[Photo Courtesy of chicapoquita/flickr] Images: Clover [A Test of Will] Williamsburg Savings Bank [seriously excited!] Park Slope Hair Dryer Chair [Brit in Brooklyn] Fifth Avenue Bar [Park Slope Street Photography] Brooklyn Prays #1 [Big Sky Brooklyn] I Heart Cannoli [bondidwhat/flickr] Not Images: Markowitz to Purge Community Board 6 [TRE] Check Out the Reporter Report [No […]

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[Photo courtesy of INSIJS/flickr] The Toll Brothers and Northside Piers have had some, um, labor issues this week as indicated by the infestation of huge blow-up rats on Kent Avenue. Blogger INSIJS captured a few shots of the rats and posted them in a flickr album in addition to posting about them. We have to […]

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Today is “It’s My Park! Day” in Prospect Park, which is a volunteer day to help clean up and care for the park. Registration starts at 9:30AM at either Prospect Park West or Parkside & Ocean Avenues. The cleanup ends at 1PM. All of which is short notice, but if you’d been thinking about and […]

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Tomorrow (5/20) is the 48th Annual Park Slope House Tour. This year’s tour features homes and sites between President Street and Fourth Street. According to the Park Slope Civic Council, which organizes the annual tour, “Come to the Park Slope House Tour and walk through beautiful tree-lined streets, enjoy handsome Victorian architecture, and visit the […]

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It has long been rumored that a purge of Community Board 6 was in the works because many of the board members opposed the Atlantic Yards project. Just last night, in fact, at a CB6 Transportation Committee hearing we heard people joking that the board didn’t have long to live because Borough President Marty Markowitz […]

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After Curbed first reported a “rumor” that Beyonce might have bought an apartment at Richard Meier’s glassy On Prospect Park, GL has been told by a knowledgeable source that it’s for real. A Curbed commenter had noted yesterday that Beyonce bought a two-bedroom apartment at the Meier building. Yesterday evening, GL received an email from […]

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Looks like Enrique Norten’s firm TEN Arquitectos is designing a condo that will go on a huge empty lot at the corner of N. 10th and Roebling in Williamsburg. The official address of the project is 33 Roebling, AKA 236 N. 10th Street. The site has been vacant since demolition about a year ago. Interestingly, […]

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Here’s a few minutes at the Red Hook Ballfields as the food stands are looking for the 2007 season. Click here if the embed isn’t working for you.

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An interesting development to report from Sheepshead Bay, where the venerable (if recently bedraggled) Lundy’s shut down at the beginning of the year. Kinetic Carnival‘s O. Robau left this information as a comment on an older post, but it’s interesting enough to pass along on its own. All credit to Mr. Robau for the intel: […]

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That exciting line of thunderstorms the other afternoon apparently was too much for the Great Blue Wall of Red Hook. Chris Curen, who hit us off with all these photos, reports that “a bunch of sections fell down.” He adds that Ikea did better in the cleanup phase than Thor Equities: Now, I’m not saying […]

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The quite tall Oro Condo on Flatbush Avenue a few blocks from the Manhattan Bridge is going up fast, and is so tall now that it is poking above other buildings from a distance. This photo was taken a few days ago, so it’s probably added a few floors since this shot was taken. Meantime, […]

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This building is so striking in its atrociousness that we rarely fail to stare at it when we pass it. It’s on Metropolitan Avenue east of the BQE near Leonard Street. In its awfulness it is not exceptionally distinct from a sad number of other Brooklyn buildings, yet the balconies add a certain something that […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. State Judge Boots Renters’ Atlantic Yards Suit [AYR] Atlantic Yards Suit Filed in Wrong Court [NYT] It Came from the Blogosphere [No Land Grab] Pedestrians Fight Over Park Slope Scraps [Streets Blog] We’ll See About “Fantastic Fourth Avenue” [Brownstoner] Hoping for Restoration on Avenue C […]

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There is another important community meeting tonight about the surprisingly contentious plan to put bike lanes and other traffic calming measures on Ninth Street in Park Slope. You might remember that the Department of Transportation has a plan to redo Ninth Street with bike lanes in both directions and by installing turning lanes for cars. […]

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The Coney Island History Project has done a major update of its website. In addition to adding a lot of excellent historic photos of Coney Island, it now has a development map of Coney Island showing major buildings or attractions including, in some case, historical views of the site. The History Project will be opening […]

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This construction site at 80 West Street in Greenpoint deserves special recognition if only because the fence around it stands out for being so down and out. There’s nothing downscale about the property, which sold for $4.3 million last year. Perhaps they could have spared an extra few thousand for a fence?

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Today’s New York Post weighs in with a long story about Fourth Avenue and all of the new development that is rising on the strip. It notes that there’s a new development approximately every three blocks from Warren Street all the way to 19th Street. Here’s a sample: The Crest, at 302 Second St. (at […]

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Sooooo, was it art or just a bunch of guys dressed like dorks digging holes? We’re talking about the group of Austrian performance artists that spent nearly a week digging and filling holes on the beach in Coney Island. We just came across the flickr set of photos they posted, one of which appears above. […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. A Couple of Bites: Wednesday Food and Drink Roundup [Brooklyn Record] Donna Da Vine Patio Open on Atlantic Ave. [Eater] Finally, a Sit Down Kensington Restaurant: Thai Tony’s [Gothamist] Back to the Red Hook Ball Fields: Vaquero Elotes [Pork Chop Express] Outdoor Dining in Brighton […]

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We have walked past this stop sign too many times to count. We haven’t seen it. In fact, we’re running it as part of our challenged signage feature because, well, it might escape your notice unless you’re sitting in the cab of a tractor trailer or about ten feet tall. And, even then, you might […]

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Perhaps you haven’t thought about “Miss Brooklyn,” the Atlantic Yards tower designed by Frank Gehry for the intersection of Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues, in a while? Maybe you have some imagery you’d like to get off your chest? Well, there’s apparently a new website called Miss Brooklyn (or Miss Brooklyn dot Net) that’s going to […]

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Today’s Sun visits the neighborhood the streets south of Park Slope that have gained the name Greenwood Heights in recent years, but that is still considered part of Sunset Park by neighborhood traditionalists. Whatever one chooses to label it, the Sun recounts the story of a booming neighborhood and delves into some of the backlash […]

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[Photo courtesy of slice/flickr] We are about 90 minutes behind the curve in passing this on from the tipster who sent word, but filming of Baby Mama moved to Fifth Avenue in Park Slope today (from Seventh Avenue yesterday) and Tina Fey and Amy Poehler were seen shooting a scene around 1:30. Or, as our […]

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The new Ikea in Red Hook was topped off several weeks ago and the building is, well, sitting there on Beard Street, awaiting its blue and yellow exterior. The way Ikea does its buildings, it will probably be finished quickly. The view below shows what the area looks like now that a large part of […]

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Remember that building with the long list of building code violations in Greenpoint that is being held up with steel beams? Well, we heard from a former tenant of the building. Among the highlights are that the fines haven’t been paid (excellent enforcement mechanism) and that construction workers have been afraid of a collapse. In […]

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