Tweets of the week: Barbados dreams and snowy scenes

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.

This week … maybe you’ve heard it snowed? With temps ramping up now and the snow reduced to a slushy gray sludge, we revisit how lovely the borough looked for a brief moment.

In non-weather-related tweets, you all had a lot on you minds—from Captain America’s imaginary run-ins with birds to Mike Tyson’s very real love of pigeons. On the more serious side of things, we look at a fight for improved heating conditions, redistricting weirdness and we celebrate a gem of a Crown Heights school.

Speaking of schools, one bodega teaches us the proper way to order a sandwich in Brooklyn. Also, for the grown-ups, a little sex shop solidarity and a CNN-Succession mind-meld with a special local spin. Enjoy, and have a great weekend—here are a few things to check out while you’re at it—and tag us in tweets you think should be included next week.

My mom grew up on a beach in BARBADOS and decided FLATBUSH BROOKLYN was the PLACE DREAMS ARE MADE??????

— ca caw (@davinccdeez) January 31, 2022

82-year-old Edward Grayson always leading the fight now leading the fight to feel the heat on his all senior building. He served several years in the U-S army, 18 years as an EMT. Grayson needs our help bringing the heat to his Bed-Stuy building! @pix11news #monicamakesithappen pic.twitter.com/rqI1D0jMyH

— Monica Morales (@monicamoralestv) February 1, 2022

Greetings to the man running around the Prospect Park Loop growling

— Lizzie O’Leary (@lizzieohreally) February 1, 2022

today I discovered my husband still has me in his phone as “Elyssa Brooklyn” which is SO FUNNY because he’s still in my phone as “don’t pick up”

— ely kreimendahl (@ElyKreimendahl) January 30, 2022

I love GIRLS. I wish Brooklyn was real 😔

— Michael. (@yosoymichael) January 27, 2022

Flatbush. And this is my personal hobbyhorse because sometimes I take my kid to school on it but the B12, which serves the Kings County Hospital Center, has no bus infrastructure at all, an insane route, terrible stop spacing, and is constantly bunched and slow

— ‘Weird Alex’ Pareene (@pareene) February 3, 2022

lmao Bensonhurst and the UWS now share a representative https://t.co/maxkf8HuYR

— CHOAM Nomsky (@samthielman) January 30, 2022

Want to see a great neighborhood public school? @PS532NewBridges in Crown Heights is joy, excellence, music, student voice, and great school leadership all in one. @DOEChancellor began his teaching career in this building & celebrated #WorldReadAloudDay by reading Maya Angelou! pic.twitter.com/1ozG4gK2xm

— Nathaniel Styer (@necs) February 2, 2022

Nothing sums up Brooklyn better than this sign on a bodega’s sandwich counter pic.twitter.com/fGQb7dwBDy

— Rach, Esq. (@thebgcomplex) January 29, 2022

I’m just a bird from Brooklyn. pic.twitter.com/1bpOzUmzgp

— memes (@MemesCentraI) January 30, 2022

Mike Tyson has always loved Pigeons 😍

“I’ve always had pigeons my whole life, since I was 8, 9 years old, that’s just what we do in Brooklyn, New York, we fly pigeons. I don’t know why, but that’s just what we do.” pic.twitter.com/uo1Bc02LLk

— Boxing Exposure (@BoxingExposure_) January 29, 2022

Workers at the woke sex shop where all the Park Slope moms buy dildos have decided to unionize and yes, I stand is solidarity with them

— Trill de Blasio (@TrillDeBlasio) January 28, 2022

it was march of the themguins last night in bushwick

— one woman cult (@clickholebot) January 30, 2022

Tom blackmails Zucker but Shiv leaks the news to undercut him. Roman heads to Brooklyn to befriend Josh Wardle but can’t crack the day’s game. Kendall courts Taylor Lorenz. https://t.co/z1RiEeedvJ

— Lindsay Deutsch (@lindsdee) February 3, 2022

And though it’s hard to believe it’s been less than a week, here are a few stellar snowy scenes:

Snowy Coney Island #NewYork pic.twitter.com/y4ZX58sj8Q

— 🧀 NYcheesy (@NYcheesy) January 29, 2022

Fuck the snow haters, Brooklyn is beautiful right now pic.twitter.com/qwktVThtlA

— Surplus Value Meal 📉 (@surplusvalmeal) January 29, 2022

Around 8:30a Saturday in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn. #nycsnow #nycsnowstorm #snowstorm #snow pic.twitter.com/WAmxBDow48

— Anthony Deng (@anthonyhdmedia) January 29, 2022

Images from Flatbush in the aftermath of a snowstorm that dropped 8 inches of snow in Brooklyn. pic.twitter.com/kmwbYskwya

— Leonardo March (@mneyid) January 29, 2022

Finally, we would be remiss if we didn’t gently remind you of this king.

BLIZZARD OF ’22: Weathering the storm with “#Brooklyn’s Finest” 🥶❄️😂 (via News 12’s @ZhaneCaldwell) pic.twitter.com/IKCZv69MuE

— News 12 New York (@News12) January 30, 2022