You know spring is just around the corner when a Brooklyn horticultural event is on the agenda. In this case, it’s the 25th Anniversary of Making Brooklyn Bloom. It will take place tomorrow (March 10) from 10AM-4PM at the Brookly Botanic Garden and feature speakers, workshops and exhibits about greening neighborhoods and growing local fruits […]

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If you’re like most people, you probably only know about the old industrial art of making gas from coal at Manufactured Gas Plants, if you live near where one was located. Maybe you’ve read about manufactured gas in the context of so-called “Public Place” on Smith Street. Even so, the odds are very good you […]

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Among the many things that the 346,000 square foot Ikea now rising along Beard Street will bring to Red Hook are up to 50,000 additional cars a week on local streets. (Or, 2.5 million a year.) The impact they will have on the community–both in terms of quality of life and on the neighborhoods streets […]

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Yesterday, Crain’s reported that Earvin “Magic” Johnson and the Canyon-Johnson Urban Fund are going to provide $12.4 million of financing for the 110 Green Street Condominiums. The project will be a six-story building with 130 units. Mr. Johnson said, in a statement quoted in Crain’s that “We are believers in Brooklyn as a place that […]

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Our Court Street correspondent has reported in with a rundown of food and retail developments on the Gowanus Expressway end of that street. We present the news exactly as she gave it to us: 1) Leo’s Bar, down the end of Court St, which has been mentioned in various blogs is still not open. Last […]

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So, the newest installment of the Captain America comic book has a sniper killing the superhero, but that’s not why we’re writing this. Superheroes are a little off topic for us. No, an Associated Press story about his (possible) demise contains the following tidbit: From a headquarters in Brooklyn’s shabby dockside Red Hook neighborhood, he […]

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[Photo courtesy of Project Me!]Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. On Thursday, we focus on food. Food: Chiles & Chocolate is “Horrendous in Practice” (above) [Project Me!] Williamsburg’s Zenkichi is “An Experience” [ABL] Sam’s Restaurant on Court Survives Gentrification [Gothamist] Delices de Paris Park Slope Rumor Central [OTBKB] Greenpoint Feast Fit […]

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Construction continues at the site we call the Roebling Oil Field, dispatching oil seepage with concrete and protective membranes. The western end of the site, which is at a less advanced stage of building, is still giving up some black gold, though. Meantime, there are reports that a nearby site has begun to give off […]

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We don’t feature tons of art shows, largely because there’s only so much we can focus on, but this show of Eric Lindquist‘s work, sample above, caught our eye thanks the work above featuring Northside Piers and 184 Kent. The work is on display at the McCaig-Welles gallery starting tomorrow (3/8), with an opening reception […]

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When you send us an email that says “Party at Thor’s Office–Everyone’s Invited!” you get our attention. So, it was with this e-missive that arrived in our GL inbox announcing plans for an upcoming “No Condos in Coney Protest Party.” The event “will be hosted by some of New York’s most colorful burlesque performers!!…Glitter!! Face […]

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Turns out a new design for the New York Aquarium has been selected. The New York Sun reports that it was told thatthe design created by Philadelphia-based Wallace, Roberts & Todd aka WRT, and Barcelona-based Cloud 9 has been chosen. (It was certainly our personal favorite.) Renderings are available over at ruiz-geli.com. There’s also an […]

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The new edition of the New York Observer contains an illuminating story about developer Joe Sitt of Thor Equities in which he expresses significant frustration that his plans for Coney Island–specifically the plans to build housing on the boardwalk–have run into opposition and suggests that skeptics are at the “junior-most levels of government.” He tells […]

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It’s taken us a while to get around to this, but the newish local blog Found in Brooklyn offered a rundown of the community meeting in Gowanus to talk about the possible Toll Brothers development in the neighborhood. Found writes: The main concern amongst other things was about how a developer wants to build 400 […]

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There may not be any Zipcars in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, but yesterday the company trumpeted its expansion into Williamsburg. Its press release says that it will help “alleviate the growing parking and traffic challenges in the rapidly developing neighborhood.” Also, the company plans to double its Brooklyn fleet and bring about 150 cars […]

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What you are looking at is a photo of what used to be the Graving Dock at the Todd Shipyard where the new Ikea is rising. The photo was sent to us by Chris Curen, a GL reader. He wrote: You can see the fill comes in from the barge at right on a conveyor […]

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Greenpoint is the gift that keeps on giving (along with Williamsburg) in terms of poorly secured construction sites. It’s not that we go looking for them, so much as they keep coming to us. This one comes from our always vigilant Greenpoint correspondent and is located at 98 Clay Street. There’s some sort of summons […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. McGuinness Boulevard [newyorkshitty] New ESDC Chair Gets Up to Speed on Atlantic Yards [AYR] Bloggers Deconstruct Atlantic Yards Media Messages [No Land Grab] Is Atlantic Yards a Done Deal? [Gotham Gazette] Northsix Owner Fights Back [Brooklyn Record] Cadman Plaza Green [Brownstoner] Someone Demolishing Something on […]

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Williamsburg blogger I’m Not Sayin’ I’m Just Sayin’, who produces one of our favorite Brooklyn blogs chock full of original reporting, has been on a roll this week. First, he caught up with some Splasher-like American Apparel advertising on N. 6th Street. Now, he’s posted up some very cool screencaps from a film called Pickup […]

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Is it just us, or does there generally seem to be less street art in Williamsbug west of the BQE these days? We’ve been noticing a tremendous amount of artwork that’s been covered up via paint roller. (This goes for tagging too, which we’re not going to defend, but which also has its own codes […]

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One of the first Ikea signs we’ve caught on Beard Street is this super-friendly one that went up at some point in the last week. Hey, it’s their property, and they’ve got a right. However, what we want to know is who was on the site and what were they trying to hand out?

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The city’s plan to turn a large part of the so-called Public Place between Smith Street and the Gowanus Canal into housing is not winning friends in the neighborhood. The site is one of the most contaminated in South Brooklyn, having served as the home of a manufactured gas plant for nearly a century. MGPs, […]

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We will do a full series of Revere photos at the end of Thor Equities demolition of the iconic dome in Red Hook. (Any day.) For now, here’s a view from summer 2006 and from Saturday.

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As Forest City Ratner stands ready to start demolishing buildings in the Atlantic Yards project footprint, No Land Grab reports a new online petition concerning one of those buildings: The historic Ward’s Bakery on Pacific Street. The petition reads: To: Mayor Michael Bloomberg The Ward’s Bakery at 800 Pacific Street is a gem of historic […]

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The increase in Brooklyn real estate prices is not in your imagination. In fact, a report released yesterday by the Real Estate Board of New York quantifies it. The Real Estate summarized the findings, including the fact that median apartment price in Brooklyn rose 6 percent from 2005 through 2006 to $343,000. The median for […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. The (Temporarily) Newark Nets? [AYR] Why Is DOT Reorganzing Park Slope Traffic? Because. [Streetsblog] Jane Jacobs, Atlantic Yards & the Age of Marketing [AYR] Closer Look at Late-Night Walks [Brooklyn Record] Attention Dogshit Queen of Greenpoint: Beaucoup Poo in Clinton Hill [Clinton Hill Blog] Bring […]

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