4TH LARGEST CITY IN AMERICA - HON. SEBASTIAN LEONE, BOROUGH PRESIDENT: In honor of tomorrow night's Nets (rescheduled) home opener, and for all the warm feelings we share for the ALOTT5MAns resident therein, tell us something you like about Brooklyn.
Dodgers fans still holding a grudge against Walter O'Malley after 55 years. That's some grade-A grudge holding and I kind of have to applaud it.
ReplyDeleteBarcade! Also, right across from that, this neat new place called the West that I've been playing at.
ReplyDelete....but part of what I love about playing at the West is having a reason to stop at BARCADE!
He's a relatively recent transplant to Brooklyn, but Pat Kiernan both on Twitter and on NY1 has been an indispensable and calming source of information throughout this. (As has much of the team at NY1.)
ReplyDeleteRandazzo's Clam Bar in Sheepshead Bay. Best fresh clams in the city, and the marinara is made of dreams. Hope they pulled through the storm ok.
ReplyDeleteWell besides all the nice people I know that live in it and the Beastie Boys song "No Sleep Til Brooklyn" I really enjoyed my visit last year to Henry Public. They know what they're doing behind the bar there. Also, I always hear the name in my head as "Hen Republic" which makes me giggle.
ReplyDeleteAs a California kid, I like that the opening the Welcome Back Kotter made me learn about Buroughs.
ReplyDeleteI also like any and all cliched Brookynites in World War Two movies.
My parents grew up and met there, and my sister moved back.
ReplyDeleteAnd right in that hood we've also got Forcella. They fry the pizza crust, you guys! FRIED PIZZA! And the owners really make an effort to make it an affordable, neighborhood joint.
ReplyDelete(also, their LES location obviously lost power but Weds night they said they were planning on assembling pies in Williamsburg and driving them over to Manhattan to cook, so if you're stuck w/o power, maybe it's time to try a Montanara Pie.)
It is home of The Chocolate Room:
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lived there for 6 year. Siggy's in Brooklyn Heights.
ReplyDeleteThere is a Barcade in Philadelphia. I haven't been yet. I want to go to there.
ReplyDeleteKnuffle Bunny!
ReplyDeleteThe Transit Museum. And Junior's.
ReplyDelete(And Knuffle Bunny, of course.)
Also, Warren Bonin, Flatbush native, graduate of Brooklyn Tech and Brooklyn College.
ReplyDeleteWe have a new Emporium Arcade here in Chicago that was apparently opened by a former Barcade manager that I need to check out.
ReplyDeleteIf either of these places get Zoo Keeper, I want to know about it. Ours has a Budweiser-branded Tapper that is my total reason for returning, but I'd love to play ZooKeeper on a real machine again. Or Black Knight 2000.
ReplyDeleteI was born there.
ReplyDeleteMy mother-in-law, a proud graduate of Midwood High.
ReplyDeleteGood god, I loved Tapper. Fantastic, simple but challenging game. And they have it! Sadly, no Zoo Keeper. But Burger Time! http://emporiumchicago.com/games/
ReplyDeleteYours has Q*Bert, though, too, which ours lacks.
ReplyDeletealso, Mary Benner, William Benner, Aaron Copland, and Bushwick Bill.
ReplyDeleteThe correct answer was ME, so you're all wrong.
ReplyDeleteAdam - my dad was Tech '60.
Pat Kiernan lives around the corner.
Although I've been to New York dozens of times, I don't believe I've ever made it to Brooklyn. But I loved "Brooklyn Bridge," one of Gary David Goldberg's follow-ups to "Family Ties."
ReplyDeleteIts bridge is kind of awesome. You should check it out.
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I used to work in a building that always made me think of Q*Bert:
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I included you in the "nice people I know that live in it." But you're right, you're not that nice. *wink*
ReplyDeleteYou know I don't like to just be "included" :)
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I'm not sure how I failed to mention this, but I went to a Nets game (preseason) at Barclay's a week or so ago. They played the 76'ers. Great arena, very cozy. I'm pretty psyched that my office is a mile away and I live 3.5 miles away.
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