Tweets of the week: Endless test lines and a beach comes to Williamsburg
Also, Regina King is tapped to play Shirley Chisholm and Peter Pan Donut and Pastry Shop gets its own special moment in the spotlight
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, we all endured endless lines for Covid tests. Some of us actually managed to be funny about it.
On the celebrity front, Brooklyn icon Shirley Chisholm’s Netflix biopic is a go—and she will be played by Regina King. Gabriel Boric, Chile’s 35-year-old new president, could easily be mistaken as a local dirtbag … and if he had tickets to see LCD Soundsystem at Brooklyn Steel, he was out of luck. And a beloved Greenpoint institution gets a cameo in “Spider-Man: No Way Home.”
On the community front, incoming Borough President Antonio Reynoso is hiring … and Bushwick Daily needs your help. Read all about it below. And if you see something worth including next week, let us know. In the meantime, have a lovely (or as-lovely-as-you can) holiday week. Here are a few (safe) goings-on this weekend.
3.5 frigid hours in line for COVID testing in Park Slope, but the door is in sight! pic.twitter.com/xEoMCugoHe
— Katie Uva (@K80Uva) December 20, 2021
This is how long it took me to get a Covid test in Bed-Stuy!!!!🥲 pic.twitter.com/vHCtJiKR60
— shay bells 🎄 (@shayfil666) December 19, 2021
Hopped over to Fort Greene for COVID testing but the line was 10 miles long so walked back home and ordered Domino’s at 11 am pic.twitter.com/WQh86ZB3j3
— Logan A. Heiman (@LoganAHeiman) December 20, 2021
2.5 million Brooklynites showing up to a single corner in Bensonhurst tomorrow for 2,000 tests like pic.twitter.com/UjXxMG9Mso
— Clayton Cubitt (@claytoncubitt) December 23, 2021
Regina King To Play Shirley Chisholm In Upcoming Netflix Biopic https://t.co/YY3leTHMnP pic.twitter.com/lrNnbY3PbC
— MadameNoire (@MadameNoire) December 22, 2021
It’s official: A beach is coming to Williamsburg https://t.co/jJMke3rVHG
— Time Out New York (@TimeOutNewYork) December 22, 2021
They’re gonna be talking about Bushwick/Bed-Stuy in these days like they do SoHo/LES in the ’70s: a place where young people from all over the country lived, worked, and played while realizing their dreams. Give it a few years.
— SOLAECLIPSE®️ (@DrinkSolaPop) December 21, 2021
every guy who looks like Gabriel Boric has a girlfriend named Emma who lives in Fort Greene and makes $40,000 a year more than he does pic.twitter.com/92D8EegJ5V
— Karl Ove NASCÅR (@SergeiX) December 21, 2021
Lost my house keys in the dog park, so if you see an unhinged editor on her hands and knees in Fort Greene navigating piles of dog shit and frantically digging though the dirt like a Yellowjackets character while also frequently checking her slack notifications, it me
— Laura Bassett (@LEBassett) December 17, 2021
letting aaron sorkin write about a writers’ room is like letting me write about a bunch of lesbians sitting around an apartment in bushwick smoking weed and comparing hinge matches (self-indulgent)
— semitic christmas angel (@EmmaSpecter) December 22, 2021
I went to Peter Pan Donuts in Greenpoint in the morning to get my favorite neighborhood bagel, and then that night I saw Spider-Man only to see MJ work there? Where I just was? Was this… a sign? Am I… Spider-Man?
— Charlene deGuzman (@charstarlene) December 21, 2021
it has been brought to my attention that in the spider-man MJ works at peter pan donuts which i do appreciate but as a high schooler traveling from forest hills to greenpoint for an after school job……no thank you
— lana schwartz ⛄️ (@_lanabelle) December 20, 2021
One more push photo from across the Williamsburg Bridge. Last pushing photo for the week, I swear. pic.twitter.com/odr2YPgNeB
— Josh Katz (@joshkatzphoto) December 21, 2021
Drag is for everyone! But Brooklyn stopped accepting applicants about 4 years ago
— Editor, The Charlene Observer (@Business_Trans) December 23, 2021
Every gay couple in Brooklyn looks like this pic.twitter.com/UyZE4UckjL
— Barney Schreiber, CPA (@luxurytrash_) December 23, 2021
Just got to Brooklyn Steel! Excited for @LCDsoundsystem. Hey, where is everyone?? pic.twitter.com/eVwMDZgpeC
— Zach Schonfeld (@zzzzaaaacccchhh) December 21, 2021
Help, time-traveling carolers on the loose in Park Slope enchanting children w song pic.twitter.com/ROonyVeewm
— J.T. Price (@_jtprice_) December 23, 2021
Brooklyn Bridjge, New York, 1955 pic.twitter.com/1Tm1jYRo9w
— LXII (@VincentL40) December 22, 2021
New job descriptions are up on our transition site 👇
Looking for smart and dedicated folks to help us realize our vision of a Brooklyn For All! https://t.co/b2qaExOhMp
— Antonio Reynoso (@ReynosoBrooklyn) December 21, 2021
PLEASE SHARE! Our local publication, Bushwick Daily has covered news in BWK for 11 years. We need funding to get through this crucial time. Help us raise $2,000 by 12/25. Venmo- @bushwickdaily | cashapp $bushwickdaily,or https://t.co/A6rvx0z6kn pic.twitter.com/Mmw92sOGAz
— Bushwick Daily (@BushwickDaily) December 20, 2021
