#vanderbilt ave

[canvasandcamera]

7.2.17 - Catching me off guard, Shout out to the photographer…Taken @soda bar in Brooklyn NYC.

[boerum-dodge]

naked backside of a landmarked church // out for a walk

2023-11-04

[postchrisrock]

Amorina

2/17

[maevekannar]

Barclays and Barbra

Cornelius is a Brooklyn bar prototype: oysters for a buck, truffle mac and cheez, Narragansett beer on greasy taps. Boyfriend and I popped in for a quick pop. Next to us was a large group (banquet style). The old and the young drank champagne and wines – some diet cokes too.  Boyfriend saw things clearly; this was an engagement party. Bad lipsticks and all. He could even point out the bride to be and her future hubby. I, however, was not convinced, so we bet: five dollars to me if it was anything other than an engagement party and twenty buck-aroos to him if it was what he thought. We asked the bartender. “Oh, they are just pre-gaming for the Barbra Streisand show.” After an extra five-dollar tip, we realized that the Barclays has taken over.  

[nydrinker]

Woodwork

583 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn (Between Pacific St. and Dean St.) Visited 3pm on a Wednesday, during a Champions League Match What would cause more than a dozen people to pile into a dark bar on a beautiful Wednesday afternoon? The prospect of watching an important soccer match. (Or football if you prefer) Woodwork is the new soccer bar along the revitalized Vanderbilt Avenue in Brooklyn, showing soccer and only soccer from open to close every day of the week. They are serious about this, turning down requests for baseball, basketball, or anything else anyone feels like watching, even if it means showing MLS matches over the Yankees and Mets.

Soccer played across the Atlantic means morning and afternoon start times, something that allows bars like Woodwork to fill up with patrons on a weekday afternoon, but means they have to fight the bright afternoon sun, something that was clearly a problem on this sunny Wednesday. The glare rendered one of the three TVs completely unwatchable and made sitting at the far end of the bar nearly intolerable. Everyone from other patrons to the bartenders was just moving dark blobs, which is unfortunate because the bartenders were entertaining and knowledgeable about their soccer. A bartender kidding with patrons may usually just mean she’s flirting for tips, but when she is ripping apart your soccer knowledge while she’s at it, it’s much more effective. Unfortunately for her, a good portion of the clientele seemed unemployed, underemployed, or working freelance. But there was a healthy mix of self-employed people or guys in suits playing hooky from work that rounded out the eclectic and diverse crowd.

The long wood bar wraps around the bar with three big TVs behind the bar. A couple of tables and chairs were along the walls and windows, but the attention was clearly put into the bar, so much so that the beer menu has a polite reminder saying “Respect the wood. Use a coaster.” What the beer menu doesn’t seem to have is draught beer. Woodwork is stocked with only cans and bottles. Not sure if they are planning on adding taps, but it is just strange to watch soccer without being able to get a well-poured Guinness. The can and bottle selection is interesting though, with a mix of $3 Red Stripe bottles and Miller High Life cans to $10+ bottles of interesting European beers. Some beer taps would be nice, so would darker curtains, but it sure is nice to have a legit soccer bar in Brooklyn.