I love New York and I’m not leaving Brooklyn. But “most livable” isn’t the phrase I usually use to describe it.
They did caveat it with “for people 35 and under”…
h/t Barry Ritholtz
Category: Brooklyn
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Gotham in Brooklyn
I don’t watch the show Gotham, but we saw them filming last night. My daughter has an art class in Dumbo Brooklyn on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The studio is on one of the most picturesque blocks in Dumbo because of the way it frames the Manhattan Bridge.
If you do an image search on Dumbo Manhattan Bridge, most of the pictures are of this block. Walking to her art class we regularly see wedding parties and tourists taking pictures on this block (thankfully there is little traffic, because people like to stand in the middle of the street).
So that’s where they were filming. The attention to detail is interesting. They put up some fake store signs and other little touches. The had a bunch of old cars with Gotham license plates.
Just another night in Dumbo…
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County of Kings
Brooklyn is also known as Kings County. Today English royalty visits a few block from our place.
Most people are just worried about the traffic…
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End of an Era
My favorite bar has been sold. It will close on 12/28. If you are old enough to remember the show Cheers, that is how to think of this place. I moved to Brooklyn in 1994. I started going to the Alehouse in 1994.
Back then, one of my (now) partners at Origami Risk also lived in Brooklyn. We were each about four blocks away, on opposite sides. “Let’s meet at the Alehouse” was a common refrain. A very common refrain.
Many of the current bartenders were working then. On of my favorites, Mary, was single like us at the time. Since then she has gotten married and had three kids while I got married and had two, around the same age. We’ve been sharing stories and pictures for 20 years.
It really is Cheers. I walk in and wave to the bartender (whichever one, I know them all). I find a spot at the bar next to someone I know, get some popcorn and discuss the beer list with the bartender (though half the time I just get a Weihenstephaner, one of the permanent beers). The people haven’t changed. My business partner moved away over 10 years ago. He’d recognize half the people in the bar.
The food is good, the beer and popcorn great, and the bartenders excellent. There are plenty of great bars in Brooklyn. But none can replace this.
We’ll see what happens. The new owner is a pizza guy, so that could be good. But you can’t replace Cheers.
The end of an era…
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That’s a Boom Mic
As someone who grew up in the Midwest, I often think about how much more my daughters get exposed to (good and bad) growing up in Brooklyn.
Today while I was walking Tori to school, we passed a bunch of film trailers. This has become increasingly common in our neighborhood over the past few years. It was for some NBC show called The Slap (the No Parking signs always identify what is filming). They must have been filming in a store or restaurant because nothing was happening on the street.
But Tori notices that lots of the doors on the trailers have names on them. So I explain that those are small dressing rooms and the names are the actors’ names (or sometimes the character name). But there are two bigger doors with big Lucy and Desi signs. Not taped on, these are permanent. So Tori asks me who Lucy and Desi are.
For those that aren’t aware, it’s an inside joke. Those are the crew bathrooms labeled for women and men with a tribute to Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez.
I definitely did not know that when I was 7.
As we approach her school, we see another film shoot setting up (Fox – The Following). This one is going to be an outside scene and they are moving stuff around, yelling out orders, a half a block from her school.
Tori points at something and says, “That’s a boom mic”. It was, but my first question was, ‘how did you know that?”.
My seven year old knows what a boom mic is. Now if we could just teach her to spell it…
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Subway Craziness
It made for a good tabloid cover page, but it sure looked scary. A huge construction drill goes in the wrong place and nearly pierces a subway car (on the F line – hence the cover below). Thankfully, no one was hurt.
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Sunset in Brooklyn
On my way home tonight…
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Proof Brooklyn is Hipper than Manhattan…
Amazon Fresh is starting deliveries in NYC today. Not in Manhattan though. They are starting in Park Slope, Brooklyn and will then expand to more of Brooklyn. Probably like my neighborhood (not as hipster as Park Slope, but in the ballpark).
We’ve had FreshDirect for ages, but that started in Manhattan. Amazon gets credit for starting in the right place…
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Post Antic
The 40th Atlantic Antic was fantastic. Perfect weather and a perfect day. And yes, I am very full.
Food I ate today (some portions shared):
- Roast Corn
- Honey Bacon on a stick (sooo good)
- Alcapurrias (definitely plural)
- Empanada
- Slider
- Popcorn
- Chicken Wings
- Fried Shrimp
- Sausage
- Meatball Sandwich
It wasn’t all food, the Transit Museum brings out some old buses and does some crafts for the kids.
And of course, face painting
Another great Atlantic Antic.
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I Don’t Hate the Red Sox
I’m sure if both the Yankees and the Red Sox get good again, I’ll hate them again. That’s what Yankee fans do. But they put on the classiest farewell for Derek Jeter imaginable.
Former Red Sox players Jim Rice, Luis Tiant, Tim Wakefield, Rico Petrocelli,Jason Varitek and Fred Lynn were also involved in the ceremony, followed by appearances from Bruins legend Bobby Orr, former Patriots captain Troy Brown and former Celtics captain Paul Pierce.
Red Sox third-base coach Brian Butterfield, who helped mold Jeter’s defense in a crucial boot camp in the mid-1990s, presented Jeter with a pair of commemorative L.L. Bean Yankees boots.
The entire 2014 Red Sox team, led by David Ortiz, walked onto the field to exchange greetings with Jeter, with Joe Kelly stopping to take a cell phone “selfie.”
It kept going after that. Honestly, they’re making it hard to hate Boston…
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