---

About Brooklynian

A website for people in Brooklyn, New York, including a network of Brooklyn message boards and blogs. You can post now. E-mail: admin@brooklynian.com

---

Brooklynian Ecosystem

All Brooklyn blogs and message boards in one place.

Neighborhoods:

Bay Ridge

Bed-Stuy

Bensonhurst

Boerum Hill

Brighton Beach

Brooklyn Heights

Bushwick

Carroll Gardens

Clinton Hill

Cobble Hill

Coney Island

Crown Heights

Ditmas Park

Dumbo

Flatbush

Ft. Greene

Gowanus

Greenpoint

Greenwood Heights

Kensington

Midwood

Park Slope

Prospect Heights

Red Hook

Sheepshead Bay

Sunset Park

Williamsburg

Windsor Terrace

Brooklyn and Beyond

Brooklyn Stuff:

Brooklyn Eats

Brooklyn Booze

Brooklyn Pets

Brooklyn Kids

Brooklyn Politics

Brooklyn Sports and Fitness

The Classifieds

Apartments and Real Estate

Sales, Openings, and Events

Brooklyn Photos

Marketplace:

The Classifieds

Apartments and Real Estate

Sales, Openings, and Events

Meta:

About Brooklynian.com

Random Stuff

Ask Brooklynian

---

Admin

REGISTER. LOGIN. Please read THE RULES before posting. In short: be nice or leave.

---

Looking for something?

You may want to search before posting.

---

Brooklinkian

Suggest a Link

110 Livingston

53 Boerum

A Brooklyn Life

B61 Productions (Red Hook)

Belltel Lofts Blog

BK11201

Brooklyn Heights Blog

Brooklyn Ramblings

Brownstoner

Curbed

Daily Heights

Daily Slope

Dumbo NYC

Gothamist

Gowanus Lounge

Kingston Lounge

Lost City

Nomad New York

One Stop Over in Brooklyn

Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn

Outside.in 11238 news

One Hanson Place (Set Speed)

Streetsblog Brooklyn

Suggest a Link

---

Subscribe! RSS!

Um... it may be broken. Patience. Brooklynian Main RSS Feed

---

My beautiful, 9y/o, female, tortoise shell cat, "Sludgie" needs a new loving home immediately because my asthmatic, 4y/o daughter has developed a severe allergy to her.
Sludgie, my 'first born', is cuddly, sweet and loves curling up in your lap, especially if you are wearing blue jeans (funny fetish of hers). She is also a character and will meow back when spoken to. She is spayed, vaccinated, in good health -- also a terrific mouser.
Please email me if interested in learning more. Sludgie needs a new, wonderful home immediately due to my daughter's health problems.
photos can hopefully be viewed at :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/traceywinchester/
Tracey






Some one got told!

http://www.bitchslapp.com/viewtopic.php?t=455













i was intitially extremely displeased by the new additions to vanderbilt, not seeing any need for budweiser and sports, or crummy over-priced pizza. but then i had a little epiphany, reminding myself that it is a good thing that there are people of poor taste and places to serve them... simply because that means more of the good stuff for the rest of us! let plan b and the pizza factory draw those with no taste, and leave amorina, bar sepia, etc, for those of us with some class. its like cruise ships - i dont see the appeal, but i am glad so many do, because it keeps them away from the places i like to travel. and glad so many nyc tourists are coralled in times square or confined to their double-decker busses. etc, etc. maybe i should change my moniker to 'the misanthrope.'






The Park Slope Food Coop and the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture presents, The Good Coffeehouse Coop Concert Series featuring two incredible artists and their music:
TOMAS RODRIGUEZ plays the guitar with a passionate originality, with an individual touch, drawing from the musical heart of the Latin world. Resonances from the folk and classical traditions of Spain and South America are richly evident in his playing, but he transmutes them into a sound clearly, fervently his own.

The COOPERATING COOPERATORS have over a century's worth of experience cooperating. Their ranks span generations and were formally banded together to cooperate in the fall of 2002 as a way of avoiding having to do coop shifts. These folks are among you as you shop and you might never expect the outstanding and unusual result of the COOPERATING COOPERATOR’S cooperation

The event is tonight, Friday evening, May 16th, at The Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture is located at 53 Prospect Park West at 2nd Street. $10.00 8p.m. (doors open at 7:45p.m.)






Does anyone know of bars in the area that have summer barbeques?






Get ready for this!
So my friend met this guy whose mom work's for MTV and is the one scouting out locations for the Real World Brooklyn. This lady says that they are no longer looking at Williamsburg or the Slope because the places are too small and too expensive. So guess where she's currently looking to place the show

Crown Heights baby. It may or may not happen, but you heard it here first!






The dog keeps looking at me like it's my fault the rain won't stop. All I want to do is walk to the grocery, but even that seems like a daunting task right now. Is anyone doing anything fun indoors today?






I need to come up with an offer but I have no idea what going daily rate is for a professional photog. Can anyone help?
Thanks!






