Brooklinks is a daily selection of news articles, blog items and images. Mr. Ratner’s Neighborhood [New York] New York Magazine Gets the Big Picture [AYR] Bad Editorial Policy on Ratner at the Times [No Land Grab] Doing a Ratner, Continued [NYDN via No Land Grab] Park Slope Mommy Debate [Sunset Parker] Now You Paint Them, […]

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Gowanus Lounge will be on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show today (8/7) sharing thoughts about the state of things in Red Hook along with writer Gabriel Cohen, author of Time Out New York’s recent article on the “hot” neighborhood. The segment–barring last minute changes–is slated to air at 10:40AM. Is Red Hook hot or not? […]

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On Saturday night, Gowanus Lounge spent some time on the Dumbo waterfront and couldn’t help but think about–as always–how unfortunate it is that Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park is closed at night. Well, yesterday’s Daily News reported that lights are finally being installed at the state park and that it will add hours after dark. (Brooklyn […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog items and images. Coney Island, RIP [The Real Estate] Editorial: Atlantic Yards “Deserves to Go Forward” [NYT] Credulous Times Editorial Endorses Atlantic Yards; More Voices Needed [AYR] The View from the Red Hook Waterfront [A Brooklyn Life] About Those Bean Throwing Park Slope Moms [OTBKB] […]

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Walking on Water Street in Dumbo last night we noticed paper lanterns strung across the street. That’s because today is the third annual Tiger Beer Singapore Chili Crab Festival. Starting at Noon and running until six, the festival will offer music, food and a taste of Southeast Asian Culture. The prime attraction: Singapore’s unofficial national […]

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Gowanus Lounge also spends times in the snarky corridors of Curbed. Here are some of the results of our efforts there in the last week: Brooklyn Tourist Sport: Stalking the SunsetNew Park Slope Swedish Living Concept Red Hook Update: Patience Required Storefronting: Dumbo Report Edition Dueling Atlantic Yards Community Board Meeting Roundup Queens Update: After […]

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Coney Island, Brooklyn

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Thanks to both the Brooklyn Record and Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn for drawing our (tardy) attention to the Brooklyn Arts Council’s call for memorial images of the World Trade Center. We’ll hope to spread the word further to the one or two people that haven’t already heard about this wonderful exhibition at those two […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn new stories, blog entries and images. Cool New Thing: 5 Boros Ice Cream [3 Bikini] Cool New Photos: Gate [Lex’s Folly] Coney Island Images [Coney Island Shortcakes] Sidewalk Wizard [justiNYC] Sunset Park Gem [Sunset Parker] Cool New Words and Thoughts: This Weekend in Brooklyn [Brooklyn Record] Brooklyn Beat: […]

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Cool down with this excellent short documentary about the Rockaways and surfing there in February. Good stuff. And wintery. Click on the embedded video below or on this link.

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Red Hook, Brooklyn

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City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has joined NY Attorney General and Gubernatorial candidate Elliot Spitzer in requesting a delay in the public hearing on Atlantic Yards. The major public hearing on the Draft Environment Impact Statement for the massive project is scheduled for August 23. Quinn, like Spitzer, is asking for a 30-day delay. Quinn […]

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Okay, here it is. What you see above (and below) are recent “conceptual” drawings of the New Coney Island AKA Thor Equities’ $1 billion, 10-acre Coney Island redevelopment project. This Times Square-by-the-Sea theme shopping mall is descendent of last year’s seriously Glam-Rock and overblown Coney makeover. The creator of this vision is Ehrenkrantz, Eckstut & […]

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Brooklinks is a selection of Brooklyn-related articles, blog items and images: Tons on Atlantic Yards: Bruce We Hardly Knew Ye: FCR Swallowed Up by Forest City Enterprises [No Land Grab] Ratner Renter Revolt [Brooklyn Papers] Editorial: AY Draft Impact Statement ‘Flawed from the Get-Go’ [Brooklyn Papers] Atlantic Antic Ratner Cash Angers Some [NYDN] Community Board […]

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Last week we had “friendly condemnations,” this week our Double Speak of the Week is “publicly accessible open space.” Whereas the “friendly condemnation” is an utterly reprehensible twist on the English language, “publicly accessible open space” is a more subtle affront because it is really more than double speak. It is an unfortunate indication of […]

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There’s a new blog in town, spawned by a rule proposed by the NYPD that could limit the number of people that can legally walk or ride bicycles together. Called Assemble for Rights NYC, the blog has been cobbled together by a group rallying opposition to a new police rule that would define two or […]

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One of Gowanus Lounge’s favorite summertime Brooklyn Friday night activities is the fireworks show at Coney Island. (As in tonight, assuming no storms, but they’re a possibilty, for the umpteenth Friday evening in a row.) Here’s a vid of them to be watched with or without sound, depending on taste. Click on the vid below […]

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We are forever in the debt of Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn for prompting this item, despite the fact that OTBKB appears to be riding out the heatwave in Sag Harbor rather than Park Slope. In any case, OTBKB posted this gem, from Craigslist (where else?) that a friend had passed along. It is a […]

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Looks like it will be the King of Brooklyn Chocolate, Jacques Torres, versus the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory in a Dumbo Death Match. We discovered upon reading Eating for Brooklyn yesterday that the The New York Times had reported that Torres “is now making ice cream and selling it in the form of sandwiches layered […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog items and images. So Much to Eat: The One and Only Weekly Brooklyn Food Roundup [Brooklyn Record] DiFara’s Pizza Good, Waiting Bad [Bitty! Soda?] R.I.P Tabouleh [A Brooklyn Life] Good Seafood Shacks in Brooklyn? [Chowhound] Habana Outpost [Eat Drink One Woman] New Wine Bar Coming […]

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If you’ve been to Coney Island, you know that there isn’t a spot of shade to be found anywhere on the boardwalk or within a block of the water, other the shade created by man-made structures. That’s why the little mist machines installed at a couple of spots on the boardwalk–although they’re really advertising platforms […]

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AKA Il Lago di Whole Foods or the Gowanus Zee, this little patch of Brooklyn water is the pond on the future site of the Gowanus Whole Foods, which is not to be confused with the Dumbo Whole Foods. With the heat index way over 100, and nary a tree to be found on the […]

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Our friends at Coney Island Shortcakes–the two graphic artists from Prospect Heights that are spending this hot and stormy summer selling strawberry shortcakes on the Coney Island boardwalk–have posted another in their series of video interviews. The latest is with Coney Islander Patricia Tuey, one of those local characters that makes the Coney boardwalk what […]

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Attitude is everything. That is why some videos from our recent winter might be just the thing to enable a triumph of mind over matter. Watch these videos. Feel the chill. Remember the cold times. The snow. The biting wind chill. (All of these are hosted at youtube.) Download these to your portable and watch […]

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Look really hard, and behind every mountain of manure you will always find a pony. Case in point: the graphic above, shared by the South Oxford Street Block Association, which shows the spread of shadow from the towers of Atlantic Yards in a most dramatic way. (It is a re-colored version of one created by […]

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