I've spent relatively little time in Bushwick except when j0n w1ll1ams invites me somewhere, but there is a thriving drag scene and an upcoming weekend fest:
http://www.bushwig.com/
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 August 2014 15:39 (nine years ago) link
Anybody know anybody who's taught at 3rd Ward?
― dan selzer, Sunday, October 14, 2012 3:05 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Dan, my boyfriend used to! Did you guys get to talk about that at my birthday party? He never uses email and can barely find the cursor when he needs it, but I can send you his address.
Food Bazaar is one of the best supermarkets I've ever been in
― 龜, Thursday, August 28, 2014 1:26 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
SO MANY TIMES THIS.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Thursday, 28 August 2014 15:44 (nine years ago) link
why serve me beer in a jar?
― adam, Thursday, August 28, 2014 11:07 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark
Haha this is Brooklyn in a mason jar
― 龜, Thursday, 28 August 2014 18:35 (nine years ago) link
haha we had been planning this move for a long time so i read the internet and shit so i thought i had a handle on the situation but then i found myself sitting at a picnic table in a 90 degree warehouse drinking a $9 beer out of a jar, when i began to grasp the severity of the situation. but is making fun of the jars the new drinking jar?
― adam, Thursday, 28 August 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
mason jar or no, I've had some really tasty things at Robertas. Pork-jowel grits and whatnot.
I did not discuss 3rd Ward at your birthday party, and finding out about teaching at 3rd Ward is no longer useful to anybody!
― dan selzer, Thursday, 28 August 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link
wow food bazaar. good call d. also i stopped for excellent tacos both on the way and on the way back so i am a-ok w bushwick at the moment
― adam, Sunday, 31 August 2014 16:39 (nine years ago) link
Had lunch at Roberta's yesterday. Fantastic.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 31 August 2014 17:09 (nine years ago) link
I live near you Adam. Also we live near j0rdan sarge
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Monday, 1 September 2014 03:17 (nine years ago) link
To answer your question this neighborhood is pretty ridiculous, I find mr kiwis has dece produce
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Monday, 1 September 2014 03:18 (nine years ago) link
We had really good sushi at Momo a couple weeks ago, but the waitstaff both male and female seemed to be wearing very skimpy terry clothing and no underwear and it felt just slightly weird being served food by them. Other than that, the only thing I have to say is that the Morgan Ave area somehow manages to look just as grimey as it did 5 years ago while being 3x as expensive.
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Monday, 1 September 2014 03:27 (nine years ago) link
i went to a bar the other night and a man in suspenders served me a small bowl of free macaroni. on the other hand i went to bunna cafe, the vegan ethiopian place, and it was fucking delicious. verdict: five robertas out of five.
― adam, Friday, 5 September 2014 01:50 (nine years ago) link
momo sushi shack? more like momo sushi sucks. 1 1/2 robertas out of 5.
otoh spicy goat cemita from taqueria cocoyoc on wyckoff is a solid 4 3/4 robertas out of 5.
― adam, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 23:55 (nine years ago) link
gotta try bunna cafe
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 01:42 (nine years ago) link
had a visitor in town so ate out too much, too fancy this weekend:
dear bushwick is standard brooklyn farm to table bullshit, 2 robertas out of 5. waiter wearing jorts.
cafe ghia: fuck brunch. 2 robertas/5.
northeast kingdom only has 4 things on their lunch menu. 2/5
fritzls lunch box has a good burger but twice now i have felt like hot garbage after eating there so 2.5/5
― adam, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 17:29 (nine years ago) link
there are three 5 robertas out of 5 places on a 2 block stretch of myrtle around menahan: taqueria izucar, la mesita and taqueria el paisa. (and of course la isla cuchifritos down the street.) the lesson i am learning is that edison bulb shit sucks in this neighborhood but p much everything else is good.
― adam, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 17:31 (nine years ago) link
also moving to nyc somehow sapped all my desire and ability to cook for myself at home like a grownup.
― adam, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 17:32 (nine years ago) link
Did your kitchen size take a hit
― 龜, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link
Yeah also it's been summer and it's still super nice out. Wait til it's cold for the cooking urge to kick back in, I like how it's cyclical (for me at least).
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 17:34 (nine years ago) link
I liked dear Bushwick.
Fancy Vietnamese falansai or something place is only 2 Bunkers out of 5.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link
my kitchen is way smaller (3 bedroom house to 1br apt) and also maybe my wife and i each thought the other was packing certain important kitchen items (baking sheets, for example) so they are still in new orleans. we did however bring the mini bundt cake pan if yall want some mini bundt cakes
i am interested in bunker
― adam, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 18:01 (nine years ago) link
Bunkers great but always jammed and a pain to get to. Not for us though as we drive.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 21:11 (nine years ago) link
Also loved king noodle the first time I went and thought it was gross the second time. And I ordered the same thing.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 21:12 (nine years ago) link
this thread!
― caek, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 22:20 (nine years ago) link
i have had the same consistency issues at king noodle
want to bunna cafe. excellent recommendation.
