This short film is described as follows: “Bobby is a professional baseball player. Julie is a professional freak. He goes to work in a ballpark. She goes to work in a circus sideshow. Their worlds are not supposed to coincide. Starring Chance Pinnell & Heather Goldenhersh, this witty short film captures the beauty of love […]

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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The City Planning Commission has approved the Fifth Avenue Committee’s plan for affordable, supportive housing at 575 5th Avenue. The plan has some opposition in the community, but had also won a large number of supporters. Borough President Marty Markowitz had opposed it and there is some sentiment among observers that it was because the […]

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We don’t know who produced them, but the Coney Island boardwalk is sporting some very cool and colorful trashcans for the summer season. That’s one of them above. They’re all painted with different designs and look like they’re the handiwork of a local school. Very, very nice. Now, we can only hope that the city […]

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Anything wrong with Borough President Marty Markowitz’s free trip on the Queen Mary? Is it okay for a public official to take a gift from a company that does business with the city and whose cause said official has promoted? One would suppose that it depends on how one chooses to interpret ethics rules. The […]

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New York City’s 14 miles of beaches are open, officially as of today (5/26) and they’ll remain open through Labor Day. Lifeguards are on duty from 10AM-6PM. For more information on city beaches, go here to the Parks Department. City pools open Friday, June 29. Brooklyn Beaches:Brighton Beach & Coney Island and Coney Island BoardwalkOn […]

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For those of you that want a fix of construction fun this Memorial Day weekend, we highly suggest the video above, posted by South Slope blogger IMBY, who has carefully chronicled the quality of life horror that has unfolded at 15th Street and Eighth Avenue as a massive pit has damaged adjacent buildings and seriously […]

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We bring back our Brooklyn Back in the Day feature for a look at the old Flatbush Avenue Terminal which used to be the Long Island Railroad Station at Flatbush and Atlantic Avenue that stood where Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Terminal Mall is now located. The view, which is from a website called Arrt’s Arrchives, dedicated […]

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After being sleeping the sleep of the dead blog for a long time, the Park Slope Food Coop blog seems to have sprung back to life. On and off, it’s had new entries for the last month or so. Why should one look? Information like this, of course, in re the Fourme D’Ambert: Even self-professed […]

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[Photo courtesy of lornagrl/flickr] Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn information and, especially on weekends, images. Images: Brooklyn Prays [Big Sky Brooklyn] Lorimer Street Greenpoint [seriously excited!] Space Oddities [Bed-Stuy Blog] Blimp Over Brooklyn [Kensington Brooklyn] McCarren Park Scenes [A Test of Will] Williamsburg Realty [Bluejake] Markowitz Cruise & Purge News: New Markowitz CB6 […]

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Now that the summer is basically here–okay, late spring–the outdoor events are stacking up. One of our favorites is the annual Red Hook Waterfront Arts Festival. The 2007 edition will take place on Saturday, June 2 and there will be some changes. Instead of happening at the end of Beard Street it will move to […]

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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We spent part of yesterday afternoon in Coney Island enjoying the nice weather, and couldn’t resist noticing that the blight along Stillwell Avenue and W. 12 Street is looking splendid just in time for the official kickoff of the summer season this weekend. What’s especially curious is that developer Joe Sitt and Thor Equities aren’t […]

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One of our readers who is thinking of buying a condo on the near the Roebling Oil field site at N. 11th Street and Roebling in Williamsburg wrote in with some information he had obtained from state Department of Environmental Conservation officials. He wrote in part: I am considering the purchase of one of the […]

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Here’s a story that makes one go, hmmmm. It appears the city is planning to sell the land under the former Albee Square Mall at what might be considered the Mother of All Discounts: $100 million less than they are said to have paid when they bought the lease from developer Joe Sitt. Mr. Sitt, […]

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As noted, Diminished Capacity was shooting at Eighth Avenue and Eighth Street in Park Slope yesterday. Here are a couple of shots, though we didn’t catch the thick of the action or any make any celeb sightings. No Matthew Broderick. No Virginia Madsen. But it did look like a nice catering setup in the basement […]

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Construction permits are supposed to be displayed so that they can be viewed. Technically, we supposed this can be viewed, either by a very, very tall person or by zooming in with your camera lens. This is 246 Bedford Avenue, which is on the block on which Quadriad Development would like to build a number […]

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Our Greenpoint correspondent sent the image of this building rising at 130 Diamond Street. It’s a Karl Fischer Architects project, which indicates that his prodigious output is spreading to Greenpoint. The building is five stories and will have ten units. It certainly looks big compared to its relatively diminutive neighbors. No rendering available, unfortunately.

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The tale of the houses on Duffield Street in Downtown Brooklyn said to have been part of the Underground Railroad, has taken another very, very curious turn. One of the homes–the one in which Joy Chatel, one of the leaders of the fight to stop the seizure of the buildings via eminent domain and to […]

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Brooklinks is a selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Have a beautiful long weekend. If you’re near a computer, we’ll still be posting away! Groups Dispute Congestion Pricing Poll Findings [Streets Blog] Outer Boroughs Question Congestion Pricing [NYP] No F or V Service Improvements in Brooklyn Until…2012 [Bklyn Streets, Carroll Gardens] Williamsburg Condos with Arts […]

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When we got an email the other day from someone trying to rally opposition to a new development on Smith Street and 2nd Place we immediately realized they were talking about a building whose rendering has been posted for a long time. The plans have been filed and were just disapproved, but that could only […]

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vBROOKLYN is billed as a video festival about Brooklyn as a place and about video as an artform. It’s now accepting submissions for its next video festival, which will run in (hate to think about it right now) December, 2007. Here’s is some of the verbiage that the festival organizers sent to GL: The vBrooklyn […]

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One of the things we love about Brooklyn are the contrasts that it offers, particularly between the new luxe condo version and the old non-luxe edition. Our Greenpoint correspondent, who knows a good, absurd juxtaposition when she sees one, offers us this one from Kingsland Avenue, which is in a corner of Brooklyn east of […]

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Was Atlantic Yards the only thing behind the purging of Community Board 6 by Borough President Marty Markowitz, Council Member David Yassky and Council Member Bill de Blasio? It was probably a major factor, given what the New York Times described as the BP’s “red-faced eruptions” of anger over opposition to Atlantic Yards, but it […]

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We don’t get to see too many of Jotham Sederstrom’s stories online because the NY Daily News still has a pretty dysfunctional website after suffering a series of “improvements,” so we figured we’d point out one of today’s, which is actually up online. It’s about a man who those with long memories might remember, John […]

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