This is turning out to be quite the week for Brooklyn environmental nastiness stories. First, we have the tests showing all the toxic muck under Greenpoint because of that old oil spill. Then, we have the more subtle story of mosquito spraying. Among the many reasons we were happy to be far, far out on […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog items and images. Don’t Breathe: More About the WMD Sprayed on Brooklyn Last Month [Sunset Parker] City Again Fogs Crowded Brooklyn Streets [ZNet] Methane (and Other) Vapors Found in Greenpoint [NYDN] Okay to Breathe: Happy Birthday [OTBKB] Chuck and Larry Movie Shooting in Dumbo [DumboNYC] […]

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Just when you thought we might be done with Coney Island for the season, we’re happy to convey word that the Coney Island Film Festival is just around the corner. The 6th annual installment kicks off on Friday, October 6, and the fest runs through Sunday, Oct. 8. This year’s fest includes eighty-one films from […]

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It took us a while to get to this, but we noted the bitter irony when we read on the Kinetic Carnival blog that Donald Trump is closing a cousin of Coney Island–the Steel Pier in Atlantic City. Trump Entertainment owns the 100-year-old amusement pier and is going to turn it into a mixed-use development […]

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Last week, we walked past the Whole Foods site in Gowanus (or is it Park Slope?) for one of our periodic looks to see what’s happening or not happening with one of Brooklyn’s more eagerly anticipated grocery stores. (It should add at least 2-3 percent to asking prices in Park Slope and launch the Gowanus […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog items and images. Live Long or Not: Brooklyn May Be Bad for Your Health [Gothamist] Life’s Too Short in Brooklyn [NYDN] Some Nasty Shit Underfoot in Greenpoint [Curbed] Brooklyn is Burning [New York] Fine Young Brooklyn Cannibals [Brooklyn Record] Atlantic Yards Forum Wrap Up: Three […]

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The posters over at the Park Slope Message Boards have been on a roll lately. So it is with today’s selection, showcased at the Daily Slope, “Little Monsters of Park Slope.” Specifically: I was getting a slice on Seventh Avenue Friday evening when three loud little girls burst in (about age 13 or so, looked […]

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The cat is out of the bag in terms of the identity of the restaurant that will occupy the site of the closed India House, aka the South Asian Scourge of Seventh Avenue, in Park Slope. It’s going to be called the No No Cafe, as in North of New Orleans Cafe. So, after some […]

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Call it manifest destiny. Or, at least, the slow creep of Park Slope into Gowanus (plus Sunset Park). We’re used to Manhattan-based and out-of-town media calling parts of Gowanus “Park Slope.” We have expressed our ire more than once that Holiday Inn Express insists on calling its new Gowanus lodging the “Park Slope” Holiday Inn […]

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We were amused to find the latest post at the always wonderful Sunset Parker blog–one of our top Brooklyn favorites-because we’d come across the video in question back in July or August. Turns out that Sunset produced a short “horror comedy” called Meat in the late 1990s and he just discovered that someone has posted […]

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[Photo courtesy Dalton Rooney on flickr and at seriously excited!] Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog items and images. Atlantic Antic/Brooklyn Bookfest: Out Pickin’ Pockets at the Atlantic Antic [seriously excited!] Atlantic Antic Wrap-Up [A Brooklyn Life] Best Food at the Atlantic Antic? [Chowhound] Atlantic Antic Photostream [flickr] Brooklyn Book Fest: […]

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What Greenpoint residents and environmentalists have been saying all along–that there are some very bad things underfoot in Greenpoint because of the massive oil spill dating back to 1950–is turning out to be true. We will ignore why it has taken until 2006 for studies showing that residents may have been slowly poisoned for decades, […]

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We were alarmed to read a comment related to a photo of Lundy’s, the landmark eatery on Emmons Avenue in Sheepshead Bay, that we posted last week. The comment was from someone who works at Lundy’s. It said, in part, “I constantly overhear the owners preparing to sell the place! So all you GL readers […]

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Reportedly, next year’s Brooklyn Book Festival will span two days. That would be a good thing (and we say this in a very nice way). We stopped in to the Book Fest at Brooklyn Borough Hall yesterday afternoon and found it to be a wonderfully cool event, but also quickly concluded that there was way […]

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This is the third in our new Brookvids Series, our own video look at Brooklyn. This vid checks out the fishing fleet in Sheepshead Bay, day boats that return every afternoon and sell extra fish that are caught. It’s an interesting scene and classic Brooklyn by the water. Music here is Brian Eno. Watch by […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news articles, blog items and, especially on weekends, images. See you at the Atlantic Antic! Images: Garden [What I See] Buddha of Brooklyn [justiNYC] Bus Stop [Lex’s Folly] Rough Sea in Sheepshead Bay [Sail Brooklyn] Beach at Night [Test of Will] Bright Lights From Up High in Brooklyn […]

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Red Hook, Brooklyn

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Our own Brookvid yesterday, dealt with Coney Island, so it’s only fitting to run this fascinating video of Coney Island in the 1940s. This came to our attention courtesy of Kinetic Carnival, a wonderful blog that focuses on Coney Island. In any case, you can watch this by clicking on the embed, clicking on this […]

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Here’s the second video in our new Brookvids Series. This is five minutes and 13 seconds at Coney Island at the end of the Summer of 2006, which may, or may not, be the last summer for Coney in its current form. The camera work is, um, evolving (we’re good with photos and words), but […]

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This is a cool weekend for Brooklyn neighborhood events, so get out there and enjoy yourself, especially if you can clone yourself to be at several events at the same time. Today, we have the Brooklyn Book Festival, going on at Borough Hall. You can check out all the details over at the Brooklyn Record, […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog items and visuals, the latter, especially on weekends. Visual: Disgusting Pig Roasting Outside Rosewater in Park Slope [Daily Slope] Roasting Pig Porn [Sugar Pond/flickr] Those Who Work [Callalillie] Kentile Spy [Lex’s Folly] This is Why I Live in Greenpoint [newyorkshitty] Pulaski Bridge Panoramic [justiNYC] Another […]

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If you’re a regular, you know we post over at Curbed, Monday through Friday, and that many of the posts do not appear here. Here’s a sampling of this week’s Curbed posts: Why Prospect Heights Rocks: Louder OrgasmsGraphic Evidence Park Slope & Gowanus are DifferentProspect Park Rat OlympicsCarroll Gardens LizardMarrying a Williamsburg Open House to […]

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Emmons Avenue, Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn

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Is it curtains for the Red Hook Graving Dock? Could be. B61 Productions is reporting a tip that big box Swedish retailer Ikea has started filling in the ship repair facility on the site of the former Todd Shipyard, which has now been entirely reduced to big piles of rubble. Neighborhood advocates and others have […]

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The end is near. Very, very near. Perhaps this is an overstatment, but for anyone seeking a glimpse of Williamsburg’s very un-hipster investment banker Manhattan kind of future, the evidence is all over the internet. Having dealt at different points with Karl Fischer Row and all of the development around McCarren Park and Pool, we […]

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