― deej loaf (D-40), Saturday, 4 October 2014 20:16 (nine years ago) link
as far as bars so far i really like pearls but it may qualify as a 'studied insouciance' bar. i went there after spending a day at the beach earlier this summer, and the vibe was very complementary. if you're looking for a real bar it's not that, it's pretty busy and full of young attractives, but i like it
― deej loaf (D-40), Saturday, 4 October 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
Moving here next weeeeek, thinking of changing me dn to Treeshwick
― Treeship, Friday, 31 July 2015 03:28 (eight years ago) link
*my
brb hiding my daughters
― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Friday, 31 July 2015 04:46 (eight years ago) link
kind of a weird joke
― Treeship, Friday, 31 July 2015 04:48 (eight years ago) link
it's that bushwick humor, you'll get it shortly
― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Friday, 31 July 2015 04:51 (eight years ago) link
http://image1.masterfile.com/em_w/05/64/64/846-05646404em.jpg
― Treeship, Friday, 31 July 2015 05:56 (eight years ago) link
congrats & good luck treesh
― drash, Friday, 31 July 2015 06:52 (eight years ago) link
where in bushwick
― adam, Friday, 31 July 2015 23:49 (eight years ago) link
also seamless delivery has elevated robertas to a solid 3.5 robertas out of 5
― adam, Friday, 31 July 2015 23:51 (eight years ago) link
Moving to a house with a backyard (!) a block from the DeKalb stop. Definitely hoping to order Robertas delivery on the reg.
― Treeship, Saturday, 1 August 2015 00:20 (eight years ago) link
roberta's is so 2009
― mookieproof, Saturday, 1 August 2015 00:45 (eight years ago) link
I really like their bread and butter
― Treeship, Saturday, 1 August 2015 01:05 (eight years ago) link
treesh, i pass thru DeKalb on my commute every day now, let's get a drink
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 1 August 2015 07:10 (eight years ago) link
That sounds great. I'll let you know when I'm moved in
― Treeship, Saturday, 1 August 2015 18:59 (eight years ago) link
ok, so i was walking up and down my street in socks just now talking on the phone and a rat ran across my feet
― Treeship, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 01:24 (eight years ago) link
hey dekalb is my stop too
bushwick rats fear nothing
― adam, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 02:23 (eight years ago) link
in socks?
― drash, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 03:51 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, pretty foolish. I just stepped out because i wasn't getting cell reception.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 12:13 (eight years ago) link
Does anyone see any evidence that the endless march toward total gentrification in Bushwick is slowing down a little? I hadn't really hung out in bushwick for like 3-4 years and was around the morgan and jefferson stops this weekend and felt like things hadn't changed as much as I expected they would have. But OTOH maybe I'm just expecting things to happen faster than they really ever do.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 12 October 2015 04:30 (eight years ago) link
the one thing i picked up on this spring/summer is a noticeable uptick in europeans in the area. i think "bushwick is cool" finally traveled across the atlantic sometime early this year.
one of the best things i saw this summer was a group of pale euros standing on the manhattan bound platform at myrtle bway when a queens bound J train pulled up on the manhattan bound track, as often happens on weekday afternoons. the group of euros looked at the train, looked back down towards manhattan, looked at the train again, stepped halfway in the train, craned their neck down towards manhattan again, then decided to get off.
― J0rdan S., Monday, 12 October 2015 04:50 (eight years ago) link
Actually we did notice a lot of people walking around snapping pictures, taking selfies in front of wall pieces, etc. That was different. Also one of the galleries we stopped in had this older, wealthy looking couple talking to an employee in a private room, like they were actual collectors discussing buying something. I guess I was just expecting to see more new condo buildings or something? But when I think about Williamsburg it took a pretty long time to reach a fever pitch of new construction, plus there are probably zoning issues.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 12 October 2015 04:53 (eight years ago) link
i feel like at certain points on weekends, the area around the morgan stop (especially the immediate block off the stop by robertas & momo) can feel almost as crowded as getting off the bedford stop. nothing really is quite that bad but i've had a few days this year where i got off the stop and was just like, what the fuck is going on here
anyway i'm not sure i have a great feel for whether the gentrifying has slowed down. 2 new buildings have gone up on my block in the last year (one of which has a 1 bedroom w/ private patio that goes for 2,700), an apt building two plots down should be up w/in a few months and a new building just got unwrapped on top of my fav bodega. also a few weeks ago i noticed that a tapas bar is opening across the street from me.
― J0rdan S., Monday, 12 October 2015 04:55 (eight years ago) link
it does sometimes feel like we're in the final sprint of bushwick gentrification but there's still soooo many old buildings/houses that are gonna get razed in the coming years
― J0rdan S., Monday, 12 October 2015 04:57 (eight years ago) link
I guess i hadn't spent much time by the Wyckoff stop ever because I felt very old and confused when we headed over there after picking up my wife at an art opening because yelp told me about Lucy's Vietnamese, which I really enjoyed and we saw Boobie Trap and Pizza Party for the first time.
― dan selzer, Monday, 12 October 2015 04:59 (eight years ago) link
Definitely one thing that prompted the thinking was feeling a little bitold there, like it doesn't seem to have turned over much toward the stroller crowd. Maybe just never will.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 12 October 2015 05:06 (eight years ago) link