Yes, Sunday. Time for our Brooklyn Craigslist Missed Connection of the Week. There are a lot of tough choices this week, like the simple, yet compelling, one for the woman wearing the cheetah print shoes on the F and the bit of nastiness left for the “ass face” that took someone’s Arecibo car in Dumbo. […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. 2007 Brooklyn Calendar of Events [About Brooklyn] Red Hook Makes the Travel Section [NYT] Picked Up These Books on the Streets of Brooklyn [Big Sky Brooklyn] Low Tide [Lex’s Folly] Fun with Vehicles, Sheepshead Bay-Style [Erica’s Blog] Fun with Apartments, Greenpoint-Style [newyorkshitty] Escape from Williamsburg […]

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We return to our episodic feature, Brooklyn Back in the Day, with this specimen from the Brooklyn Public Library’s wonderful collection of historic photos. This photo is Coney Island’s Bowery in 1948. The taller building on the right is the Henderson Building, which will eventually fall to Thor Equities demolition crews. The caption to the […]

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South Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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Here are some Coney Island vids posted to YouTube this week. Click on the embed or on this link to go to YouTube.

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As you may know, we also hang around in Curbed’s corner of the blogosphere from Monday through Friday. Here’s a sampling of this week’s Curbed goodness that didn’t appear on GL: Caroll Gardens Hell Building Has Big Roof Thing (above) Williamsburg: Land of the ‘Giant Fart Cloud’ A Visit to the Atlantic Yards ‘Community Liaison […]

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Coney Island, Brooklyn

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Part of our routine, every day, is to check out Red Hook from the F Train and from the Smith-9th Street Station. We do this because we like the view and because since December, we’ve been instinctively glancing toward the waterfront to check on the progress made on the Revere Dome demolition. We look to […]

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A Federal Magistrate has said that the Atlantic Yards eminent domain case should be heard in state court. The decision actually focuses on procedural issues, not the specific issues raised in the case. Atlantic Yards Reports notes that while the Judge’s “recommendation to federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis is not binding, judges generally follow such recommendations. […]

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We’ve had our share of fun with the Boymelgreen development on Park Slope called Novo Park Slope (which we dubbed Boymelgreen Hall because of its, um, institutional look). The marketing campaign for the development is on now, and it may set a new standard of salesmanship. Here’s what Corcoran‘s site says: Novo is the new […]

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Brookinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and, especially on weekends, images. Images: McCarren Park in Winter [A Test of Will] Urban Birdhouse [Atomische] Gowanus Yacht Club Resume Box [A Brooklyn Life] Slide [Lex’s Folly] Brooklyn Tree [jUSTINYC] Coney Island Art Desktop [Brit in Brooklyn] Red Hair Woman Shot with Holga [Park Slope Street […]

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Looking for something to do on Sunday, assuming the weather cooperates? Try a walk of “Gorgeous Gowanus” sponsored by Shorewalkers. According to Shorewalkers, which sponsors many interesting urban excursions, “this narrated tour will cross four of the five bridges over the canal and cover 400 years of history. Tour ends at the launch site of […]

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South Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn

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So, to continue with a bit more information about all the signage in Coney Island, a commenter noted: There is a semi-homeless man named Wallace who has painted many of the signs in Coney Island. He walks around Coney Island with his portable studio, a shopping cart full of canvases and paint. You will frequently […]

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Brooklyn blogs may be reporting on the ongoing petition drive to convince Whole Foods to build a more environmentally-sensitive store in Gowanus (see examples here, here, here and here), but the big retailer has apparently already said no to the petition being circulated in the community. Ariella Cohen writes in the Brooklyn Paper: Whole Foods’ […]

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We hate to keep harping on this, but the latest explanation by a Brooklyn Public Library official about why some works were excluded from their “Footprints” show deserves attention. Maybe you remember that it was said in Sunday’s New York Times that some of the art was excluded because it was “hagiographic”? Not so. The […]

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A building on 16th Street at whose appearance we have marveled more than once, and not in a good way, is now on the market. The “on sale” status was reported yesterday by Brownstoner. The photo above is one we shot of the unfinished building, but it was certainly finished enough to give an idea […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Who Thinks Space on the Streets is Useless Space? [Brooklyn Views] Grassroots Media Conference [No Land Grab] Brooklyn Public Library Should Have Renamed the ‘Footprints’ Show [AYR] Where Does Park Slope End? [Daily Intel] Fun with Real Estate on Tiffany Place [A Brooklyn Life] Workers […]

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Get ready for more free shows at McCarren Pool this summer. Brooklyn Vegan has reported that Jelly NYC, which produced last summer’s free shows at McCarren is doing another series of nine shows this summer. They’ll also have a benefit for the Open Space Alliance, which is said to be taking over management of the […]

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With most everything between the Cyclone, Surf Avenue and Stillwell Avenue likely to succumb to the Thor Equities wrecking crews in the next 18 months, give or take, the loss of the advertecture that is unique to Coney Island is very real. Will the signage end up for sale on eBay or simply tossed in […]

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We’d be seriously remiss if we didn’t mention the story in amNY today about Gowanus that declares “a renaissance” in the works for our namesake neighborhood. The article declares: Then again, a deep breath and a glance down at the ducks paddling on the slightly rainbow-colored water below also clues one in that this is […]

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The windowless wall of the building on Bond Street that we’ve taken to calling Der Bunker because it reminds us of a World War II something or other, at least in its cinder block form, is coming along, albeit very slowly. It has added another window-less floor on the Carroll Street side since we last […]

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In casting his wide net, Coney blogger Kinetic Carnival found some very interesting renderings of a new pedestrian bridge that would run from the West Eighth Street subway station across Surf Avenue in Coney Island. The design comes from weisz + yoes architecture, which was also one of the finalists in the radical (and desperately […]

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[Photo courtesy of scaredy_kat/flickr] Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. On Thursday, we focus on food. Food: Sahara’s Coney Island (above) Vs. Yemen Cafe on Atlantic [Chowhound] Alchemy Comes to Park Slope [NYT] New Jerk (Chicken) in Town [Across the Park] Pillow Cafe is Open [Clinton Hill Blog] a*bistro is Superb […]

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