xpost - actually, the listings i've seen were all through local realtors.
― lauren, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 15:39 (sixteen years ago) link
my friend in brooklyn seems to have decided that i should live in lefferts gardens. tell me about this place. is it nice? is it affordable? i am not very concerned with safety as i am big and have a pit bull and new orleans has stripped me of all fear. i would like to be able to purchase groceries without using public transportation.
― adam, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 16:00 (sixteen years ago) link
you can purchase groceries in mostly any brooklyn neighborhood without using public transportation
― cutty, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 16:10 (sixteen years ago) link
what kind of groceries? like organic produce or spaggetios?
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 16:14 (sixteen years ago) link
both, preferably.
this whole convenient grocery store thing is very alluring as at the moment i have to get on the streetcar and then walk a mile to get to the store.
― adam, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link
there are about five grocery stores within walking distance of my house, and certain people might say i live "out of the way."
― ian, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 16:20 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm not really familiar with prospect lefferts but you can ask about grocery stores on this messageboard? http://www.brooklynian.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=4&sid=69df758d9d26f3a67557f70438e8b120
i'm sure it's safe, especially if you have a dog. i have trouble finding fresh produce in crown heights though and usually have to travel to get it.
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link
you could also move to red hook, which has the best grocery store ever.
all of these neighborhoods with seductive names! every time i worry that i am getting in over my head i think about this guy:
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/153/862541~Crocodile-Dundee-2-Posters.jpg
and realize that everything will be ok.
― adam, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 16:25 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah there are plenty of nice places to live in brooklyn. i've personally lived in greenpoint carroll gardens red hook williamsburg crown heights
they all have their charms. sunset park is on my list of places to try.
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 16:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I feel like studios don't enter the general market that often xposts
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 16:46 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm past the "trying" stage, I want to move to the place WHERE I SHALL DIE!
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 17:24 (sixteen years ago) link
lefferts gardens is one of those areas that's supposedly been on the edge of gentrification for years. i know a few people who've moved there because they're hung up on the idea that they need to buy a house and are willing to make some sacrifices in the process. the main complaint i've heard is that it's inconvenient, transport-wise.
― lauren, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 17:40 (sixteen years ago) link
transport doesn't seem like it would be too bad if you're near the Q train? but i don't really know.
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link
it probably depends on what part of the neighborhood you're in.
― lauren, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 17:58 (sixteen years ago) link
ooh i am very interested in being a gentrifier! yuppiedom is something i aspire to in general. advice on achieving this goal in nyc is also welcome.
― adam, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 18:23 (sixteen years ago) link
just curious - why is your friend lobbying for lg?
― lauren, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link
she likes the proximity to the park, for my dog's sake. it supposedly is in my price range and, i think most importantly, she finds it aesthetically pleasing. she of course has some fabulously cheap (for the area) and nice apartment in park slope.
the thing about this move to ny is that i am pretty sure that i could move to the lamest neighborhood in all brooklyn and still feel like i was in a more happening place than i am now.
― adam, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 18:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Sunset Park is calm / relaxing / cheap / large-apartmented, Bell -- probably great if you're like me and don't mind traveling a few minutes for your socializing and going out. Also: access to cheap bowling, highest point in Brooklyn, Vietnamese food, Hasidic families keeping it neighborhoody
― nabisco, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 19:02 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah i'm actually not planning on moving anytime soon and staying in c.heights for another year at least, but i think i would like living there someday.
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 19:05 (sixteen years ago) link
hopefully your friend can scout out apts for you in advance, adam. sometimes listings conflate prospect-lefferts garden with flatbush, and the latter is not very safe.
nabisco otm re: sunset park. ba xuyen, a growing chinatown, melody lanes, the rainbow bar, brownstones - yay!
― lauren, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 19:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Hasidic families keeping it neighborhoody
Maybe in Borough Park? In S Wburg, this does not compute. :(
― Laurel, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 19:09 (sixteen years ago) link
ha, that thought crossed my mind.
