Courtesy Twitter/@ADASpota
Tweets of the week: ‘Welcome to Venice, Jerko’
We’re feeling like a pig on a leash as we contemplate rents — and the typical Manhattanite's cluelessness around Brooklyn geography
Every week (more or less) we try to read the entire internet so you don’t have to and curate (some of) our favorite tweets from the previous seven days.
This weekend we’ll be watching pint-sized rapper Lola Burke make her “East New York” debut, appreciating walkable cities with mixed-use zoning, and trimming our underarm hair.
In no particular order, here are your locally sourced, organically grown, free-range observations as we enter the first week of March (only eight days til we turn the clocks forward).
FEELING LIKE A PIG ON A LEASH pic.twitter.com/fUA28hvWIs
— Willy Blackmore (@willyblackmore) March 2, 2023
https://twitter.com/appelbomb/status/1629856076001693696
People who ain't from here don't understand how big Brooklyn is. Don't "just-come-through" me if I'm in Canarsie and your event is in LES.
C'mon.
— Erica Buddington (@ericabuddington) March 3, 2023
https://twitter.com/elizabethslash/status/1631425677386735617
I love how rent just goes up over time, my grand kids are going to be paying $9800 for a studio apt in Bushwick in 2067
— Cedar Stone (@CDR_STN) March 3, 2023
telling people I live in the "paris of brooklyn" (historic crown heights)
— lucy dean stockton (@lucydstockton) March 3, 2023
https://twitter.com/firstopenlygay/status/1631316873378689025
everybody gangsta till they get asked to draw the israeli border on a map in a bushwick apartment
— andi (e/alb) (@Nexuist) March 2, 2023
if u move to Bushwick ur underarm hair will grow 10x faster and thicker and cats will start following u around
— aqua tofana (@bimboyugari) March 1, 2023
The depressed queers of Bushwick asked me if I was rewatching HBO’s Girls and when I said I never watched it in the first place they took turns punching me in the stomach outside of Mood Ring
— Olivia Scenna (@oliviascenna) February 28, 2023
https://twitter.com/kycarrerolopez/status/1630265150857945091
*laughing and crying* Go ahead. Go ahead. Ask me to come to bushwick again at a bar on a street where everything looks like a warehouse pic.twitter.com/EVgjbJ6qHh
— aa (@existentialkale) February 27, 2023
When you walk into a wburg/bushwick restaurant with random hipster stuff on the wall, you're basically walking into an evolved tgi fridays
— Daern (@TheRealDarenHo1) February 26, 2023
I redesigned 9 logos for businesses in Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY for free… #FlatbushReimagined pic.twitter.com/QK6jy8SmwW
— TMTG (@Jo_GotGame) March 2, 2023
Do not order the BLT from autozone
— Tommy (@FlatbushTommy) February 28, 2023
https://twitter.com/FckYaya/status/1632156233875738625
The Alpine Theater in Bay Ridge still charges just $6 to see a movie. A true life hack. It was also renovated fairly recently. High marks all around.
— Ross Barkan (@RossBarkan) March 2, 2023
"Welcome To Venice Jerko" – Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn pic.twitter.com/xJNMzWPBuX
— Arthur David Spota (@ADASpota) March 3, 2023
they moved to Park Slope with their wives and sent their kids to Montessori schools https://t.co/xrNeD3JAuq
— simone ! (@parasocialyte) March 4, 2023
Today’s shot of February optimism comes to us courtesy a teenager who is walking down 4th Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn in 40 degree weather while carrying a surfboard and wearing shorts.
— Isaac Fitzgerald (@IsaacFitzgerald) February 27, 2023
Remembering the time I witnessed a Park Slope dad explaining to his 6 year old daughter how it's "gauche" to bring your own food to a restaurant
— Callie Hitchcock (@cal_hitchcock) February 26, 2023
im trynna catch the greenpoint raccoon and give him a loving home
— Flexington Ave Local (@Dr_TacoMD) March 2, 2023
Olde Greenpoint pic.twitter.com/g3qjiG2Gxw
— Robert Sietsema (@robertsietsema) March 1, 2023
Greenpoint report: A woman in a minivan pulled up blaring “Nookie” loud enough to hear through the closed car windows. This has been the Greenpoint report.
— Ben (@Bapatoff) February 28, 2023
I've now come to the conclusion that williamsburg is a little mini college town for mid 20s-early 30 year olds
your friends are in walking distance, Mccarren park is the quad, etc
— Nikhil Krishnan (@nikillinit) March 2, 2023
Rendering of the Coney Island casino bid project pic.twitter.com/zAzuDFZD5b
— Mike Mazzeo (@MazzNYC) March 3, 2023
Walking around brooklyn heights getting emotional seeing the number of blended straight couples (4s with 9s)…really gives you hope for humanity
— alex (@trimspa_daddy) March 4, 2023
If I ever pivot to right wing media and get rich I’m going to stay in Brooklyn. I’ll live in a $3 million brownstone in Cobble Hill with a giant American flag out front. All my neighbors will hate me and when my son asks why he has no friends I’ll be like “They’re jealous.”
— Mike Recine (@mikerecine) February 28, 2023
https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1631945837361397761
Brooklyn,New York City.
Coney Island,Surf Avenue. 1961 pic.twitter.com/CLprlnumKf— TJ. (@Tjeerd001) February 27, 2023
#OTD in #MLB history (3/4/1912): Charles Ebbets breaks ground for his team's new Bedford Avenue ballpark. The Brooklyn Superbas' (who would be renamed the Dodgers) Flatbush venue would become a beloved home for forty-four years. #EbbetsField pic.twitter.com/kxCfUnrv6U
— Carolyn Muse (@NLCarolynMuse) March 4, 2023
