BoCoCa and PS are twins

Posted by: infinitejester at November 20, 2008 1:36 PM in response to AMNY Does Cobble Hill

Marine Park is indeed very nice, I worked there for five years. Want to get on the fast track to becoming a New yorker? Spend time in the outer-outer bouroughs.

Posted by: infinitejester at November 17, 2008 9:29 AM in response to Park Slope Can't Measure Up to Marine Park

17?! 5th and 13th, check. Ralph and Ave. J, check.

Posted by: infinitejester at November 5, 2008 2:12 PM in response to Streetlevel: 7-Eleven on Atlantic

A mild evening, a likely Obama victory, the whole thing being finally over = a grand night to go quaffing. I'm working until 8 then planning to peek in somewhere, but I want to watch the bulk of things in the quiet of my living room. Then, I'll head out.

Posted by: infinitejester at November 4, 2008 12:31 PM in response to Election Night Parties

"Serpentor...is that my name? I seem to remember...others."

A group of 8 or 9 black teenage girls tried to flash me on that block once, at around 7 p.m. As I approached I heard them talking:

"Ask the man."
"Leave the man alone."

As I met them, one asked, "Mister, wanna see my breast?" and her hand moved to her chest. I darted my eyes away and kept walking.

The four times I've been mugged/almost mugged, three were in Park Slope (the fourth in Canarsie).

Posted by: infinitejester at November 3, 2008 11:46 AM in response to Mugging on St. John's Place

The old saw: have one kid, stay in the city and pay for private school; have two (or more) kids, go to the 'burbs and get school for free but pay more property taxes.

Posted by: infinitejester at November 3, 2008 9:22 AM in response to Back to Brooklyn (Thanks, in Part, to Brownstoner)

I am constantly surprised by the people who have never read or sometimes never even heard of Brownstoner. I mean, haven't blogs simply replaces all those free throwaway papers people used to get from cafes and such?

It's fascinating to hear stories of how people "discover" various new websites; very illuminating.

Posted by: infinitejester at October 24, 2008 10:35 AM in response to Real Estate Blogs "A Great Forum to Vent Anger"

hear hear, NSR.

Posted by: infinitejester at October 23, 2008 3:41 PM in response to Checking in on The Vermeil

That's just how I avoid having buyer's remorse...

Posted by: infinitejester at October 22, 2008 2:20 PM in response to A McCain Outpost in Blue Park Slope

I also went into Barnes and Noble. I noticed a book called "The Works: Anatomy of a City" by Kate Ascher, about how the city runs. Like, how mail gets picked up and sorted, how snow is plowed, and a whole host of civil services. It looks pretty cool; I will probaby buy it tonight. Here's a link:

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Works/Kate-Ascher/e/9780143112709/?itm=1

Posted by: infinitejester at October 22, 2008 2:03 PM in response to A McCain Outpost in Blue Park Slope

I got wasted last night, and I wanted something greasy and salty.

Posted by: infinitejester at October 22, 2008 1:49 PM in response to A McCain Outpost in Blue Park Slope

You can hardly taste the honey. I chose it for the extra fiber.

Posted by: infinitejester at October 22, 2008 1:38 PM in response to A McCain Outpost in Blue Park Slope

This thead had 73 comments when I went to lunch, and now that I'm back it has 135+.

Meatball marinara on honey oat at Subway, by the way. Thanks for asking.

Posted by: infinitejester at October 22, 2008 1:27 PM in response to A McCain Outpost in Blue Park Slope

Anyone know how to hack HBO shows for free online?? I think this show sounds funny. Being set in Brooklyn desn't hurt either.

Posted by: infinitejester at October 22, 2008 1:10 PM in response to The Fort Greene Unlimited

A friend who canvassed for Kerry in Park Slope told me she met many Republicans in Park Slope. I myself am Republican but I'm voting for Obama, can't stand McCain.

Posted by: infinitejester at October 22, 2008 9:11 AM in response to A McCain Outpost in Blue Park Slope

Good news, but Gowanus Lounge returning is better.

Posted by: infinitejester at October 15, 2008 2:21 PM in response to Streetlevel: Banh Mi for the Old Tea Lounge?

Queens seems a much likelier option, IMO.

And jwald, yeah, right on.

Posted by: infinitejester at October 15, 2008 10:36 AM in response to Brooklyn to Manhattan: Dukes Up for Jobs

And I will buy it today.

Posted by: infinitejester at October 14, 2008 1:10 PM in response to Brownstoner Book Club Reads In the Country of Brooklyn

"Oh to capture just one drop of all the ecstasy that swept that afternoon
To paint that love upon a white balloon
And fly it from the toppest top of all the tops that man has pushed beyond his brain
Satori must be something just the same."