― lauren, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 19:10 (sixteen years ago) link
man, i'm so happy in my neighborhood (prospect heights) it's crazy. access to a variety of restaurants and bars as well as grocery shops, the park, museum, botanial garden, library, people who leave bags of books out on the curb, flowering trees in the backyard, hearing birds when i wake up in the morning, close to convenient bus and 6 trains (four lines), and my apartment itself is pretty great if i do say so myself.
― ian, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 19:14 (sixteen years ago) link
...except there are other ppl living in it! more of an issue when you're 30, perhaps.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 19:23 (sixteen years ago) link
my roommates are both awesome and do not get in the way at all. If i wanted to pay double what i do now i could probably find a one bedroom or studio within a few blocks of my place.
― ian, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 19:25 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't want to be in new york when i'm 30, i want to in a farmhouse in rural new england raising goats and smoking homegrown.
I've got some goats I'll trade for an apartment
― nabisco, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 19:29 (sixteen years ago) link
hopefully your friend can scout out apts for you in advance, adam
i'll be up there later this month, which is when i hope to do some productive apartment searching.
― adam, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 19:39 (sixteen years ago) link
nabisco
how many goats?
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 19:40 (sixteen years ago) link
he is just trying to trick us. don't trust a man who freely barters his last goats.
― ian, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 19:43 (sixteen years ago) link
they are probably old and sickly goats
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 19:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I will likely be in NY when I am an old and sickly goat.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 19:46 (sixteen years ago) link
ian I'll probably still be in NY so hit me up if you need an artisanal goat cheese wholesaler
― dmr, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 19:47 (sixteen years ago) link
blue apron are helping with startup cash for cheese cave construction.
― ian, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 19:49 (sixteen years ago) link
- healthy, friendly goats, non-smokers, no drugs or growth hormones - offering 300 goats per month - goats are conveniently located in East Africa, just steps from Suez Canal - MUST PROVIDE OWN GOAT TRANSPORTATION - no overnight visits with goats
― nabisco, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 20:00 (sixteen years ago) link
- MUST PROVIDE OWN GOAT TRANSPORTATION
dealbreaker.
― ian, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 20:02 (sixteen years ago) link
i mean seriously dude, you can't even go halfway with me on this goat transport issue?
― ian, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 20:04 (sixteen years ago) link
* it's NOT ok to contact this poster with other commercial goat interests
― dmr, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 20:04 (sixteen years ago) link
300 goats per month is a lot of fucking goats!
― ian, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 20:05 (sixteen years ago) link
I am rushing to Midwood to look at studio, will probly have to get dinner at this Difara b4 getting back on Q to go to movie screening.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 20:09 (sixteen years ago) link
gross, dude, nobody said anything about fucking them. u got problems
― dmr, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 20:11 (sixteen years ago) link
can you tell I'm having a slow work day
i heard you don't get buybacks at daddy's if you smell like goats.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 20:13 (sixteen years ago) link
lol let's keep the daddy's beef confined to just 6 or 7 threads ok
― dmr, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 20:13 (sixteen years ago) link
difara dinnertime can be a long wait.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 20:16 (sixteen years ago) link
goat beef?
yeah, I figured... can I get to-go then? I can't sit thru a Dalton Trumbo documentary w/ no dinner.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 20:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Ha, as of the last time I bought an east-African goat, they were going for less than US$1 each, so 300 is not a bold offer
― nabisco, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 20:19 (sixteen years ago) link
morbs, the set-up is one elderly man making pizzas for a devoted mob of customers. there's no waiter service - you order at the counter, once you've made your way to it. we go during off-off hours because otherwise it's too much hassle. call me a sad example of our convenience-obsessed society, but waiting an hour and a half for a pizza (even if it's the best pizza in the city) is beyond me.
― lauren, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 20:21 (sixteen years ago) link
gahhhh, that won't work, then
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 20:25 (sixteen years ago) link
bushwick it is! see yall next month
thanks for the info
― adam, Monday, 21 July 2014 22:40 (ten years ago) link
aaand here, what thread do the cool new york ppl hang out on
― adam, Thursday, 21 August 2014 20:18 (ten years ago) link
there's not really a new york thread, there are just 20 threads that only new york residents comment on
― iatee, Thursday, 21 August 2014 20:34 (ten years ago) link