This week’s Brooklyn Missed Connection offers the image of running into someone on the F Train that you can’t quite place, even if you’ve spent quality time with them in, say, Los Angeles: You: Blonde girl on Bklyn bound F train after midnight: – m4w To the girl who sat across from me on the […]

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So, Astroland opens for its last season on April 1 and the park is going to have a “Big Blast Off” for the 2007 season, including free rides on the Cyclone for the first 100 people to arrive. A few details from the Carroll Gardens Courier: This year marks Astroland’s final season, although the Cyclone, […]

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This is another Coney Island gem, a postcard of Astroland back when it had a skyride. It was posted by foz (who has posted a number of wonderful older Coney images) over at the Coney Island Message Board.

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images, the image above being today’s sunrise over a snowy Prospect Park: Happiness is a Two-Way Street [NYT] Aesthetics vs. Statistics [I’m Seeing Green] Crime Trumps Traffic [AYR] Snow Lined in Greenpoint [A Test of Will] Daffodil Hill in Snow [Atomische] The Cat Healer of Prospect […]

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Gowanus, Brooklyn

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A small selection of vids posted to the YouTube this week that have to do with Brooklyn. You can also go over to the list by clicking here.

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[Photo courtesy of the superb photoblog, Food of the Future] As you may know, we hang out over at Curbed from Monday through Friday. Here’s some of our Brooklyn postings from that part of the online world: Red Hook’s Revere Dome is Totally Gone (above) Boymelgreen Backing Off From Brooklyn for Now Brooklyn Bridge Park […]

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[Photo courtesy of Jonathan Barkey/PBase] DOT’s proposal to make Sixth and Seventh Avenues in Park Slope one-way has generated more Brooklyn coverage than virtually any issue since those public sessions in the dog days of summer ’06 on Atlantic Yards. Park Slope Neighbors announced that it had collected 600 petition signatures at the hospital and […]

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Whether one of the brick warehouses on the Revere Sugar property in Red Hook will survive the demolition storm or not is up in the air. Resident Chris Curen, however, takes a look at the property and concludes that it’s being cleaned up pretty carefully for a doomed building. That’s an interior shot above. The […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn information and, especially on weekends, images. Images: Waiting for Godard [Bluejake] Desktop Day: Flatbush [Brit in Brooklyn] Proteus Gowanus II [seriously excited!] Under the Kosciuszko [chicapoquita/flickr] Novo Park Slope [Park Slope Street Photography] Two Chairs [Lex’s Folly] Coney [Englishman in New York] Beverley Road [Brit in Brooklyn] Not […]

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These are two of a series of fascinating photos posted by someone named foz on the Coney Island Message Board. They were shot in February, 1990. The photo above shows Stillwell Avenue, looking north from the boardwalk. A large bath house that was demolished is on the left. This is the corridor currently being demolished […]

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We haven’t paid any mind to the “Art Lot” at Columbia Street and Sackett Street recently, but we’re sure glad that the Brooklyn Record did. The Record came up with some fascinating information about it. Apparently, the lot now sports a “proliferation of eerie historical newspaper clippings about crimes and accidents in Red Hook ” […]

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day! We won’t list all of the Irish spots to which you might repair today in order to tie one one after trudging through the accumulated sleet, but if you click over to About Brooklyn, you’ll find a nice list of places to go, like Farrell’s on Prospect Park West and the […]

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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[Photo courtesy of Jonathan Barkey] Nearly 500 people turned out for a Community Board meeting in Park Slope last night to oppose a Department of Transportation proposal to turn Sixth and Seventh Avenue into one-way streets. More than 160 people squeezed into an auditorium before doors were closed to chants of “Let them in! Let […]

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The image to the right is a rendering of the McCarren Park Mews building that is rising at N. 11th and Roebling in Williamsburg. You might better recognize the building by the name we gave it because of the oil oozing out of the ground into the construction site: The Roebling Oil Field. The building […]

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From our GL Inbox, blog postings and our own wanderings, we note some retail and restaurant developments in Williamsburg and Greenpoint: 1) The Triple Crown “Coffee, Bar & Lounge” (above) has reimaged itself at 108 Bedford, in a building that has long had some cool wall murals. 2) Area Kids is now open in the […]

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Truly, Greenpoint is awesome in its ability to supply an almost endless stream of images of crappy construction and demolition sites. This one is at 282 Nassau, and was filed, naturally, by our indefatigable and dedicated Greenpoint correspondent.

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. One Way? Nooo Way! 400+ Park Slopers Turn Out for Meeting [AYR] Boerum Hill Association Critical of DOT Delays [110 Livingston News] Ratner Now Wants Brooklyn Tech [No Land Grab] What’s Up with Double Parked Cars in Park Slope? [Velvet Sea] Cool Renovation on Waverly […]

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If the weather today seem, um, a little unspring-like, don’t worry. It’s right around the corner. Evidence: There will be an “Opening Day” Little League Parade on March 31 in Prospect Park and the Carousel, Electric Boat, Lefferts Historic House and Prospect Park Zoo will be “open for Spring.” From Prospect Park comes word: Before […]

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Our friend Miss Heather originally wrote us about this building on Morgan Avenue in Greenpoint, calling it the Fedders Buildings because it’s one of those structures defined by its Fedders air conditioners. (You know them. You see them everywhere in Brooklyn.) Then, she noted the balconies with views of the narrow alley and the building […]

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Maybe it’s time to start calling Gowanus the Hotel District. After a reader emailed us some photos of a fenced site on Third Avenue at President Street in Gowanus (photo of which is above), we checked and found that another hotel will rise on the corner. Our reader wrote: So, I noticed some wood fencing […]

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So, we had noticed that the ironic sign Ikea had put up outside their vast construction site in Red Hook has vanished. The sign, you might recall, promotes the archeological research they are doing on a previously filled Graving Dock at the old Todd Shipyard site. Which would be unremarkable, except that at the very […]

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Add Union Avenue west of the BQE to the list of Williamsburg streets where massive change will be coming in the next 12-24 months. The building pictured above is 544 Union Avenue. It was sold in December for $13.1 million to the Coby Group LLC. Documents also identify the new owner as McCarren Park Condominiums. […]

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One of favorite flickr photographers, who goes by the name of Gowanus, has started his own photoblog under his real name, Nathan Kensinger Photography. He starts with a cool feature called “Ikea Rising” that is totally worth checking out, because it offers both excellent shots and perspectives you’re just not going to get on your […]

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