Sunday = Our favorite Brooklyn Craigslist Missed Connection–pathos, comedy and heartbreak, all in one place–on Craigslist. We’ve got to say that we had a hard time making up our mind. We enjoyed this one, from the guy who found some panties in his laundry, but it was more of a weird lost and found than […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of information and, especially on weekends, images. Pics: Gowanus Coffee Cup [seriously excited!] Walsh’s Shoe Factory, Greenpoint [A Test of Will] Waiting for the Bus on Van Brunt [A Sad Day for Birds II] G’Night Remnants [jUSTINYC] Birds in Flight [Really Not Worth Archiving] Two Desktops [Brit in Brooklyn] Idiotarod […]

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Frank Gehry breaks some news by noting that his Miss Brooklyn is undergoing a serious redesign. “Miss Brooklyn” was supposed to be a 60 story building, but its size was trimmed at before the Atlantic Yards development was approved by the Empire State Development Corporation. Now, Mr. Gehry says, as quoted in the Courier-Life paper: […]

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Here’s a small (20 vid) playlist of Coney Island vids from youtube that we’ve put together for what we call GL’s BrooklynTV. You can click over to the playlist here or, better yet, check out the selections on the very cool player below.

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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Check out this report on CW11 about the “Coney Island Park” propsosal that Thor Equities floated this week. We found it thanks to a list of links on–what else?–Kinetic Carnival. The report is definitely worth checking out.Related Posts:Coney PR Material From Thor Hitting Mail BoxesHere’s “Coney Island Park”Gowanus Lounge Coney Island React-O-Matic

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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When a Park Slope warehouse on Second Street near Fourth Avenue was demolished recently, it revealed an old ad for the stomach remedy Castoria on the side of an adjacent building. The big site is slated to be a four-story, 21-unit building designed by Karl Fischer Architect, best known for his work on Bayard Street […]

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If you’re a squash fan (the vegetable, not the game), there’s going to be a “Great Squash Cook-off” with twenty amateur Brooklyn chefs working to create a vegan dish with winter squash. It happens next Sunday (February 4) from 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm at The V-Spot in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The release promoting the […]

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Broolinks is a daily selection of information and, especially on weekends, information. Images: Twin Beauties [Atomische] Awaiting Development in Coney Island [Brit in Brooklyn] Canal Mirror [Lex’s Folly] Brooklyn [Joe’s NYC] Apple Locksmiths [Bluejake] Photo Op: Too Many Strollers in Park Slope [Daily Intel] Park Place [Brit in Brooklyn] False Alarms Kill [seriously excited!] Winter […]

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If you dig demolition porn, then by all means, you’ve got to check out this playlist of demolition porn (aka destructoporn) vids over at youtube. You can just click through them on the embedded player below to find the ones that, well, turn you on.

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Those of you who read us regularly–and we thank you, as always–know that we post over at Curbed from Monday through Friday. Here are some of this week’s items: Tall Williamsburg #1: Another Finger Raised (above) Brooklyn Real Estate Office Really Hates “Edgy” Art Prospect Heights 101 Do’s and Don’ts of Hocking Loogies in Prospect […]

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Kinetic Carnival posted this moody, gorgeous vid of Coney on a dark and wet winter day, earlier this week. It’s part of a seriers that he says he’ll be doing, which is encouraging, because it looks like we’ll be getting some great vids. In any case, click on the embed below or go over ot […]

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Brooklynites have started getting mailers from an organization identifying itself as “The Future of Coney Island.” The URL printed on the mailers is thefutureofconeyisland.com, which currently is a “parked domain” page. However, the domain name traces back to The Marino Organization, which is the PR firm of Thor’s and developer Joe Sitt’s PR person, Lee […]

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As with all previous releases of Coney Island renderings, yesterday’s information about “Coney Island Park,” which might rise on the site of Astroland, made a splash. We noticed that the plan contained a mass of highrise buildings that we presume would be the hotel part of the proposal, and were amused at the way the […]

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We’ve put together a youtube playlist featuring some of the Brookvids that we’ve made since fall (which is not as many as we’d have liked to make, but it’s a start). You can access the playlist here or just flip through everything on the way cool embed below.

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Today’s post is reporting that the early part of Brooklyn Bridge Park‘s life could be full of construction activity as the stretch of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway that runs above it is rebuilt. In addition, Furman Street will likely be used as a detour for traffic turning it into one very busy roadway. The bad news […]

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One of the more interesting places that figures in Gowanus redevelopment ideas is the site called “Public Place.” It is a vacant parcel between the Canal, Fifth Street, the Smith-9th Street Station and Smith Street that was once the site of a manufactured gas plant owned by the corporate ancestor of Keyspan. It is also […]

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The Brooklyn development war has moved further south in Sunset Park, and it could be a nasty fight. At issue is a 10-story, 31 unit building that would sit on a block of 3-story houses on 42nd Street between Fifth and Fourth Avenues. Significantly, opponents say it would block views from Sunset Park, possibly including […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Atlantic Yards: Green and Jeffries Condemn Barclay’s Naming Deal [Brooklyn Paper] Errol Louis Takes Issue with Brooklyn Paper [Brooklyn Record] Louis Uses an “Everyone’s-Doing-It Defense” to Support Barclays [No Land Grab] Learning from Seattle [AYR] Want to Rent Barlcays Center for Community Use? It’ll Cost […]

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Riverkeeper is filing suit against ExxonMobil because it is dumping partly treated water containing toxic chemicals into Newtown Creek. The water comes from the site of the horrific Greenpoint Oil Spill–a 17-million gallon spill that is thought to be the nation’s largest ever. Apparently, the oil company has been dumping groundwater that it is removing […]

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As Northside Piers, the Toll Brothers development on Kent Avenue and the first of the new highrises on the Northside of Williamsburg, heads toward the halfway point, it is already changing the neighborhood skyline. The building will eventually hit 29 stories. It’s the first of seven towers in the 30- to 40-story range that will […]

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[Photo courtesy of Montag007 on flickr]We haven’t made it over to watch any of the I Am Legend movie shoot around the Brooklyn Bridge, but there are some cool pics posted Bluejake, BlueJoel, rebeccacrumley, Montag007 and others. (You can see all the iamlegend tagged flickr photos here, and we’re sure there are others tagged differently.) […]

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The vanguard of change has apparently landed on the shores of the Gowanus. Demolition crews are working to tear down a warehouse next to the Canal at 137 2nd Street (AKA 64 1st Street), which runs through to First Street. This is of particular interest because the building sits on land on which the Toll […]

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The drawing above is the latest rendering of a park that Thor Equities might build in Coney Island on the site of Astroland. It was passed on to the Daily News and is written up today by Jotham Sederstrom. The six-acre park would have 21 rides, a hotel, a glass-enclosed atrium, commercial space and a […]

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