Tweets of the week: 'Suburbia was a huge mistake'

Plus, a proposal for a 'People's Republic of Flatbushwick-Stuy'

Every week we at Brooklyn Magazine read the entire internet in order to curate (some of) our favorite tweets from the previous seven days. These are locally sourced, hand-crafted, organically grown, free range nuggets of wisdom and jest for the week ending June 10.

This week, a tale of not just two cities. Kings County contains multitudes. Here are our favorite tweets from the past week, in no particular order.

congratulations to the new mayor of bedstuy pic.twitter.com/ZnBxqbCglS

— let my people glo ✨ (@MichellCClark) June 4, 2022

All of my suggested stories in the NYT app’s “For You” tab are those stories about how some couple only has $2 million to spend! but they really want a brownstone! in Park Slope!

Not sure if the recommendation algorithm is working properly

— Michael Calore (@snackfight) June 7, 2022

u have ocean eyes, I have gowanus canal eyes. we are not the same.

— lealealealea (@leawong_) June 3, 2022

i’m a gowanus sun, sunset park moon, and park slope rising

— Broadway’s Alex Lemma (@alexlemmastan) June 6, 2022

They say there are 5 beautiful islands New Yorkers can visit w.o a passport: Coney Island, Long Island, Staten Island, City Island & Rikers Island 😩😍😍😂

— Frantzcesca Casimir 🇭🇹 (@Frantzcesca_C) June 7, 2022

just strolled up Nostrand and Tompkins and down again into Crown Heights … suburbia was a huge mistake. a hundred million more Americans should live like this.

— cummunism (@comradesanchez) June 6, 2022

Has anybody honestly ever looked more like they live in Bushwick and quit their job as a producer at a video game company so they could rate bagels across NYC as some weird NFT project? pic.twitter.com/o6xcuSq1Kb

— Jason Diamond (@imjasondiamond) June 7, 2022

bushwick dating app bios are all like “i’m insane. i’m fucking crazy. i am so dangerous. i am begging you, for your own sake, stay away. i am filled with malice. i might kill you. follow me on instagram.” and the pictures are all cigarettes and kubrick stare forehead selfies

— bodhi small (@bodhismall) June 5, 2022

one listing in bed-stuy asked for ‘additional income materials, such as trust funds, stock portfolios’ https://t.co/z5sHevVpJj

— J(enna) Wortham (@jennydeluxe) June 2, 2022

who’s down to form the people’s republic of flatbushwick-stuy. no we will not be including williamsburg nor greenpoint! they gentrified in the uncool upwardly mobile startup/wall street grad of an elite uni way, not the cool withered & disillusioned downwardly mobile failson way

— the adventure of tom hiddleston (@stewroel) June 8, 2022

A woman in a Greenpoint bodega just called her date “my brother in Christ” to his face. This is what you guys are encouraging on here.

— Michael Friedrich (@mfriedrichnyc) June 4, 2022

whenever i see someone with a trader joe’s paper bag in bushwick i tip my hat and say “welcome home weary traveler”

— Andy Ward (@adubjose) June 6, 2022

Fellas, if you lived in flatbush (ballsack) would you date someone who lived in the upper east side (the shaft)? https://t.co/GFOpFHas3s

— 🧋 chief bicycle officer 🧋 (@capittalism) June 5, 2022

Where’s the lie? https://t.co/HpuEpn4HTY

— EqualityforFlatbush (@EqualFlatbush) June 4, 2022

Bedstuy Or Die. When I pulled up last summer a dude was ice glaring me. I thought it was a problem. I approached him after 30 minutes. His reply was “Did you play biddy ball at 305 park on Throop ave? Did you have a white alcoholic coach named a Murray?”. He was 1000 % correct. pic.twitter.com/t6C5gaGxCS

— Tim to the muthaf (@LosFreaklander) June 5, 2022

Selfishly, we’re glad you went the co-creating-Flatbush-Misdemeanors-route instead. https://t.co/5hYDS6f6dD

— SHOWTIME (@Showtime) June 8, 2022

A tale of two cities/ Artwork by @1Hopsart for @TheBKcollective #streetphotography #hasidic #hipster #brooklyn #photography #photooftheday #NFTCommunity #bushwick pic.twitter.com/lIqmn4TZep

— Pompom l Clara 🇫🇷🇨🇭🇺🇸🔮✨ (@Pommealautre) June 6, 2022