Towers are rapidly spreading on Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue. The area between Second and Fifth Streets have been an early center of activity with two Leviev Boymelgreen towers and a new boutique hotel. However, there is building underway at Carroll Street and at Douglass Street and new projects have been announced at First Street and at […]

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Yesterday’s news that the Empire State Development Corporation had forgotten to include some responses to the Draft Environmental Impact Statement on Atlantic Yards before issuing the Final document indicates the landscape may be shifting. One would be hard pressed to say that Public Authorities Control Board member and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who holds a […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news and images. Top 100: Park Slopers Denied Self-Righteous Place in American History (See Below) [Intelligencer] Give Us Your Park Slope 100 [OTBKB] Brooklyn Principal Not Likely to Anyone’s Top 100 List [NYT] Buildings Department Tries Getting Off Bottom 100 List in Manhattan Beach [NYDN] Not Top 100: […]

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Just when we were thinking that the Red Hook development front had been very quiet of late (with rumblings of demolition trucks spotted on the Revere Sugar property and speculation about whether Ikea had started filling the historic Graving Dock on its property), we got word from the Municipal Arts Society that it had filed […]

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Here we go again. You might remember the “two is a parade” rules that were brought up and withdrawn this summer. Well, they’re back in somewhat modified form and there is a hearing about them scheduled for Monday, Nov. 27. To summarize the proposed rules, groups of ten or more bicyclists or pedestrians who plan […]

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Hotel Chatter is reporting a new aloft hotel (the lower-casing is deliberate, not a typo) will be opening in Brooklyn, sometime in 2008. While the article rubs salt in our favorite wound, calling the Gowanus Holiday Inn Express the “Park Slope Holiday Inn,” it notes that the aloft–which is a budget chain from Starwood and […]

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The Brooklyn Record reports one of those stories today that ticks us off even more than developers demolishing historic buildings. (You don’t need us to bring you this story, but if only one person that hasn’t already noted it sees it here, then we feel that we’ve made a contribution.) The item is about a […]

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There have been a lot of film shoots in Williamsburg lately and one result is that the light poles and other surfaces are getting crowded with those lovely “car relocation” notices. We captured this image on Sunday on Kent Avenue. Okay, it’s only two shoots, but two back-to-back?

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Since one can never get too much of a good thing, we offer a few more photos of the site of McCarren Park Mews at N. 11th and Roebling in Williamsburg. We freely admit to not knowing a bloody thing about soil engineering or about decontamination. We do know, however, what our eyes and nose […]

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Another crane sprouted within the last week in Williamsburg on the site–of course–of the Toll Brothers Northside Piers which is going up very fast on Kent Avenue. Have a look at the crane, which is laying structural steel for the affordable housing complex called Palmer’s Dock that will wrap around the luxury highrises known as […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news and images: For the Kiddies: Diaper Panic at Park Slope Disco [Gothamist] Baby Loves Disco [Baby Named Jonas] Park Slope Dilemma: $5 cookies or Hungry Kids? [Gawker] For the Grown Ups: Incoming Assem. Jeffries Supports Atlantic Yards Delay, Changes [AYR] ESDC Must Revise Final Atlantic Yards Impact […]

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Sometimes the little things can make a big, big difference. That may be the case with yesterday’s statement by Empire State Development Corp. Chair Charles Gargano noting that some comments submitted in reponse to the Draft Environmental Impact Statement on Atlantic Yards “were not included” in the final document. (Such an oversight could legally undermine […]

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Brooklyn may be one of the few places around where people will plunk down $500,000, $1 million or more for a condo on a piece of land with a very questionable environmental past. As more residential developments go up on formerly industrial sites, the problems will multiply. A case in point is the development known […]

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A huge certificate of appreciation, prominently displayed, to the genius that gave us this superb and deeply meaningful juxtaposition of images. It would probably have gone unnoticed too, if it hadn’t been for the sharp eye of Gowanus artist Lois Ruben Aronow, who has started a new blog called Random Brooklyn. Ms. Aronow emailed to […]

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Workers were busy this weekend getting Grand Army Plaza ready for the “Prospect Park in Lights” display that we mentioned on Saturday. From the looks of things, there will be LEDs across the top of the arch and partly across the sides. Last night, we gazed down Prospect Park West from Fourth Street to the […]

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Fort Greene is right at the top of any list of Brooklyn neighborhood’s being deeply impacted by current and future development, and so tonight’s meeting on “Development Going Up on the Streets of Fort Greene” is an important one. The session is being sponsored by the Fort Greene Association and will start at 7:30PM, with […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news and images. Holiday-Related: Turkey Week TV [Gothamist] More About Prospect Park in Lights [Flatbush Gardener] Save the Seventh Avenue Snowflakes [OTBKB] Christmas Fair at “Little Denmark” [Blather from Brooklyn] Not Holiday-Related: Development Watch: Fifth Ave. Committee in Red Hook [Brownstoner] Playstation 3 Brooklyn Insanity [Sexy Jesus/Vox] Enamoo […]

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The new outpost of Delices de Paris has opened on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope between Uncle Louie G’s and Smiling Pizza, solving the longstanding mystery of what baked goods-pastry related enterprise was opening there, given the display cases in the space. Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn has already been there for lattes and sweets, […]

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New York Water Taxi is launching a new commuter service from Brooklyn’s Fulton Ferry Landing in Dumbo to Pier 11 (Wall Street) and East 34th Street in Manhattan on Monday, November 27th. The stop is being added to Water Taxi’s “East River Route,” which includes service from Long Island City and from Schaefer Landing in […]

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We don’t generally post a lot of serious items on Sunday, but today’s Atlantic Yards Report brought our attention to remarks made by State Assem. Speaker and Public Authorities Control Board Member Sheldon Silver in an appearance on WNBC’s News Forum that was streamed live on Friday online and that aired on TV today. (A […]

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Today’s New York Times visits Coney Island, not in the news section, but via a real estate report. Lee Silberstein, who is the spokesperon for Thor Equities, which has bought up some 10 acres of land and proposed a massive redevelopment, including residential highrises, describes the new Coney Island the firm would like to build […]

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It’s the weekend so it’s time to turn our attention to the land of pathos, regret and comedy–Craigslist Missed Connections. This week our Top Choice is from a loft party in Williamsburg: Dude in marching band jacket at loft party last night – w4m – 31 We were sitting on perpendicular couches and exchanged glances […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news and images. Pics: Gil Hodges Bridge [Bay Ridge Blog] Gerritsen Beach Lobster [Gerritsen Beach Net] Sun Comes Up in Prospect Park [seriously excited!] Members Only [Park Slope Street Photography] Season’s Greetings from Park Slope [Dope on the Slope] Sun Kissed Brooklyn [atomische.com] Words: A New Brooklyn Food […]

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Our favorite New York City website, forgotten-ny.com, has posted a fascinating item with tons of photos about the neighborhood around Myrtle and Knickerbocker Avenues in Brooklyn. Author Kevin Walsh relates that he had free time after his appearance on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer, so he took the M Train to Bushwick. After correctly observing that the […]

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