Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news and images. Marathon: Pre-Marathon News Roundup [Gothamist] NYC Marathon Sunday [Gerritsen Beach.net] Marathon Map and Info [nyc.gov] Marathon History [nyc.gov] Official ING Marathon Page [ingnuycmarathon] NYC Transit Spectators Map PDF [mta.nfo] Non-Marathon: Intrepid’s Concorde to be Temporarily Housed at Floyd Bennett Field [NYT] Massive Floyd Bennett Field […]

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Blogger and Smart Mom Louise Crawford emails to remind us (and posts about it over at Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn) that the next Brooklyn Reading Works is taking place on November 16. The featured authors are Elissa Schappell, Ilene Starger and Darcey Steinke. Elissa Schappell wrote Use Me, which was nominated for a Pen/Hemingway […]

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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The funny thing is that when we saw the headline on this story in the Daily News yesterday, (City Worker Polish ‘Joke’ Bombs Out), we skipped over it. We entire missed the Sun’s article on it too. Way too much information to process and no immediate Brooklyn connection. Boy, were we wrong. We almost choked […]

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog items and, especially on weekends, images. Photos: 9th Street Bridge [bluejake] Second Street Doorway [seriously excited!] Gowanus at Night [miche718/flickr] Halloween Sunset and Williamsburg Bridge [imjustsayin/flickr] Going, Going, Gone [A Test of Will] Eminent Domain [Newington/flickr] Red Hook Gold [Lex’s Folly] Early Christmas [lesterhead/flickr] Greenpoint […]

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This baby has been done for a while, but we hadn’t photographed and captured it in all its glassy, see-through glory. There’s a certain comething about this building that causes one to stop and do a double-take. Looks like commercial space on the first floor and residential above, so if you feel like living in […]

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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You may be aware that we also spend time over at Curbed. Every weekend, we like to list some of the week’s Brooklyn-related output. Greenpoint: “Uglier Than the Morons Who Work There” Red Hook, Circa 2006 Williamsburg View With and Without Mustard Williamsburg Development Avenue: Manhattan Avenue More Coney Island Aquarium Redo Renderings Brooklyn Waterfront […]

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Landschaftspark photo above courtesy of Bruno Rodrigues/flickr Landschaftspark? Huh? GL going off on another crazy tangent? Bear with us for a moment. The photo essay that B61 Productions posted yesterday on Red Hook noted that demolition trucks had been spotted on the Revere Sugar property. Thor Equities (yes, the same Thor Equities that is going […]

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There’s dumb and there’s stupid, but then there’s really moronic. We couldn’t pass on this story because it’s so funny in its own tragic-comic way and less offensive than Brooklyn’s teen Hitler. We go to the copy and paste from today’s Post: A bungling bandit – paroled in September for robbing three Brooklyn banks in […]

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This is some of what happened, the last week of October & first week of November, 2006 in Brooklyn: First, we will note that it was a week of comings and going. First, a ten-ton rock was dug up in Fort Greene and made headlines and made people happy. Then, the rock was taken from […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news, blog items and images. Run: More Marathon Strategies [Gothamist] Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Marathon [IMG NYC Marathon Site] One Marathon: 37,000 Stories [OTBKB] The Marathon as Costume Party [NYDN] Fort Green High School Band to Play Rocky Theme for Three Hours [NYDN] Bearded […]

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Prospect Park is always beautiful, but it’s especially nice this time of year with the leaves turning. We took a stroll through the park in glorious weather the other day, surprised by how deserted the park is on a weekday. (We can’t normally go there on weekday afternoons.) Olmstead is said to have like Prospect […]

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Don’t look now, but the 500 billionth packet of Sweet’n Low rolled off the assembly line at the sugar substitute manufacturer’s plant across the street from the Brooklyn Navy Yard this week. (Did you even know that Sweet’n Low came from Brooklyn?) The milestone is reported in the new Brooklyn Papers, which notes that the […]

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After we mentioned Richard Meier‘s “On Prospect Park” building in our chat with Metro earlier this week as an example of a building that fits the scale of its surrounding and is nicely designed, a fellow blogger emailed to remind us that the building was a beneficiary of the (largely vile) 421-a tax abatement program. […]

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Why are we writing about this? Not because Newark Mayor Cory Booker held his nose the other day and embraced the New Jersey Devils and the arena with which his sleazy predecessor saddled him. And not because the “concessions” that Mr. Booker got from the Devils in exchange for his support are so minimal they […]

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This is one of those items that goes under most radars, but that is of interest to those concerned with Brooklyn development. The Real Estate reported yesterday that Purnima Kapur, who is director of the Bronx office of the Department of City Planning is taking over as director of the Brooklyn office. In the Bronx, […]

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Park Slope resident and author Steven Berlin Johnson, who is also one of the people behind the newly launched outside.in website is reading from his new book The Ghost Map at the Book Court tonight. The reading is at 8PM at 165 Court Street in Cobble Hill. (Check out an item on this and tonight’s […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog items and images. On Thursday, we focus on food. Food: Wednesday Food and Drink Roundup [Brooklyn Record] First Pizza at Loucallie’s on Henry St. [A Brooklyn Life] Loucallie’s is ‘brick oven perfection’ [New York] Loucallie’s Considered [Slice] Biscuit BBQ on Fifth Avenue is Open [Chowhound] […]

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There are more very cool renderings of our favorite proposed design for the massive overhaul of the New York Aquarium on Coney Island. (There are three finalists with one to be selected, possibly by the beginning of winter.) We won’t dwell on the ugliness of the current structure, which we’ve done before, or say anything […]

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We opted to shoot video of last night’s Park Slope Halloween Parade on Seventh Avenue rather than shoot a lot of photos, although we’ve got some of those too. The result is this Brookvid, which you can watch by clicking on this link or on the embed below: And, a couple of more photos: Hugh […]

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There’s a little more to report about the, um, interesting Coney renderings published by the Post yesterday. The Post, itself, follows up with this blurb that notes that city officials saw the drawings and have pronounced them “on the right track”: City officials who control the future of Coney Island say the latest renderings for […]

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We stumbled across this commentary about Brooklyn Industries on the blog Raeubertanz and we bring it up only because this Brooklyn business has gone from being amusing five or six years ago to being a little bit of a source of irritation today (especially the aggressive sales help the moment you walk in the door, […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog items and images. After-Hallo: Park Slope Halloween Parade Pics and Parade Notes [No Words_Daily Pix/OTBKB] Brooklyn Halloween 2006 flickr Photostream [flickr] Boo [Callalillie] Halloween in the US and the UK [Englishman in New York] Brooklyn Rock on Halloween [Crazy Stable] A Graveyard Smash [World According […]

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