Gowanus Lounge had thought that many of New York City’s prostitutes erotic services providers had retreated to the cozier confines of the Erotic Services section of Craiglist. But we’re wrong. We owe a debt to the Daily Slope and to the Park Slope Message Board and to the Brooklyn Record for reminding us that good […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog items and images. Fun:This Weekend in Brooklyn [Brooklyn Record]Five Day Carribean Party Getting Underway [Brooklyn Record]Hungry Cabbie Eats Jordan’s Lobster Dock [Gothamist]Staying Close to Home for the Holiday [NYDN]Sweet Melissa’s Set to Open [OTBKB]The Oracle is Back [3 Bikini]Prettiest Subway Station in Brooklyn [Across the […]

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As it turns out, the “affordable housing” promise of Atlantic Yards that ACORN and other supporters trumpet loudly, may be more smoke and mirrors than reality for at least a decade, if not more. Norman Oder’s Atlantic Yards Report analysis of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement contains the following startling conclusion: The Atlantic Yards project […]

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Brooklynites will now have an extra week to digest the thousands of pages of verbiage contained in the Draft Environmental Impact Statement on the Atlantic Yards mega-development. The Empire State Development Corporation abruptly announced the seven-day extension yesterday. The extension changes the deadline from Sept. 22 to Sept. 29. ESDC spokesperson Jessica Copen told the […]

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The latest Time Out New York hits us up with a cover story on street art and four individual covers. (The latter clearly being a sales gimmick, but it’s fun.) It’s a citywide story, but given that parts of our own borough are excellent outdoor galleries for street art and our own fondness for photographing […]

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For the handful of you that haven’t seen it on Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn and in the interest of spreading the news, we offer this e-mail about grassroots Assembly candidate Bill Batson. It comes from Daniel Goldstein and Shabnam Merchant: Dear Friends, I am writing to you because, you – like me – oppose […]

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