Union Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related articles, blog items and images, except the photo above, which is last night’s sunset over the Atlantic Ocean, captured at a location somewhat distant from our favorite borough. Images: Closing After 25 Years [Frank Lynch/flickr] Elbow-Toe and a Door [justiNYC] Waterfront Living [i’mjustsayin/flickr] Old Bay Ridge [Sunset Parker] […]

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Greenpoint, Brooklyn

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Among the many odd subjects that fascinate Gowanus Lounge are the two World’s Fairs held in Flushing Meadow in 1939-40 and 1964-65. Here’s a random home movie we found of the ’39 event that you can watch by clicking on the video below or by clicking this link.

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No Land Grab notes that there will be a rally today (8/26) from 3-6PM at 227 Duffield Street between Fulton and Willoughby at the Underground Railroad slave safehouse the city would destroy to create parking. The engineering firm involved in the project is the same one being used by Forest City Ratner and the New […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog entries and, particularly on weekends, images. Except, for the photo above, which is nonetheless, laden with meaning. Pictures: Green House, Plus Car [Joe’s NYC] Shutter [Lex’s Folly] Rent Strike in God’s Country [justiNYC] The Many Textures of Red Hook [mlik] Manhattan Bridge [f. trainer/flickr] Next […]

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Gowanus, Brooklyn

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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Driven the Gowanus Expressway lately? Here’s a view out a car window at the passing Brooklyn scenery. You can click on the vid below or on this link. There are other short Gowanus Expressway vids here and here.

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Williamsburg blogger i’m not sayin, i’m just sayin (INSIJS, for short) is reporting that Williamsburg’s East River State Park won’t be opening for the summer season. INSIJS, who has been communicating with New York State Park officials, writes that “the infrequent yet often torrential rainstorms this spring and summer caused the newly-seeded grass to not […]

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Given developer Shaya Boymelgreen‘s plans for Gowanus and presence in Park Slope, Dumbo and other Brooklyn neighborhoods, we’ve long been fascinated by news of his doings. In this week’s Brooklyn Papers, Ariella Cohen reports at length on Boymelgreen’s latest trouble: an investigation by Attorney General Eliot Spitzer into claims by 200 construction workers that they’ve […]

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Brooklinks is our daily roundup of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog entries and images. More Atlantic Yards: 2,000 Show for Yards Hearing, 100 Get Chance to Speak [Brooklyn Papers] Ratner Will ‘Consider’ Scaling Back Miss Brooklyn [NYPost] A ‘Little Change of Tune’ from Markowitz [NYT] Batson Atlantic Yards Statement [AY Voter Guide] Subsidized? Yes. Affordable? Hardly. […]

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[Photo of Lainez Salvadoran papusas courtesy Porkchop Express] Nevermind the fact that the New York Times discovered the Red Hook Soccer Fields this week. Porkchop Express, the superb food blog that offers up so much more than swine, is still busy eating up a storm at Red Hook’s Latino sidewalk restaurants. The net result is […]

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When we stopped by to get a shortcake at Coney Island recently and to see Dan Weise and Kalene Rivers at their stand in front of Cha Cha’s, we also scored a copy of the new issue of SHERBERT, the excellent literary, art and photography magazine that they produce. Issue 6, the “Personal Space” issue, […]

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“Raucous” is having its day in the sun. There are no less than four headlines today (so far) about the Atlantic Yards hearing that use the word “raucous“–as in “Raucous Meeting” or “Raucous Hearing” or “Raucous Crowd.” A Google News search of “Raucous” turns up a dozen results, all of them articles about last night’s […]

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If you know Third Avenue in Gowanus around 9th Street, you will understand why this item has a sad ring to it, especially because the area can be a little desolate. We will let the reader who emailed pick up the narrative: I live on 10th St between 3rd & 4th, so I’m always interested […]

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Chalk up another interesting business for Red Hook. Boutique soap maker Saipua, orginally of the Hudson Valley, which makes all natural olive oil soap, is opening a retail outlet at 392 Van Brunt on August 26, its first NYC retail space. The 250 square foot boutique will feature Saipua’s soaps, plus flowers and some other […]

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[Photo mashup created by Jonathan Barkey. An entire series is available at Pbase. Mr. Barkey testified at the Atlantic Yards hearing last night.] Atlantic Yard Hearing: Supporters Out in Force at Hearing, but Opponents Go the Distance [AYR] Raucous Meeting on Atlantic Yards Hints at Hardening Stances [NYT] Raucous Crowd Packs Hearing [AMNY] Raucous Hearing […]

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Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn

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If you can’t get enough of that Coney Island goodness, then check out this nicely done vid from a website called dueviste.com, which is a bloggy sort of site that takes a look at “two views” of things. The article that goes with the video features Coney Island and Barcelona. There’s another on Red Hook […]

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For those that have missed previous posts and maps, we offer up the beauty below, which is way more frightening than anything Gowanus Lounge ever managed. Douglaston Development, which is creating “The Edge,” a mega-highrise project on the Williamsburg waterfront, has prepared this eye-grabbing map and brochure of Future Williamsburg. Call it the graphic evidence […]

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[Image created by Jonathan Barkey and reproduced in a series showing the mass of the Atlantic Yards project in Atlantic Yards Report. The full set of renderings is available here on the photographer’s pbase space.] Special GL Questions of the Day:How early will people start lining up for the Atlantic Yards Public Hearing? Did anyone […]

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As far as Gowanus Lounge is concerned, you can never have too much information about McCarren Pool. It’s one of the places in Brooklyn about which we’re a little obsessed. As you might recall, there has been no lack of discussion and controversy about the pool’s future, particularly after the series of big shows produced […]

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One of the fun parts of the free shows at McCarren Pool this summer is the dodgeball game. Take a quick look by clicking on the embedded video below or on this link.

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If you read Gowanus Lounge from time to time, you know we dig Coney Island. One of the more interesting Coney websites/undertakings belongs to the Coney Island History Project. The organization is putting together oral histories of Coney Island through the Coney Island Voices project. Voices is an oral history archive that preserves the stories […]

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