--David Bowie, "Memory of a Free Festival"

Posted by: infinitejester at October 10, 2008 2:40 PM in response to Satori Condos Get the Chop

Brunch at Beer Table, eh? Ok, I'm going to plan a weekend to go. Little sittish about drinking early in the day - I usually only do that during the World Cup.

Posted by: infinitejester at October 8, 2008 12:07 PM in response to Brownstoner Food & Drink Round-Up

Any and all complaints about strollers in Park Slope are completely exaggerated.

Posted by: infinitejester at October 6, 2008 12:05 PM in response to The Stroller Wars, Solved

Sounds like one of the few times the woman doesn't rake the guy over the coals in a divorce.

Do Orthodox Jews truly have sex through a bedsheet or is that just a myth? Better that than plywood, though.

Posted by: infinitejester at October 6, 2008 12:02 PM in response to War of the Roses, Borough Park Style

That article was fascinating, kind of an orgiastic review of all the cliches about New York that get so passionately debated here.

Is it just me or do other people wish they'd moved to New York earlier than they did??

Posted by: infinitejester at October 2, 2008 2:42 PM in response to Brooklyn Manhattan's St. Paul, Not Compton

Two story porches are to me what recessed lighting is to Brownstoner:

"HERE BE WHITE TRASH".

Just sayin'.

Posted by: infinitejester at October 1, 2008 2:49 PM in response to House of the Day: 352 Argyle Road

Hey Santa,

Maybe you're relatively poor (I'm sure you mean just post-college transition poor) but the fact you at least know about Crown Heights and Sunset Park as an option speaks volumes of positiveness about you. I meet a lot of Manhattan-working people (probably not going to meet many people who don't though) who would never tear off the J.Crew aline skirts and chill at Franklin Park. It's like, if you want Manhattanesque entertainment (where everything's "nice"), and you're willing to pay high rents no matter what, just live in Manhattan already. They bring the 'tude back over the bridge and tunnel, I mean to say.

Veering into potential rant mode here so I'll stop.

Posted by: infinitejester at September 30, 2008 11:55 AM in response to Is Pete Hamill Responsible for the Brooklyn Boom?

I've seen Pete Hamill twice lately in Park Slope, he must have been working up to this article.

Hopefully the stock market crash will drive all these annoying Generation Y twentysomethings to grad school, and instill in them some good old slacker/hippie values, and ruin their little New York dress up game.

Whoa, that sounds harsh.

Posted by: infinitejester at September 30, 2008 10:53 AM in response to Is Pete Hamill Responsible for the Brooklyn Boom?

I was in Farrell's once with my girlfriend, they were so rude to us. First when my g/f asked if there were any organic wines available, the man didn't even answer her. Then when we asked if we could hang a sign for a Tibetan Freedom discusson group, we were told "this is your last drink." Then finally a woman with very large breasts came in and all of a sudden the bartender started to completely ignore us, although we were trying to get quarters for the jukebox, which by the way had no Rilo Kiley or Belle and Sebastian.

Signed,
Marvin Milquetoast

Posted by: infinitejester at September 26, 2008 2:10 PM in response to [Virtually] Duking It Out Over Windsor Terrace

"The buyers are Asian, Russian, and Turkish" - typical Observer stupidity: Sheepshead Bay is already full of those ethnicities. "White liberals are moving to places like Park Slope and Carroll Gardens and reportedly transitioning smoothly."

I mention Brownstoner to people; usually they go "huh?" Brooklyn in large swaths remains a no-man's-land to many, despite this blog and other easy references otherwise. To expect the Observer, which publishes stories about how glam Midtow hotel bars are, to visit Sheepshead or Kensington and dig it is asking too much. The Manhattan crowd te Observer thinks it's addressing will never move to Kensington and live next door to Pakistanis and Orthodox Jews wih 8 kids; they want to be with "their own". Fuck them.

Posted by: infinitejester at September 17, 2008 10:47 AM in response to First Time Buyers Head Far Out in Brooklyn

I live right down the street from this store and the thing that I always notice is how EVERYONE passing by cranes their head to look inside.

Posted by: infinitejester at September 16, 2008 9:45 AM in response to That's Why They Call Them Adult "Toys"

How many more days for Freddy's Backroom???

Posted by: infinitejester at September 10, 2008 2:02 PM in response to Plans to Break Ground on Yards, But What About Phase II?

