A number of organizations and individuals have been doing heroic work dissecting the huge Atlantic Yards Draft Environmental Impact Statement that will be the subject of a public hearing tomorrow night. One major theme has already emerged: As massive as the document is, the consultants that prepared seem to have seriously skewed their analysis to […]

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One of the more visually interesting elements of America’s most polluted waterway–AKA Newtown Creek–is the sci-fi Greenpoint landscape that has been under construction for several years. Theses strange looking structures that look they could be part of Epcot Center or a World’s Fair, if not for the industrial surroundings, are part of the Newtown Creek […]

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Brooklinks is a selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog entries and images. Empire State Development Corp. Radically Breaking the Rules [No Land Grab] Who’s NIMBY? City Planning Commission on Arena Locations [AYR] Atlantic Yards Opponents Point Out Impact Statement Flaws [NYPost] The Cladding of the J Condo [Brownstoner] Preservation Archive Needs Your Photos [Brooklyn Heights […]

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One of the more amusing internet TV series is The Burg, the hipster series set in Williamsburg. Episode Four: The Project, has been up for a bit now and features an attempt to convert a frat type of guy into a hipster, plus some fun drug copping behavior. The Williamsburg scenery is also a plus: […]

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Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn

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The Clinton Hill-Bed Stuy rally protesting that new building on Clifton Place and the dangerous demolition practices on the property drew a diverse crowd and some media coverage yesterday, according to the Clinton Hill blog. Organizers keyed on the buildings excessive heights (12 story in a nabe where the maximum is currently five stories), the […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog entries and images. Atlantic Yards: West Side/Sunnyside Yards Plans Get Critical Look, but Not Atlantic Yards [AYR] Turning Sept. 12 Primary in an Atlantic Yards Referendum [Crains via No Land Grab] Sunday Comix from the Brooklyn Papers [No Land Grab] DEIS Downplays Preservation History Around […]

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Gowanus Lounge walks the streets of Brooklyn a lot, always with camera in hand. No camera, in fact, equals a feeling that something is terribly wrong in the world. In any case, from time to time we’re going to be posting short photo series focusing on some of the things we see in our wanderings. […]

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Manhattan Avenue, Greenpoint, Brooklyn

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Here’s a fun Brooklyn video, especially if you dig the music of Frou Frou. It’s a nicely edited, atmospheric four-minute vid shot largely in Dumbo and Williamsburg. Click on the embedded video below to play or click on this link.

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The Brooklyn Public Library is hosting an exhibition called Coney Island Dreamers, now through October 1 at the Central Library at Grand Army Plaza. The exhibition in the Grand Lobby features sideshow banners of the inventors, eccentrics and visionaries who made Coney famous, documentary photographs by Charles Denson for The Coney Island History Project and […]

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Brooklinks is a selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog items and images, except for the photo above, which is a secret message. Pictures: Player [Lex’s Folly] Sunset Park Gem [Sunset Parker] Five Pointz, Jackson Avenue, LIC [Pro-Zak/flickr] Brooklyn AC [Frank Lynch/flickr] Back Deck [e-liz/flickr] Borough Hall [your pal matt/flickr] Words: Old Timers Day at the […]

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Red Hook, Brooklyn

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[Image created by brandspankin.com] The LA Perspective on Borough Warfare: We All Suck (above)Brooklyn Teens Do Urban Memory ProjectSupersizing Williamsburg: Pictures and MapsCurbed Field Trip: GreenpointCurbed PriceChopper: Babs Goes Lower in Red HookFrom the Sidewalks of Greenpoint: The Crap MapBrooklyn Sub-Zero Building Cousin: The Kenmore HouseYale Red Hook Plans Get Some Local LoveDomesticated Pig Still […]

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This video is part of the turnhere.com collection of video and features our friend Steve McFarland, the Red Hook resident behind B61 Productions. Definitely worth three minutes and 27 seconds of your time. Click on the embedded video below or on this link.

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The NYPD has backed off, for now, from the proposed rule that would have defined two or more pedestrians or bicyclists as a parade subject to ticketing or arrest under certain circumstancesmade. On Friday afternoon, the NYPD withdrew the proposal for a re-write and cancelled the hearing on it scheduled for Aug. 23. You might […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog items and, particularly on summer weekends, images. Single Images:Gowanus Pool Revisited [f.trainer/flickr]Rat Graffiti at the Q Station [Daily Heights]Reverse the Curse [justiNYC]Out to Dry [A Test of Will]Praying Statue [Joe’s NYC]Wide Open [Lex’s Folly] Interesting Flickr Slideshows:The Gowanus Kentile SignHumongous Coney Island CollectionYe Olde Gowanus […]

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Sub-Zero Building, Greenpoint, Brooklyn

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From the “shrill” Brooklynites over at No Land Grab comes the following “email” with an “edited” version of the flyer circulated by the pro-Atlantic Yards group BUILD about the upcoming public hearing. Are you getting the sense that even though the August 23 hearing is more show than real effort by the Empire State Development […]

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Don’t look now, but it’s the 230th anniversary of the Battle of Brooklyn, the nasty Revolutionary War fight that took place in what is now Gowanus, Prospect Park and Green-Wood Cemetery. Time flies, no? Here are some of the events planned at the Old Stone House in J.J. Byrne Park in Park Slope. (Go to […]

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The ongoing demolition nastiness in preparation for construction of a 12-story building on the border between Clinton Hill and Bedford-Stuyvesant is moving into the demonstration and rally phase. Residents report they will be having a rally and press conference on Sunday, August 20 at 2:45PM in front of the building site, which is at 335-345 […]

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For our latest Double Speak of the Week, we turn to Williamsburg, where a politically-connected firm named Quadriad is trying to wrap its proposal to build 28 highrises on seven blocks with “Community Incentive Zoning.” We’ve previously delved quite a bit into Quadriad’s plans, and this week, onNYTurf posted some eye-opening renderings of what buildings […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog items and images. Banging the Supersizing Drum: Flatiron on Flatbush [Brooklyn Papers] The Mystery of the Claimed Atlantic Yards Financial Benefits [AYR] Are 28 New Shiny Towers Planned for Williamsburg? [justiNYC] Playing the Keyboard of Change: Red hot Red Hook? How about ‘lukewarm’? [Brooklyn Papers] […]

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