Hi, I'm new to these forums & new-ish to the neighborhood (11205!). I've lived here since January but still haven't explored the neighborhood since I mostly make trips to Manhattan instead. I want to cook Chinese but I don't know if there are Chinese markets closeby? I heard there are some on Myrtle, maybe? I just don't feel like making a special trip to Chinatown just because I want some simple ingredients... and the scant varieties in "American" markets does not suffice!

Thanks!!






he's absconded with my dry cleaning, hopefully temporarily. however, it's been a week and a half and um. still no love! needs my clothes!






are there any?






????






I'm freaking out. My sweet, sweet, sweet dry cleaner on 10th Ave and Windsor - Eden Cleaners - was found dead in the bathroom with blood around her according to Channel 7 news just now.

They said her name is Mary, but she told me her name was Linda

OMG, I'm so sad. She was a very nice lady whom I've used as my cleaner for 10+ years and the news is calling it suspicious as her car is missing

FUCK!






around 11, was coming back from dinner. at some point during the trip two people came on together: an older (late 70s) unshaven orthodox man wearing a hat and carrying a rolly suitcase, and an early 20s blond girl, with a giant red rolly suitcase bound in shrink-wrap. girl looked very nordic, long hair up in a scrunchie, miniscule diamond earrings and nose ring, jeans, pink nylon carry-on looking bag.

at first they were in seat across from the other, so i couldn't tell that they were together. but when a seat opened up next to the man he motioned for her to come sit next to him. then, he kept leaning in to talk with her and it appeared he was explaining something. i could have just been reading into that. she didn't seem to have any emotion whatsoever

when the train went up the viaduct he used his razor phone twice, telling someone he was on his way but late, he might have said he was coming from san francisco. then the train went express and when i got off at 7th ave they stayed on the train.

i really regret not going up to her and pulling her aside and asking if she was okay, but i didn't. (why she wouldn't have been okay, for those who might not know: orthodox men aren't supposed to be talking to women who aren't relatives, esp. women in pants, or traveling with women in pants--she was clearly a foreigner. he shouldn't have been leaning in talking with her, totally inappropriate for him to be that close to her, etc. ) the whole thing was so out of the realm of normalcy. i really hope she wasn't being trafficked. no, i'm not kidding.






So I usually stop by Bombay Palace on Franklin once a week or so for take-out, and whenever the owner's around we end up chatting about the business (unfortunately, I've never learned his name). Last night, though, he confessed that things were not going well--he wondered aloud if it was the food, or him, or what, because he couldn't figure out why it was happening. He said that hopefully the new pizza place opening on the corner of Prospect would attract new business, or (hope upon hope) that maybe a new bar like Franklin Park would open our way toward Atlantic. "If people have a choice," he said, "they come--but if they have no choices, they go somewhere else."

I didn't get the sense that they were on the brink of closing, but he's clearly not feeling good about the future, and it reiterated for me how hard it is to open a business in a diversifying neighborhood--and how important it is for people to support these businesses not in words, but in dollars. That goes for all quality places, old AND new--if you love Bristen's, spread the word, and if you love Kelso's, spread the word just as hard. The more people realize there's great food in the neighborhood, the less tempted they'll be to head over to Park Slope...and the more prospective businesses will realize that Franklin is a viable location. Wishing for a bakery is great and all, but in many ways it's up to us to make it happen by demonstrating a committed (and hungry!) customer base.

Sorry, just realizing that my first post ever sounds like a shill--it's just that this is the thing that finally forced me to drop the lurking and register here...






Between Classon and roughly Cumberland Ave on DeKalb, the DOT has put in harsh new parking regulations. No standing 7am - 3 pm and 4pm - 7 pm. This has resulted - on my block at least - in traffic sailing down DeKalb at speeds approaching 50 mph. There are many schools here and many playgrounds - this fast traffic is dangerous and out of place in a residential area.

Additionally, the Pharmacy on DeKalb pointed out he had a 40% drop in business as soon as the "No Standing" regulations went into effect.

I have complained to Tish James Letty7627@aol.com regarding this, and I urge other FG/CH residents complain also. This "improvement" is dangerous and misplaced and allows DOT to ease traffic from Long Island and Westchester into non-toll bridge crossings.

Let's not have accidents involving kids and strollers because of speeding cars on DeKalb!






Anyone know when this is going to open? Is it open? Where is it? I asked the Soho staff months ago and they said it would be open early May but I've heard nothing about it locally!






If you haven't seen the signs, check out the info here: http://bestviewinbrooklyn.blogspot.com/2008/05/liquor-license-hearing-for-viva-mexico.html






Hi, I just moved into Williamsburg off the Graham Ave L train stop and I am looking for a grocery store with good prices. Can anybody help me out?






"The 613" By Archie Rand - In todays NY Daily News!

Come by Sunday May 18th from 12-4:00pm corner warehouse Classon & Lexington Ave Brooklyn!

