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Unbiased advice for a PS newbie - Page 2 — Brooklynian

Unbiased advice for a PS newbie

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  • teckla
    teckla
    My husband is orginally from Miami, and he loves Park Slope! We moved from the UWS and are so much happier. Walking to the store is not a big deal - we've noticed that we actually buy less, but use more of it. I, too, wish we had moved here earlier.
  • kelchan
    kelchan
    #1 - live near a train station and get a bike. My world in Brooklyn just expanded after I got a bike. Everything seems so near now. Get a bike with a basket for your grocery shopping. Bring a backpack if you wanna load up more than your basket can hold. Limits you to not buying supersize crap you don't need too (who needs Costco size stuff if it's just you and your husband?)!

    #2 - I just called Time Warner Cable. I don't think most apts come with internet connection already, do they?

    #3 - You came to the right hood for yoga! I go to Park Slope Yoga (I love Eric's classes) and Bikram Yoga on Flatbush (between 6/7). Also join us at Free Yoga in the Park every Sat (except this Sat cos Liz is away this weekend)!

    #4 - No clue about Billards.

    I (heart) Park Slope.

    Welcome!
  • opossumqueen
    opossumqueen
    sweet tea wrote: it's not raw, but it is unhomogenized, and pasteurized rather than ultra-pasteurized. http://www.ronnybrook.com/site_new/benefits.html

    it tastes very nice. also, since it comes in (returnable) glass bottles, it tastes like milk instead of like cardboard of plastic.
    Try their ice cream. Yum! Chocolate Raspberry Truffle, Butter Pecan...now I can't wait to get home and have a bowl.

    Also at the farmers market:
    In the summer, you must try the strawberry cider that the booth on the SW corner of the market has. It can cure a hangover. The seem to have apple cider most of the year and seasonally have raspberry and pear cider as well.

    Maybe I need to start a "favorite foods at the farmer's market" thread in the food section. I guess it's all good, though :)
  • vanilla
    vanilla
    OpossumQueen wrote:
    Maybe I need to start a "favorite foods at the farmer's market" thread in the food section.
    sounds like a good idea to me!
  • drunken revival
    drunken revival
    What?
  • MOD
    MOD
    punk! :P
  • illig
    illig
    About the food... keep in mind that unless you'll be occupying an entire brownstone by yourself, your available space for stuff will be considerably smaller than what you have in Florida

    Hence, buying a 1000 roll tractor-trailer-container of toilet paper is less common here, than it is in the burbs....

    a small pantry means smaller trips to the store...but at more frequent intervals
  • veets
    veets
    Amberrela... you are going to love PS!

    And aren't we a great bunch of advisors.

    I was living in suburb of Washingtom D.D. when I made the move home in 1980 and the first thing I bought was a shopping cart. It is the absolute symbol and practicality of being an Urban dweller. I use it for groceries but I have been known to go to Lowes in the Spring and bring back lots of plants in that cart. The shpping cart looked like a garden with hanging barkets hanging off of it!

    For a while there I owned a house in Florida and sold it when I realized that I couldn't imagine being down there more than a week at a time. Yes, it is such a different climate up here.Winters are hard but I love the walk to anywhere and leave the neighborhood as little as possible style of life.

    I am excited for you. Brooklyn is a great place to live and start a family and raise one. I did it and now I have kids who live right here and are doing the same thing.
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    veets wrote: Amberrela... you are going to love PS!

    And aren't we a great bunch of advisors.

    I was living in suburb of Washingtom D.D. when I made the move home in 1980 and the first thing I bought was a shopping cart. It is the absolute symbol and practicality of being an Urban dweller. I use it for groceries but I have been known to go to Lowes in the Spring and bring back lots of plants in that cart. The shpping cart looked like a garden with hanging barkets hanging off of it!

    For a while there I owned a house in Florida and sold it when I realized that I couldn't imagine being down there more than a week at a time. Yes, it is such a different climate up here.Winters are hard but I love the walk to anywhere and leave the neighborhood as little as possible style of life.

    I am excited for you. Brooklyn is a great place to live and start a family and raise one. I did it and now I have kids who live right here and are doing the same thing.
    Amberella may have already moved on by now. This thread was bumped from 2 years ago! :lol:
  • MOD
    MOD
    Yeah, I think DR was making a joke because someone else recently bumped some 2 year old threads :P
  • veets
    veets
    wow.. I guess I was not paying attention but my excuse is I don't pay attention to DR.
  • illig
    illig
    Mamacita wrote: Yeah, I think DR was making a joke because someone else recently bumped some 2 year old threads :P
    haha, good call...
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