[Photo courtesy of Reynold on Chowhound]Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. On Thursday, we focus on food. Food: Tanoreen in Bay Ridge: Still Terrific [Reynold/Chowhound] “Pleasantly Surprised” by Iron Chef House in Brooklyn Heights [Brooklyn Enthusiast] Pequeña Offers Big Taste in Tiny Fort Greene Space [About Brooklyn] Brooklyn Label’s Chili Colorado […]

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Have a computer sitting around that you’ve outgrown? We came across an email from a local resident who is putting together a computer training course for the Gowanus Houses Community Center “to teach kids in public housing the fundamentals of computers using free and open source software.” The resident, Kevin Hardiman, says he is “looking […]

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If you’re interested in the entire Gowanus planning and zoning issues, representatives from the Department of Planning are making a presentation tonight (1/25) to Community Board 6 on “a land use framework for further planning discussions” in the Gowanus Canal area. Given the recent publication of a Comprehensive Plan drawn up by the Gowanus Canal […]

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Head over to this week’s New York Observer to check out a nice account by Alexis Swerdloff of going back to the neighborhood (Boerum Hill). A sample: During the summer of 1996, my parents and I crossed the pond, as it were, and moved from Boerum Hill to the Upper East Side. Several months later, […]

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There’s something about this vid–a seven-second time lapse sequence, actually–that we really like, and it only requires a tiny investment of time. It was originally posted at Lolz Blog, where you can watch it with a Quicktime plugin or just click on the youtube version below.

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Interesting chatter in Boerum Hill as property owners appear to be getting frightening tax statements from the city. (Nothing like a missive entitled “Nutso Property Tax Assessment” to get our attention.) The discussion comes from the Boerum Hill Group on Yahoo. Among the comments from owners: Has anyone else gotten a loony property tax assessment […]

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If you get your information online, you already know that Jake Dobkin revealed on Gothamist that someone called “The Splasher” is responsible for the destruction of street art in Williamsburg and Soho. For the handful of you, however, that didn’t see the post, he writes, “Over the last few months, someone has been splashing paint […]

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Wonder why some people are less than enthralled with the top-to-bottom rebuilding of Coney Island proposed by Thor Equities that might leave it nothing more than a famous brand name that bears zero relationship to the original product? Well, for a strong sense of the concern, check out this post about Coney Island on Erica’s […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. ESDC Says State & City Really Tried to Find Another Rail Yard Project [AYR] Brooklyn’s O’Malley Paved Way for Ratner [Sun] Big Fire Hits Brighton Beach Boardwalk Restaurant [NYDN] Williamsburg Developer Selected “Worst Landlord” [NYP] Winter Hoopla [Kinetic Carnival] Getting Used to the Neighbors in […]

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The announcement that Pfizer was shutting down its Brooklyn manufacturing plant–where Zoloft, Cardura XL and other prescription drugs are produced–had barely hit Monday when discussion started about the fate of the company’s factory on Flushing Avenue in Williamsburg and several adjacent parcels of land. (The Pfizer land is shaded in the Google map/satellite image above.) […]

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It’s not often you get to see a major development site from above in an essentially low-rise neighborhood. Such is the case with the photo above shot by photographer f.trainer that shows big Gowanus Whole Foods site. The Whole Food property extends from Third Avenue, on the left, all the way to the Gowanus Canal, […]

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The images from the photo expedition inside the so-called Batcave–the old Transit Authority Power Plant between the Gowanus Canal and Third Avenue–in Gowanus keep coming. Photographer f.trainer has produced a variety of very, very cool panoramas shot from the roof. One was posted over at his excellent blog, The Food of the Future. Others are […]

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At least they haven’t lost their sense of humor. Develop Don’t Destroy, which is waging a legal fight against the Atlantic Yards project, is holding a fundraiser for its Legal Fund on Tuesday, February 6 at 8:30. The event will take place at Union Hall, the cool hangout spot and venue at 702 Union Street […]

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Our friends at the Roebling Oil Field, the development at N. 11th Street and Roebling in Williamsburg that is formally known as McCarren Park Mews, are making progress on the coverup remediation. Much foundation has been poured, but the scent of oil still wafts from the environmentally-challenged site, which a few weeks ago smelled like […]

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PortSide New York, which acquired a tanker named the Mary A. Whalen, and is turning her into a floating headquarters and multi-purpose facility, celebrated a milestone last week when the venerable ship was towed to a drydock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard for renovation and repairs. PortSide director Carolina Salguero has started a blog called […]

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Today’s Daily News takes note of some of the bitter development fights in the South Slope and in Greenwood Heights, comparing the youtube and blogging approach of the Greenwood Heights residents with the more traditional calls made to the Department of Buildings by Bensonhurst residents. A bit on the battle on 22nd Street: A Greenwood […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news and images. Pills: Brooklyn’s Bitter Pill [NYDN] Pfizer Shutting Plant Where it Was Founded [NYT] Bitter Pill: 600 Jobs Gone [NYP] Pfizer Closing Brooklyn Plant, Doesn’t Update Website [Daily Intel] Pfizer Leaving Brooklyn, 600 Jobs Will be Lost [TRE] Films: Expect Havoc Near Brooklyn Bridge for Will […]

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We owe the news of the N. 6th Street Williamsburg Street Art War to blogger INSIJS, because we don’t often check that block for blogging purposes. In any case, tipped off by INSIJS’s post, we shot some photos of the aftermath (and posted an edited version of the “Excrement of Art” manifesto yesterday). Here’s some […]

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Yesterday, we posted a video of the Revere Sugar Plant in Red Hook. Today, we update the time lapse sequence of photos of the Red Hook landmark.

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We hit up the well known as our Gowanus archive for another Gowanus Back in the Day historic photo from the Brooklyn Public Library‘s extensive collection of historic Brooklyn pics. This is an aerial shot of the Carroll Street Bridge from the 1950s. The notes with the photo say, “Portion of Gowanus Canal showing Carroll […]

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The Brooklyn Paper has frequently questioned the Brooklyn Bridge Park plan, but it looks like a planned amenity has won over a skeptic. Editor Gersh Kuntzman devotes his Brooklyn Angle column this week to the ability to play tetherball in the future on the Brooklyn waterfront. Specifically: This paper has taken a very principled stand […]

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McCarren Pool will be before the Landmarks Preservation Commission on January 30 for a landmarking hearing. Preservationists have had the pool on their landmarking list for nearly two decades. News of the sites around city that will get hearings on the 30th is passed along by the Historic Districts Council Blog. The historic pool was […]

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Developer Joe Sitt‘s demolition workers weren’t working in Red Hook this weekend, but the results of their labor were on full display. The site of the old Revere Sugar Plant used to be dead quiet. Now, as Revere dies, it is eerily noisy as loose metals bangs and clangs and vibrates. The Brookvid here captures […]

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We swung by Monteleone’s on Court Street over the weekend and found that it looks like it’s about ready to reopen and that it’s looking good. The signage says “F. Monteleone & Cammareri, Bakery & Cafe.” All of the cases are in place, as you can see, and so are the tables, so it looks […]

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The environmentally-challenged site in Gowanus at Third Avenue and Third Street where Whole Foods is building a huge store–most of which will be below ground–is not a “significant threat to public health or the environment.” A draft report by the Department of Environmental Conservation reports that some pollutants including benzene, PCBs and metal cadmium will […]

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