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2.3.00 pardon me
while i go ahead
and get happy/pissed off
I love this –
every time I even remotely call into
question my happiness with my neighborhood,
something wild jumps up and blows me away.
What is it this time, you roll your eyes.
A new coffeehouse! Yes – one of the (only)
redeeming qualities of living in the Atlantic/Flatbush/5th
schizoid mess of a place, bastard child of no
neighborhood (save, perhaps, Park Slope) is the
proximity to so many wonderful diversions, in
so many different places – couple blocks this way,
Fort Greene, couple that way, Seventh Avenue,
the other way, Smith Street, down Flatbush,
the Fulton Mall.
This time, the action takes place in Boerum Hill,
on Atlantic between Third and Nevins, just past
the Do Ray (‘where good friends meet’, y’all).
It’s a charming little space, goes by the name
"The Flying Saucer."
Opened all but minutes ago by one of the partners
in the Atlantic Avenue institution Last Exit, this
anti-Halcyon decked out in vintage oranges and
greens and all done up with yellow fabrics and
shellacked clapboard, serves up a decent cup of
coffee, H&H Bagels, Uprising’s breads, and to
boot, damn fine service.
Stop in, and make sure to leave good tips – you
don’t want to see a place like this go, ever.
The Flying Saucer
Atlantic (bet. 3rd and Nevins)
Open M-Sat 8-10, Sun 9-10
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word to your mother
O'Connor's can bite my ass -- ever since Time Out,
Paper Magazine, and God knows who all
saw fit to splash word of my neighborhood hang-out
amongst their pages, things just haven't been the
same.
My neighbors swear i'm hallucinating, but no sooner
had they received some attention, and up went the
prices! Shots now $3, which is still a bargain, but
including tip, well, it's not, for this neighborhood.
Well, what's a little price raising?
It got worse -- the bartenders started to get nasty --
the crowds descended, they had to scramble to serve
everyone, and well, let's just say it isn't pretty.
They've taken to bitching at patrons, demanding
to know where tips are when they're not placed
on the bar instantaneously, and threatening
to withhold service from any number of people
whose faces they don't like.
The music seems louder by the day, the crowd
has gotten too reverse B'nT, trendoid
Manhattanites slumming in the North Slope,
stinking up the place.
Suffice to say, we've found another place more divey
fairly close to home, half the price of O'Connor's,
and decidedly lower on the faux-dive bullshit
scale. And no, I'm not telling you where it is --
Time Out will blab soon enough, to be sure.
As a savvy neighborhood streetwalker related
to me the other day, "O'Connor's trashed the
place to make it look more authentic."
Truth or fiction, I wouldnt' be surprised.
If this is gentrification, make it stop, please.
So take that longneck I'd be drinking and
shove it where the sun don't shine.
Uncle Fuckers.
Email: dj@asan.com
Next Update: 15 February
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