The ongoing super slow motion demolition of the Revere Sugar Plant in Red Hook by developer Joe Sitt and his firm Thor Equities have the local rodent population up in arms. Beard Street now features about a dozen skull and crossbones signs (specimen above) and big-ass rat bait traps. We’ve always found that skull and […]

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A special Greenpoint correspondent emailed us this photo of a flyer up around the neighborhood for a “Vigil Against Harassment” that will take place on Thurday, January 11, from 6:00-7:30PM. It’s about a particularly nasty situation in one building at 202 Franklin, but extends to broader issues of harassment of tenants by landlords. The situation […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. $100K Makeover for Lookout Hill in Prospect Park [Courier-Life] Broken Angel Draws Community Support [NY1] Broken Angel: WTF! [Clinton Hill Blog] Son Explains Why Broken Angel is For Sale [Gothamist] A Herd of Trojan Horses [Brooklyn Views] Atlantic Yards Update [No Land Grab] About the […]

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McMansion developers the Toll Brothers, who have a major development along the Gowanus Canal on the drawing boards, look like they’re getting impatient with the slow speed of the rezoning they want in the neighborhood. For now, the Brooklyn Paper reports that the Toll Brothers have withdrawn their application to clean up two blocks between […]

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We came across this bit of verse called “Naming the Boat” on a blog called Isabel Sparkle, and we’ve been meaning to run it for days, if not a week. So, it’s today or never. The verse is about the former Empty Vessel boat moored on the Gowanus. The boat, as you might remember, has […]

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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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Yesterday was not a good day for Christmas trees (nor will today be), unless you enjoy watching them shoved through a wood chipper. Oh, well, it’s all for the good, as the trees are recycled into beneficial mulch. Mulchfest happens again today from 10AM-2PM, and you can check out the locations here in our GL […]

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Red Hook, Brooklyn

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. 72 Degrees [Brit in Brooklyn] The Weather’s for the Birds (and Turtles) [Dope on the Slope] 72 Degrees Sets Record, Coney Polar Bears Stage Silent Protest [NYT] Thousands Hit Beaches and Parks in 72 Degree Heat [NYPost] Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood [Brooklyn Heights Blog] […]

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When someone writes “together we can make a wonderful beat on the bongo of my life,” it rather sticks with us. And so it was that when we read the ad below, it rang a bell. We’d posted it before, in fact. Except, back in October, there was no location noted. Now it’s New Year’s […]

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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Given that Whole Foods finally made a community presentation about its expanded store in Gowanus and that the project architect sent us a rendering, we did some obsessive thorough coverage yesterday. We post this today for two reasons. One is that we ran across a fascinating item on Slate about how Whole Foods stock has […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and, especially on weekends, images. Photos: Push Button for Luck [seriously excited!] Tipping Point [A Test of Will] Winter (?) at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden [Atomische] Cyclone in Winter [Bluejake] Coney Boardwalk [Alexandr Smirnov/photo.net] Prospect Park Wollman Rink [Park Slope Street Photography] Bayside Fuel on the Big […]

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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As you may know, we also post at Curbed from Monday through Friday, mostly about Brooklyn, and many of those items don’t appear hear on GL. Here are links to some of our Curbed post for this first week of 2007: Williamsburg Crane Goes Tippy: The Photos (above) Gowanus Friday #2: Bell Will Toll Slowly […]

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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Whole Foods has rejected putting a green roof on its Gowanus megastore. Company representatives delivered the news in person at the Park Slope Civic Council meeting on Thursday night. It would have been an environmental “gesture, but it wasn’t meaningful,” said architect David Ball, “In other locations, it may make more sense.” Mr. Ball said […]

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The toxics are under control and the benzene “toxic plume” story is “exaggerated and inaccurate.” Those were the two major messages from Whole Foods execs about concerns over the possible toxicity of the Gowanus site where they hope to open a 64,000 square foot supermarket by Summer ’08. They spoke at a Park Slope meeting […]

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Executives from Whole Foods and the architect of the new Gowanus mega-market were in Park Slope last night to make a presentation to the Park Slope Civic Council. They brought along renderings of the new store, one of which was sent to us by principal architect David Ball of BL Companies. The 64,000 square foot […]

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For all of the discussion about crime in Park Slope recently, it turns out that crime, according to statistics from the 78th Precinct was down in 2006. Overall crime apparently fell by five percent and robberies dropped by 20 percent. (The decrease in robbery since 1993 has been 78 percent.) Also, if you remember the […]

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The saga of Clinton Hill’s Broken Angel has taken another turn with a quiet effort to sell the property as a “development site” that has shocked some of those working to save the unique landmark. You might remember last week that there was a report that there was progress in efforts to save the building, […]

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While some residents have been talking up a downzoning of the hot and upzoned Fourth Avenue corridor dividing Park Slope and Gowanus, a much more likely change turns out to be a move to include a (very) modest number of affordable units in future developments. Exactly how many buildings would be affected by the change […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Affordable Housing: The Trojan Horse [AYR] Beware the Park Slope Stroller Mafia [Brooklyn Record] Trolley Tracks Showing Themselves at Lorimer and Marcy [Brownstoner] Dumbo Getting Trees and Lighting [Brooklyn Papers] “Little Gym” for Kids Coming to Court House Apartments [53 Boerum] New Boutique in LaFu […]

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We found this old film of Brooklyn trolleys while wandering around on youtube. It’s very engaging and has footage of old Flatbush Avenue, and for the Park Slope people, a lot of shots of Fifth Avenue with trolleys. Click on this link or on the embed below.

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The year is only a few days old, but we already have our first Brooklyn Blog Debate of 2007 in the form of a discussion about whether Brooklyn–and specifically Park Slope–is less safe than Manhattan and, say, the Upper West Side. This all started when writer Douglas Rushkoff was mugged on Christmas Eve in Park […]

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