Sometime soon, a range of Brooklynites may be able to learn in the waters off Red Hook. PortSide New York, the Red Hook-based organization which run waterfront-related programs, is making progress on its proposal to start up a community sailing program. The program, which would operate out of Valentino Park in Red Hook, would offer […]

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The old John Jay High School is finally losing its scaffolding. The school on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope–which is actually the Secondary School for Law, the Secondary School for Research and the Secondary School for Journalism–has been surrounded by scaffolding for more than a year as work was done on the building. Yesterday, we […]

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[Photo courtesy of paulpablopawel/flickr] “Stories in the Garden” start tonight at the Hoyt Street Garden at the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Hoyt Street. They’ll be taking place every Tuesday at 7:00PM from June 26-July 31 and are described as “delightful story readings by parents and neighbors.” The readings for kids include free lemonade and […]

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As we noted yesterday, there were some indications around Coney Island on Mermaid Parade Day of continued opposition to and skepticism about Thor Equities big redevelopment plan. The most, uh, interesting one we saw belonged to this gentleman who came out in a Viking helmet and eventually pulled his pants down to reveal this. We […]

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The little Carroll Gardens uprising, which started with neighborhood objections to that building slated to rise at 360 Smith Street, has become a more wide ranging push to rezone the neighborhood to prevent development that is out of character. Residents have created an online petition as we noted last week and, now, they have a […]

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The historic Childs Restaurant building in Coney Island came back to life on Saturday night, hosting its first public event in 60 years. Besides the fact that the Mermaid Parade Ball was a great party, it was one of those moments when you could easily and happily envision a future when one of the few […]

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Here’s a video moment at the Mermaid Parade Ball at the historic Childs Building in Coney Island. Enjoy.

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This is the new Prudential Douglas Elliman office taking shape at Seventh Avenue and Garfield in Park Slope. It was previously a store involved in Park Slope’s famous Flower War with the store across the street. For months, the revealed old signage on the building has been showing its former history as a purveyor of […]

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Advocates fighting to save the Underground Railroad Houses on Duffield Street in Downtown Brooklyn from seizure by the city and the wrecking ball are now using a blog to push their cause. One of the new items suggests that an abolitionist museum in the buildings would be a better use of the space than 700 […]

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[Photo courtesy Flatbush Gardener/flickr] Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. First Brooklyn Blogade at Vox Pop in Flatbush (above) [Flatbush Gardener] Brooklyn Bloggers Get Together at Vox Pop [OTBKB] The ‘Blight Excuse’ for Eminent Domain [AYR] Calls for Veto of 421-a Developer Tax Break Bill [Sun] Support the Underground Railroad? Then […]

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This morning, Street Films offers up a riveting video of cars illegally Prospect Park during car-free hours at the Third Street and Prospect Park West entrance, which remains open past the official closing hour. The exact count is 45 from 7:0o PM through 7:15 PM. A bicyclist partially closes the gate, and cars continue to […]

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Here are some Mermaid Parade related links for this Monday: 16,150 flickr Mermaid Parade photos posted since Saturday [flickr] A Host of Protests and Breasts: Mermaid Parade ’07 [Coney Island Reporter] Mermaid Mania: The GL Mermaid Parade Slide Show [GL] 2007 Mermaid Parade Photos [rsguskind/flickr] 25th Annual Mermaid Parade [NY1] 2007 Coney Island Mermaid Parade […]

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We’ve been watching every week, as this building at Roebling and N. 9th in Williamsburg–a part of the neighborhood that will be virtually unrecognizable from today in about three years–was cleared out in preparation for renovation and is now undergoing a complete makeover. It’s being turned into 11 condos and is getting an addition on […]

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After the Mermaid Parade came the, well, after-parade. Here’s some of the action on W. 10th Street after the end of the parade in Coney Island.

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It might have been the nicest day ever for the Coney Island Mermaid Parade. A huge and fun crowd descended on Coney Island yesterday for the 25th Anniversary edition, and a day that was capped off by the Mermaid Parade Ball inside the historic Childs Restaurant Building. Here are a handful of still shots. You […]

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If you don’t feel like going over to our flickr Mermaid Parade slideshow which is 165 photos strong, you can check it, as embedded out below.

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It’s fair to say this is the first time the Mermaid Parade had a little bit of an anti-development flavor. About a half dozen groups of people in the parade, including a large Save Coney Island contingent, brought an anti-Thor Equities and anti-developer Joe Sitt flavor to the event. We’ve got some pics from the […]

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The historic Childs Building in Coney Island hosted its first public event in 60 years last night, and it rocked. We’ll have more on the building itself tomorrow. In the meantime, we’ve got a lot of photos from last night’s festivities. Good music. A beautiful night. An incredible buildings. The ocean air. What more could […]

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Here are some early vids of the Mermaid Parade posted on the YouTube. Enjoy.

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[Ms. Gowanus Canal at the Mermaid Parade courtesy of f_heaney/flickr] Will the Times Advise Spitzer to Veto the 421-a Legislation? [AYR] Brooklyn Heights Beach Coming Soon [Brooklyn Heights Blog] Mass Arrest of Brooklyn Teens Spotlights Police Tactics [NYT] Ralph Stanley in Prospect Park [Velvet Sea] Stoopendous Shout Out [Dope on the Slope] Report on Stoopendous […]

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There is much news to convey about the embattled and threatened Red Hook vendors this morning as it was a busy Friday for them. First, as we noted yesterday afternooon, Sen. Charles Schumer announced that the Parks Department had agreed to allow the food stands at the Red Hook Ballfields to remain open through October […]

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Developer Joe Sitt and Thor Equities have been hit with a Stop Work Order by the Department of Buildings. We know this because we were walking along the Great Wall of Stillwell Avenue, aka the huge wooden fence erected by around the Go-Kart Tracks and other attractions he demolished when we noticed some very familiar-looking […]

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Buried deep inside the complicated verbiage of the 421-a developer tax break reform legislation in Albany, are many goodies, including an extension until next year of the times that developers have to start buildings under the old regulations that were far more favorable to them. (That sound you hear are bulldozers revving so that luxury […]

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The Thor Equities/Joe Sitt publicity machine has been in overdrive this week, trying to get things in order as important behind-the-scenes discussions take place with city officials and a lot of people with cameras prepare to descend on today’s Mermaid Parade. So, the $1.5-$2 Billion Question is, will there be an Anti-Sitt/Save Coney Island presence […]

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