The annual Court Street Fair, sponsored by the Gowanus Canal Community Development Corporation, was yesterday. It’s one of the more low-key ones with neighborhood flavor. Not a tube sock stand in sight.

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We’ve shown this Greenpoint building before, but in a different context. Now, our Greenpoint correspondent reports a commotion at the site and sends along new photos. She writes: When I walked by there, a bunch of firemen were milling about. Two engines had even condoned off traffic on the block. Don’t know why they were […]

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A couple of retail and food developments to flesh out on Court Street via a walk yesterday and a dinner last week: 1) Lee Lee’s Valice at 368 Court Street (at President) had its grand opening this weekend. The boutique occupies the space vacate by the Bleach House, whose demise has been much noted. The […]

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There’s something special about the wide-open demolition site at 296 N. 7th Street, owing to the particularly nasty and dangerous conditions inside the building that is open to the public. On the other hand, it looks like a really cool place for an edgy late-night party. We found the fence so poorly secured on Sunday […]

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Kiss housing goodbye in terms of any redevelopment of the Red Hook Piers. The initial proposal as floated by the city’s Economic Development Corporation included 350 units of housing on the west side of Columbia Street. The concept was not entirely greeted with open arms by the community. In any case, the Carroll Gardens Courier […]

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Last time we checked in on Gargiulo’s, the Italian eatery in Coney Island, there was a story in late December that Thor Equities had bought the property. The same day, a source called us to say the published report was wrong and a follow-up “nevermind” was published, along with suggestions from the owner that someone […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Blogs Today are Like the Voice During “Battle of Washington Square” [AYR] Ninth Street Bike Lanes Provoke Residents [I’m Seeing Green] Brooklynite Ticketed for Having an Unregistered Segway [NYP] Lamppost Memorializes Pedestrian Run Down on Tillary Street [McBrooklyn] Brooklyn Inn Mystery Solved [Lost City] Two […]

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So, who would spend millions of dollars on a park on Gravesend Bay while opening a trash transfer station nearby? New York City. At issue is the proposed new Dreier-Offerman Park. We’ll let the Bay News pick up the narrative: The city is spending millions to renovate a Brooklyn park – and open a trash […]

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[Photo courtesy of turkeyheart/flickr] If you are going to pay attention to what is happing in Brooklyn that is of critical importance, you have to pay attention to rezoning plans. Today’s Metro reports that plans for a rezone of more than 200 blocks of Bedford-Stuyvesant begin a public review process by the Department of City […]

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There’s an oversupply of good Brooklyn Craigslist Missed Connections this week, but we finally settled on this one because it’s got a certain something most likely having to do with the pole. We Shared the Pole – w4m – 25 I got on the R at 59th on thursday morning around 8:30am. You were already […]

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In Williamsburg–land of the big holes–big construction sites are almost a dime a dozen. Yet the big dig underway on Kent Avenue where the towers known as The Edge will rise, is more interesting than most. The stuff being dug up, and it looks like it’s going to be a heck of a job to […]

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Downtown Brooklyn

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Once a week, we highlight GL’s reader comments. Here’s a selection of some of them from the last seven days: Sad Anniversary: A Year After the Greenpoint Terminal Market Fire. “Yes, it was the biggest NYC fire in ten years (excepting 9/11), and yes, the hobo they framed got off without punishment, but anybody who […]

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Pictures: Wall Coming Down [A Test of Will] Cotton Candy [Lex’s Folly] Geometry, Ninth Street Bridge [seriously excited!] Brooklyn Skies [Big Sky Brooklyn] F Train [Express Train] Words: Putting the ‘Avant’ in Avante Garde [NYT] Beach Impeach Hits Brooklyn Shores [Fort Greene Courier] Private Sea Gate Dunes Dwindle, Public to Pay to Replenish Them [NYT] […]

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East Williamsburg

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As you may know, we also post over at Curbed during the week. Here’s some of this week’s Curbed output: Going ‘Mondrianic’ on Lorimer Street (above) Surf’s Up: Barge Pool Will Start Out in Brooklyn Here’s the New Dutch Mustard 80 Met Enrique Norten Can’t Play with Frank Gehry on Flatbush Ave. Greenpoint Neighbors Unimpressed […]

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The proposal to retool Ninth Street in Park Slope and include bike lanes is still causing tempers to flare. We watched a long discussion of the issue at a meeting of the Park Slope Civic Council on Thursday night, which was marked by some surprising outbursts of anger. (Surprising in the sense that we would […]

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This impossibly cute kitten was rescued from the corner of N. 11th Street and Roebling yesterday, in front of the Roebling Oil Field by the blogger who brings us Bad Advice. She found him a home, then the person who was going to take him apparently didn’t, so as of last night, it looks like […]

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[Photo courtesy of seriously excited!/Dalton Rooney on flickr] Images: Fourth Avenue Between Douglass and Butler (above) [Seriously Excited] Brooklyn Bridge Underbelly [A Test of Will] Crash Splash [Brit in Brooklyn] A House in Prospect Park [Bluejake] Red Bar on Ninth [Park Slope Street Photography] Gowanus Alley [babadri/flickr] Where the Highway Meets the Street [Big Sky […]

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Page Six reports via No Land Grab one of the more curious sightings of the week: Frank Gehry and Bruce Ratner having a hot dog at Nathan’s in Coney Island. The interesting question is, why? Was the Dynamic Duo of Atlantic Yards seized by an urge to consume a Nathan’s dog by the sea? Were […]

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That’s the artwork for this year’s Siren Festival in Coney Island, which the Village Voice is sponsoring on July 21. The artist writes at Invisible Man: The artwork for this summer’s Siren Music Festival put on by the Voice. I tried to capture the insanity and culturally brackish waters that is Coney Island while keeping […]

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East Williamsburg

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One of the pleasures of living in Brooklyn is the car service. You call them and they come (maybe) in lieu of being able to walk outside and hail a cab. Or, if you’re near one you go to car service itself, which is when you encounter the Car Service Waiting Room. (Or you flag […]

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden

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In case you were wondering what the heck is going to appear on the southeast corner of Fourth Avenue and Carroll Street in the far reaches of Park Slope, here’s your answer. The building in question, comes from the offices of…drum roll…Scarano Architects. (It’s not that we have a need to mention the firm every […]

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