what about things we love?
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i love olive vine.
i love that people put their clothes out and that i've found 3 cashmere sweaters thus far
clemens burritos
st, savior's rummage sales
i love olive vine.
i love that people put their clothes out and that i've found 3 cashmere sweaters thus far
clemens burritos
st, savior's rummage sales
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Only been here two months, but here goes:
I like (can't say love, at least not yet) Song and Pita Pan.
Union Hall and Barbes.
Walking down the side streets off Prospect Park West around President St at dusk.
The fact that my Honda Civic hasn't been stolen (yet). -
I love all of prospect park
I love the view of the city from my roof -
I love that I see see the Statue of Liberty at the end of my street.
I love taking my skateboard up to the top of the slope late at night and trying to ride it down to the bottom. If I hit all the lights I never have to push and can ride the whole way down.
I love $2 tacos at Neuvos Mexicos...their margaritas could use a lot of work. -
i love the margaritas and fish tacos at bogota.
i LOVE super-savers.
i love c-town (no, i will not shut-up already about the c-town)
i love that meat store/butcher on PPW south
i love sweet charity and rare device, and not just because they carry my work.
i love anthony's pizza
i love nest, but wish i could afford to shop there.
i love the way the women on my street who own brownstones practically compete in the summer for who's got the best front garden. it's amazing -
the park
biking down fifth avenue early in the morning with no traffic
la villa pizza
pollitos
osteria convivium, stone park cafe, blue ribbon, and several other obvious restaurants so I'll shut up now
oh, and belleville, though nobody seems to appreciate belleville
the co-op, because it's true and because this thread needs a good flame war
puppetworks
eagle provisions and jubilat provisions, if that counts as park slope
the view of the eagle clothing sign
the fish stand at the greenmarket
two-day-a-week street sweeping
my house -
- Krupa's Grocery (which isn't a grocery)
- My street I won't say which it is, but the architecture is nice and there are trees and not a single industrial building on the block (no shingles, either!), and I can park here without much problem
-Joe's Pizza, Anthony's Pizza and Lenny's Pizza because I love pizza. That said, there's a lot of crappy pizza around here
-Terrace Bagels- nice people, great bagels, close to my house
- Cute daddies. Would be more fun if they were single and childless, but there are a lot of cute daddies to look at. Ditto some of the runners in the park. Some of them are truly NOT nice to look at, and those guys seem to be the ones who like to take their shirts off :shock -
seeing marty markowitz and his wife walking around the park in the mornings
walking around the park, with my dog, hiking through the trails and out onto flatbush ave. for a callaloo patty with a shot of wheatgrass juice
dropping by total wine bar after work for a plate of mudbugs with beer
checking out the mooovies at BAM
nancy selling her canadian christmas trees in front of the 5th ave key food -
I love the fact that so many people but their used books on their stoops. I've read a LOT of good books this summer that I otherwise might not have picked up! I've started doing the same.
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milfs.
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dogs, restaurants, my apartment, my friends, the park, transportation, coffee
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Slope Cellars
and....store pets (I seem to know them all) -
Prospect Park! Plop an out-of-towner down in the Park and they would never believe they were in Brooklyn.
Greenwood Cemetary
Lots of great restaurants
Beautiful architecture
F-Train
Birds, birds, birds
Being so close to the city while not having the crowds like they do nor the higher prices.
Brooklyn has some great history and I would never live anywhere else -
Subject: What to like?
Prospect Park
Lots of females, many of them available.
La Taqueria
The Chip Shop
The view from my top-floor apartment.
A diverse choice of food and drink from just about anywhere.
The Prospect Park Y.
Walking the sidewalks of the Slope, cycling the streets, looking at the brownstones and limestones.
Being at the center of it all, able to get to all of NYC within a reasonable time by car or by subway .. and to get just about everything I need. -
Things I love about PS:
No tourists.
The sense of community.
People are really quite nice to me here.
Snow on April 4.
It's not Manhattan. -
With bed bugs in them.
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Subject: Re: what about things we love?
brooklynpotter wrote: ???
With bed bugs in them.
i love olive vine.
i love that people put their clothes out and that i've found 3 cashmere sweaters thus far -
I love:
Prospect Park (I lived in Williamsburg and Greenpoint for many years ... McCarren is horrible)
Joe's Pizza on 5th (I recently found out I have high cholesterol -- man, do I miss their slices)
Great restaurants (Al Di La -- the best in Brooklyn!, Little D, Nano, Stone Park, Applewood, Steinhoff, etc.)
The beautiful buildings (see Williamsburg/Greenpoint)
My little backyard
The little knick-knack shops I hardly ever buy anything in but love looking through
The quiet
The fact that Maggie Gyllenhaal just moved here
The farmers market
Steve's C-Town (just wish it was closer to me)
The Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. (has there ever been a cooler concept?)
