I'm on the J/M and actively dread the L closure, still years away, for what it will do to real estate and development in my neighborhood. The M closure will obviously be a major pain in the ass - don't relish the Essex transfer at the best of times - but if there's a chance it momentarily chills those same development forces, then, idk....
― bucyrus ohio, vus cun nus en l’aria (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 02:26 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/jengo_ma/status/736211877253001218
― calstars, Friday, 27 May 2016 22:18 (eight years ago) link
silent barn?
― calstars, Friday, 27 May 2016 22:19 (eight years ago) link
Had Pho at Little Mo and coffee and Little Skips today. So good.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Monday, 6 June 2016 00:47 (eight years ago) link
little mo is very good. i never remember to go on weeknights when they have chicken soup but the pho & bahn mi are great.
― J0rdan S., Monday, 6 June 2016 01:08 (eight years ago) link
ha, i was hangovering at skips this morning. it's good but it's gotten a lot less pleasant over the years - more crowded, worse crowd. prices have drifted up slightly too. i do hit up mo to splurge on either the kale salad or the chicken soup at least once a month though.
― bucyrus ohio, vus cun nus en l’aria (Doctor Casino), Monday, 6 June 2016 02:09 (eight years ago) link
Cafe bunna very good
― 龜, Monday, 6 June 2016 02:13 (eight years ago) link
― bucyrus ohio, vus cun nus en l’aria (Doctor Casino), Sunday, June 5, 2016 9:09 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
What time were you there? We had lunch around noon -- I didn't actually go into skips, my wife just went over to get the coffee after we were done eating and brought it back into Mo.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Monday, 6 June 2016 03:39 (eight years ago) link
Oh, it was around that time, but I was over at the original Skips location a couple blocks away, not the one attached to Mo.
― bucyrus ohio, vus cun nus en l’aria (Doctor Casino), Monday, 6 June 2016 04:35 (eight years ago) link
bunna is good! i always eat way way way way too much when i go there and regret it intensely
also http://ny.eater.com/2016/5/31/11818574/tisch-robertas-management-change
ALSO there is a tamale vendor on the corner of myrtle and irving (weekends only i think) who makes 4 varieties of high-level tamale. i'm not sold on a ton of the street food in bushwick as a lot of it feels kinda low-effort but these are really good. i want to compare with the tamale lady in front of mr pina at myrtle/bway but she's never there when i have cash and am hungry.
― adam, Monday, 6 June 2016 14:54 (eight years ago) link
I have still never been to Roberta's.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Monday, 6 June 2016 15:03 (eight years ago) link
you should go. i went to union pizza works the other day and all i could think about was how the pizza -- however incredible by global standards -- was inferior to robertas'. (in this case, it was too "wet")
― Treeship, Monday, 6 June 2016 15:04 (eight years ago) link
Yeah we've been right there a lot of times, I just never wind up thinking "let's put our name on the list at Roberta's" when we get there, before going to the galleries at 56 or whatever. Also my wife likes sushi much more than pizza so we'll wind up eating at Momo.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Monday, 6 June 2016 15:07 (eight years ago) link
roberta's is legit great. i wanna go there and eat non-pizza one time but i never do.
― J0rdan S., Monday, 6 June 2016 15:08 (eight years ago) link
Has anyone done Blanca? I almost wanna spring for it for our 10th anniversary, but part of me feels like why not just do a weekend trip upstate for the same $$$.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Monday, 6 June 2016 15:10 (eight years ago) link
the roberta's take-out/delivery spot down the block is the way to go imo, no wait and you can get all the essentials (pizza, garlic knots, sticky buns). i still don't really like going to the actual restaurant.
those roberta's garlic knots are out of control.
― adam, Monday, 6 June 2016 15:26 (eight years ago) link
i've heard blanca is amazing but the only time i spent ~$200 on a meal was at momofuku ko and i had a gift card to chip away at the price
― J0rdan S., Monday, 6 June 2016 16:08 (eight years ago) link
I think we spent that much including wine for Blue Hill Stone Barns a few years ago.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Monday, 6 June 2016 16:23 (eight years ago) link
kinda wish i loved pizza enough to try to get a pizza from roberta's
― 龜, Monday, 6 June 2016 16:30 (eight years ago) link
ive been meaning to go to motorino
― J0rdan S., Monday, 6 June 2016 16:38 (eight years ago) link
motorino is pretty good but the best fancy pizza is at paulie gee's. my wife is a very pizza-snobby native new yorker with v little patience for newfangled pizza stuff but she fuckin loves paulie gee's, as do i.
― adam, Monday, 6 June 2016 16:41 (eight years ago) link
i think i prefer emily to roberta
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 6 June 2016 16:42 (eight years ago) link
my wife p much has dayo's attitude -- even really good pizza is still "just pizza" to her.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Monday, 6 June 2016 17:23 (eight years ago) link
I went to little skips yesterday. Not sure what I was expecting but it was exactly like every other coffee shop everywhere
― calstars, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 12:33 (eight years ago) link
Yep.
