More than 500 people have signed petition being circulated on paper and online by Park Slope Neighbors to ask Whole Foods to tweak its plans for the huge store it is planning at Third Street and Third Avenue in Gowanus. We wrote about the petition campaign when it was launched early this month, but the […]

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OTBKB blogger and Brooklyn Reading Works organizer Louise Crawford sends a reminder about the BRW event tonight (2/22) featuring “Three Writers. Three Interesting Stories.” It takes place at 8PM at the Old Stone House, which is between Fourth and Fifth Avenues between 3rd and 4th Streets. Tonight’s featured writers are Carla Thompson, who’s a freelance […]

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We think a lot about what we now know has a clinical term–the Online Disinhibition Effect, known in regular parlance as flaming. Most bloggers or people that are part of online communities where people leave comments know about it. So, it’s a bit off-topic here and the article is a couple of days old, but […]

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Why is it we only hear about Dyker Heights in the context of its incredible Christmas displays and some of the issues it has with overzealous ticket writers from the Department of Sanitation. (Not that we don’t doubt that other neighborhoods have the same issues.) In any case, today’s Daily News lays out the latest […]

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Hi, my name is Sydney and I’m a 30-year-old female who digs pool, poker, x-box, movies, long walks on the street. Musically, I like Led Zep. Movie-wise, I’m into Repo Man, Star Wars and Amelie. I like the Sopranos, CSI Miami and I read the Onion. Oh, and I’m a building on Pacific Street in […]

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The development called McCarren Park Mews on the site we like to call the Roebling Oil Field, because of the Brooklyn Black Gold oozing out of the ground (see photos below), is now sporting a tent. More to the point, however, is the visit from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and its […]

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The Gowanus Canal Conservancy, which was formed last year to advocate on behalf of cleaning up the canal and promoting recreational and other uses, is holding a series of meetings starting tonight. The introductory session goes from 6:30 to 9:00 PM tonight. There are other meetings on March 6 to examine cause of water quality […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. First Haitian, Dr. Mathieu Eugene, Elected to Council from 40th District [NYT] Prospect Park Rink Details Revealed [Metro] Atlantic Yards Starts With a Bulldozer in a Snowy Lot [Daily Intel] DDDB, BrooklynSpeaks and Brooklyn Matters [AYR] NYC Condoms in the Hood [Clinton Hill Blog] Are […]

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Even though we’re finally thawing out a little, Coney Island was anything but thawed when we shot these photos. Frigid is one word that comes to mind. The closer one got to the water, the stronger the wind got and the colder it felt. All of which gets at the point of why it’s really […]

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We reported last week on Pool Aid’s upgraded website and the upcoming debut of its video. The flyer for the event is below.

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Coney Island, Brooklyn

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Everyone is reporting that Forest City Ratner is starting prep work today on the Atlantic Yards development, despite the fact that litigation is still ongoing. (Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn calls the reports “misleading” in that the developer does not own all the properties needed to build the project.) A Forest City Ratner “source” is widely […]

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Clearly, demolition crews dispatched by Joe Sitt and Thor Equities made progress before the Valentine’s Day Ice & Snowstorm delayed their Coney Island land clearance work. All was quiet on President’s Day, although there were a number of vehicles parked on the vacant property and it looks like some of the children’s ride on an […]

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After Flatbush Gardener posted about how none of those free NYC Condoms launched with such fanfare last week were available in the the 11218 and 11226 zip codes, we had a look at the city’s condom website and discovered that none are available (gasp) in 11215 (Park Slope) either. There are three spots distributing them […]

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If you visit often, you know we’re a little fixated with the Revere Sugar Dome, which is being demolished by Joe Sitt and Thor Equities. So, we’ve got a few photos of the significantly diminished dome as it appears along with snow.

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As the discussion about the supportive housing development the Fifth Avenue Committee wants to build on Fifth Avenue at 16th Street continues, the South Slope Blog IMBY posts a rendering of the project and some details about the building itself. IMBY, which has been out front chronicling some of the damage done by development in […]

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The Brooklyn Public Library is holding its Sixth Annual Photo and Essay Contest. About Brooklyn notes the contest, which is open to photographers of all ages. The contest is detailed at the the Library’s website: The 2007 My Brooklyn Photo + Essay Contest is about what makes this borough unique to you. From the faces […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Will Atlantic Yards Derail the JFK Rail Link? [Brooklyn Views] Marty Said “Get Real” About Atlantic Yards Traffic. Did Anyone Listen? [AYR] DOT Had Pleged Safety Improvements to Deadly Third Ave. by ’06 [streetsblog] Special Elections for City Council Seats [Gothamist] About the 40th District […]

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In wandering around Williamsburg shooting photos this weekend, we noticed that the Mill Building, which has been undergoing a conversion to luxury condo lofts, has lost the scaffolding that seems to have surrounded it forever. We also noticed, sadly, that some of the art around the building has been splashed. (We’re saying that we noticed […]

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Coney Island, Brooklyn

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A second mass mailing from Coney Island developer Thor Equities is in the mail. The DIY produced-in-the-1970s-by-pasting-things-up looking mailers (front page, above) were sent out by the entity that calls itself The Future of Coney Island, which also has a website, thefutureofconeyisland.com. The website is registered to The Marino Organization, which is Thor Equities’ PR […]

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You can literally take thousands of photos like this right now all over New York City of cars and other vehicles encrusted in or parked next to or atop the gray-black icy crud into which last week’s snowfall turned within 18 hours. A couple of samples from Williamsburg are below.

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Here’s a little playlist from the YouTube of some videos of rides on the Cyclone in Coney Island. Scroll through and watch. Or click here to get to it on YouTube.

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Happy President’s Day. Would Michael Ratner Endorse DDDB’s Approach to Atlantic Yards? [AYR] The Art the BPL Doesn’t Want You to See [Englishman in New York] Barclays of America? [No Land Grab] The Story of LeNell’s Red Hook Renovation [NYT] Swoon Responds to Splasher [Gothamist] […]

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Photographer and photo blogger Sam Horine, aka f. trainer, adds the magnificent collection of Brooklyn photos he is putting together with some spectacular photos from the destroyed Greenpoint Terminal Market. This pic above, posted on his photoblog The Food of the Future is from the roof of one of the buildings. You can see other […]

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