Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. 88 Lafayette Shell Sells for $1.1M [Set Speed] The 511 Foot Miss Brooklyn Cut Ruse [No Land Grab] We Still Don’t Know What Ratner Will Make From Atlantic Yards [AYR] More About Ratner TV [NYPost] New MTA Route Planner Maybe Works. Or Not. [Gawker] One […]

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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Some neighborhood names present more issues than others. Take Gowanus. Ever thought about having the name sewn into a hoodie as, say, a Christmas gift? It becomes a delicate issue of zipper and letter placement. Align it the wrong way and you get “Gow anus.” Align it differently and you get “Gowa nus.” There is […]

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The photo above is called “Carroll Street Bridge Before Planting” and is dated August 31, 1912. It’s a historic Gowanus Canal photo that’s part of the Brooklyn Public Library’s collection of historic Brooklyn photos. The summary says: Grass plot adjacent to Carroll Street Bridge at Gowanus Canal; tracks and wires bisecting grass plot; portion of […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Day After: Sweet Love in a Brooklyn Cookie Factory [Newsday] Djumbo? Like…Misspelled Dumbo? [i don’t do due dates] Img: Front and York Streets [Dumbo NYC] Cruisin’ Fifth [Sunset Parker] Origami on the Trees in Clinton Hill [Clinton Hill Blog] Self-Portrait on Third Street [Blue Jake] […]

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The good people at No Land Grab, who have been chronicling the fight against Atlantic Yards, are keeping up the Ratner-Atlantic Yards watch. They offered up this hysterical image yesterday, which we reproduce here in the spirit of the season, as today is an unofficial extension of the Christmas holiday, judging by the relative quiet […]

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Fort Greene, Brooklyn

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Here are some links to flickr photostreams of Christmas pics around the world. The photo from the top is from Berlin from camills on flickr. The photo below, courtesy of Fredrik Stromberg on flickr, is from Prague. Zurich Berlin Tokyo Vienna Rome Montreal Paris Amsterdam Barcelona Prague

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Christmas: Holiday Picture Overdose [Snapshot] Inflatable Blur [Krispy/flickr] What’s Open on Christmas and New Year’s Day [Newyorkology] Video of the Day: Christmas in Hollis [Gothamist] Yuletide Week TV [Gothamist] Dyker Heights Lights on TV Tonight [thirteen.org via Gothamist] Thinking About the Holidays [I’m Seeing Green] […]

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Carroll Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn

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Last night, Gowanus Lounge went out to do some last minute Christmas shopping. We were looking for a couple of t-shirts for our nephews and decided to check out the Brooklyn Industries at Union and Fifth Avenue in Park Slope. The bit of irony in this is that this particular Brooklyn Industries occupies the site […]

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A Container Christmas, originally uploaded by aur2899. Among the Brooklyn institutions that outdoes itself for Christmas is American Stevedoring. This little scene was captured by aur2899 and posted on flickr, along with some other neat angles. They’re also playing Streisand Christmas tunes. Writes the photog, “Really you have to see it to believe it 😉 […]

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Our Sunday featured Brooklyn Craigslist Missed Connection never rests. Not even on Christmas Eve. What better place to turn on this day before Christmas for a taste of love, comedy and pathos, than the local Barnes & Noble? In this case, that hotbed of ships passing in the night, not to mention moms with SUV […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn information and images, today, with a lot of Christmas flavor. We wish all who celebrate the holiday a very, very, very Christmas and some true Christmas spirit. Ho, Ho, Ho: Doll Head for Christmas [mari.lowery/flickr] No Words_Daily Pix: Festive Lights [Hugh Crawford/OTBKB] Glowing Brooklyn Snowman [Vibba/flickr] Brooklyn Christmas […]

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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Dyker Heights, Brooklyn

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We found this in our wanderings, looking for substantive Brooklyn content on mypsace. It’s from a Coney Islander named Pop.La.Rox and it’s pretty cool. Give this excerpt a few seconds of your time, and then, click over to the blog get the rest: You know what the B74 bus is/You remember when the B74 only […]

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Photoblogger Dalton Rooney, whose blog seriously excited! is something we have dug from when we found it in the old days when it was mlik, has been producing a brilliant photo series called Hello, My Name Is… He’s been printing images of Brooklyn landmarks on those “Hello My Name Is…” tags that we all hate […]

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Fort Greene, Brooklyn

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and, especially on weekends, images. The incredible shot above is from merculian’s flickr photoset of a recent visit inside the Revere Sugar dome in Red Hook. Photos: Inside the Revere Dome Flickr Set (above) [mercurialn/flickr] Inside the Revere Dome Flickr Set [gowanus/flickr] Smoking with Bicycle [Park Slope […]

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Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn

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Developer Bruce Ratner may not have any youtube Christmas Carols, but he has some kick ass CCTV. (He also has Atlantic Yards, pending judicial decisions so, like, who needs youtube vids? Old Media is fine for Mr. R.) Call it Bruce Vision or Ratvision or TeleRaton or whatever you’d like, but Develop Don’t Destroy found […]

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There is some nastiness underfoot in Gowanus. Specifically, the Brooklyn Papers reports an underground ‘toxic plume.’ And, the plume–which contains benzene is under the Gowanus Whole Foods site and moving in the general direction of Park Slope. The “underground cloud of toxins,” as Ariella Cohen calls it in the Brooklyn Papers, is spreading, according to […]

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Whenever we pass the future site of the Gowanus Whole Foods, which has been an environmentally-challenged lot wit a couple of pits for about a year, we like to check on its status in general and, specifically, on how the body of water we like to call Lake Gowanus is doing. The little lake that […]

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