― If authoritarianism is Romania's ironing board, then (in orbit), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 12:35 (eight years ago) link
Their coffee was incredibly good.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 13:32 (eight years ago) link
Whenever I'm in Bushwick I never know exactly where I am because I don't know the relative positioning of the many subway stations. So to help myself figure it out I've created a mnemonic system. Here's how it goes:
First I imagine a cranky old man whose wife Lori is in charge of his breakfast. "Lori" stands for the two Lorimer stations, from which these journeys proceed.
For the J Train I think of "Lori, Fix My Korean Ginseng Hot," which corresponds to the stops Lorimer, Flushing, Myrtle, Kosciuszko, Gates, and Halsey.
For the M Train it's "Lori, Fix My ChicKen & Waffles," which corresponds to the stops Lorimer, Flushing, Myrtle, Central, Knickerbocker, and (Myrtle-) Wyckoff. Of course here I have to remember that Chicken is two stops.
For the L Train it's "Lori, Go Get Me More Jelly Donuts & Milk," which corresponds to the stops Lorimer, Graham, Grand, Montrose, Morgan, Jefferson, Dekalb, and Myrtle (-Wyckoff). It helps that More=Morgan, not Montrose.
Keeping in mind that Myrtle and Wyckoff - Milk and Waffles - are the same station, I think of how you need Milk to make Waffle batter.
So now if I'm visiting a friend in Bushwick I place them geographically by thinking like, "oh, she lives between More and Jelly," for example.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 18:39 (eight years ago) link
Dying
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 19:54 (eight years ago) link
well now that's how i'm doing it for sure.
― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 20:27 (eight years ago) link
If you get tripped up by the part about ChicKen covering two stops, try to remember that the C in Chicken stands for Central, but there's also an "ick" in Chicken just as there's an "ick" in Knickerbocker
― Josefa, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 21:24 (eight years ago) link
but there's a really good spot for chicken right by the knickerbocker stop (la isla cuchifritos, also good for pork obv) but nothing by central so i'm still confused
― adam, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 23:26 (eight years ago) link
^ Since you associate chicken so closely with the Knickerbocker stop, in your case I would modify the phrase to "Lori, Fix My Country-style Chicken & Waffles."
Central=Country-style; Knickerbocker=Chicken
― Josefa, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 05:37 (eight years ago) link
i think it was once part of new york city
― normcore strengthening exercises (benbbag), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 05:54 (eight years ago) link
stfu ben
― ian, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 19:35 (eight years ago) link
i just asked j0rdan where the train was
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 19:37 (eight years ago) link
down the stairs
― ian, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 19:41 (eight years ago) link
or up depending
― adam, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 19:42 (eight years ago) link
last couple of times in Bushwick have really felt my age, like it still doesn't feel much at the "stroller" level of gentrification but still at the 20-somethings-with-*cool*-jobs level of gentrification. Both H and I noticed it felt remarkably similar to Williamsburg circa 2003 or so (without Bedford Ave) -- w/the galleries and music venues and scattered trendy restaurants/coffee places throughout a landscape that was otherwise either desolate industrial or cheaply built rowhouses, w/ roving bands of (mostly) white twenty-somethings and Hispanic families. Except that then we were 24 and now we're 36.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 17:17 (eight years ago) link
it's great when yr past 50 you're invisible
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 17:32 (eight years ago) link
not in boca!
― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 19:33 (eight years ago) link
are these still fireworks?
― Treeship, Thursday, 14 July 2016 04:56 (seven years ago) link
now there is some weird cooing bird outside my window. (can't see it.)
i'm losing my mind.
― Treeship, Thursday, 14 July 2016 09:35 (seven years ago) link
They're still setting off the occasional quarterstick where I am (near the lorimer L)
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 14 July 2016 12:50 (seven years ago) link
the K2 stuff is scary
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 14 July 2016 13:22 (seven years ago) link
yesterday i was at that corner and there was a guy screaming loudly at nothing and stomping the pavement, storming into bodegas and like freaking people out. over the weekend i saw a guy splayed out very unnaturally across the steps going up the subway that everyone had to like tip toe around.
the police seem to be doing a good job actually in terms of deescalation. also the one bodega that they say has been selling it has always been creepy as hell.
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 14 July 2016 13:25 (seven years ago) link
is that the big boy deli?
― chinavision!, Thursday, 14 July 2016 14:09 (seven years ago) link
oh wait I see that it is
― chinavision!, Thursday, 14 July 2016 14:10 (seven years ago) link
yeah! i don't like that place
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 14 July 2016 14:12 (seven years ago) link
I don't get why people use this drug. It's clearly bad news.
― Treeship, Thursday, 14 July 2016 14:20 (seven years ago) link
i like good news drugs
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 14 July 2016 14:24 (seven years ago) link