Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news articles, blog items and images. Tops Picks of the Rainy Day: Last Call for Coney Island as Summer Winds Down [NY1] Best Brooklyn Car Service? [Brooklyn Record] Ditmas Park Mom Hassled Over Breast Feeding by ‘Boobs’ at Toys ‘R Us [NYDN] ‘Toys R Us Fury’: Employees Try […]

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A recent presentation that Slope Street Cats did at the Park Slope Food Coop about feral cats in Park Slope reminded us about both the good work they do and their website, and when we went to look, we discovered they’ve also started up a blog called–what else?–Slope Street Cats. If you haven’t checked their […]

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For those who glance at them–or for those that don’t–the Missed Connections section on Craigslist is the ultimate chronicle of ships passing in the night. They’re either heartbreaking or hysterical or a little of both at the same time. The Brooklyn selection is especially rich, natch, and one could devote some time analyzing the trends. […]

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Call us uninformed, but we had no idea that there even was a Kurdish Library and Museum in Prospect Heights, let alone that it holds one of the largest collections of Kurdish materials and artifacts in the Western Hemisphere, until the Municipal Arts Society included it as one of their “Place That Matters of the […]

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Brooklyn is one writing borough, so it’s fitting that the first annual Brooklyn Literary Festival will be happening on Saturday, September 16 from 10AM to 6PM in the at Borough Hall. The festival list of writers includes Jonathan Ames, Ann Brashares, Colin Channer, Jennifer Egan, Nelson George, Yusef Komunyakaa, Nicole Krauss, Jhumpa Lahiri, Philip Lopate, […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog items and visuals. On Thursdays, we feature food links. Food, Yo: “Reverential Compliance” at Anna Maria Pizza in Williamsburg [NYT] Guilty Secret: I Ate Ice Cream Cake [A Brooklyn Life] PT, New Italian on S. 3rd in Williamsburg [Chowhound] Made in Brooklyn: Wine Cellar Sorbets […]

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We thought this would be a good time to report a few events and volunteer opportunities in Prospect Park culled from the emails from the Prospect Park Alliance that periodically arrive in our inbox. The first event, International Coastal Clean-Up Day, is happening on Saturday, September 16 from 10AM-2PM. The Prospect Park Alliance is looking […]

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Primary day was not a terribly good one for opponents of the Atlantic Yards mega-development, although it would be a mistake to read too much into the results. The most vocal anti-project candidate, Bill Batson came in a distant second in the race for the 57th Assembly District . The race was won by Hakeem […]

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We took a walk down Fourth Avenue and got a few shots of the new boutique hotel that’s rising on Fourth Avenue at Fifth Street, which will apparently feature a restaurant on the top floor–and possibly rooftop too. The sign, you will note, proclaims “great views,” although we don’t know whether it includes the Gowanus […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog items and images. Election: 2006 Primary Election Results [Gotham Gazette] Primary Election Results [7 Online] Clarke Takes Hot Race for Congressional Seat [NYPost] Clarke Wins Nasty Race in Brooklyn [NYDN] Councilwoman Wins Primary for House Seat [NYT] Clarke Wins Brooklyn Brawl, is on Her Way […]

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As it turns out, the Empire State Development Corporation’s “community forum” on the Atlantic Yards development bore only passing similarity to the “raucous” public hearing held on August 23. The New York Times described the meeting as “small and civil,” and largely dominated by supporters of the project as many opponents stayed away: Previous hearings […]

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Surf’s up. Or something like that. The Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club, the good people that will get you out on the Big G in a canoe are having their Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club Blues and Cruise. It takes place on September 21, and it’s a fundraiser with tickets for adults costing $25 in advance and […]

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Wandering up Third Street on a walk through Gowanus this weekend so we could, among other things, take a look at the state of things at the future site of the Gowanus Whole Foods, we found an order to vacate taped (dated 9-7) to a light post outside the former site of the Red Hook […]

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Today is Primary Election Day, which means that the number of pre-recorded political calls should fall and the volume of campaign-related mail should decrease, except for statewide offices. (We got a kick out of the testy posting on the Daily Slope complaining about the “phony” phone call from Borough President Marty Markowitz…if we’d posted irately […]

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[Spectacular image, called “Remember,” courtesy of i’mjustsayin on flickr] Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog items and images. Remembering 9/11: Evening 9/11, Five Years Later [Brooklyn Heights Blog] Here Was New York [OTBKB] September 11, 2006 [Bay Ridge Blog] Storycorps Records 9/11 Stories [seriously excited!] September 11, 2006 Photoset [rsguskind/flickr] 9/11/06 […]

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Work has been going on at the former site of the vile India House on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope for nearly two months now. While we’re not certain what is opening there, and every time we pass by we only find painters and other workers, it has begun to have the distinct look of […]

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Here are some shots we took outside the World Trade Center site during the ceremony this morning. We’ve posted a flickr photoset with about 60 shots or you can go right to the slideshow.

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We usually go on at length about things, but not today. Not about this. We made a version of this snapshot on the first anniversary of 9-11. We offer it today with tears, sadness and a sense of shock that it’s already been five years.

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog items and visuals. 364 flickr Photos about 9-11 and Brooklyn [flickr] 19,185 flickr photos tagged “wtc” [flickr] World Trade Center Memorial Album 2001-2006 [rsguskind/Webshots] World Trade Center 07-25-01 [maa623/Webshots] ‘A vast gray cloud shaped like a Geisha’s fan…moved over Brooklyn’ [Chicago Sun-Times] How New York […]

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Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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GL’s phone rang during dinner last night. A friend? A telemarketer? Close. A recorded message for one of the candidates running in the 11th Congressional District race. You would be hard pressed in certain part of Brooklyn, in fact, to know that there are any other races on the ballot other than our nasty little […]

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Gowanus Lounge visited the new Tea Lounge on Court Street this weekend and found the same menu of teas and coffees familiar to Park Slope Tea Loungers. We noticed, however, that TL’s new Cobble Hill digs were remarkably free of both strollers, their occupants and their pushers. Whether this holds true for weekdays, we don’t […]

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Who are the real Park Slope Neighbors? Well, if the names of neighborhood groups mean anything, the real group would be one that has been working in the community on some time on neighborhood quality of life and other issue. So, in the closing days of the heated Democratic primary race (closing days being the […]

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These photos were all shot on Saturday evening, outside the U.S. Tennis Center, just before the start of the Final match in which Maria Sharapova claimed her second grand slam title with a straight-sets win over favourite Justine Henin-Hardenne.

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related new stories, blog items and images.September 11:Five Years Later, the Heights Remembers [Brooklyn Heights Blog]Sept. 11 Exhibit at the Brooklyn Historical Society [About Brooklyn]Tribute in Light’s Future in Doubt After 2008 [NYT]9/11 Five Years Later Package of Stories/Photos [NYDN]Elegy for an Icon [NYT] Other Words:It’s Tough Being an […]

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