Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog items and images. Brutally Weird: “Brutally Weird”: Errol Lewis on CBGB, AY and the Homeless [AYR] Plain-Old Weird: Skulls Watch Over Atlantic Yards [Razor Apple via No Land Grab] Park Slope Car Theft [Sunset Parker] Brooklyn Rapper Fabolous Shot, Then Arrested [NYT] Not Weird at […]

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We found this posted on myspace and have no idea what it is, other than the obvious rant, but found it compelling in its way. It was posted by an eighteen-year-old named Julisa, who lists her location as “Long Island.” In any case, we dig it, so we’re posting it here: Before the hipsters leeked […]

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You can never have too many reminders about Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn’s Walkathon Week, the series of events leading up to their fundraising Walkathon on Saturday, Oct. 21. There are some way cool events going on this week, including reading by some prominent Brooklyn writers and, on Thursday, the opportunity to eat at number of […]

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Well, we finally made it over to Butler Street to shoot some photos of the new Comfort Inn that is at an advanced stage of construction. It’s on Butler Street, between Nevins and Third Avenue in Gowanus. The new hotel is being developed by McSam Hotel, which also developed the Gowanus Holiday Inn Express on […]

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The Park Slope Courier offers some extra details about the boutique hotel on Fourth Avenue that we keep writing about. The hotel, we’re told, could open as early as January. Designed by Canada-based Andres Escobar & Associates, it will have 48 rooms and a “glass curtain wall.” A number of the rooms will have balconies […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog items and images. Spinning: New Old Carousel in Dumbo [Sunset Parker] Jane’s Carousel Spins With No One to Ride It [Daily Intelligencer/NY Mag] Carousel in Dumbo [OTBKB] A Chat With Jane at Carousel Opening [Dumbo NYC] Stationary: Two Trees Offering Semi-Free Theater Space at 110 […]

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We’ve been tracking the stories about the little bursts of crime in Park Slope from the “wolf packs” of teens reported earlier this year attacking and robbing people in and around Prospect Park to the more recent spate of robberies at the Seventh Avenue station that led to the much publicized racial profiling issue. And, […]

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NoNo Kitchen opened on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope last week in the space formerly occupied by the reviled India House. It’s a pretty space with a nice looking menu featuring such appetizers as Blue Crab Cake, Jambalaya Won Tons, Crawfish Popcorn, Roasted Alligator Sausage and New Orleans Barbecue Shrimp. Entrees are things like Crawfish […]

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You can check out our flickr set from the excellent tenth annual Dumbo Art Under the Bridge Festival here or just click here to see the slideshow. Meantime, there are also a couple of vids below, including a cupcake fight under the Manhattan Bridge.

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The carousel renovated by Jane Walentas, wife of the man who is responsible for Dumbo as we know it in 2006, debuted at the Dumbo Art Under the Bridge Festival this weekend. It is a special project that has been long in the making. “Jane’s Carousel,” as they are calling it, was built in 1922 […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog items and images. Dumbo: 10th Annual Dumbo Arts Fest Photoset [gopstar/flickr] Dumbo Art Under the Bridge 2006 Festival Photoset [rsguskind/flickr] Dumbo Arts Festival in Pictures [A Brooklyn Life] Dumbo [Brit in Brooklyn] Dumbo Links [Dumbo NYC] Dumbo Art Festival Keeps Benches Warm [Gothamist] Dumbo Arts […]

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Here’s a vid of Williamsburg, featuring the (being demolished) Old Dutch Mustard factory, the (being renovated to luxe condos) Mill Building and the (unlandmarked and to be seriously altered) Austin Nichols warehouse at 184 Kent. Music from Basement Jaxx. Click on this link or just hit the embed.

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This one came to us via an e-mail from the author, inviting us to download a PDF of his book, Coney Island. The book is a number of years old, but we’re suckers for anything Coney, so clicked and looked and found a book that has some very interesting stories and reflections and photos. So, […]

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The tenth annual Dumbo Art Under the Bridge Festival is certainly the best one we have seen. While we’d wished to see streets closed as they were in the past when we were there on Saturday, the street performances were fun and there are a number of excellent exhibitions. Not to mention the usual large […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog items and images. (The photo above is of the ladies of Ouff, on the street, during the Dumbo Art Under the Bridge Festival yesterday.) Manhattan Bridge Jam [NYDN] Rare Bone Cancer Cluster Near Greenpoint Oil Spill [NYPost] Giant Squids and Mermaids in Manhattan and Brighton […]

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Here’s the return of our favorite weekly feature highlighting a Brooklyn “Missed Connection” on Craigslist that in some way touches us (funny, weird, scary, sad, poignant, whacked, etc.). We noted back-to-back posting from the Hoyt-Schemerhorn platform this week. We present our favorite and Honorable Mention the other: Hoyt-Schemerhorn platform. you black hair with pinkish makeup […]

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Greenpoint, Brooklyn

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Well, one of the Top Ten Brooklyn Mysteries has been solved. If you ever cross the Brooklyn Bridge, you probably wonder why police cars are sitting there, blocking one lane and sometimes causing epic traffic jams. We knew that it was some sort of security operation, but never had much detail beyond that. Now we […]

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We find rants about Park Slope kids and parenting, and all the related subjects, oddly compelling. And so it with the following nugget, called Park Slope: AKA “The Hatchery” from a blog called Hello Portland from NYC. Here it is: I don’t know how they do it. Five moms with babies all within the ages […]

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Coney Island, Brooklyn, 09 October 2006

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Greenpoint, Brooklyn

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog items and, especially on weekends, images. Pictures: Tree Turning in Prospect Park [atomische/flickr] Hair Cove [bluejake] Old Dutch Gets the Big D [justiNYC] Under [Lex’s Folly] Dressy Brooklyn Cat [callalillie] Cool Carroll Gardens Halloween Slideshow [daltonrooney/flickr] No Words/Daily Pix [Hugh Crawford/OTBKB] Brooklyn Botanic Garden [Joe’s […]

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So, Coney Island may be done for the season, the rides now surrounded by fences and “Attack Dog” signs, but Halloween means Creep Show at the Freak Show, which is billed as “one of the best haunted tours in all of New York City. Audience members are greeted by live entertainment and taken on a […]

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As many of you know, we also post over at Curbed from Monday through Friday. Here’s a sampling of our Brooklyn-related posts this week: Final Nails in Gowanus Coffins? Haunted Houses of Clinton Hill How Do You Sell Williamsburg to Non-Hipsters? Evidence That Brooklyn’s Still Brooklyn, Yo Williamsburg Neighbors: 50% More Warmth in October Dumbo […]

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This is a glimpse inside one of Coney Island’s remaining landmarks, an old bank building at W. 12th Street and Surf Avenue. It has had a Thor Equities “For Lease” sign affixed to its side for at least a year and is within the footprint of Thor’s Coney redevelopment area. Coney Island fixture Dick Zigun […]

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