Brooklyn Tweets of the Week: The true meaning of 'hot girl summer'

A roundup of (some of) our favorite locally sourced tweets for the week ending May 21

This week: Andrew Yang absorbs a Brooklyn body blow. Plus we have some questions about lobster marketing, and we visit a much-needed new garden in Bushwick.

Be sure to tag us in any tweet that should be included in next week’s roundup!

no one tells you that hot girl summer is mostly just finding places to pee in prospect park

— “hannah” “seidlitz” (@HannahSeidlitz) May 15, 2021

I just passed a sign for a restaurant offering “Lobster the Brooklyn Way” and I don’t know whether to be intrigued, terrified or both.

— Lydia Polgreen (@lpolgreen) May 19, 2021

Your Bushwick landlord asking for the rent https://t.co/MSv4ehELa1

— Alex Kantrowitz (@Kantrowitz) May 18, 2021

Another new, top-notch garden when New Yorkers need them most! So proud of this @nyrp renovation of our Aberdeen garden in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Sign up for garden updates via email: https://t.co/jUzkDQfolk pic.twitter.com/M6t84GvKqy

— bettemidler (@BetteMidler) May 17, 2021

Celtics fans after making the playoffs but staring down Brooklyn in the 1st round pic.twitter.com/oUo3O0E9Lr

— Boston Diehards (@Boston_Diehards) May 19, 2021

a novel set in brooklyn that has a fantasy-style map of prospect heights on the first page

— Alexandra Tanner (@alex___tanner) May 16, 2021

Nothing like an entire pandemic in Brooklyn to deepen your love for The Stoop pic.twitter.com/ZBu7bztnFn

— Leslie Jamison (@lsjamison) May 18, 2021

Yang has lost the support of a superfan in Carroll Gardens in favor of some obscure cryptocurrency pic.twitter.com/MSaNNkPE5e

— Seth Pollack (@sethmpk) May 18, 2021