Here’s a vid of the Walk Don’t Destroy Brooklyn walkathon held in Prospect Park on Saturday. More than 300 people walked and more than $100,000 was raised for the legal fight against the Atlantic Yards development. To watch click on this link or just click on the embed below. We’ve also posted a flickr photoset […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog items and images. Develop Don’t Destroy Walkathon Pics [No Land Grab] DDDB Walkathon Raises More Than $100K [OTBKB] Mayor Blasts Public Authorities Control Board [AYR] Trolley Follies [Polis] The Other Coney Island [Runs Brooklyn] ArtMart 11225: Outstanding [Across the Park] ArtMart 11225 Flickr Set [acrossprospectpark/flickr] […]

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We looked up on Flatbush Avenue this weekend and noticed that holiday decorations (above) had already been strung across the street. Sure, holiday catalogs have been arriving at Chez GL for several week, but only in limited numbers. We haven’t seen any decorations or trees yet in any chain drugstores, either. So, thanks Flatbush Avenue […]

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The Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn Walkathon in Prospect Park yesterday, attracted more than 300 walkers and raised more than $100,000. More than 1,100 people made contributions. The proceeds will be used to help fund the legal challenges to the Atlantic Yards project. Those challenges will begin in earnest once the project is formally approved in […]

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One of our favorite local writers, historians and website people, Kevin Walsh, who is behind Forgotten-New York–of which we’d be a groupie, if we had time for that kind of thing–is getting around a lot in connection with the publication of his new book, Forgotten New York. In any case, he’s going to be on […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog items and images. Photos: Along the Gowanus [joe’s nyc photostream/flickr] Gowanus at Night Photo Series [petitepomme/flickr] Construction Yard, Red Hook [seriously excited!] Navy Yard Cocktail Lounge [lesterhead/flickr] Between the Cars [frank lynch/flickr] Coney Island [Color the Sky with You] Old Coney Photos [AutoBiographicalDigitizer] Downtown Brooklyn/Borough […]

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Greenpoint, Brooklyn

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If you are seeking some to participate in an important bit of community activism today and to express your voice about the Atlantic Yards proposal, remember that Walk Don’t Destroy, the Walkathon to raise funds for Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn’s Legal Fight is this afternoon. The sign in is at Noon at the Prospect Park […]

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Brooklinks is a selection of Brooklyn-related news articles, blog items and, especially on weekends, images. Remember, Walk Don’t Destroy starts with a noon sign up in Prospect Park today. Images: Gowanus Taxi [Lex’s Folly] Dukes of Brooklyn Heights [Brooklyn Heights Blog] Bedford Avenue Hotrod [justiNYC] Coney Island Desktop [Brit in Brooklyn] A Taste of Bed […]

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Time for our weekend favorite Brooklyn Craigslist Missed Connection, that treasure trove of the funny, the sad and the weird. This week we turn our attention (finally) to the L Train: apples on your skirt and a ring in your nose…. – m4w – 25 I saw you on the L train yesterday around 5 […]

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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So, a very well-informed tipster in Gowanus emails us with news about the planned Whole Foods at Third Avenue and Third Street. (That is the site that has proven environmentally-challenged and that has sat with little activity other than the deepening water hole seen above for more than a year.) Whole Foods, we are told, […]

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Call this the week that insult was compounded by outrage, amplified by the whacka-whacka-whacka of construction equipment and wrapped in the deadly silence of written orders and summonses. To use the crude vernacular: Shit. Shit. And more shit. How else can you characterize a week in which our two favorite phrases were “brutally weird” and […]

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Brookinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog items and images. Impact Issues: ESDC Acknowledges Some Cost, NYT Offers Skepticism but Downplays Story [AYR] ESDC’s Release of “Independent” Fiscal “Impact Analysis” [No Land Grab] Study Shows Data for Claim of Atlantic Yards Benefit [NYT] DDDB Events This Week [I’m Seeing Green] No Impact […]

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Yesterday, the Empty Vessel Project–the World War II rescue boat moored on the Gowanus Canal and used as a community performance space–got some much deserved publicity in the New York Times and the good people at the Brooklyn Record updated us on the boat. Unfortunately, none of what the Times related about the boat was […]

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We’ve been reading way too much about bedbugs lately. Way, way too much. This weekend, a neighbor sent a breathless email noting on Saturday that she had the Sunday Times and had already read the story on bedbugs. In the detailed article, an entomologist predicts that bedbugs “will be the pest of the 21st century […]

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There are so many events going on in Brooklyn this weekend, especially on Saturday, that it would be helpful if one had the ability to be in two or three places at one time. We already posted about the tenth annual Gowanus Artist’s Studio tour, so we’ll focus on several events that we haven’t had […]

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Life in Brooklyn can go from reasonably peaceful to hellish in the span of a construction permit. The astounding video to the right, which painfully conveys what it’s like to live next to a construction site (in this case on 15th Street in the South Slope), was posted yesterday by Brownstoner. It was produced by […]

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We haven’t really written about the awfulness that has surrounded Broken Angel since that fire drew attention to it and the city started trying to get the owners out. The story has been well covered by Brownstoner and others. Today, though, we’re simply going to reproduce a bit about the Broken Angel Standoff that took […]

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The Atlantic Yards Front has been a bit quiet the last couple of weeks, as the Empire State Development Corporation moves toward its pro forma endorsement of the project and the behind-the-scenes end game to reduce the scale of the project and put a more responsive public face on the project plays out. There was […]

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[Photo williamsburger/flickr] Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog items and images. On Thursdays, we focus on food. Food: Wednesday Food and Drink Roundup [Brooklyn Record] New Pizza Restaurant on Henry Street [Chowhound] Pan-Latin Cooking in a Brooklyn Brownstone at Palo Santo [NYT] Top 50 Brooklyn Zagat Restaurants [NYDN] Something Fishy at […]

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Remember those “two is a parade” rules the NYPD was pushing this summer, only to retract them for further consideration after a bit of a public uproar? Well, they’re back with very minor revisions. This time, the Police Department wants to require parade permits for groups of 10 or more bicyclists or pedestrians who plan […]

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It cheers us to read that there’s ongoing talk about bringing trolleys back to Brooklyn, and specifically about recreating a network that would link Brooklyn attractions. At least, that’s one proposal being made as part of planning for Brooklyn Bridge Park. Our old friend the Brooklyn City Streetcar Company, which was formed in 2002 after […]

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The monstrous Greenpoint oil spill is one of those stories that is so horrendous and such a symbol of government’s basic failure and ineptitude, that it’s hard whether to know to laugh, scream or cry. We’re fairly certain that when the full health implications for Greenpoint residents are known in coming generations that it will […]

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