[Photo courtesy of seriously excited! & daltonrooney/flickr] Images: Carroll Street Lights (above) [seriously excited!] The Outdoor Life on Green Street [chicapoquita/flickr] Snowing on Manhattan Avenue [A Test of Will] The Only Graffiti in Vietnam [bluejake] Get Chucked [Park Slope Street Photography] Stripped Down BQE [Clinton Hill Blog] Paint Can [Lex’s Folly] Silent Coney [For the […]

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Among the more interesting things about Red Hook that we haven’t gotten around to noticing because we’ve been so fixated on the Revere Dome being reduced to a Cylinder on its way to being reduced to total nothingness, is the fact there’s some, uh, sinkage in the hood. It’s not much in the sense that, […]

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Meet 63 Roebling, AKA 229 N. 8th Street, which is the former site of the Tribeca Bakery and part of what we call Williamsburg’s N. 8th Street Corridor because of the number on demolition sites, construction projects and buildings for sale. (The corridor runs from Meeker Avenue and the BQE to Bedford Avenue.) This six-story […]

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Yesterday, we wondered about the building at N. 4th and Bedford in Williamsburg that has been in a state of demolition for nearly a year. It sits on a parcel where a massive highrise developement called “Williamsburgh Square” has been proposed by a firm called Quadriad Development. A neighborhood source emailed us to say that […]

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The Waterfront Alliance of Greenpoint and Williamsburg posted an item about the demolition permit issued for one of the buildings in the old Eberhard Faber complex in Greenpoint and noted the scaffolding that’s been put up, which is always a sign that the wrecking crew cometh. The coming demolition and construction will likely upset many […]

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The handwriting has been on the wall since the day after the sale of Starrett City was announced on February 8. Since then, very few days have gone by without an objection being raised or a protest. Now, it looks like HUD–which does not have a track record of radical activism in recent year–is likely […]

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The Red Hook Piers redevelopment plan turned into a many twists and turns sort of situation some time ago. So, it comes as no surprise that the plan to evict American Stevedoring to make way for the remake has been put on hold. For now. The reprieve comes after earlier reports that the company would […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Forest City Ratner Announces Atlantic Yards Demolitions [AYR] Did the Brooklyn Public Library Engage in Censorship? [Library Journal] Rice Abandoning Fort Greene Location? [Brooklyn Record] City Council Launches Probe of Eugene’s Eligibility [Sun] What’s Up at 99 Gold? [Brownstoner] DOT Explains Park Slope Traffic Proposals […]

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The new Real Deal has a story that will be a must read for Atlantic Yards followers. It’s about former Empire State Development Corporation Chair Charles Gargano. Mr. Gargano was most recently the subject of a long Village Voice investigative story about the Red Hook Piers. Now, there’s an audit of “allegedly misdirected funds at […]

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This is getting a little gross, in the sense that someone running around splattering street art with paint makes the front page of the Metro Section of the New York Times. He’s also making news across the pond. Specifically, our favorite paint vandal–who some say is only vandalizing the work of vandals–makes the Guardian’s blog […]

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There are two amusing posts about the Gowanus Canal over at a blog called the Brooklyn Skeptic. They’re called the “Gowanus Debate Series” and one is a pro-Gowanus post and the other is a response. A sample from the “Yay” post: The actual creation of the Canal was one of the first acts of Brooklyn […]

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Dianna Carlin remembers the community meeting held at the behest of developer Joe Sitt in Coney Island in 2005. Mr. Sitt walked into a room at the Coney Island Museum eating cotton candy (perhaps for effect or, perhaps, because he wanted some sugar) and strolled right up to Ms. Carlin. “God, Lola Staar,” she remembers […]

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So, what’s going on with the building at N. 4th Street and Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg? Heck if we know, but it was been undergoing a laborious manual demolition for a long time. The skeleton of the old building has been sitting like this for months with little going on other than the construction fence […]

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More cafes are comig to Greenpoint. Our neighborhood correspondent notes a new cafe under construction at 1020 Manhattan Avenue, directly across the street from another relatively recent spot called Cafecito (photo below). And, don’t forget the impending Greenpoint Starbucks. Our correspondent writes, “…because we Greenpointers know there are not enough of them here already! This […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. On Thursday, we focus on food. Food: More on the Sudden Shuttering of Silenth in Williamsburg (above) [Eater] Miriam on Court Street: “Near Miss” & Watch Out for the Escolar. Really. [Gothamist] Miriam is Nice but Needs to Learn How to Season Its Food [L […]

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So, if the Atlantic Yards project moves forward, some of the opposition energy will probably transfer to watching the construction work in hawklike fashion, not unlike the way a storm moving through the Midwest hands off its strength to a coastal storm system. For a harbinger of things to come, check out the item yesterday […]

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While we still can’t figure out exactly how much profit developer Bruce Ratner stands to make from Atlantic Yards, we’re certainly taken by the “For Discussion Purposes Only: Actual Results May Vary” caveat noted by Atlantic Yards expert and super-blogger Norman Oder. Meanwhile, neither Mr. Oder nor Develop Don’t Destroy are impressed with the documents […]

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As posted yesterday on flickr by keylimesteve. The speed of the Revere demolition by the crew dispatched by developer Joe Sitt and Thor Equities seems to be picking up speed. The last of the dome has been removed and the iconic Revere Dome is now the very sad Revere Cylinder. “Cylinder being stripped away piece […]

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