[Photo courtesy of INSIJS & i’mjustsayin/flickr] Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. On Thursdays we focus on food. Food: Making Sense of Williamsburg’s New Sushi Scene (above) [INSIJS] New Japanese on N. 6th Opening [A Test of Will] “Disgusting” Veggie Burger at Bonnie’s Grill [Chowhound] Wednesday Food & Drink Roundup [Brooklyn […]

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Genius. And, if not genius, then a lot of fun. What you’re looking at is the Brooklyn part of the East Village Idiot‘s March Radness. “It’s called March Radness, and I’m taking all the things we love to hate and hate to love about New York City living and having them face off in a […]

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Coney Island, Brooklyn

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We’ve been shooting photos of the Revere Dome in Red Hook every Saturday since demolition permits were issued in December. The quick, 39-second vid below is a series of photos shot from the same vantage point at one-week intervals. The dome itself doesn’t change much at first, then goes very quickly. Related Post:Revere Dome Relocated […]

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Ah, rats. We’re bored with restaurant rats, even though the Sixth Avenue KFC and its globally famous rats created great memories and the fallout hitting other restaurants has been interesting. Our own favorite rat sighting spots are subway stations. There are some Brooklyn stations in which you are guaranteed to see a rat if you […]

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You don’t see a lot of flyers posted in Park Slope calling for community protests, although Atlantic Yards activists certainly put their share up from time to time. The proposal to make Sixth and Seventh Avenue one-way thoroughfares so as to speed the flow of traffic through the neighborhood, possibly for the benefit of Atlantic […]

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We don’t know the extent to which developer Joe Sitt and Thor Equities were hoping for a smooth approval of their $2 billion Coney Island redevelopment scheme–or at least of the necessary zoning changes–but it doesn’t seem to be the route which the project will take. Coverage of the project–driven by online sources–has been thorough […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. City Abdicated Its Role on Atlantic Yards, but There’s Still Time [Brooklyn Speaks] Lawyers of Tenants Challenging Atlantic Yards Demolition Face Skeptical Judge [AYR] Starrett City Rumble [NYO] Is DOT’s Park Slope Traffic Proposal Atlantic Yards Planning? [Streets Blog] Get the Party Started and Save […]

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For our crappy construction site of the day we nominate the above speciment at 164 Norman Avenue in Greenpoint, the neighborhood so full of such spots that it keeps on giving and giving and giving. The photos were submitted by our tireless Greenpoint correspondent, who simply wrote “You’ll LOVE this.” Indeed, we do. Particularly, the […]

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We’ve got yet another new Brooklyn blog to report after the blogger emailed us yesterday. This one is produced by soon-to-be residents at the 110 Livingston development. It’s called 110 Livingston News & Blog and it looks like it will be covering its neighborhood broadly and adding to the pool of daily Brooklyn information. For […]

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This is a vid that’s been around for a bit, but that we just came across from band/puppet group Jollyship the Whiz-Bang. They bill themselves as a “pyrate puppet rock opera consortium.” The vid is s called “Cleaning Up Coney Island,” which is very topical given everything that’s going on. The backdrop is, of course, […]

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Whether you think this is worth preserving, we suppose, depends on your taste in boardwalk kitsch and artwork. This is the ticket booth for one of the Go-Kart Tracks that Thor Equities is demolishing. We happen to think it’s a little taste of Coney Island worth saving–at least, that the Go-Kart artwork is. Which brings […]

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We’re returning to the topic of Coney Island demolition to provide a sense of the scope and scale of the demolition being done by Thor Equities. The photo above shows the parcels on the left and on the right, along with renditions of the buildings that Thor might want to build there. The renderings were […]

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One of the many parcels of land that is available in Coney Island has been sold. Two parcels, at 805 and 825 Surf Avenue have been sold for $3.45 million to a group called Surf Avenue LLC. The property totals 15,700 square feet and is adjacent to the W. 8th Street subway stop and across […]

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So, we were walking in Gowanus after shooting photos of the last few standing remnants of Red Hook’s Revere Dome and of the thunderous process of tossing its remain in dumpsters. We had watched truck after truck drive off dumpsters full of metal, wondering where they were taking the dome, which is being demolished by […]

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We knew that these flyers had gone up in Smith Street and elsewhere a couple of weeks ago, around the time that some emails went out about a website called shayaiscoming.org. The flyers came down pretty quickly (although the website most certainly didn’t). We captured this pic way down Smith Street near the Gowanus Expressway, […]

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Park Slope Neighbors, which is working to convince Whole Foods to make its Gowanus store more environmentally friendly and sensitive to community needs, has launched a petition drive to oppose the plan to make Seventh Avenue and Sixth Avenue one-way streets. The development is reported by Streets Blog. Among other things, the petition argues that […]

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There is a new Coney Island blog on the block call the Coney Island Reporter. We came upon it thanks to the always roving eyes of Kinetic Carnival, which is a superb Coney Island blog and one of our favorite Brooklyn blogs. Coney Island Reporter describes itself as “One lonely grad student has set out […]

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We got an e-mail yesterday from one of the people behind the new BedStuy Blog. It’s only a couple of posts old, but we’d like to be among the first to welcome it to the Brooklyn blogsphere. In the introductory entry, the blogger writes: I moved to Bedford-Stuyvesant in August of 2005, so I’ve only […]

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Williamsburg gets a lot of attention, but heavy duty construction work is clearly going on in Greenpoint too (although it’s a couple of years behind the Billyburg curve). This latest image comes from our friend Miss Heather, who does an admirable job of tracking development in Greenpoint when she’s not busy covering, you know, her […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Temporary Nets Move to Newark? [AYR] It Came from the Blogosphere [No Land Grab] Woman Fights Eviction from $150 Month Apt. in Burg rental/coop Bldg. [amNY] Geese to Shit Up Williamsburg’s East River State Park [INSIJS] Film Shoot on S. 4th Street [Gothamist] Has Anyone […]

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First, the good news: The Brooklyn Record reports that the Gowanus Nursery, the cool little spot for backyard and windowbox greenery that was located on Third Street in Carroll Gardens/Gowanus has a new home. The bad news: It’s basically in Red Hook. (No, it’s not “bad news,” per se, as we love Red Hook too. […]

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We wandered down to Coney Island this weekend to shoot some up-to-date photos on the state of demolition work. It did not disappoint. More than an entire city block is in the process of being demolished by developer Joe Sitt and his firm Thor Equities and looks like a tornado hit it. Added to the […]

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Looks like the MTA is still working out some of the kinks on that new subway signage on the L Train that tells riders when the next full train is arriving. We’re confident, though, that they will iron out the glitches and move from Beta to Final Release long before they add trains to handle […]

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Coney Island’s boardwalk Grill House, noteworthy for its colorful artwork and the locals that hang out there in the summer months, may become the latest victim of a Coney Island eviction by Thor Equities. Apparently, the developer has (thus far) not extended the Grill House’s lease for the 2007 season. While the business has not […]

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