[Photo courtesy of liquidsalad in the Eater Photo Pool/flickr] Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. On Thursday, we focus on food. Food: Silenth in Williamsburg (above) Moments from Opening [Eater] Eating with Famous Fat Dave [NYDN] Busy Valentine’s Day at Jacques Torres [Dumbo NYC] Hibino, Japanese Tapas Coming Soon [Hibino Blog […]

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You know that warmer days are just around the corner when some of the people agitating for returning McCarren Pool to use as a pool and against concerts by corporate promoters like Live Nation come to life again after months of silence. On Sunday, we noted that Pool Aid’s “We Are the Pool” video will […]

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We actually wandered over to Third Street and Third Avenue the other to shoot some pics of the frozen Lake Gowanus on the Whole Foods site and of the frozen arm of the Gowanus itself. We hadn’t noticed this relatively newish banner advertising demolition services on the landmark building on the corner. The building, which […]

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Park Slope, Brooklyn

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The New York Department of Environmental Conservation has released a proposal for “remedial action” on the notorious parcel in Gowanus known as Public Place. The site–which is shaded in Valentine’s Day Red on the image above–was once the home of a Manufactured Gas Plant created gas from coal and petroleum products. The facilities are notorious […]

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Yes, it’s a cheap shot, but if you stand on Kent Avenue long enough you can almost instinctively sense which cars are there to scope out Northside Piers (20 stories and growing) and to visit the sales office. One giveaway, of course, is the model of the car. The real estate shoppers tend toward luxury […]

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[Photo courtesy of sb310/webshots] A read sent us an email about that two-level carousel that Thor Equities has said it will build in Coney Island, proclaiming it the first multi-level one in the Northeast. Not so, says our reader, and he’s right. He writes: Thor claims to be building the first multi-story carousel in the […]

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The Brooklyn Public Library, which banned several works of art from its reshowing of the “Footprints: Portrait of a Brooklyn Neighborhood” show has provided more justifications rationalizations statements about its decision to not show several works that it deemed to controversial. Apparently, the library feels that they advocate, rather than document. We could go off […]

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The curator of Brooklyn’s Other Museum of Brooklyn (B.O.M.B.) has written a letter to Gov. Eliot Spitzer asking that he “pardon” Brooklyn’s historic Admiral’s Row, which are slated to be demolished to make way for a supermarket. (You can see their entire web page devoted to Admiral’s Row as well as the letter and a […]

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A few photos taken at different times in Williamsburg that seemed appropriate today, in particular, for the cynics and anti-Valentine’s Day Industrial Complex doubters out there.

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Happy Valentine’s Day!!! Valentine: Gowanus Valentine [Brit in Brooklyn] Heart on a Sidewalk [No Words_Daily Pix/OTBKB] Clinton Hill Valentine’s Plans [Clinton Hill Blog] Spice for V-Day at Chiles & Chocolate in Park Slope [Gothamist] Valentine’s Day PostSecret [Brooklyn Masala] Happy Valentine’s Day from Z. [Z. […]

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[Image courtesy of Big Sky Brooklyn] We always welcome new Brooklyn blogs as valuable additions to coverage of a place that is woefully under-covered by good old MSM. And so it is with Big Sky Brooklyn, whose early entries include a nice collection of excellent industrial photos and imagery of Gowanus. The last update was […]

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We joined the Only Coney flickr group when we got the invite a week back (getting our act together to comb through our massive Coney archive and post photos is another matter), but were happy to find that there’s a new Only Coney photoblog. Coney deserves a photoblog that showcases great photos, and it’s particularly […]

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This week’s Village Voice lets loose with a fascinating investigative article about former Empire State Development Corp. Chair (and current Port Authority Board Member) Charles Gargano. It does not paint a pretty picture. In fact, it depicts a scenario concerning Mr. Gargano, his nephew and the Red Hook Piers walking the razor’s edge of legal […]

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Say goodbye to the Red Hook Graving Dock (and to some historical records that were stored in the Todd Shipyard offices). A reliable neighborhood source tells Gowanus Lounge that the big fill of the historic Graving Dock, which working waterfront advocates as well as preservationists have been fighting to save, began about two weeks ago. […]

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The battle over a Supportive Housing development that the Fifth Avenue Committee (FAC) and Department of Housing Preservation and Development would like to build on the site of municipal parking lot at Fifth Avenue and 16th Street in the South Slope is heating up. And, so is the outreach effort by the FAC to lessen […]

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The parameters of the Albee Square project on the site of the Gallery Mall sold by Thor Equities for $125 million are becoming clearer. Today, the New York Times reports that the city’s Industrial Development Agency will give the new owners $3.2 million in tax breaks. The plans drawn up by Albee Development LLC call […]

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In contrast to the sale of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village last year, which drew barely a word of official concern that tenants living in affordable apartments would be displaced, the $1.3 billion sale of Brooklyn’s Starrett City has provoked a great deal of interest. There is talk of Congressional hearings. There are vows […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. What’s Next for the Beep? [Brooklyn Record] New School Would Add 100K Sq Feet to Atlantic Yards [AYR] Brooklyn Chinese New Year Celebrations [About Brooklyn] Jacques Torres in V-Day Mode [Brooklyn Enthusiast] On the Lookout for Wifi Terrorists at the Tea Lounge [OTBKB] Seed of […]

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The resourceful people at the Green Roof Whole Foods Market blog have dug around and collected a bunch of links to articles about how the grocer’s big store in Madison, Wisconsin came to have a green roof. The chain’s execs flatly dismissed the idea for their proposed Gowanus market at a meeting of the Park […]

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Remember Ye Olde Gowanus Swimming Hole, the big hole full of seeping, and possibly toxic, groundwater on the Whole Foods site in Gowanus? Well, with the cold temperatures, it’s now the Gowanus Skating Pond. There are big piles of dug up dirt and rubble on the site these days, some covered by plastic tarps and […]

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That’s an odd animation of one of the proposals for the radical remake of the Coney Island Aquarium above. This is the design was created by WRT and Cloud9. Static images are available over at ruiz-geli.com. The winning design among the three finalists was supposed to be chosen as early as December, which hasn’t happened. […]

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The winter wonderland scene comes from 184 Kent, the Williamsburg building that was landmark and de-landmarked and is awaiting conversion to luxury condos, re-design by Arquitectonica. Water was cascading out of an upper floor window on Sunday, which is what was causing all the ice. Related Post:Auf Wiedersehen: 184 Kent Will Morph Into Something Different

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We’ve seen plenty of ducks on the Gowanus Canal before (insert your wisecrack here), but we’ve never seen dozens of ducks in one place on the Big G. We caught the Major Duckage above on Saturday just south of the Carroll Street Bridge and they were still there on Sunday. We think ducks on the […]

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Ikea was busy on its sprawling construction site in Red Hook last week. So much so that the first outlines of the big blue-and-yellow box the Swedish multinational is building on the Brooklyn waterfront are now showing, and visible from blocks away. It appears as though it will form an interesting backdrop to the Red […]

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