So, GL was wandering on N. 1st Street between Wythe and Kent in Williamsburg, which is the back side of the site where the Old Dutch Mustard Company Building stood until not long ago. A car pulled up and and older guy got out and walked to the big blue construction fence around the site. […]

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So, we were shooting pics (again) on Beard Street on Saturday when we heard someone saying, “Hey!…Excuse me!…Hello!…Hey!” When we finally looked it was a security gaurd from the Ikea site, approaching us on a public street, clearly interested in what we were doing. “What’s up?” we asked. “Aren’t you that reporter that was here […]

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We wandered over to Broadway and Kent Avenue to check on the status of a property where some pre-demolition has started. We found a big hole being dug (and we’ll have more about the property itself), but far more interesting for the moment is the Rodent Multiplex pictured below. Yeah, we know, it’s a standard […]

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If you ask us, the old Grain Terminal in Red Hook is one of the most frightening-looking structures in all of New York. There is something about the way the huge building, and its dirty and blackened exterior, looms over the landscape that scares us. Which is all the more reason to find the photos […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn related information and images. Dr. King: I Have a Dream (above) [youtube via A Sad Day for Birds II] MLK Speech MP3 Download Links [Brooklyn Vegan] Text of King Speeches [stanford.edu via AYR] Everything Else: Planner Amanda Burden: From Cotillions to Reshaping NYC [NYT] NYT Burden Profile Maintains […]

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423 Smith weighs in with a fun neighborhood post called “Carroll Gardens: Land of Video Stores (many of which are closed, or supported by many other services).” With that kind of title, no need to explain what it’s about, right? A small taste: The Carroll Gardens area is known for many things; for instance, its […]

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The Post takes a look at the Brooklyn real estate game today and notes some of the projects making it hot. A sample: Bruce Ratner last month received final state approval to break ground on the largest development project in Brooklyn’s history: a $4 billion plan to build an NBA arena and 16 skyscrapers along […]

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Here’s a fun video we came across courtesy of the Coney Island Message Board. It’s a video from 1990 of the B&B (Bishoff & Brienstein) Carousell, which was bought for $1.8 by the city and will be reopened at some point as part of the “new” Coney Island. Click on this link or on the […]

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It’s Sunday. Time to hit Craigslist for this week’s best Missed Connection. Our search brings us to a party in Bushwick: Rooftop party last Saturday you were blonde and from South Oregon – m4w – 25 This might be a longshot but I ended up at a random party in the Williamsburg/Bushwick area. You were […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related infomration and images. Photos: Water Towers [Lex’s Folly] Bus Stares [Park Slope Street Photography] No Words_Daily Pix [Hugh Crawford/OTBKB] Atlantic Terminal 9AM [seriously excited!] Grain Elevator [Atomische] Polar Bear [Native Eye] Coney Murals [jason/myspace] Belgian Blocks [Dumbo NYC] The Horror at Red Hook [Brit in Brooklyn] Words: Daily […]

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Greenpoint, Brooklyn

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We have already noted a prayer service taking place this afternoon in Park Slope to remember the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., on this national holiday weekend. There are some worthwhile programs going on today and tomorrow. One of the more interesting ones takes place today (Sunday 1/14) from 4-7 PM at the Brooklyn Museum. […]

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Here are a couple of vids of the ongoing demolition of the Revere Sugar Dome in Red Hook that were posted by parabolic223 on youtube. The top one is about 2:16. The bottom one is only :29. They were shot back in December during an earlier stage of the demo.

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Court Street, Brooklyn

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[Photo courtesy of Soupflowers from her superb Revere Sugar Refinery flickr photoset] Brooklyn Paper reporter Ariella Cohen writers a beautiful piece this week as the result of a visit inside the Revere Sugar factory, which is slowly being demolished by developer Joe Sitt. The column notes that Mr. Sitt still isn’t saying whether any buildings […]

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[Photo courtesy of Frank Lynch/flickr] Photos: Soda (above) [Frank Lynch/flickr] Then it Rained [A Test of Will] Red Hook Salt Mountain [Atomische] Thor’s Playland [Brit in Brooklyn] Quest Mechanical Corp. [bluejake] Robot Operator, Gowanus Canal [seriously excited!] Graving Dock [Lex’s Folly] Brooklyn Bridge Photo Pool [Dope on the Slope] Atop the Gowanus Cement Chute [callalillie/flickr] […]

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Red Hook, Brooklyn

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As some of you know, we also post over at Curbed from Monday-Friday. Here are some of the Brooklyn items that appeared there this week that never made it over here: Dumbo’s Beacon of Light Offering Rentals (above) Red Hook Roundup, Toxic Mystery Edition Fourth Avenue G-Slope Hotel Blends with Surroundings $3.8 Million Record Condo […]

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Red Hook, Brooklyn

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For the record, we do not condone, support or advocate feeding beer to cats. Or dogs, for that matter. Or hamsters. Or (fill in the pet of your choice). It should also be noted that the cat in the video doesn’t actually appear to be drinking beer so much as licking the bottle, although he […]

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Today brings us the bizarre item of the week, if not the year so far. Someone may have stolen 300 cubic yards of toxic dirt from the Ikea site in Red Hook. The Daily News Reports: Missing: 500,000 pounds of rubble, last seen at the planned Ikea furniture store site in Red Hook. Could be […]

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Williamsburg blogger I’m Not Sayin’ got a visit from The Edge this week. If only it had been U2’s guitar player rather than a representative of the developer throwing up the mega-development on Kent Avenue in Williamsburg known as The Edge. The Edge didn’t specifically come to pay a courtesy call so much to scope […]

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Truly, you could spend your entire life obssessively and compulsively tracking and blogging all of the construction-related glitches of the Great Brooklyn Building Boom of the Early 2000s from run-of-the mill violations like illegal demolitions to more profound things like destabilized buildings. (And, with a new surge coming, it’s only going to get better.) Here’s […]

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Time to dust off the wisecracks about how Red Hook is going to smell like a deep fryer. The biodiesel plant that has been proposed for a site near the Red Hook Ball Fields has gotten city funding. Crains reports that Tri-State Biodiesel, which will make biodiesel fule, will get $3.96 million in tax-exempt bonds […]

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