I think all of you are missing something. It's not how cool th train makes your neighborhood, but how hot the women seen riding the train tend to be. For that, the Q is a distant second to the 6.

Posted by: infinitejester at September 10, 2008 2:01 PM in response to Is the Q Train the New L?

MiceElfAgain - good point, one of the times someone writes about something I thought only I'd noticed.

My old neighbors, when we would both be entering/exiting our brownstones simultaneously, would NEVER make eye contact or nod hello. This was in Park Slope.

Posted by: infinitejester at September 8, 2008 1:41 PM in response to Do Generalizations About Harlem Hold for Brooklyn Nabes?

18 Starbucks in Brooklyn? I remember when there were 3.

Love me a good chain. My friends and I eat at Applebee's in Sheepshead Bay on occasonal Sundays, and I get some coffee at DD each morning before walking to work. On my lunch hour I walk to 7-11 and if I don't know what I want for lunch, here's always something to buy there that's tasty. Plus they have Citibank ATMs.

I always thought many of these chains serve the same purpose here in Brooklyn as they do in other parts of the country: were here's few restaurants, or bad ones, they fill a niche. It's weird to see an Outback Steakhouse in the middle of Bensonhurst's italian eateries, or to see that all the guards in the Gateway Mall's several chains have concealed guns. How may places in New York can you go, *knowing* and feeling god that people are armed? Ha ha!

Posted by: infinitejester at September 2, 2008 11:42 AM in response to Dunkin' Donuts: the Starbucks of Brooklyn

lechacal, good thinking.

There is obviously an ulterior motive here, what a sinister letter to receive if you live on that block.

Posted by: infinitejester at August 20, 2008 2:15 PM in response to A Different Kind of Neighborhood Watch on E. 7th Street

I try to get into jazz but it's always been difficult. To me jazz sounds like the sounds in your head when you're drunk.

Posted by: infinitejester at August 19, 2008 12:57 PM in response to The Jazz Age Comes to Brooklyn

How about:

Space Aliens Land/Drink/Have Casual Sex Here

Caveman Approved: Beer Good, Another Beer Gooder

After Eating at Farm on Adderley, Come Here and Try to Keep It All Down While Consuming Pint After Pint

This Is a Gay Bar?

Get the Fuck Out You Native Brooklynite Scum

Posted by: infinitejester at August 16, 2008 11:05 AM in response to Streetlevel: A New Bar Coming to Cortelyou

I have mixed feelings. I think suburbs as in satellite or so-called "edge cities" are not ideal. Why travel into the city but live outside it? Being in a place means spending time there, not identifying with two places at once.

I grew up in a large town in NE - having the downtown, the minimal, it was charming and my home, but that may be hard to explain to newcomers. I am 35 and need a bit more excitement and a high-powered job too.

I miss having the car, the space, the ease of town life, but for now city life fits me. When I'm 55 or having kids, perhaps that will change, but a large town or small city is my idea of the option whe I leave Brooklyn - never a suburb. Knock on wood?

Posted by: infinitejester at August 14, 2008 2:03 PM in response to And the Discussion on the Future of Suburbia Continues

I work in Brooklyn and never go to Manhattan anymore. the thought almost revolts me.

That being said, I never go to Sheepshead Bay, Canarsie, or Bensonhurst either.

Posted by: infinitejester at August 12, 2008 1:16 PM in response to The Next New Brooklyn

"Take a break, Driver 8,
Driver 8, take a break
We've been on this shift too long

We can reach our destination
Bu it's still a ways away."

Posted by: infinitejester at August 8, 2008 2:28 PM in response to News Flash: Everyone Wants to Live in the City

In "The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and His Struggle to Save New York City" by Vincent Cannato, there is a nice list of films set in New York all dealing with the issue of urban blight - some comic, some tragic.

Makes a good Netflix queue.

Posted by: infinitejester at August 8, 2008 2:17 PM in response to News Flash: Everyone Wants to Live in the City

I always wondered what the best term for the "opposite of white flight" would be. Gentrification is much better. the New Republic isn't exactly a must read periodical.

I don't see why anyone wouldn't live in a city - the benefits are incomparable.

Posted by: infinitejester at August 8, 2008 12:06 PM in response to News Flash: Everyone Wants to Live in the City

"Open the door, I can't stay here anymor-err."

Posted by: infinitejester at August 8, 2008 12:02 PM in response to Closing the Door on Ouvrez La Porte

Mmm...Gorilla Coffee. On 5th and Park Pl.

Posted by: infinitejester at August 8, 2008 11:51 AM in response to Commercial Klutch: August Edition