Our friends at the Brooklyn Record are offering a primary poll via Survey Monkey. Here’s their explanation: With the Democratic Primaries just a week away, we thought it would be interesting to take the pulse of our readers on three high-profile races going on in Brownstone Brooklyn: The battles for the 57th State Assembly seat […]

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Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn is urging residents to “engage in the primary day electoral process and skip an Empire State Development Corporation hearing” on Atlantic Yards scheduled for September 12. DDDB’s statement says, in part, “The ESDC ‘ran’ a public hearing on August 23rd that was a fiasco…after eight hours only 100 people out of […]

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Gowanus Lounge ambled over to the square block site of the proposed Quadriad Development Williamsburgh Square project on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg on Sunday, simply because we’ve been shooting photos of the industrial building that is still standing on the property that is being slowly demolished. We were surprised to find some of the plywood […]

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Ah, campaign season. Gowanus Lounge returned home after an extended vacation on the outer reaches of Cape Cod to find a pile of mail that included campaign literature from a number of candidates on the September 12 ballot. Plus the latest Atlantic Yards mailer that we had already seen online while we were away, because […]

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[Photo courtesy atomische.com/flickr] Labor Day Carnival [Brit in Brooklyn] Big Parade Flickr Photoset [justinyc/flickr] West Indian Parade Photoset [ultraclay/flickr] 438 (So Far) West Indian Parade Flickr Photos [flickr] Slideshow of West Indiand Day Parade Tagged Photos [flickr] 2006 West Indian Parade Photos [423 Smith] Great Carnival Day in Brooklyn [NYPost] Noticeably Absent Yassky [Across the […]

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We love Louise Crawford‘s blogging and the photo blogging of her husband Hugh at Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn. OTBKB was the first Brooklyn blog we paid attention to and we learned a lot about how to ply this trade by reading Louise’s words and looking at Hugh’s photos. So, we read OTBKB’s post over […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog items and images. Pols Parade in Brooklyn, Some Come Under Fire [NYT] Bloomberg Dodges Brooklyn Doughnut [NYDN] Barron Leads in Illegal Campaign Signs [NYPost] Developer Expected to Snip Away at Atlantic Yards [NYT] Ratner’s ‘Small’ Plan, Bigger Than Original [No Land Grab] Atlantic Yards Still […]

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The Park Slope Poetry Project reading series continues tonight at St. John-St. Matthew-Emanuel Lutheran Church in the South Slope. This month’s featured poet is our friend Craig Fishbane, who is a superb Brooklyn poet and resident of Bensonhurst. Craig’s work is excellent and he does readings around the city. (He’s also a member of a […]

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We’ve been waiting all summer for someone in the print media to write about the graphic designer duo of Dan Weise and Kalene Rivers who who’ve spent the summer serving up strawberry shortcakes and smiles on the Coney Island boardwalk. So, we were tickled to see the Daily News story (which we knew was in […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog items and images. Vaugely Labor Day-Related: Short and Sweet at Coney Island Shortcakes [NYDN] In the News: Coney Island Shortcakes Makes News [Coney Island Shortcakes] Last Day to Swim at City Pools and Beaches [NYDN] Island Hop in Brooklyn for Parade [NYDN] Kids Compete to […]

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South Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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Did you know that Brooklyn’s favorite hipster neighborhood became urbanized in the late 1820s when ferries started bringing colonizers from Manhattan? Sound familiar, if not in fact, then in principle? If you check out Forgotten New York’s recently created section on Williamsburg Untamed, you can pick up these details and more. By about 1850, Williamsburg […]

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Here’s a little bit of reality video for you, a full ride on the Cyclone in Coney Island from the front seat. Dialogue consists of shouting and someone saying “rahahahahahaha” over and over. Click on the embedded video below or on this link. Of course, it’s a beautiful day, so if you’re in town and […]

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One of our “check every day sites,” mlik, morphed into a new site named seriously excited! a few days ago, and we thought it was worth noting here. seriously excited! is billed as “a story in few words.” The explanation from Dalton, the blogger behind the old mlik site and the new serious excited!: This […]

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related new stories, blog items and images, except for the visual above, which shows what we recently left behind. Street Tree Carnage [No Words_Daily Pix/OTBKB] Hurricane Hell Brewing? [NYDN] City Flood Maps Vs. FEMA Flood Maps [NYDN] Unidentified Street Artist [justiNYC via Sellsius Blog] Message from Family of Owner […]

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We dig Forgotten New York, the website with historical information on hundreds of NYC neighborhoods and landmarks, both existing and, well, disappeared or forgotten. Over the next couple of weeks, we’re going to be linking to some of their more interesting or recently updated pages on Brooklyn neighborhoods. Any of the pages on the site […]

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A couple of minutes of video shot out the window of a train crossing the Manhattan Bridge. Interesting if you don’t do it much. Probably torture if it’s your daily commute. Click on the embedded vid below or on this link.

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Added Value is the non-profit that runs the Red Hook Community Farm among a great many other activities. While their existence is not new news, it’s still worth pointing out in the hope that a few more people might learn about them. The program works with Red Hook teens, and it has trained more than […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news articles, blog items and visuals, except for the shot above, which is a recent sunset we observed out-of-borough. Visual: Rained In [Brit in Brooklyn] No Words_Daily Pix 08.31 [OTBKB] Ode to Williamsburg [Runs With Scissors/flickr] Stillwell Avenue, Gravesend [Frank Lynch/flickr] Brooklyn 2006 Photoset Slideshow [Soupflowers/flickr] Alcohol as […]

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This gem is brought to you by polandkorearelations.com, the boyfriend-girlfriend team that has produced gems like the guide to their Brooklyn apartment and a slew of videos. In this case, our friends hang on the Gowanus and, particularly, atop the Empty Vessel Project boat. Just click on the embedded video below or go over to […]

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If you want to waste an interesting 6 minutes and 45 seconds today, think about doing it with this video, which is an excerpt from a Bill Moyers documentary about the 1964-65 World’s Fair in Flushing Meadow, current site of the U.S. Open. As a bonus, it contains footage of an interview with everyone’s favorite […]

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This event tomorrow afternoon (Sunday, 9/3) on the Big G is being promoted by Nublu, an Avenue C bar. Six of its performers will be doing a gig at the Issue Project Room space on the Big G. Artists include Forró in the Dark, Love Trio and Karina Zeviani. The show runs from 2 to […]

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Manhattan Avenue, Greenpoint, Brooklyn

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“Appropriate” is Gowanus Lounge’s Weasel Word of the Week, making an appearance in not one, but two, interesting explanations of things. Case Number One: This week’s Gotcha’ Moment, in which Brownstoner caught City Council Member and Congressional candidate David Yassky moments before he was about to attend a fundraiser hosted by architect Robert Scarano. The […]

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