Up, down, turn around. Please don’t let me hit the ground.–New Order Yeah, it’s a little off to quote an 80s song (totally out of context, no less) in an item about Brooklyn real estate prices, but it’s what came to mind about the future of the overheated Brooklyn market over the next twelve months. […]

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Whole Foods is slated to make a presentation about their 68,000 square foot supermarket in Gowanus tonight to the Park Slope Civic Council. The meeting is at 7PM in the Executive Dining Room at Methodist Hospital in Park Slope. The entrance is on Sixth Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. Whole Foods made a presentation […]

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Steve Baldwin, the Brooklyn Parrot expert and person behind brooklynparrots.com, has posted two music videos, with original songs and music that he created, on youtube and on his Brooklyn Parrots blog. The Washington Post described the first one as “a Lou Reed-style song, ‘The Ballad of the Brooklyn Parrots’…which mixes human and parrot voices and […]

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[Brooklyn Parrot photo courtesy of brooklynparrots.com] The Brooklyn Parrots have made the Washington Post and the story is still being picked up and run by other papers around the country like the News & Observer, which is where we found the story late yesterday. All of which goes to show that every loves an animal […]

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[Snacky dumplings photo courtesy of Project Me!] Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. On Thursday, we focus on food. Food: Adam Platt’s Brooklyn Restaurant Ramble [New York] Keeping the Gate at Applewood [Eater] Fort Greene’s Closed Cambodian Cuisine Reopening in Manhattan [NYT] Wednesday Food and Drink Roundup [Brooklyn Record] Brooklyn Burger […]

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We love Gowanus. While we cast a very wide net around Brooklyn, we took our name from our favorite canal, so it pains us to have to return time and again to the toxicity of Gowanus. For instance, the foul water and oil slicks in the Big G, the toxic plume near Third Street and […]

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As we noted yesterday, the reason we fell into a sinkhole on N. 11th Street in Williamsburg was because we were having another look at the site of the McCarren Park Mews condos on the oily site we like to call the Roebling Oil Field. What we found was that the coverup cleanup is almost […]

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We were wandering around a site in Williamsburg, about which we’ll have more later, when another photographer who had wandered onto the property–which had previously been behind a wall and locked gate–said, “Woah, get a load of this. There are hundreds of old motorcycles back here.” When we wandered back, we found a motorcycle graveyard. […]

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Richard Meier’s On Prospect Park development is taking shape nicely, albeit slowly. While photographing its project, we came across this juxtaposition of hanging sneakers against Meier glass. Interesting.

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. No Bubble in Brooklyn? [NYDN] High End Hair #1 [Clinton Hill Blog] Meet the Greenpoint Furrier & Artist [NYT] Big Changes for Williamsburg Music Scene [Brooklyn Record] South Slope Condo Drug Haven [Brownstoner] Marriage & Hobos on the Love Canal [Gridskipper] Corcoran: We Shit On […]

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So, we’re walking along in Greenpoint after shooting some photos of McCarren Park and Karl Fischer Row (aka Bayard Street), when we notice the Aqua Condo has finally lost some of its scaffolding and black netting. As we get closer we notice…a boat on top of the scaffolding at the corner. Seems to be taking […]

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So, Gowanus Lounge ended 2006 by falling into a sinkhole in Williamsburg, allowing us to finally know the joy of what it feels like to have the ground give way beneath your feet. This bit of year-end fun took place at the horrific interesting development site at N. 11th and Roebling in Williamsburg that we’ve […]

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As we noted noted before, two Brooklynites behind the Green Roof Whole Foods Market blog have proposed that the big retailer include a green roof as part of its Gowanus market on Third Street, which is slated to open in 2008. (Assuming the site’s dubious environmental heritage and the “toxic plume” that may be coming […]

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Here it comes. The Starbucks at Smith and Wyckoff is taking shape fast, creating a revolutionary new world in 2007 in which you can cop a spiced pumpkin latte on Court Street and chase it with a doppio espresso on Smith Street. Ah, the glory of it all, even though we still really, really miss […]

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The Courier-Life papers have a long Q&A with Brooklyn developer and Thor Equities CEO Joe Sitt, who is the most prominent and controversial figure on the Brooklyn development scene after Bruce Ratner. (Besides his huge holdings in Coney Island and the Revere Sugar site in Red Hook, Mr. Sitt owns the Albee Square site in […]

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We’ve delayed doing a post about Mulchfest–the annual Christmas tree recycling event–for weeks. Before Christmas, it was depressing. We thought about it the day after Christmas when a discarded tree blew onto Hamilton Avenue and right into the path of the vehicle in which we were riding, but still felt it was too soon. And, […]

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[The superb photo above from the Photo Journal blog] With the Polar Bears [Brooklyn Envy] Polar Bears [Photo Journal] Polar Pain in the Neck [NYPost] Man Injured in Polar Bear Swim [AP/Newsday] Polar Bear Pics [bklynpolar/flickr] 2007 Polar Bear Swim Photoset [maxxum/flickr] End of ’06, Beginning of Lucky ’07 [jUSTINYC] Brooklyn Boy, Chinatown Girl Tied […]

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There was some sky writing up there on New Year’s Eve. We caught this “Who” over Williamsburg around 11:30AM. Later, we noticed a plane doing some writing over Manhattan, when we were about to have lunch in Curry Hill. In any case, the “who” was the only word that we know of that appeared over […]

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We found this vid of last night’s (this morning’s) excellent fireworks in Prospect Park posted over at youtube by matt3303. We chose to watch, for a change, rather than videotape, but we’re glad someone did. Click on the embed below or this link.

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If it’s January 1, it can only mean that it’s time for the Coney Island Polar Bear Club to do their annual New Year’s Swim. Of course, those fun and crazy swimmers do their thing every Sunday in the winter, but the Jan. 1 dip is the one that gets all the press. This year […]

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Gowanus, Brooklyn

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Happy New Year! What’s Open in NYC on New Year’s Day [newyorkology] Happy New Year [Park Slope Street Photography] Happy New Year! [Brooklyn Masala] View from the Coney Boardwalk [Anatoly Rodionov/photo.net] Happy New Year [Brit in Brooklyn] Happy New Year, By ‘N By [Erica’s Blog] […]

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Dyker Heights, Brooklyn

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