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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 (nineteen years ago)

destroy all lines

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

"true brooklynites" v "real new yorkers"

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

you better ax somebody

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

true brooklynites need speedy commutes to manhattan, true / false

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

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

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

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

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

650 with utils @ Bedford-Nostrand

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

no ment of "mantyhose"

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

jfk

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

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

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

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

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

Q train 4eva

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

lol @ "one of the dopest lines"

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

i'm casper the dopest ghost in town

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

Art school = not knowing how to use shift key

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

anyone have a lead on a room?

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

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

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

the G is cold usually

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

not the G platforms.

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

The hottest train station seems to be BWAY-LAFFY

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

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

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

I peed in Bway laffyette last summer

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

I fainted bt bedford and 1st ave

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

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.

this is like a daily occurance on the green line in chicago. the west side being full of junkies and all.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

i once puked at the carroll street station, while switching from the G to the F.

― ian, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

What are the best (relatively cheap) places to live in Brooklyn near the D train?

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Probably Sunset Park, or whatever that neighborhood is just west of Greenwood Cemetery. It's pretty far down there, is the thing, but the D train makes NO STOPS between Atlantic St and the cemetery, so it should be a fast ride.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

I'm fucking sick of Jersey City. I will eat my hat and move.

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

That's okay, I've gotten sick of every neighborhood I've lived or worked in, after a few years...I still stand up for JC but I've already done my time there, just like I have in Crown Heights and Rock Center.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

You're a real new yorker!

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

Also a big part of the reason it would be awkward for me to move back to JC is that I fell out of touch with an ex & his large social group that I wd be bound to run into at everything.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

It's not an altogether terrible place to live, but I can't take it anymore.

Plusses: Good places to eat, rent is cheap (but our apartment is already an exception), not that much of a hassle to go into NYC proper

Minuses: NO LIVE MUSIC, NO GOOD ART, NO GOOD PLACES TO GO OUT, BORING BORING BORING TURNING INTO HOBOKEN

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

It's not an altogether terrible place to live,

THIS GOES FOR MANY PLACES

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

I think Sunset Park might have all of those characteristics too, except maybe for the Hoboken part.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

Also I saw WAY WAY more live music in JC than I do now...but it was local acts and small touring stuff, and Uncle Joe's is closed now.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

I do need to watch out for the *grass is greener* thing. But JC feels like NYC-lite.

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

It's a long way down there, I don't know what a cab from Wburg or the LES would cost but I'm a little afraid to find out...? Maybe try somewhere along that subway axis but on the M or R lines that make intermediate stops...? Then at least you could get the train to like Atlantic Center and hail a cab from there, there are always trains to Atl-Pac.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

D-train is for my wife's job. If we were along another line that was within easy reach of a transfer to the D that'd probably be ok too.

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

― lauren, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

also lots of picturesque brownstones.

― lauren, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

Queens is like Jersey City with even more diversity and places to eat and it's way closer to brooklyn where things actually go on, and just as easy to get to manhattan.

― dan selzer, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, Queens is an option too and my band practices in Greenpoint now.

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

I been to Jersey City. Also I met a girl from "Montclair" who can take her bra off without removing her shirt in the middle of a very crowded bar. Maybe all girls can do this, I don't know.

― admrl, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

pfft. easy.

― lauren, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

(seriously)

― lauren, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I believed you!

― admrl, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, Montclair. I been there. It's sort of like the Park Slope of the burbs.

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

dan lives near a gay bar called the bum bum bar.

― lauren, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

sounds gay

― admrl, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

the rainbow bar is in sunset park, and melody lanes, and all of those amazing mexican and central american restaurants. would you be satisfied with a truly classic old man bar, a great bowling alley, and more good latin food than you can shake a stick at?

i want to move there like right now. also i think i'm going to stop at the rainbo club on my way home from work now too.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

The Bum Bum Bar is gay.

Guess what I learned last week, Lauren? I was at Magnetic Field for the Glenn Mercer show and I met the owner and I told him I came to the bar once when it was Friend's Tavern. He said the owner of his building who used to run Friends still runs the Friends in Jackson Heights and also runs 3 other gay bars in Jackson Heights/Woodside. Not sure about Bum Bum Bar though.

For those who don't know...Magnetic Field on atlantic used to be a gay bar called Friends that Lauren took me to once, and Jackson Heights and Woodside along Roosevelt ave is the center of the gay latin community.

Anyway, Queens is awesome. If you have a car and manage to find somewhere with a parking space or lot, or just find an area with plenty of parking, you can drive to Greenpoint in about 8 minutes from Woodside. Sunnyside and JH are brutal for parking, though you can rent spots in people's driveways. My building in Woodside has a garage, but street parking is pretty plentiful.

― dan selzer, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

What is name of art museum in Queens? I saw double projection of Chelsea Girls there with Ryan (of Syosset).

― admrl, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

probably either temporary MOMA annex or Kaufman Astoria movie complex

― dmr, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

MOMA

― admrl, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

Or PS1?

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

http://www.queensmuseum.org/panorama/pictures.htm

― dan selzer, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

[Removed Illegal Link]
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

dan, this is very embarrassing but i have no memory of friend's tavern.
― lauren, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

how was Glenn Mercer?
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

It was for Bill's birthday. Maybe you weren't there?

He was good...the venue was a bit small and he started a bit soft but rocked out a bit as well. Not as good as when I saw him at Maxwell's a few months back. He's doing a record release show at Maxwells in June and I think I may drive out there with some people.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

sorry I made everything italic.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

[/i]italic disco
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

*applause*
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

or oblique disco?
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 22:20 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure there's a bus.
― elmo argonaut, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 00:44 (nineteen years ago)

Hopstop says no
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 01:06 (nineteen years ago)

Oh wait MTA map says there is one bus line from Flushing/Jamaica
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 01:09 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago)

on THE TRAIN, obviously.
― C0L1N B..., Wednesday, 9 May 2007 01:23 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago)

er "too seriously"
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 02:39 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, are you Stencil? Who are you, anyway?
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 02:40 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago)

i should probably just move to nyc next year, huh
― river wolf, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 05:27 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago)

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

there may be a reason for that
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 13:40 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago)

no, I'm stencil.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

i like greenpoint.
― lauren, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 16:22 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago)

I have a really good time whenever I go to greenpoint.
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 16:41 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago)

Yes get bikes! Then we can all pedal totteringly home together.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

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

this italics thing sux
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe you should be more open-minded about computer code and message-board interfaces.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, doesn't that Gpoint-Woodside bus stop running at midnight?
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

;_;
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

poll needed
― dmr, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 19:33 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago)

i know not about bus times. my car runs 24-7.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...
ayo fagedaboudit maneurysm lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qD_OwH22EMr
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Monday, 3 May 2010 06:34 (sixteen years ago)

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