Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news and images. Hoyt Street Goat is Safe & Sound [Brooklyn Vegan] Brooklyn Goat Escapes Slaughterhouse [Farm Sanctuary] Heartbreaking Story of Carroll Garden’s 94-Year-Old Dominick Diomede [Brooklyn Papers] Judge OKs Sale of Notorious Brooklyn Apt Complex to Former Mets Slugger [NYDN] La Vida Scarano on 23rd Street [Brownstoner] […]

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No, this isn’t another Joe Sitt and Thor Equities post. It’s about an animated film apparently being created by director Ralph Bakshi called “The Last Days of Coney Island.” The film is described on IMDB as “a hardboiled tale of a NYPD detective, the Lady of the Evening he alternately loved and busted, and the […]

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We’re a little late in coming to this party, but this week’s Village Voice has an item about Gowanus that we’d be seriously remiss in not mentioning. A snippet: Gowanus, the industrial district surrounding the Gowanus Canal, has long been the ugly stepsister to next-door Carroll Gardens, Boerum Hill, and Park Slope. The canal itself […]

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There is a deal to save Broken Angel, the endangered Clinton Hill landmark. The New York Times reports that an agreement was reached yesterday in a meeting in Brooklyn Supreme Court and that owner Arthur Wood will submit engineering plans by next Wednesday to remove the 40-foot structure on the building’s roof. The Times also […]

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With all the plans by Thor Equities and other developers to bring a major upscaling, including luxury housing, to Coney Island, plans for a long awaited community center will be unveiled today. The 40,000-square-foot facility will be built on Surf Avenue and include two pools and a basketball court. Details are reported by Jotham Sederstrom […]

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Lurking the editorial section of yesterday’s Sun was a long editorial that hones in on the Toll Brothers zoning dilemma in Gowanus and uses it as the jumping off point to make the case that regulations subjecting such developers to a long and arduous regulatory process is the reason they only build million dollar condos. […]

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The victimization of writer Douglas Rushkoff by a mugger in Park Slope on Christmas Eve and the subsequent declarations of intent by he and his wife to leave Brooklyn is one of those things that reverberates. We’re even guessing that there’ might even be a person here and there that doesn’t know much about Mr. […]

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[Photo courtesy of the great Brooklyn food blog, The Porkchop Express] Brooklinks is a selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. On Thursday, we focus on food. Food: Christina’s in Greenpoint: Excellent Kielbasa [Porkchop Express] Wednesday Food and Drink Roundup [Brooklyn Record] 67 Burger is ‘Yummy’ [VocalLizzy/Chowhound] Dispatches from the Front Lines: City Sub [Clean Plate […]

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Is Monteleone’s Bakery at 355 Court Street, which has been closed for some time, about to reopen? There are hopeful signs. A brand new sign has gone up. A poster named ssamantha reports on Chowhound: Walked by Monteleone’s Bakery yesterday and there was a spanking new sign up – Monteleone’s & Cammareri. Guess Cammareri is […]

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Development in the South Slope is the gift that keeps on giving, possibly because the people being tormented by it send out significant quantities of email, call the city about violations, blog about the problems and post youtube videos showing them whereas residents of other neighborhoods–say, Williamsburg–aren’t as vocal in public. In any case, the […]

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Work is going forward on the Park Slope Armory, and the facility seems to be on target to reopen as an athletic, recreational and education center in September. Local City Council Member Bill de Blasio estimates that the project’s cost will be $20 million “when the smoke clears.” (The original cost was said to be […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Brooklyn Paper Website Redesigned, Check It Out! [Brooklyn Paper] How to Sell Real Estate Next to Atlantic Yards [Observer] Still Awaiting Details on Final Atlantic Yards Changes [AYR] Boerum Hill Property Deal of the Century at Taxpayer Expense [NYDN] Sneak Peek at New Williamsburg Performance […]

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The city’s Red Hook Piers redevelopment effort, which hit a bump in the road when some much-noted protests erupted over its plans to acquire and shut down the Red Hook container port, is taking the path of less resistance for now. Yesterday afternoon, The Real Estate reported that the city’s Economic Development Corporation had released […]

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We dig the Brooklyn Paper, and the coverage that Gersh Kuntzman, Ariella Cohen, Dana Rubenstein, Christie Rizk and others provide of our borough, so we’re glad to help spread the word that the paper’s website has had a major overhaul. The changes put more stories online and makes content easier to access overall. Check it […]

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What you are looking at is the headquarters of TGI Office Automation at Third and Bond Streets. The firm sells copiers and other office equipment around New York City and in Florida, but the building has been in this state for many months. When we first saw it, we thought it was coming down for […]

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The Brooklyn Interfaith Alliance–a group of churches, temples and mosques working to address social justice issues in Brooklyn–is holding a service on Sunday (January 14) to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. A member of Old First Reformed Church in Park Slope sent an email about the service. It will take place at Old First, […]

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Holy Mother of God. Somebody pinch us to make sure we’re awake. A Park Slope mom left the following post on the Coney Island Message Board, which has got to be the ultimate triumph of optimism over reality or, at least, a sign of someone that is five-six years ahead of the curve. Here is […]

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Ah, the joys of warm winter weather. Like the discussion over at the Prospect Heights Forum, picked up by the Daily Heights, about the “Plague of Winter Mosquitos in Prospect Heights.” The original poster back in late December on the Message Board writes: Is anyone else around here still getting mosquitoes? Two nights ago I […]

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Yesterday, we brought you the War on Red Hook Rats. Today, we’ve got a couple of more photos to show Beard Street in the era of Thor Equities and Ikea. What you will notice is that someone’s been busy in recent weeks plastering up street art on the really long Ikea construction fence and that […]

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So, the longstanding mystery of that big empty lot between N. 11th and N. 12th Streets on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg has been solved. It will soon be a big parking lot. Alternately, the site has said to be too toxic for a development, as it was the location of a chemical or paint plant […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news and images. Stinks: Rotten Smell Raises Alarms, Questions & Delays Smoke Breaks [NYT] Your Instinct Was Right: Big Stink Probably Came from Jersey [NYDN] Yup, Jersey Cut the Cheese [NYPost] Doesn’t Necessarily Stink, But Might, Depending on Story: Park Slope Development, Part MCIX [Gothamist] Will Chappelle Mend […]

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The one and only Forgotten-NY went out to Coney Island on Christmas Eve–actually, he first went to Midwood to check on some historic markers on Ocean Parkway and, then, to Brighton Beach–and the result is a cool new Forgotten NY web page called “Coney Island Signs…and the Death of Astroland.” The pages is full of […]

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In our quest to find amusing Brooklynalia, we came across a blog called Splenetic and a post called “How Cobble Lost Its Hill.” Its a short primer on Cobble Hill Revolutionary War history. (Maybe you know the story below, but we didn’t.) There is a plaque of George Washington at the corner of Court and […]

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The coverup environmental remediation project at McCarren Park Mews at N. 11th and Roebling in Williamsburg on a site we like to call the Roebling Oil Field is making great progress. A look at the site yesterday found that netting on the fence has been repaired to close up all the holes we have been […]

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Possibly you’ve been reading all the Broken Angel coverage. The situation has been quite confused since Brownstoner scored a scoop by reporting the Clinton Hill landmark was on the market. Then, Friday, the Brooklyn Paper quoted the agent handling the sale that Broken Angel is a “development site.” In any case, Chris Wood, son of […]

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