Tweets of the week: ‘Living in Brooklyn is easy’ … or is it?

By Brian Braiker

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, we’ve got a couple of football-themed tweets in advance of Sunday’s big game for you, including a shoutout to Brownsville’s own Brian Flores.

Not feeling football? We’ve got some relationship (and general Brooklyn survival) insights in the run-up to Valentine’s Day, and a glammed-up Steve Buscemi serving botanical beauty for your moment of zen. (Speaking of nature healing, we see you, Park Slope moms rocking out to WNYC in Prospect Park.)

We’re also treated to a pro-tip for whoever is programming the TVs at Planet Fitness in Brownsville; a Bay Ridge councilman gets back in touch with his hardcore roots … at Home Depot, and we check out a few vintage photos from Brooklyn’s distant past.

Have a great weekend—whatever it is you decide to do—and tag us in tweets you think should be included next week.

I enjoy when the TL gets extremely Flatbush once in a while. https://t.co/05zimHbRzg

— Staun up… STUN UP! (@oliviadope) February 9, 2022

Latinidad has and will always be a fraught and failed category for Spanish-speaking Black folks. Brian Flores a Garifuna Honduran from Brownsville Brooklyn, NY should be getting hemispheric coverage as he takes down NFL’s institutionalized racism. #GarifunaTwitter https://t.co/DwCPuTivi3

— pjlo (@BlackCatrachoBK) February 5, 2022

It’s giving Brooklyn botanical garden. We stan a New York legend. https://t.co/7PopJ9L27p

— Christine; or, The Modern HOEmetheus (@sistineDbean) February 8, 2022

If any early 90s industrial metal bands are looking for a sick backdrop for a photo shoot today, check out aisle 49 at the Coney Island Home Depot. pic.twitter.com/VllU8NiSnH

— Justin Brannan (@JustinBrannan) February 5, 2022

welcome to flatbush, brooklyn: home of the $7 bottle of irn-bru pic.twitter.com/Hm2n8wUo4I

— max finkel (@2Fast2Finkel) February 5, 2022

Walking through Bed-Stuy, a rather caffeinated gentleman forcefully opined that I “Look like [I] wanna get knocked the fuck out”.
Which was extremely odd because I didn’t. https://t.co/R0Go5rtT59

— Name cannot be blank (@AlexPaknadel) February 6, 2022

“i’m a top”
“i’m a bottom”
ok well i’m in brooklyn trying to survive in this economy pic.twitter.com/iqH0ZYdH47

— yolanda fister (@yolandafister) February 3, 2022

old hag in the woods (the woods are somehow in the middle of north Brooklyn) https://t.co/W6ZZV0VYbJ

— simone! (@parasocialyte) February 8, 2022

living in brooklyn is easy. I just walked into a coffee shop where three baristas were critiquing some dude one of them matched with on hinge and I said “scorpio men are cancelled” I have no idea what that means but they all shrieked gleefully and then gave me a free cappuccino

— “hannah” “seidlitz” (@HannahSeidlitz) February 8, 2022

Passed by someone achieving peak Park Slope—walking through Prospect Park, blasting Brian Lehrer.

— Kara Smoke (@kbsmoke) February 10, 2022

the bushwick kiss is when your trucker hats touch brims

— KT (@youngsweetcorn) February 10, 2022

Curry Oxtail and Buffalo Chicken slices from Cuts & Slices in Bed-Stuy. Excellent Black-owned pizzeria that’s doing the Lord’s work with these slices lol. pic.twitter.com/pi8sdH3zxt

— Derek B. (@dbowe44) February 6, 2022

planet fitness should really consider the neighborhood demographics when they put their required tv channels together because I promise you that there are not enough republicans in Brownsville, Brooklyn to make it worth it to have TWO televisions playing fox news

— Bella Pori (@BellaPori) February 5, 2022

hi friends,

i am seeking to commission six (6) more local Brooklyn artists (born and raised) for a PAID project for a mental health org in Flatbush that caters to underserved communities

art will also be featured at a grand-opening exhibition ceremony in april/may

tag or DM!

— Lindsey India (@LindseyIndia) February 7, 2022

Powell street, Brownsville, Brooklyn, NY

Portable pool, 1970

This is one of the most interesting things I’ve ever seen #TVD pic.twitter.com/VURmCzsXR1

— ShanJor (@theVelvetDoor_) February 5, 2022

We used to ride streetcars down DeKalb Avenue! (cnr. Washington Ave., Clinton Hill, #Brooklyn, ca. 1947). pic.twitter.com/AOleaIZscJ

— The Brownstone Detectives (@BrownstoneDetec) February 2, 2022

Brooklyn Dodger fans celebrating 1955 World Series victory, Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn ©Martha Holmes pic.twitter.com/hwKY8cElaf

— (@VintageReview) February 7, 2022