“The 613” – an unprecedented 1,700 square-foot work of art, (and one of the largest paintings ever made), depicting the Judaic principles of Biblical Law (Mitzvah's) will be on display for one day at a street-level warehouse in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn near Pratt Institute. The “G” Train goes to the Classon Avenue Station.






Flea Market & Bazaar

Sunday, May 18th
10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Clothing Housewares, Toys and Shoes

New and Slightly Used Merchandise at bargain prices

Flatbush & Shaare Torah Jewish Center
327 E. 5th Street, corner of Church Avenue

Free admission






[/b]Flea Market & Bazaar

Sunday, May 18th
10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Clothing Housewares, Toys and Shoes

New and Slightly Used Merchandise at bargain prices

Flatbush & Shaare Torah Jewish Center
327 E. 5th Street, corner of Church Avenue

Free admission






I am reading on these websites that it is this weekend?

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/567482?trk=ssp

http://www.missfairchild.com/tour/123






I volunteer for AFS (formerly American Field Service) and live in Brooklyn. If you like the idea of adding a teenager from another country to your family's life for a school year or a semester, I'd be very happy to talk to you about this and answer your questions. I've been with AFS for 28 years and a Brooklyn resident for 29 years. You can send me a private message or check the website http://www.afs.org for information.






Last minute query...since some of the special event stores have closed on 5th Ave, does anyone know where I can pre-order some balloons for this Saturday?

I know I can hit up the 99 cent stores on 5th, but you have to order them at the time...and time is tight!

Any help is appreciated!






Last minute query...since some of the special event stores have closed on 5th Ave, does anyone know where I can pre-order some balloons for this Saturday?

I know I can hit up the 99 cent stores on 5th, but you have to order them at the time...and time is tight!

Any help is appreciated!









3rd Annual
23rd St. Mega Stoop Sale
(23rd St. between 6th & 7th Aves.)

(sorry we skipped 2007)

“Come one, come all to our block-long stoop sale.”

Saturday
May 17
11:00 a.m.
-to-
5:00 p.m.

Houses will have lots of stuff for sale, at, of course, very reasonable prices! (or you can just haggle with everyone).

ON SALE:
Housewares
Tchotchkes
Books/CDs
Clothing
Furniture
Food
and a wee bit of “junk” too!

Rain date: Sunday, May 18-same time.









3rd Annual
23rd St. Mega Stoop Sale
(23rd St. between 6th & 7th Aves.)

(sorry we skipped 2007)

“Come one, come all to our block-long stoop sale.”

Saturday
May 17
11:00 a.m.
-to-
5:00 p.m.

Houses will have lots of stuff for sale, at, of course, very reasonable prices! (or you can just haggle with everyone).

ON SALE:
Housewares
Tchotchkes
Books/CDs
Clothing
Furniture
Food
and a wee bit of “junk” too!

Rain date: Sunday, May 18-same time.






Windsor Place between 7th and 8th Avenues

Rain or shine

Note: street will be blocked off, so no car traffic




Block Wide Stoop Sale Saturday 5/17
KEY FOOD CHEATS
Where can i buy plants in the slope and also were can I
JUST AIRING MY GRIEVANCE CAUSE IS IT ME OR....
Visit Sunset Park for breakfast, stoops, ice cream, & lu
California Supreme Court overturns ban on gay marriage!
Boy fight on Prospect Ave last night?
dead body on bergen and 4th ave this morning?
A rant about Work and Jobs
safest walking route
Still Looking for more rugby players
10 shots fired on putnam and fulton
FIGHT FIGHT: PSP, Crotches, pervs and the Public Library
We had a great lunch!
crips territory?
Getting to JFK during rush hour
"A TASTE OF PROSPECT HEIGHTS" June 7th
Bill O'Reilly freak-out dance remix
PICTURE FRAMES AND MATTING
Julie & Julia Filming Today (Wed) in Park
Bikers on the sidewalk
where there's smoke there's ..... ?
Filming at Hoyt-Schemerhorn station
OK then, if people don't like Animal Kind
Come in, Orson...
Restaurant Overcharged Your Credit Card?
172 Classon Ave- Party
Good Spot for a Film Screening?
raw food on washington
OOH Look What I Found!!!

view all blog entries...

---

Powered by outshine.

The old forum index has not moved. It's still here.

Unanswered

Brooklynian.com | Neighborhood Message Boards | Main Index



Brooklynian.com | Boards About Stuff!



Marketplace



More Neighborhood Boards



"So Meta"


All times are GMT - 4 Hours
Who is Online Users have posted a total of 169893 articles
We have 5016 registered users
Newest registered user: brooklynite
There are 43 users online :: 6 Registered, 5 Hidden and 32 Guests  
[ Administrator ]   [ Moderator ]
Most users ever online was 275 on Thu Apr 10, 08 10:37 am
Registered Users: booklaw, caseopele, doctorj, pjsson, theoryofpractice, yawenchen

New
No new
Forum is locked