1964-65 New York World’s Fair Unisphere, Flushing Meadow Park, Queens

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We shot this short bit of footage outside the hospitality entrance at the U.S. Open on Saturday evening. It’s not Brooklyn, but it gives a little bit of the flavor of Flushing Meadow Park on a nice September evening. Click on the embed or on this link.

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Check out this new and cool vid of Brooklyn called Brooklyn Twilight. The narrator reads some scene-appropriate poetry to a jazz soundtrack and Brooklyn footage. Nicely done and worth a watch. Click on the embed or on this link.

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We’ve know we’ve been down this this road before, but this latest take on Red Hook in this week’s L Magazine, called “Blotto in the Hook,” is a good read. The article is about a few of the cool spot in Red Hook like Sunny’s, but the writing about Red Hook and the protection–at least, […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news articles, blog items and, especially on weekends, images. Saturday Pics: Bodega Nights [A Test of Will] Atlantic Avenue [Brit in Brooklyn] Houses That Look Like Faces [bluejake] Woman in Pink Flowered Dress at Smith-9th [Joe’s NYC] Gowanus Canal [Joe’s NYC] Emmett is a Real Brooklyn Pig [lesterhead/flickr] […]

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From time to time we’ll be posting Brookvids, our own Brooklyn videos posted up on youtube, brought about by our desire to include our own videos in addition to still photos. Our Brookvids will probably be a little, um, crude at first. But we do hope to improve production values and quality over time, as […]

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Check out this very cool 20-minute documentary produced in 1952 about “A Day in Coney Island.” We found this through the wonderful blog Kinetic Carnival, which covers Coney Island. The video was posted on youtube by cifilmman, who has also posted a lot of other interesting things. This is one of the more interesting old-time […]

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If you’re a regular, you know we post over at Curbed, Monday through Friday. Here’s a sampling of our Curbed posts, this post-Labor Day week: Secret Plan to Shrink Atlantic Yards More? Citigroup Center and NYC Skyline Go Pink Get Your Feng Shui On in the Beacon Tower Garden Boerum Hill Building Starts Demolishing Itself […]

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The Waterfront Preservation Alliance has requested that the old Domino Sugar plant in Williamsburg be designated as a landmark. The formal request was made on Tuesday, according to Brownstoner. Back in June, we reported on Curbed that the Preservation Alliance was launching a petition, letter-writing and postcard-sending drive to convince the Landmarks Commission to extend […]

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As the heated Brooklyn Democratic primary campaigns head into the crucial final weekend of electioneering there is, of course, news to report. The candidacy of 57th Assembly District candidate and Community Board 8 member Bill Batson has clearly been picking up steam. This week’s Brooklyn Papers endorses Batson, saying that opponent Hakeem Jeffries‘ “inability to […]

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Reverberations from the “raucous” August 23 Atlantic Yards public hearing in Brooklyn continue, so we’re taking in a moment to fill in a bit the rich detail provided by the complaint just filed by the Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods. Clearly, the hearing was not something you’d want to show children in a civics class, unless […]

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Two shows featuring Brooklyn imagery and one that looks at Long Island City before the development rush have opened are are opening soon. First on the list is a show at the Object Image Gallery in Park Slope that came to our attention via the Park Slope Courier. It showcases a group of mostly Brooklyn […]

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Brooklinks is a selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog items and images. Required Readings of the Day: Paying Off Ratner: Public Cost May Soar if Project Shrinks [Brooklyn Papers] “Secret” Ratner Atlantic Yards Scaleback Options [AYR] Clinton Hill Blog Meets Neighborhood Pig [Clinton Hill Blog] Excellent Reading: Pushing for a 9-11 Memorial on the Brooklyn […]

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We are going way off topic with item, but the product we stumbled upon while creating our first Gowanus Lounge Video on youtube to post here, was so oddly compelling and so scary in terms of its implications that we had to post the vid here. It’s from Phillips, and it’s a promotional video for […]

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The Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods is calling for an investigation into the way the August 23 public hearing on the Atlantic Yards development was conducted and asking for problems to be corrected before more forums are held. The group has sent a letter to Empire State Development Corp. Chair Charles Gargano outlining dozens of problems, […]

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City Council Member Letitia James endorsed 57th Assembly District candidate Bill Batson yesterday. The Council Member said that Batson’s platform extends far beyond his opposition to the Atlantic Yards project. “In Albany, Bill will be dedicated to fighting for more affordable housing for this district, for increased subsidies for NYCHA residents, and for the Campaign […]

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After yesterday’s headline about a possible shrinkage of 6-8 percent in the massive Atlantic Yards project, coverage has gotten around to noting that the reduction would still leave the development at about the same size at which it originally stood. To paraphrase your Brooklyn grandmother: That’s a reduction? Well, one can argue that it is, […]

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We got to check out the latest addition to the Brooklyn online universe, Until Monday: Bkln, when it was still in its debugging phase, thanks to an invite from Managing Editor Sara Hohn. The site launched this week, and though it’s still billed as being as a beta start up, it’s looking pretty darned good. […]

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Design*Sponge, the excellent design blog created by Grace Bonney has launched a guide to design shopping in Brooklyn. The guide runs down design shopping options in Williamsburg, Park Slope, Dumbo and Boerum Hill-Carroll Gardens, and also throws in some dining suggestions for those venturing into unfamiliar territory. design*sponge’s handy little guide also includes links to […]

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Eating: Opening Night at TINI Wine Bar/Cafe in Red Hook [Chowhound] Cobble Hill Tea Lounge Now Open [Brooklyn Record] Mommy Lounge Tea Lounge on Court [seriously excited!] Polish Delights at Christina’s Restaurant in Greenpoint [Block Magazine] Jacques Torres Has Ice Cream Sandwich of Your Dreams [Ed Levine Eats via Gothamist] Park Slope Food Coop: Good […]

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An outraged comment on an otherwise innocent photo of a tagged up van this weekend from someone who clearly isn’t a regular reader got us to thinking. The commenter took significant umbrage in our use of the phrase “post-industrial” to describe Brooklyn. Specifically: Why do you call this blog ‘post-industrial’ when there are thousands and […]

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Looks like local Indian food chain-let Baluchi’s has jumped ship from Brooklyn. Not that it was much of a ship. With locations on Smith Street in Carroll Gardens and Third Avenue in Bay Ridge, it was more of a rowboat, but the Smith Street location closed this spring and a Labor Day wander down Third […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news articles, blog items and images. For Atlantic Yards Fight Fans: Real Deal Podcast Tackles Atlantic Yards [No Land Grab] Will Affordable Housing Be Last at Atlantic Yards? [Observer] ESDC Breathes Sigh of Relief [The Real Estate] Crain’s Poll Questions Were Stunning Generalities [AYR] Ratner Offers to Downsize […]

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We’re admittedly a little slow in getting to this, but another episode of The Burg, Fair Trade, is online now. And, there’s also a just-posted short called Fan Mail that basically has the characters reading an angry comment left on the website: Bukowski would take a runny shit all over you fucking whiny little bitches. […]

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We are fans of the Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment and, especially, of the tours the organization sponsors in Brooklyn and, sometimes, Queens. So, we were pleased to find their entire fall schedule. (You can open the PDF by clicking here.) Here are the September tours: Victorian Flatbush with Ron Schweiger on Saturday, September […]

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