Our Greenpoint correspondent sent along the photo of 996 Manhattan Avenue, because she was taken by the steel bracing that extends from said building to the sidewalk in front. She writes: I found this modern-day example of a buttress next door to Pio Pio Riko. As you can tell, it takes up almost the entire […]

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The Department of Transportation’s proposal to turn Sixth and Seventh Avenues in Park Slope into one-way streets is officially dead. The idea sparked an uproar in the neighborhood and virtually unanimous opposition. Last week, DOT sent a letter to Community Board Six formally declaring that the proposal is dead. “DOT does not intend to pursue […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Rundown of Atlantic Yard Environmental Impact Suit Hearing [AYR] Marty Markowitz Goes on a Rampage [Daily Gotham] Bloomberg’s Building Code Update Proposals [NYP] Building Code Overhaul Would Make Construction Faster & Easier [Metro] Park Slope Arabic School Controversy Continues [NYT] Barge Pool to Open July […]

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The new Ikea in Red Hook, which will open sometime next year, may not be the only big box on the waterfront for long. The new Brooklyn Paper reports that Bed, Bath & Beyond may be considering part of the Ikea site and a separate story suggests that the looming grain silos may also become […]

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Those fences you might have noticed sprouting around the soccer field in McCarren Park? They have nothing to do with the Roebling Oil Field, as one GL reader asked. They’re part of the installation of night lighting for the fields. Now, there’s nothing unique about lighting athletic fields for night play. What makes this endeavor […]

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We were fascinated by this My9 News investigative report the other night about Brooklyn developer Mendel Brach and his condo project on Spencer Street in Bed-Stuy. (We located it via IMBY’s post.) So, we were interested to find that someone had posted it on YouTube. If you haven’t seen it, it’s absolutely worth a viewing. […]

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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Blogger The Battering Room attended the “Beach Impeach” at Coney Island, the event at which a lot of people formed the word “impeach” on the beach so that an aerial photo could be taken. He writes of the event: We checked in at the sign up booth on the boardwalk where we received our destiny […]

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While we don’t note every piece of property that’s up for sale in Brooklyn, we’d been meaning to do a post about Parkside Auto Repair at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Third Street. We remember, back in 2002, when the owner of the auto shop asked us if we thought his corner would be […]

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[Photo courtesy of Bad Advice] The Department of Environmental Conservation’s Spill Team was spotted in front of the Roebling Oil Field yesterday, but it’s unclear whether they were checking out test wells, cruising the hood, stopping to siphon some fuel from underground or just socializing (or whatever) with the two gentlemen in the photo. The […]

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The time is drawing closer for the oily past at the Roebling Oil Field site to be out of sight, if not entirely out of mind. The western end of the site is now under concrete. Soon, all that will be left to remind us are those little wells on N. 11th Street and on […]

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The buildings believed to be Underground Railroad sites on Duffield Street in downtown Brooklyn had their day before the City Council on Tuesday in what turned out to be a marathon hearing that ran from 11AM-3PM. At issue is whether the city will demolish them in order to build an underground parking garage that will […]

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Running low on tube socks? Be not afraid, for Street Fair Season cometh. The first South Brooklyn expression of the phenomenon is the Court Street Fair, which happens this Sunday (5/6). It’s actually one of the ones we like, along with the Fifth Avenue Fair, possibly because they come early in the season. By the […]

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[Photo courtesy of Little Earthquake/flickr] Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Food:Fette Sau in Wiliamsburg: Drink and Eat Your Meat (above) [NYT]More Brooklyn Barbecue [Eating for Brooklyn]No More Curry Leaf in Brooklyn Heights [Chowhound]Porchetta Will Reopen with New Chef [Grub Street]Second Street Cafe Closing for Three Week Makeover [OTBKB]Wednesday Food & […]

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Street Films offers the reminder that the 3rd Annual Tour de Brooklyn is coming up on Sunday June 3. They write: This year’s tour gets underway at Grand Army Plaza, a National Historic Landmark at Prospect Park. This year’s 18 mile tour will feature Brooklyn’s southern neighborhoods along the waterfront like Sunset, Bay Ridge, Dyker […]

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden

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A year ago today, the Greenpoint Terminal Market went up in a huge blaze that almost took part of Greenpoint with it. We remember looking up that morning and seeing a gigantic black column of smoke rising in the distance and wondering what the heck could be burning. Then, we heard it was a “warehouse […]

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There are 1,215 photos on flickr tagged “greenpoint terminal market.” There are 1,701 photos that are tagged “greenpoint fire.” In addition, you can find cool post-fire exploration photo sets from e-liz and f.trainer.

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myspace graphicsThis is a little celebration we came across at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church on Havemeyer Street in Williamsburg, which also hosts the big Giglio Festival in July. Note the money taped to the saint.

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What you’re looking at is 66 N. 1st Street, which is between Kent and Wythe, just across the street from the site of the former Old Dutch Mustard building and the future 80 Met. This was the scene as the Thing on Top, which is another product of Scarano Architects–whose principal, Robert Scarano, is clearly […]

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The good news here is that the Gowanus Yacht Club on Smith Street is open again for the season. One of our readers, though, writes to take some issue with the limited menu (hot dogs) and wonders about bringing in some food to go with the brewskis. He writes: My girlfriend and I took at […]

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We featured some night shots of this building at N. 10th and Berry, courtesy of our Greenpoint correspondent last week, and had a look ourselves in daylight this weekend. It does not disappoint. The sidewalk has been undermined, the fence is now out in the street and could take your eye out if you’re not […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. The Journey from UDC to ESDC [AYR] Greenpoint Terminal Market Fire A Year Later [NYDN] Development Near Kensington Stables [Kensington Brooklyn] Park Slope’s Eighth Avenue Crack Building Goes to Rehab [IMBY] New Private School in Clinton Hill [Brooklyn Record] Does Two Developments Going Rental Make […]

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Every time we pass through Wallabout, the neighborhood down by the Brooklyn Navy Yard, we wonder when developers are going to start renovating some of the old buildings or putting up new ones. Last week, of course, the city announced a new mostly affordable housing development on the old Navy Brig site. The new Real […]

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