McCarren Park, Brooklyn

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Remember our item on Tuesday about Ikea destroying all the historic records of the old Todd Shipyard that occupied the land where it is building its big box in Red Hook? The Park Slope Courier reports that the Swedish retailer “insists it did nothing wrong.” Gary Buiso, who refers to GL’s original reporting of the […]

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Paul Berger turns his attention in today’s New York Times to the “Footprints” show at the Brooklyn Public Library from which several works have been excluded, and GL is happy to be mentioned in the story. (Our item, from a week ago, was entitled “Art the Brooklyn Public Library Doesn’t Want You to See.“) Mr. […]

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On Sundays, we always turn to the world of ships passing in the night that is Brooklyn Missed Connections on Craigslist. This week, one from Red Hook caught our eye, particuarly the part about the boa and walking around naked. You told me you loved cupcakes! – m4w I am looking for someone that called […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and, particularly on weekends, images. Happy Year of the Pig! Images: Empty Lot in Williamsburg [bluejake] Greenpoint Terminal Market Ruins in Snow [gothamistllc/flickr] Greenpoint Brooklyn [The Food of the Future] Coney Beach with Snow Desktop [Brit in Brooklyn] Brooklyn View [f.trainer/flickr] Main Street Dumbo with Snow [Dumbo […]

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Red Hook, Brooklyn

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From the sharp eye of chicapoquita comes this bit of subway grafitti on a subject near and dear to our hearts. In case you don’t want to find it in the pic, it says “Gowanus All Day Every Day.”

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What is the mysterious Con Ed project on Hoyt Street in Boerum Hill? We don’t know. What we do know is that a friend emailed us about work crews showing up at all hours of the night, parking beneath her window, making noise and descending into manholes. For several months. She writes of this Hoyt […]

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Ever wonder what the Coney Island boardwalk looks like at one in the morning when it’s snowing? Click on the embed below.

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Broolinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and, especially on the weekend, images. Images: Gowanus Sunset [seriously excited!] Afric Beauté [Atomische] 5th Ave Neighbor [Park Slope Street Photography] Head Cold [Brit in Brooklyn] Dog and Kid on Beard [Lex’s Folly] Gowanus from F Train [No Words_Daily Pix/OTBKB] Zipper [Only Coney] Second Place Near Smith […]

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In case you haven’t heard, Greenpoint is getting its first Starbucks. This has many implications, first and foremost that Greenpoint is blazing the trail for Grande Chai Soy Lattes before Williamsburg. Once upon a time, the building was movie theater called The American and, before that, the Chopin. Most recently, it housed a Burger King. […]

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As you may know, we also post over at Curbed from Monday through Friday. Here’s a sampling of this week’s output in that corner of the blogosphere: Grand Army Plaza Glass Watch: Looking Good (above) Red Hook Piers Redo Could Be A Go. Maybe. Steiner Creating ‘Full Blown Media Campus’ in Brooklyn LIC #2: The […]

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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Change is coming to what blogger 423 Smith recently dubbed “The Notary District,” that little stretch of Smith Street defined by the colorful Russo Realty buildings. The property at the corner of Smith and Ninth Street (478 Smith Street) was sold in December to 478 Smith Street LLC for $425,000. The interesting part is that […]

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A special Greenpoint correspondent snapped this little destructoporn shot on Green Street yesterday. We think the snow atop the rubble lends it a certain special something. The site is 110 Green which is destined to be a very glassy, 6-story, 130-unit condo that just got $53.4 million in financing. The photographer found a site that […]

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What you are looking at above is a visualization of Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, without the cars. It was posted yesterday by the good people at Streetsblog and is the creation of the graphic designer now going by the name of Emil Choski (formerly Kozerawski) who has combined last names with his wife. You might […]

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We found it a bit ironic that there was a huge barrel of Big Bear Motor Oil perched on the edge of the pit at the development site we like to call the Roebling Oil Field. As for Ye Olde Oil Field, it was still the gift that keeps on giving last time we looked […]

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Snow, Ice & Tickets: City Tickets a Boatload of Snowed-In Cars in Brooklyn [Brooklyn Record] Yes, You Have to Move Your Car [Empire Zone] Parking Nightmare [OTBKB] Remembering Another Mayor (John Lindsay) Sunk by a Snowstorm [Sun] Yo, Bloomberg, Ticket This [NYDN] Neither Snow, Nor Ice, Nor Tickets: Wal-Mart’s Out at Albee Square and So […]

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There’s a nice new rundown on the fight over that ten-story building on 42nd Street in Sunset Park that has made YouTube (that’s the vid from a couple of weeks ago, here) and gotten unwanted attention from the city. Residents are upset about it because it will tower over its three-story neighbors and interfere with […]

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Every now and then, you can feel a deal starting to fall apart as criticism mounts. So it is with the $1.3 biliion sale of Starrett City as public officials pile on. One of thoese leading the charge is Sen. Charles Schumer, yesterday he sent out a letter and press releases that said the deal […]

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Fascinating news that Amanda Burden, the Planning Commission Chair, is against residential highrises in the Coney Island amusement district. Crain’s has reported (in a story covering multiple topics, including plans for the Garment District)that Ms. Burden is against building residential highrises in Coney Island. This would be at odds with earlier reports that the city […]

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About 50 people turned out for a community meeting at which the Fifth Avenue Committee‘s proposal for a “supportive housing” development with 49 apartments at Fifth Avenue and 16th Street was discussed. Residents are asking for more time to digest information and to learn more before the public decision making process goes forward. Aaron Brashear […]

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Slope Street Cats, which works to trap and neuter street cats and, then, to return them to the streets “netted” 35 cats in December and January, mostly from a project in Clinton Hill, Prospect Heights, Cobble Hill, Crown Heights and Propsect Lefferts Garden. According to the latest dispatch from Slope Street Cats that brings their […]

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[Photo courtesy of Joe Cronin/flickr] This photo was taken by flickr photographer Joe Cronin yesterday and we owe our knowledge of it to 1 Stop Over in Brooklyn, which posted the photo. The photog also posted it on his own blog, Mr. Cronin’s Blog. Two things are at work in the pic, one being the […]

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The Red Hook Piers redevelopment plan seems to have taken a step forward. Anthony Shorris, the new head of the Port Authority, has given the go ahead to transferring Piers 7-12 to the city. (This comes after some indications the Port Authority had doubts about the plan.) The city, in turn, has a variety of […]

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