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Rothschild’s Brunch

February 15, 2012 Reviews
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We aren’t usually the type to go out for brunch on a Sunday, but we recently ventured out for a late lunch at Rothschild’s in Downtown Brooklyn and discovered that brunch was still going on — we LOVE brunch food, but could do without tables of more than four people.  Since we love their food, we stayed and ordered ourselves Eggs Louis Armstrong.

Eggs Louis Armstrong = poached eggs, shredded pork, red bean, potato hash, and hollandaise = perfection!!!

If we weren’t already married, we would have totally run off and eloped with that meal.  It was THAT good.  So, should you be in the mood for yummy brunch (or yummy food in general), try out Rothschild’s — it’s delish!

Ghosts Of Subway Past

February 22, 2011 Uncategorized
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Due to budget constraints last summer, the MTA had to move forward with a doomsday budget that left numerous bus and subway lines being discontinued or rerouted.  While much of the expansive subway system’s signage was changed, some things managed to slip through the cracks and reflect the previous subway lines that no longer exist at locations.

For instance, according to the drain pipes at Queensboro Plaza, the W train still makes stops there when the train line no longer exists (please don’t think that we’re suggesting that money be wastefully spent to change this).

Also, nearly all of the Braille signage has incorrect information at the affected subway stations.  We’re surprised that we’ve never come across aggravated blind person waiting for the M train at Court Street.

Lastly, as of late September, which was months after the W train was discontinued, N trains were making announcements for a connection to the W train at Whitehall Street at 5AM.

All of this merely adds to the real life bizarro world that sometimes exists on the subway, and we’re fine with it.

Christmas In November

November 22, 2010 Economy Fail Watch / Trickle Down Ethics
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Each year Christmas lights seem to go up earlier and earlier in New York City.  This is what Brooklyn’s Court Street looked like as of last night – notice that leaves were still on the trees, still full of autumn colors.

While it should be no surprise that the avenues are already lit up, or that the folks in Dyker Heights have already put up their Christmas lights due to the obnoxious amount of lights that need to go up, what is surprising is that this church has decided to put up their Christmas lights before Thanksgiving.

The lights are probably up so early due to that little known, yet old biblical saying… “on the tenth day of creation, and fourth day before Thanksgiving, God sent forth to us his one and only son, Baby Jesus, and millions of Christmas lights!”

Can we get an amen from the outdoor lighting companies?!?!

In other news, the official new proper time to begin celebrating New Years is the morning of Black Friday.

Sexy Chicken In Brooklyn

November 10, 2010 Uncategorized
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The signage on the Tio Pio storefront in Downtown Brooklyn got us thinking…

And we can only hope that “tio pio” means “sexy chicken” in a some native Peruvian dialect.

Sexy chicken!

Downtown Brooklyn’s Subway Rebranding

October 19, 2010 Uncategorized
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Yesterday afternoon we spotted a good sign of things to come in Downtown Brooklyn — the rebranding of a subway station, or in this case, two subway stations becoming one.

The signs on the outside of the Jay Street Borough Hall Station have been changed to Jay St-MetroTech Station and the R line has been added to the station — though the R sign is currently being covered up by tape until the construction is finished.

From what we’ve heard from M.T.A. personnel during our regular summertime 430AM commute (which, btw, is just about the only time that the W train still runs at Whitehall Street, at least according to the recorded announcements on the N train), there was less than 50 feet of dirt that had separated Jay Street Borough Hall’s A/C/F line and the Lawrence Street R line all these decades.

We (along with just about anyone else who has done it) cannot wait for this M.T.A. construction project to be completed so that we will never have to run up what seems to be an unending amount of stairs at the 4th Avenue / 9th Street Station ever again to transfer from the R line to the F train.

This… is… progress!!!

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