#timboo

but personally i’m such a shit typer so yes 🩷

God help us, but it's a little alarming that Bar Timboo's is gone. The South Slope watering hole was a sketchy old-timer's haunt, complete with decor that could serve as the set for a To Catch A Predator movie adaptation, but it was at least a known quantity. Now, of course, the folks behind Abilene are gutting the 5th Avenue space and turning it into whatever it's going to be, all while "incorporating as much of Timboo's charm" as they can. That's all well and good, by the nearly adjacent space that used to house Puppets is also getting gutted and turned into an English pub. Sure, the number of bars isn't increasing on the block, but letting these two spots continue to be bars—when there's still mainstay Commonwealth, the dubious Fifth Estate, sketchtastic Lucky 13, the new-ish Der Kommissar, Englishy Black Horse, upscale Sidecar, and black hole Buttermilk all before you make it to Prospect Avenue(where you then find Freddy's, South, Korzo, and Quarter Bar within three blocks)—aren't we upping the possibility of shitty bars exponentially? Or you could look at it the positive way: every shiny, new bar takes the increasing douche-pressure off of our favorite locals. C'est la vin. [via Here's Park Slope]