Source: Twitter/@NYCParks
Tweets of the week: Remembering MCA (and cheaper rents)
Plus: posh parent posturing, pizza porn—and a plea to abolish Greenpoint
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 May 6.
This week we remembered Brooklyn-born Beastie Boy Adam Yauch, who passed 10 years ago—as impossible as that may seem.
Twitter also had some observations about local parenting styles, banning Greenpoint (and, yes, Bushwick), and pizza porn. Plus, more thoughts on rents and gentrification this week as Williamsburg rents surpass those on the Upper West Side.
Here are your tweets of the week.
Today we remember Adam Yauch of the legendary Beastie Boys who passed away 10 years ago today. His childhood park in Brooklyn Heights is named in his honor. Visit it at State Street and Columbia Place. pic.twitter.com/yiHrn3zQNR
— NYC Parks (@NYCParks) May 4, 2022
No/
Sleep/
Til Brooklyn/ pic.twitter.com/UpWU6vxhEu— Brent Staples (@BrentNYT) May 1, 2022
I’m sorry there is nothing funnier than park slope dads angrily yelling the twee names they picked out for their children
— Val (@valfrogval) April 30, 2022
Overheard in Windsor Terrace, mother to young child: “A smart man once said ‘Hell is other people….do you understand what he means?”
— Sara Vilkomerson (@Vilkomerson) April 29, 2022
Ah to have the clothing budget of a Cobble Hill toddler named Grayson
— Maggie Thompson (@maggiepthompson) April 28, 2022
The fact that Williamsburg rents have eclipsed UWS rents is terrifying https://t.co/8vtFrD0KP0
— katelin, good cause eviction supporter (@loud_socialist) May 1, 2022
Williamsburg? Most of those “brooklynites” are from Ohio https://t.co/IlCPoLlYR4
— Young Realness (@Tha_Kota) May 2, 2022
Garlic knot pizza, Sergio’s, Bed-Stuy pic.twitter.com/xcrPSO1Aye
— Robert Sietsema (@robertsietsema) May 4, 2022
thicc pic.twitter.com/2pZMeiNsrz
— ember loves bay ridge (@embernic) May 3, 2022
Ukrainian flags seem to have supplanted blm signs in Park Slope
— Ben Carlos Thypin (@SoBendito) May 2, 2022
Thinking about when I lived in Williamsburg, next to an upholstery trimmings warehouse demolished by a developer and how all our local rats and pigeons made off with beaded lace and satin cord. Every rathole on Grand looked like the entrance to a tiny fortune teller parlor.
— Pazuzu’s Petals (@thekateblack) May 2, 2022
Bensonhurst, Brooklyn
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.#NYC #NY1Pic #shotoniphone #photo #streetphotographer #photography #NewYorkCity #photooftheday #NewYork #Spring #Brooklyn pic.twitter.com/ioNIwspMu7
— anthony distefano (@antsynth) May 3, 2022
someone named Kale bought me a beer tonight i love bushwick for that
— eleanor 💌 (@eleanorhiltyart) May 5, 2022
bushwick egirls reading lolita on the L train i hate it here
— certified ellie moment (@meatlessmilk) May 4, 2022
The way i just found out @Jbrekkie is my neighbor after running into Peter Bradley smoking a cig on his balcony in Bushwick… incredible stuff. Love this wild ass city
— Tark (@TarkInThePark) May 3, 2022
They need these at the entrance of every bar in Bushwick https://t.co/CMydfjRdLy
— Josh (@JoshRodriguez88) April 30, 2022
“Off-Road” driving in #crownheights pic.twitter.com/heXzkhWjnC
— Shabazz Stuart (@ShabazzStuart) April 28, 2022
chloe sevigny to maggie gyllenhaal at the 2004 grand opening of the brooklyn target on flatbush avenue pic.twitter.com/ojy493rhwC
— Most (@Most) May 2, 2022
In the heart of Flatbush, Brooklyn, lies Toussaint Louverture Blvd. Locals may also know it as Nostrand Ave. pic.twitter.com/NiEIwkXjl5
— Garry Pierre-Pierre (@Pierre2Garry) April 30, 2022
Abolish greenpoint https://t.co/hf8ULl09gD
— calamari cock ring 🦑 (@desivirgil) May 2, 2022
Greenpoint is the Kaliningrad of Podcastsya https://t.co/umopp2dWej
— Matthew Zeitlin (@MattZeitlin) April 30, 2022
More good bench plaques of Fort Greene Park pic.twitter.com/Qdka60ABGP
— Amy Plitt (@plitter) April 29, 2022
Just dipped a mango in the Gowanus pic.twitter.com/0GagtHYzIP
— Moiz (@ziomnahk) April 29, 2022
I did the @bikenewyork 5 Boro Bike Tour with my friend @kmilhouse on this beautiful day. The thrill of cycling on the FDR, Gowanus and Verrazzano — and the rest of the route, with no motor vehicles and no traffic lights — never gets old. pic.twitter.com/1KQDrLhC8D
— Alyssa Katz (@alykatzz) May 1, 2022
As an undocumented teenager, I came to this very library in #Brooklyn to use a computer & figure out if I could apply for college given my status.
Today, I visited as a Commissioner for the City of New York & spoke with our #IDNYC team working to support #immigrant communities. pic.twitter.com/UN61eWLQtC
— Commissioner Manuel Castro (NYC Immigrant Affairs) (@MCastroMOIA) May 5, 2022
Spotted somewhere today in the Republic of Brooklyn#Jazz #AliceColtrane #HonkIfYouDare pic.twitter.com/pzlWP7csjR
— globaljazzqueen (@globaljazzqueen) May 4, 2022
Park Slope, Brooklyn (1977) Photograph by Hazel Hankin pic.twitter.com/VUqCMgRLe0
— BLACK ARCHIVES (@blackarchivesco) May 3, 2022
EASY HOUSEKEEPING HOMES (1916) Crown St, btwn Bedford & Rogers Ave, Crown Heights. pic.twitter.com/0QHKQBWcTP
— The Brownstone Detectives (@BrownstoneDetec) April 28, 2022
