.

Posted by: CarrollGardened at August 18, 2009 4:10 PM

free movie screenings in the park where you have to sit on the ground is so beyond riff-raff it aint funny

*rob*

Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 18, 2009 4:18 PM

DIBS, even if the bar is in Williamsburg???? :-)

Posted by: Biff Champion at August 18, 2009 4:25 PM

The story is not about the movie series. It's about some unknown character auctioning off the Brooklyn Bridge to the remaining pool of home buyers (shown in rendering above, population 137). A $10,000 cash deposit was required at entry and assigned to numbered cards. I didn't read the story but I heard the "deed" went for over $100,000. Last week's biggest sale for bridges.

***Bid half off peak comps***

Posted by: Brownstones Half Off at August 18, 2009 4:26 PM

seriously? that sounds so dumb. that magazine is very snobby though in general (thus my riff-raff comment).

*rob*

Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 18, 2009 4:30 PM


It's also kind of pricey.

Posted by: East New York at August 18, 2009 4:33 PM

The cartoons are good.

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at August 18, 2009 4:39 PM

Its like $1 an issue if you subscribe.

Posted by: eh at August 18, 2009 4:51 PM

it is a far cry from snobby. intelligent, unfussy writing does not equal snobby. also not pricey given the amount of content. i hope that was a joke.

Posted by: blowfish at August 18, 2009 5:12 PM

it wasnt a joke. :( do you write for it?

and yes intelligent writing usually does indicate snobbiness


*rob*

Posted by: PitbullNYC at August 18, 2009 5:15 PM


I was joking, yes. I don't read it often, but it is obviously a very well written and highly respected magazine, deservedly so. Particularly at $1 an issue (subscription), it's well worth the price. And as Dave said, the cartoons are excellent. The cover art is also noteworthy. The cop-at-the-arcade cover they ran following the Diallo shooting a few years ago was inspired, I thought.

Posted by: East New York at August 18, 2009 5:20 PM

a nod to the illustrator would have been nice

Posted by: binnyG at August 18, 2009 5:25 PM

Tomine?

Posted by: max_r_and_r at August 18, 2009 5:34 PM

Someone please pass the Cool-Aid

Posted by: hannible at August 18, 2009 5:36 PM

"and yes intelligent writing usually does indicate snobbiness"

Oh, rob, you've outdone yourself this time. Truly pathetic.

Posted by: Park Sloper at August 18, 2009 5:39 PM

At 31, I'm too old to sit on the ground to watch a free movie, even if it is in Brooklyn Bridge Park. I just can't do it.

Posted by: brooklynfamily at August 18, 2009 5:44 PM

The vocabulary in the New Yorker is beyond good. Except they say "focussed" instead of "focused."

Like most magazines they have a great article, issue after issue, and then it seems like nothing interesting for several issues. Everything is predicated on "Bet you didn't know you'd find this topic interesting!"

And apropos of nothing my forearms are so sweaty they're sticking to the desktop.

Posted by: infinitejester at August 18, 2009 5:58 PM

http://www.adrian-tomine.com/

He is a Brooklynite these days, btw. (Moved here from California.)

Posted by: Carol Gardens at August 18, 2009 6:38 PM

i love adrian tomine!
no, i don't write for the mag. don't know why i got so testy about it. maybe its because its the only thing i read anymore, which is sad. and the idea of myself as cash-poor, unkempt, slob (all true at the momemt) who is also somehow a snob was too much for me. i agree with infinite jester's summary.

Posted by: blowfish at August 19, 2009 10:41 AM

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