Brooklyn Tweets of the Week: Bye bye Cuomo, hello sunflower season

A roundup of (some of) our favorite locally sourced tweets for the week ending August 13

This week: Cuomo’s out and fireflies are in. Driving is out, witchcraft is in. Baby store names are out, rats are in. Also, shoutout to the protein-shaked, Redbull-fueled treadmill bro in Bay Ridge.

If you see something, say something: Be sure to tag us if you see anything that should be noted next week. Have a great weekend!

sources tell me Melissa DeRosa is opening a witchcraft store in Greenpoint

— Anor Londo gentrifier (@ByYourLogic) August 10, 2021

Guy at my gym just lined up shots of protein shake and then shotgunned a Red Bull and is now walking at 3.5 mph on the treadmill i love bay ridge Brooklyn

— Chris Distefano (@chrisdcomedy) August 8, 2021

seeing a firefly in brooklyn will always feel like playing pokémon irl

— taylor garron (@taylorgarron) August 6, 2021

Do the baby clothing stores in Williamsburg do any research before they add an “Le” to the beginning of their store name? To make my question stronger, are they making sure the languages match up when they spell their name as “shoppe” in addition? Also do the accènts match up?

— Kollel Wife (@kollel_wife) August 9, 2021

Saw the biggest rats I’ve ever seen tonight, entering an open shipping container that was an art installation in an outdoor beer garden in Bushwick and frankly the metaphors are writing themselves these days.

— Annie Heckenberger (@anniemal) August 12, 2021

the “I gotta do my own research” people in my life are the same folks who tried get me to take ayahuasca in a greenpoint yoga studio

— jason c. (@netw3rk) August 10, 2021

Addendum: “and Ima stop smoking.”

— Ivie Ani (@ivieani) August 6, 2021

I’m in remotest coastal Maine. Went on a hike a 40 min drive down an unloved peninsula. No other cars in the gravel parking lot. On return, I ran into one other hiker: A Brooklyn media figure. This world is sick.

— Joe Bernstein (@Bernstein) August 8, 2021

drove a uhaul through park slope today and u know, i think it should be illegal to own a car in nyc (unless you wanna take me out on a date or drive me around, in which case you get an exemption)

— g a b y (@gabydvj) August 7, 2021

The broker was like ‘if you bring your deposit in cash when you sign the lease, please don’t do it in 10s and 20s’ lmaoooooo

— Rebecca Baird-Remba (@thecitywanderer) August 5, 2021

i am about to walk over a bridge alone from brooklyn to manhattan (1.5 hrs), wearing headphones, in the cool drizzle, to catch a late showing of a bad movie with a friend at a small cinema. this is when i am happiest and feel most at peace in new york city 🙂

— p.e. moskowitz (@_pem_pem) August 8, 2021