i love awesome megastructures
― lag∞n, Thursday, 21 April 2016 16:57 (eight years ago) link
it looks like the first pube
you know, the first pube when there's nothing else around it and it just keeps growing and growing much faster than any other hair you might have had at the time
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 21 April 2016 17:11 (eight years ago) link
happily ive forgotten
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 April 2016 17:12 (eight years ago) link
maybe this shit is super obvious/old, but a friend just pointed out to me the irony of people eating only organic food, refusing to use hygiene products with "toxins" etc. while living on the gowanus canal.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, 22 July 2016 19:33 (seven years ago) link
Or on the Newtown Creek!
― Josefa, Friday, 22 July 2016 20:43 (seven years ago) link
just as long as you dont drink the water theyre prob not going to affect u at all
― lag∞n, Sunday, 24 July 2016 15:22 (seven years ago) link
On the contrary people absorb toxins from the gowanus canal every day
― 龜, Sunday, 24 July 2016 16:09 (seven years ago) link
just need to do a cleanse
― lag∞n, Sunday, 24 July 2016 18:24 (seven years ago) link
man ive seen ppl kayaking in that canal tho lol
― lag∞n, Sunday, 24 July 2016 18:26 (seven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/nyregion/the-market-is-saturated-brooklyns-rental-boom-may-turn-into-a-glut.html
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 13:26 (seven years ago) link
uh yeah 6k new units in a city of 8.5m sell sell sell lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 13:36 (seven years ago) link
also they are building another target there, right next door to the one in atlantic terminal.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 13:48 (seven years ago) link
i went into that target once on xmas eve
it was like high-rise
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 13:51 (seven years ago) link
i live a couple of blocks away so i always go at like 11.30pm. recommended if you can. it's very relaxed. tragically though the starbucks is closed.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 14:05 (seven years ago) link
target is the most overrated store just my opinion
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 14:09 (seven years ago) link
what's life like in suburbia? i have never heard anyone rate it highly here in the city.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 14:15 (seven years ago) link
i think where i live is more accurately categorized as "college town" or maybe "small city" i did (partially) grow up in suburbia tho and its p boring i guess not too much going on and even that was "inner suburb" with public transpo, bordered the big city and so forth
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 14:44 (seven years ago) link
lots of nice houses and trees tho, high achieving teens
I wish more of those high rise apartments weren't rentals
― calstars, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 16:15 (seven years ago) link
caek lives a couple blocks from target?i live a couple blocks form target.
― ian, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 17:25 (seven years ago) link
i hate it. almost never go.
NY Times just needs to let me know when i can get a $1200 studio
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 20:07 (seven years ago) link
rockaways
― calstars, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 20:55 (seven years ago) link
not in a FEMA zone
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 21:02 (seven years ago) link
i don't think i'd want to live in nyc very much
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 21:26 (seven years ago) link
At 7 DeKalb, a new 23-story tower atop the City Point mall complex, the landlord is offering two months of free rent with a 14-month lease, and use of the building’s fitness center and other amenities for a year without charge. That means a one-bedroom, one-bathroom place can be had for $3,428 a month
This is not even remotely my price range and doesn't do ANYTHING for my housing market.
― If authoritarianism is Romania's ironing board, then (in orbit), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 21:33 (seven years ago) link
that can be had, alright
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 21:45 (seven years ago) link
BookCourt closin
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 21:43 (seven years ago) link
unrelated: F.O.B. filipino bbq is pretty good
author emma straub and her husband are supposedly looking to open a bookstore in the general vicinity
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 21:47 (seven years ago) link
we should tell her
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 21:49 (seven years ago) link
http://www.emmastraub.net/booksaremagic
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 21:50 (seven years ago) link
bookcourt put out a press release but didnt say why they were closing, they own the building btw
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 22:48 (seven years ago) link
Maybe they just felt done with the business and wanted to take advantage of the higher rents they could get, or sell the building and retire or something.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 22:49 (seven years ago) link
something like that
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 22:54 (seven years ago) link
i think they're just retiring
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 23:06 (seven years ago) link
new bookstore is just gonna sell the harry potter series i think
― schlump, Thursday, 8 December 2016 02:38 (seven years ago) link
relatedly there is a new greenlight on flatbush ave btw
― schlump, Thursday, 8 December 2016 02:59 (seven years ago) link
ha when they opened on fulton years ago i was all u will be out of business in 2 months u poor soft headed fools
― lag∞n, Thursday, 8 December 2016 03:05 (seven years ago) link
re: retiring i don't think they're THAT old, or so old that they couldn't scale back their own hours (they already have worker bees) and just live THAT way. Also closing in 3 weeks is a really short window for an announcement if ur finna clean house and empty the store for a new tennant. I bet it's gonna be a turnkey sale
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 8 December 2016 13:56 (seven years ago) link
i've never been to bookcourt. what do they have there?
― 龜, Thursday, 8 December 2016 16:33 (seven years ago) link
court
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Thursday, 8 December 2016 16:40 (seven years ago) link
Author readings approx 5 times a week; well stocked neighborhood book shop with great ambience. Always 5 or 6 people inside browsing; way more on weekends.
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 8 December 2016 17:03 (seven years ago) link
also i have seen actor M Shannon there
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 December 2016 17:11 (seven years ago) link
Cobble Hill's very good video store, which I patronized a bit several years ago before I was inundated with other options, is moving to the Alamo Drafthouse downtown.
http://www.indiewire.com/2016/12/video-free-brooklyn-alamo-drafthouse-theater-1201756310/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 December 2016 16:39 (seven years ago) link
people talk about chains moving in to smith st or w/e but those places that have been run out of business are all empty storefronts. idk what chains people are talking about. there are the places that look like corporate fast casual which may or may not be small businesses (white maze...), places that look like mob fronts (sunken hundred...) & places that are bad taste (bornholm, or whatever it's called; the various and sundry tacky boutiques). I don't see the gap moving in, for example. certainly not in the critical mass that people keep talking about.
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 12 December 2016 17:57 (seven years ago) link
like, brooklyn industries has been there for years but I excuse local chains, no matter how pointless/shitty they are
RFI: what do you guys know about parking by the Greenpoint Ferry Landing? (asked on the Queens thread is well, not sure which is the best thread for Greenpoint)
― Trelayne Staley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 May 2017 11:20 (seven years ago) link
https://ny.eater.com/2018/5/9/17336048/ganso-ramen-closing-downtown-brooklyn-nyc
*screams*
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 19:54 (six years ago) link
Essence of Park Slope
http://gothamist.com/2018/08/28/park_slope_bike_lane_blocker.php
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 August 2018 16:30 (five years ago) link