Brooklyn Botanic Garden

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Don’t look now, but Roebling Street in Williamsburg has more oil wells. Actually, they are monitoring wells. Several were recently drilled around the Roebling Oil Field months after oil began oozing onto the site of the McCarren Park Mews condo development. Several more have now been placed on N. 10th and N. 9th Streets and […]

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We missed the Lola Staar party in Coney Island on Sunday because we were busy in Williamsburg and we couldn’t be two places at one time. Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad decision. As it turns out, developer Joe Sitt decided to make an appearance at the Staar party, which took place at Ruby’s on the […]

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A much rescheduled City Council hearing on the Underground Railroad Houses on Duffield Street takes place today at 11AM. It will be preceded by a 10AM press conference that will include Charles Barron and David Yassky. The city wants to tear down because they’re on the site of a proposed parking garage. A controversial consultant’s […]

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[Photo courtesy of Mirabelle Studios] Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn related information and images: Planning for a Bigger, Greener City [Gotham Gazette] The Greening of Lincoln Road [Across the Park] Fort Greene/Clinton Hill Rezone: 80-Foot Height Limits Next to Atlantic Yards [AYR] Underground Railroad House Debate Goes to City Hall [Sun] Taconic Steps […]

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[Photo courtesy of Michael Kuhle/flickr] If this photo doesn’t convey the essence of the building at Carroll Street and Bond Street that we call The Bunker, we’re not sure what will. This shot of workers atop The Bunker was posted on flickr and brought our attention by the photographer, Michael Kuhle, who’s a GL reader. […]

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The Brooklyn Artist’s Gym in Gowanus is opening a shared space for writers called Room 58. Here is some information from the email we got about it yesterday: In a corner of Brooklyn Artists Gym’s shared studio space for visual artists is Room 58, a new workspace designed specifically for journalists and other research-based writers. […]

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Williamsburg Kite Festival

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