Ah, yes, it’s that time of year again. The Nor’easter and all the emails from the Office of Emergency Management got us to thinking about Go Bags. You know, the emergency bag you’re supposed to keep around in case you have to run for your life? (Brooklyn, take note, under the wrong circumstances, about one-third […]

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No way we could only settle for still pics of the big Gowanus Water Rising Flotilla canoe, so here’s our Brookvid of the festivities. Click on the embed or on this link to watch. You can also catch the still photos in the post below. (As we noted below, the Water Rising theme turned out […]

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If you happened to cross the Gowanus Canal at some point on Saturday afternoon and saw something a little weird–like a 32-foot long canoe with about 20 people in it rowing up the Big G–you were witnessing the Water Rising Flotilla. (We understand that it turns out there is irony here, as the Gowanus waters […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Storm: Big Storm Spurs Talk of Climate Shift [Sun] Floody Hell [NYP] Drench Warfare [NYDN] East Coast Storm Breaks Rainfall Record [NYT] Not Storm: More Than 200 Rally Against Yards Parking, Another Protest Wed. [AYR] Despite Storm, 200 People Show for Atlantic Yards Demonstration [Metro] […]

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[Photo courtesy of WPA] The Waterfront Alliance of Williamsburg and Greenpoint passes along news that one of the most significant remaining set of historic industrial structures in North Brooklyn will be before the Landmarks Preservation Commission on Tuesday (4/17). Two buildings have already been demolished by developer Isaac Katan, as part of a development that […]

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[Photo courtesy of luluinnyc/flickr] This is Mount Prospect Park on Eastern Parkway between the Brooklyn Public Library and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Woah.

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It’s Sunday, which means it’s time for our favorite Brooklyn Craigslist Missed Connection of the week. Our selection this week doesn’t disappoint, dealing with hair removal, pimples and even mentioning Charles Bukowski. Here goes: I interjected my way into your hairlip/pimple conversation . . . – m4w You wore a striking red and white kind […]

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There are two interesting events coming up at the Brooklyn Reading Works this month, as outlined in an email from OTBKB‘s Louise Crawford, who also organizes the Reading Works programs. On Thursday, April 19th “Mom Bloggers” who write about autism will read at The Old Stone House at 8 p.m. Fifth Avenue between 3rd and […]

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Red Hook, Brooklyn

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A few YouTube vids involving Dumbo. Click here to go over the playlist on YouTube if there’s a problem with the embed. Enjoy.

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related images and information. Images: Gowanus Water Tower Clouds [Velvet Sea] 401k Mailbox [A Test of Will] Prospect Park Rustic [Atomische] What Remains [Blue Jake] Clay Street Graffix [jUSTINYC] Not Images: Accuweather Nor’easter Warnings [accuweather] Jackie Robinson: Brooklyn Dodgers Legend and Pioneer [NYT] Coney Island Residents Prefer Jobs to […]

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Red Hook, Brooklyn

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As you know if you read GL (thanks for doing so, by the way), we post over at Curbed from Monday through Friday, here’s some of this week’s output over there: Old Park Slope Says Novo Park Slope is a Deadbeat (above) Red Hook Waterfront Looking Swedish From Above Quadriad Vague About Its Big Bedford […]

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If you’ve been to Coney Island, you’ve noticed the Shore Theater. The building sits at the intersection of Surf Avenue and Stillwell Avenue across the street from both Nathan’s and the Stillwell Avenue subway station. Last year, it gained scaffolding, which might have led some people to conclude that something would happen with the building. […]

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(We’re starting “On the Sofa” as a new feature to capture some of the most compelling comments left by our readers on items that we post.) Community Board Six Rejects Sixth & Seventh Ave. One-Way Proposal, Punts on 9th Street Bike Lanes: “Wait, Bill DeBlasio got a ‘commitment’ from the NYPD that they will not […]

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The Landmarks Preservation Commission is holding a “public informational meeting” on designating Dumbo as a landmark-protected neighborhood. The meeting will be held on Thurday, April 19 at 10AM at 1 Centre Street, 9th Floor North. We got an email from the Dumbo Neighborhood Association that says: The Commission will tell us their plans for our […]

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[Photo courtesy of Von Roberts] GL reader Von Roberts, who is a music producer, actor and resident of Red Hook for the last 25 years, sent us a lot of photos that he’s taken from his Red Hook window, which offers a superb view. We’re going to be posting some of those Red Hook photos, […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of information and, especially on weekends, images: Images: Ladies in Donut Shop [Park Slope Street Photography] Audis Invade Fulton Ferry Landing [Dumbo NYC] Pratt Cat Looks at Pigeons [Angela/flickr] Bed-Stuy Smokestacks [Bed-Stuy Blog] Coney Islander [Only Coney/kcherif] Brooklyn Babe Desktop [Brit in Brooklyn] Once Was Gowanus [JMcT/flickr] Quest [Lex’s Folly] […]

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The good people at the Municipal Art Society have decided to tackle the subject of patterns in Brooklyn demolition permits and produced some maps that show where the wrecking ball is hard at work. An analysis by Lisa Kersavage concludes that there’s a correlation between areas that have been upzoned and demolition activity. In fact, […]

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New York Aquarium, Coney Island[Photo courtesy of Mirabelle Studio]

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Of all the environmentally questionable sites Gowanus and Brooklyn, one that should raise some eyebrows is the Thomas Greene Playground on Third Avenue at Douglass Street. The park, which is also the site of a public swimming pool, was once the site of a manufactured gas plant, the Fulton Municipal Gas Company. It operated from […]

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If you are out and about in Brooklyn and happen to look up from time to time, you might notice what seems to be a plague of new floors being added to old buildings. The good news, of course, is that from street level, you have a renovated and restored old building. The bad news […]

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With all the trouble with buildings of late (collapses, incidents, etc.), we can certainly understand appealing to a Higher Power for all the help one can get. We found this permit posted in Williamsburg, east of the BQE. It stopped us dead in our tracks as it exudes a lot of unintended meaning.

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We know that permits have to be displayed at construction sites. What we don’t know is if putting them 15 feet off the ground where only people on stilts can read them is within the letter of the law. The always roving eyes of our Greenpoint correspondent found the building in question, which is located […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. We were going to limit ourselves to 13 items today, but want to cut anything to make a point about Friday the Thirteenth. Good luck today, in any case! Hudson Yards Development is Very Different Model Than Atlantic Yards [AYR] Ratner Will Document Sol LeWitt […]

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