The endless great brunch options
The Smith/9th street stop (F train is a little sluggish and I hate those orange/yellow seat subway cars, but I always love pulling into that stop)
Great place to bicycle in general -
meanderthal wrote: Things I love about PS:
I confess I secretly agree that I can't stand tourists, but it’s good for people to get out of their comfort zone and explore places they’ve never been.
No tourists.
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In Manhattan yesterday, I found myself surrounded by overweight, white women with permed, blonde helmet haircuts, wearing oversized sweatshirts decorated with teddy bear ornaments. This crowd was stepping off of a double-decker “the only way to see the Big Apple†bus. They fearfully gripped their purses as if all us gays, blacks, Jews, terrorists, coke-head celebrities, were about to draw guns, rip the dainty crosses off of their necks and demand all their Walmart saving cards. What I perceived to be their blatant fear of the city disgusted me.
Another time, I encountered the sexy, slick European tourists that were fine until they lit their cigarettes and filled up the room with stinky smoke.
Another time I went to Key Food on 7th Avenue in Park Slope and a local, English-speaking preschooler behind me in line, started kicking me and the mother, a long-time Park Slope resident, did nothing but watch and giggle.
Tourists, natives, and local residents of less than 10 years all have the potential to act like idiots and to also be nice and respectful.
I love the fact that we don't have the double-decker Big Apple bus running us down on Union Street, but I don't want to close the Brooklyn Bridge to any respectful tourists, especially those who leave their angry, kicking babies at home. -
Rachel's
High Holy Days in the black church on 6th ave, sermons by a lesbian rabbi who married a shiksa...
Hunan Delight's lunch specials
Beautiful brownstone blocks
Halloween stoops in the neighborhood
Dykes
Park Slope bookstores
Neighborhood recycling of all kids of things -
raw wrote: [quote=meanderthal]Things I love about PS:
....Tourists, natives, and local residents of less than 10 years all have the potential to act like idiots and to also be nice and respectful.
No tourists.
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I love the fact that we don't have the double-decker Big Apple bus running us down on Union Street, but I don't want to close the Brooklyn Bridge to any respectful tourists....
Agree, and much better put than my generalization, thanks. -
miriam wrote:
lol - all kids of things...a typo, yet how often appropriate. Anyone have a shin-kicking kid to recycle ? :twisted:
Neighborhood recycling of all kids of things -
raw wrote: [quote=meanderthal]Things I love about PS:
I love the fact that we don't have the double-decker Big Apple bus running us down on Union Street, but I don't want to close the Brooklyn Bridge to any respectful tourists, especially those who leave their angry, kicking babies at home.
No tourists.
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They have those double-decker buses in Prospect Heights, running up Vanderbilt... when I lived above Soda, sometimes we would wave to the tourists on the top of the bus. Usually they would wave back.
To this day, I have no idea what the tourists were there to see. -
yeah - kinds, not kids
but yes, kids in this neighborhood i like a lot as well. babysitting some of them regularly for years now. ... -
mancunian wrote: [quote=raw][quote=meanderthal]Things I love about PS:
I love the fact that we don't have the double-decker Big Apple bus running us down on Union Street, but I don't want to close the Brooklyn Bridge to any respectful tourists, especially those who leave their angry, kicking babies at home.
No tourists.
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They have those double-decker buses in Prospect Heights, running up Vanderbilt... when I lived above Soda, sometimes we would wave to the tourists on the top of the bus. Usually they would wave back.
To this day, I have no idea what the tourists were there to see.
I think they go up to the museum or botanic gardens, then ride past the park, down vandy, and then go through a couple brownstone blocks of Ft Greene before heading back up Dekalb to Flatbush and over the bridge. I've always been pretty amused to see them riding thru FG--I have to say I fear they're bound to be disappointed. I mean I like Dekalb and all but don't know if I'd put it up there with other major int'l tourist sites. I also often see them down by the River Cafe area, checking out the skyline. -
Biking and waking through out Brooklyn. Lots of neighborhoods and beautiful women to look at. Lots of history.
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I love:
the small bookstores
Al Di La
Red, White & Bubbly
The guys at Rita Knox Realty.
B&N
The Slope Fitness -
The wide sidewalks
Exploring Prospect park and watching the dogs play at dog beach
The Boathouse and boat rides on prospect Lake (and being able to see turtles, hawks, rabbits, and herons)
How Halloween Day creates a neighborhood frenzy that I have only witnessed in the suburbs
Perfectly manicured stoop gardens and window boxes
Nest, Rare Device, Living on Seventh
Colson, Belleville, $5 goulash at Café Steinhof, Tost, Moutarde, Blue Ribbon, Dizzy’s, Song, Parco
Russo’s, Blue Apron, C-town, Tarzian West,
The B67 bus
Admiring the beautiful architecture and traces of neighborhood history
Friendly faces that I recognize on a daily basis
That I can drop a sweater and find it a day later nicely hung over a fence waiting for my return
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