In case you’re one of those readers that can’t stand a mystery, one of our GL readers has solved one for us, via Google. It turns out that the architects of the planned $25 million Lakeside Center in Prospect Park will be Tod Williams Billie Tsien and Associates. The word comes indirectly from Mr. Williams […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Brooklyn Arena Will be Very, Very Profitable for Developer [AYR]Barclays Bank Bites Back [Brooklyn Record]Heated Eminent Domain Arguments Likely in Court Tomorrow [AYR]Park Slope Barnes & Noble Declares War on Strollers [Sun]Park Slope Ambivalent About National Chains [OTBKB]How Do You Say “Fart” in Russian, Anyway […]

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Here’s another vintage Brooklyn photo for our Brooklyn Back in the Day series. This photo of Coney Island, which features a very familiar landmkar, is a historic photo from the Brooklyn Public Library‘s extensive collection of historic Brooklyn pics. The photo was taken in the 1930s.

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The big new skating center in Prospect Park, a $25 million facility that would replace the Wollman Rink, could be open by 2010. The Lakeside Center–so called until it is renamed–would include two rinks, one for hockey and one for recreational use. It would rise on the site of a parking lot next to the […]

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If you thought it was cold where you were this weekend, you should have checked out how cold it felt in Coney Island, southern Brooklyn’s future “year-round” destination. We went to get some photos of the demolition work that has started on several properties where tenants were evicted at the end of last year by […]

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We’ve been photographing the demolition of Red Hook’s iconic Revere Sugar Dome at least once a week since developer Joe Sitt obtained demolition permits and sent in crews in December. We’ve watched the metal cone and other buildings on the property shrink bit by bit. (Some previous pics here, here and here.) We’ve got to […]

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We passed by the Sheepshead Bay waterfront spot where a party boat, the Sunset Queen, went down last weekend. The 89-foot long boat was surrounded by a boom to contain oil still leaking from fuel tanks, and workers were toiling in bitter cold on the partly submerged boat, which is located at a pier near […]

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Of all the proposed marine garbage transfer stations that are part of the city’s new trash disposal strategy (including one on Hamilton Avenue at the mouth of the Gowanus Canal), the one proposed for Gravesend Bay has turned out to be the most controversial. Opponents have now posted an online petition to fight the station, […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related images and information. NYT & NYDN Ignore Doubling of City Subsidy for Atlantic Yards [AYR] Haitian Candidate Runs for Yvette Clarke’s Council Seat [NYT] New Development at 541-543 Myrtle Avenue [Myrtle Minutes] Street Art at the Cement Factory [INSIJS] Related Coney Hoopla Linkage [Kinetic Carnival] A Trip to […]

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Some development plans sail through will little public objection. Some go full speed ahead, even with an outcry from the community. Some, however, like the controversial city plan to repurpose a huge swath of the Red Hook waterfront, take on water in the face of turbulence. (End of maritime images.) There have been many objections […]

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South Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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It’s Sunday, which brings us to the whacky, wonderful and sometimes touching world of Craigslist Missed Connections (from Brooklyn). This week’s selection isn’t a Missed Connection per se, in the sense that the writer’s trying to hook up with someone. But, we’re featuring it because, well, we almost pissed ourselves while reading it: I Never […]

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We were surprised when a new beverage store opened last year in the Boerum Hill/Gowanus hinterlands at Third Avenue and Wyckoff, adjacent to Wyckoff Gardens. When the storefront was renovated and we saw the big windows, we actually thought it was going to be an American Apparel or something similar. Turned out it was a […]

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We’ve this in our holding pattern for a while, and what better day to post it than one when it’s 18 degrees outside as we sit with our laptop? In any case, here’s a great Coney Island vid called Coney Island USA posted up at My Space. The producer, the Coney Island Project, describes it […]

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Greenpoint, Brooklyn

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn related information and images. Images: Feather [Lex’s Folly] Seventh Avenue [Park Slope Street Photography] Brooklyn Bridge, Early Morning [seriously excited!] No Words_Daily Pix [Hugh Crawford/OTBKB] Auto Collision [Bluejake] Chicken Dance [Atomische] Newtown Creek Digesters Photoset [i’mjustsayin/flickr] New Way [Lex’s Folly] Old Walls [A Test of Wills] Not Images: […]

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This is another superb historic photo of Red Hook posted on flickr by Key Lime Steve. (Yes, this Key Lime Steve). The photos, he notes, are from the collection of Greg O’Connell, the Red Hook developer that owns, and has presevered a number of historic waterfront structures.

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Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn

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Bulldozers dispatched by Thor Equities were at work in Coney Island this week and it would appear that the land clearance is a strategic move by the developer to ratchet up the pressure on the city to act on rezoning it wants in order to build its $1.5 billion Coney project. The reaction of some […]

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Council Member and former Congressional candidate David Yassky and Council Member Eric Gioia are helping to lead a rally on Sunday (2/5) calling on New York City’s and New York State’s pension boards to divest investments they have in firms doing business with the Sudan. The move stems from the awful conflict and genocide in […]

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South Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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[Photo courtesy seriously excited/dalton rooney on flickr] Very Visual: Bleach House on Court (Above) [seriously excited!] Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Sunset Park [Atomische] Uncle Paulie’s [A Test of Will] Dying Sugar Factory, Spot of Snow [f.trainer/flickr] Donuts Coffe Shop [bluejake] Park Place & Nostrand Avenue [Brit in Brooklyn] Greene & Franklin [Clinton Hill Blog] […]

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As those of you who read us regularly–and you have our deep gratitude–know, we also post over at Curbed from Monday through Friday. Here’s some of our Curbed-alicious output as it relates to Brooklyn this week: Williamsburg Hipster Car Friday (Above) Looking for Something That Merits the Trump Name in Brooklyn Boymelgreen’s Fourth Ave. Building […]

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Greenpoint, Brooklyn

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Keylime Steve (of Keylime Pie fame), who posts excellent photos on flickr, has uploaded some cool vinage shots of Red Hook, so we figured we’d borrow one of them and run it as a Brooklyn Back in the Day feature photo. He writes of this pic, which shows the building that is now the Fairway […]

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