Tweets of the Week: Brooklyn reacts to the return of to-go drinks—and Kyrie

You also had thoughts about the proposed interborough express and male grooming

Every week we here 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, Brooklynites had thoughts about two big headlines from Governor Hochul’s State of the State address: The proposal of an interborough express and the possibility that to-go drinks might be re-legalized. Maybe.

Also, the city went back to work … and so did Kyrie Irving. The anti-vax Nets guard returned to the court after being granted permission to play in away games, and he made an impression (several impressions, really).

All of that below, plus a plea for a Bay Ridge Trader Joe’s—and a wen for a Wegman’s wedding.

Many benefits to this train line, but 3 biggies:

1. Don’t need Manhattan to go btwn Brooklyn & Queens
2. Serves Black Brooklyn (Canarsie, Brownsville, East New York) which is underserved transit
3. You can eat Arab food in Bay Ridge & Desi food in Jackson Heights w/in 40 minutes https://t.co/P7eyO6v2Uh

— Asad أسد 🥸 (@DandiaAsad) January 6, 2022

Bay Ridge, the home of parallel double parking

— Anthony DeVito (@AnthonyDeVito) January 5, 2022

It’s crazy to me how the “Buy Nothing Bushwick” FB page is ppl seeking mutual aid & asking for food & winter clothes for their babies while the “Buy Nothing Park Slope” page is just rich people giving each other “gently loved” designer home goods… same boro, different reality

— i love billy joel (@TieDyeBlotter) January 6, 2022

Last night, I stopped by Woodhull Hospital in Bed-Stuy alongside my colleagues in the Council and @nycmayor to thank our frontline healthcare workers for their hard work during this Covid surge.

Our hospital staff deserve hazard pay, raises, and safer working conditions ASAP. pic.twitter.com/0NIGLzzeRP

— Chi Ossé (@OsseChi) January 5, 2022

The line to get tested in Sunset Park (Brooklyn) is the longest I have ever seen it. I asked someone in the middle how long they had been in line and they said three hours. Workers put up signs along sidewalk saying “last person will be swabbed at 6:30.” pic.twitter.com/gr8ZgBsQuC

— Chris Brooks (@chactivist) January 2, 2022

help… my husband sold me and our kids and our west village brownstone and moved into a williamsburg commune because he said property in the ‘metaverse’ is more valuable

— $ri (@nycsadgirl) January 6, 2022

The handlebar moustache williamsburg to gay mullet bushwick pipeline or something I don’t know

— e (@callajandro) January 5, 2022

The kind of men you’d see in your local coffee shop in Greenpoint. pic.twitter.com/byscbkqB1v

— Rendy Jones (@Rendy_Jones) January 5, 2022

Kyrie did it on both ends with 22 points and 3 steals@KyrieIrving #NBAAllStar pic.twitter.com/LV5QGotPFa

— Brooklyn Nets (@BrooklynNets) January 6, 2022

they funny fa lettin kyrie work part-time

— Stanley Earl. (@Gluvvvvvv) January 6, 2022

“sex counts as exercise and tequila is essentially water” -me whenever I wake up in Bushwick

— Pamela Ross (@PamNotAnderson) January 5, 2022

OUT: indoor dining

IN: strutting around bushwick with my cocktails https://t.co/i9jhJQYAUn pic.twitter.com/ynIfGAHRRN

— rob (@robramkishun) January 5, 2022

they’re smoking blunts on the covid testing line in bushwick. ive chosen my neighborhood wisely.

— motti (they/them) (@notemilymotti) January 3, 2022

bro why did i move to bushwick i keep running into the worst people i’ve ever met

— big ms. steak (@clairefarnie) January 2, 2022

stop being weird and put a location in bed-stuy @traderjoes

— Alexis (@_AlexisBreanneS) January 5, 2022

If it snows later, definitely going to take the CD/R sled over to Fort Greene Park… pic.twitter.com/NsfuAwizbe

— 🔇🔈🔉🔊 (@keithfwhitman) January 6, 2022

There is an event space near the Wegmans in Brooklyn and if anybody wants to get married to me ever, I think we should do it there, and I think we should take engagement photos here pic.twitter.com/d8ySfh4IXd

— Sara Benincasa (@SaraJBenincasa) January 6, 2022

That frantic typing you hear? That’s every parent in Brooklyn pounding their mechanical keyboard to get as much work done as possible before their kids are home in quarantine.

— Hilary Mason (@hmason) January 5, 2022