gowanus skyline, originally uploaded by f.trainer. The photographer and photoblogger known as f.trainer (along with Bluejake) apparently got into the old Power Station next to the Gowanus Canal known as the Batcave, which had been occupied by squatters until it was cleared out recently. In any case, the views of Gowanus from the roof are […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Batcave Images: View from the Roof of the Batcave [Bluejake] Batcave Slideshow [Streetsy/flickr] Batcave Pic [The Food of the Future] Nothing to Do with Bats or Caves: Times Finally Shows Scale of Atlantic Yards…in an Ad [AYR] Good Samaritan Helps Brooklyn 94 Year Old Facing […]

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When it comes to a community’s future, 90 percent of what matters is determined in a rezoning. So it will be in Coney Island, where a preliminary comprehensive rezoning is apparently due by late spring. That’s the news reported by the Courier-Life papers in a story by Stephen Witt. Any documents that are produced will […]

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Last week, the street art war on N. 6th Street in Williamsburg took an unexpected turn, which blogger INSIJS explained. We shot some photos of the aftermath, of which more will be forthcoming, but found the shot above of an edited version of the “Excrement of Action” poster especially interesting.

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It’s Sunday, which means it’s time to present the results of our careful reaading of the land of pathos, loss, missed opportunity, wishful thinking and comedy known as Brooklyn Missed Connections on Craigslist. Today, we turn to an unnamed drinking establishment in Park Slope, where a female drunkenly compliments a male on his “nice ass.” […]

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Our favorite South Slope development horror, at 15th Street and Eighth Avenue, continues to draw coverage. This weekend NY1 has been running a segment on the horror and the neighbor’s use of 311 calls and videos to document the problems. NY1 reports: Some Park Slope residents say a home video best tells the story: construction […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Images: Snow!!! [Brooklyn Enthusiast] Snowtime [Brit in Brooklyn] Icy Call Box [Clinton Hill Blog] City of New York Water Supply Distribution Gowanus Station [seriously excited!] A Mural in the Notary District [Bluejake] Not Only Images: Love and Death in the Air with Brooklyn’s Red Tailed […]

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Here’s a short vid we found via Kinetic Carnival of Coney Island shot from the air in 1991. (Originally posted, it seems, by Feltmans_4_mine on the Coney Island Message Board.) The poster describes it as follows: “A short airplane ride along the beach at Coney Island. Shot in 1991. From Brighton beach to Steeplechase Park. […]

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Back to the old Gowanus archive we go for another Gowanus Back in the Day historic photo from the Brooklyn Public Library‘s extensive collection of historic Brooklyn pics. The photo, which is not dated, but is most likely of 1950s vintage, is described as “Portion of Gowanus Canal showing Hamilton Avenue beneath elevated expressway; elevated […]

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As some of you know, we post on Monday through Friday over at Curbed. Here’s some of this week’s Curbed output that did not appear on GL: A Flood of Red Hook Post-Industrial Photos (above) Boymelgreen Gets a New Friend in Park Slope Digging the Dirt at Ikea’s Red Hook Site Williamsburg Graffiti War Escalates, […]

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Red Hook, Brooklyn

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Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to accept photos and videos at 911 and 311 is going to have some eager users in the South Slope. The video below, along with a number of companion pieces which you can see here, here and here, are new on youtube. They concern the ongoing nasty construction situation at 406-408 15th […]

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The new website for the Barclays Center is just so full of interesting…things that it’s hard to know where to begin. From the opening screen that says, “Brooklyn Gave the World Inspiration” to the ability to sign up for “construction updates and ticket information,” it’s quite the clicking around kind of place. (Don’t miss the […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and, especially on weekends, images. Photos: Revs on the Gowanus [seriously excited!] Finally, a Bit of Snow [423 Smith] It Finally Snowed [Park Slope Street Photography] Snow! [A Brooklyn Life] Private Jesus [Atomische] Two Views of the Port of New York Grain Terminal [Bluejake] Red Hook Grain […]

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Maybe these guys were practicing for the Polish Hip Hop Festival in Greenpoint Friday night? In any case, this youtube vid was posted over at viceland, which offers: Brooklyn’s G Train picks up a pretty diverse array of riders as it runs from Queens’ potpourri of ethnic neighbs through Williamsburg and Hasid central, the Bed-Stuy […]

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We found this post on a blog called Jolie laide. It’s about a visit to Coney Island in weather that does not make it a year-round kind of place, except for residents. In any case, that’s another issue. The point here is a post that is atmospheric and almost poetic: Coney Island in the winter […]

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South Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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Yes, that was snow this morning. We took these shots around 8:15AM on Prospect Park West in Park Slope. Not much snow, but it sure looked nice, even though it was probably all gone by about 9:30. But, if you slept late and missed it, it was there.

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There is a lot of property avaiable in Williamsburg on both the North and South sides. However, no building in all of Brooklyn or New York City is more available than this one, which is located on Kent Avenue at S. 11th Street, near the Schaefer Landing development. Take your pick of brokers.

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We’re fascinated by new buildings that bump up against the Gowanus and the BQE. We understand the old ones that were there before Robert Moses cut a swath through Brooklyn and Queens. We might even get why developers build new buildings right up against it. What confuses us, though, is why people would shell out […]

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The deal to put the name of Barclays Bank on the Atlantic Yards Arena is stirring a bit of controversy. On Wednesday, Fans for Fair Play circulated an email digging into the bank’s history. The new Brooklyn Paper’s front-page headline is “Blood Money,” which expands on the bank’s historic connection to the slave trade, its […]

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We’re going to spend some time digging into the Gowanus Comprehensive Plan produced by the Gowanus Canal Community Development Corporation, which proposes many interesting things for the neighborhood around the Gowanus Canal, which it divides into North and South Districts. The South District would be an industrial zone and the North District mixed use. The […]

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How can we pass up a Brooklyn band whose new EP is called The Gowanus Sessions and that rehearses and records on Second Avenue at 15th Street? The band is Dimestore Scenario and lead singer Rachel Federman, whose vocals are alternatingly sweet and powerful, depending, says the band works “right in the heart of that […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Gehry Jousts with Proster, Says Ratner Kept Him on Leash [AYR] Greenpoint Polish Hip Hop Festival Tonight! [newyorkshitty] Fred the Gargoyle [Brooklyn Heights Blog] One Hanson Price Cut? [Brownstoner] Support for 94-Year-Old Carroll Gardens Resident Facing Eviction [Brooklyn Paper] Stopping the Driving Madness on Henry […]

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O.L. Robau, who produces Kinetic Carnival, which is devoted to Coney Island and is one of our favorite blogs, reports that Sheepshead Bay landmark Lundy’s is no more. He left the news as a comment on an item, and we wanted to highlight the information. Mr. Robeau writes: Lundy’s restaurant has been shut down. According […]

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