Tweets of the week: A little levity and a lot of real life in Brooklyn

By Brooklyn Magazine

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 Feb. 25.

It was a hard week but we made it through. The news of the day—which we will cover in more depth elsewhere—is acknowledged in our roundup of local tweets, even as daily life and all its absurdities continue to amuse, dismay and perplex us. Enjoy. And be good to each other.

Took this yesterday in Flatbush because it captures a mood: uncertain path toward dark & murky sky. Lit below with glowing, gritty hope that humanity can some day put war & pandemic & prejudice & hate & fascism behind us. pic.twitter.com/7woSNIL7dr

— Maureen Langloss (@MaureenLangloss) February 25, 2022

I would like to issue a giant 🖕🖕🖕🖕to the #bayridge assholes who decided tonight of all nights was a GREAT night to set off shell fireworks

Nothing like reading about Russia invading Ukraine & threatening nuclear war while in NYC … & then hearing booms/seeing flashes

— van @ 🏳️‍🌈AgenderAceAro c2!zhongli haver🏳️‍🌈 (@vantasticmess) February 24, 2022

Speaking of greenways, devastated sidewalks are infrastructure! This route (Flatbush south of Ave V) has been in @NYC_DOT’s protected/greenway category for a long time, but…

Fixing it is in a Jamaica Bay greenway plan, but as a capital project not yet begun – 2030s?? pic.twitter.com/EVdeysxMrm

— Bike New York (@bikenewyork) February 22, 2022

According to a study by the Corcoran Group, rents in Bed Stuy are up 10% since last year.

They’re up 22% in Fort Greene/Clinton Hill.
A whopping 48% in Prospect Heights.

Brooklyn, this is unsustainable. Good Cause Eviction would limit rental increases to 3% or 1.5x the CPI. pic.twitter.com/Gn5vTL3c06

— Jabari Brisport🌹 (@JabariBrisport) February 19, 2022

Mary Pinkett was the first Black woman elected to the New York City Council.

She was a strong voice for Black Americans, women, and workers throughout the city.

Serving from 1974 to 2001, she lived in Brooklyn her entire life.#BlackHistoryMonthhttps://t.co/ahEhsdAmlb

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) February 20, 2022

me going from Williamsburg back to bed stuy https://t.co/ZiGF4ed4Zp

— eric with a c (@kirkeskid) February 22, 2022

I’m going to need someone to give me 3,000 words on the pluckitblogazine scandal that is tearing bed stuy apart pic.twitter.com/cx7PsZY2Hf

— Molly Osberg (@molly__o) February 17, 2022

really confused about this storefront in bedstuy pic.twitter.com/nP6WbKDQqY

— joyci arias (@nicolerichle) February 22, 2022

me, every time I walk into prospect park https://t.co/tNkYLs6Jrl

— Adam Sternbergh (@sternbergh) February 24, 2022

Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn pic.twitter.com/p70tyjVFRH

— Brent Staples (@BrentNYT) February 20, 2022

My favorite brand of oberlin student is leftist co-oper from park slope who doesn’t tip

— eamon (@eamckn) February 22, 2022

My cousin opened a wine bar on Malcolm X Blvd in Bedstuy.

Great food & drinks.
Happy hour W-F from 12 -7p. 🍸

It’s called Therapy Wine Bar 2.0.🍷 pic.twitter.com/c5POcPud3z

— 🐼 (@amandaapleaseex) February 25, 2022

Arthur just look like Bed Stuy vs Greenpoint/Williamsburg https://t.co/pMWIOE0Dc1

— Coach Jawn (@Corbbeenlit) February 21, 2022

omg i could totally see you living in bushwick! (scathing)

— Grace (@gracecamille_) February 19, 2022

PS 41 Prom
Brooklyn, New York (1994) pic.twitter.com/F22TVgMomb

— AfterSchool (@AfterSchool90) February 21, 2022

The number is, uh, 718-498-1043
That’s Paul’s Boutique and they’re in Brooklyn

— WHAT THE.. WHAT? (Jay) (@SorryEh_103) February 24, 2022

The first full moon of 2022 rising over Williamsburg, Brooklyn #NYC pic.twitter.com/4aZQPUrpXG

— Max Guliani (@maximusupinNYc) January 20, 2022

The Duesenberg racing team traveled to the Sheepshead Bay board track in Brooklyn, New York, for non-competitive speed trials in November 1919. The Duesenbergs were the last automobiles to run at the short-lived two-mile track that opened in 1915. pic.twitter.com/yNDIrkJEdG

— Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum (@ACDAM1974) February 23, 2022

I live in the Brooklyn neighborhood that is home to the largest diaspora of refugees and migrants from the former Soviet Union in North America. Everyone here—Tajik or Turkmen, Kyrgyz or Kazakh, Uzbek or Ukrainian—stands with the Ukrainian resistance.

I’m with my neighbors.

— Asad أسد 🥸 (@DandiaAsad) February 24, 2022