Here are a few shots of North Brooklyn as seen from the sky. It wasn’t the clearest afternoon on record, and most of South Brooklyn was under cloud cover, but the view was interesting, as always. Here’s a bit of Williamsburg, mainly north of Metropolitan Avenue and west of the BQE. The tall thing on […]

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The first thing we need to say about the excellent blog Found in Brooklyn is that it comes from Gowanus. Among other things, it provides some very good coverage of development issues in Gowanus and Carroll Gardens, but also gets around a lot more widely. Take, for instance, yesterday’s post, which is about a show […]

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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle has a very nice item on the aftermath of the great deluge of August 8 in one of our favorite flood zones, Gowanus. To wit: Anecdotal reports from shopkeepers on Court Street described friends’ basements in Gowanus in which feces and dead rats were found floating in the water in their […]

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We’re not reaching that far back in time for this Brooklyn Back in the Day item. This photo only dates to 1995, but it shows the ruins of the the Thunderbolt roller coaster, demolished without notice by the Guiliani Administration.

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The Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn, which will have a big role in the future of North Brooklyn’s Parks, including McCarren Park and Pool, will be having a fundraiser at McCarren Pool on September 15. (The group is involved in the McCarren Pool survey that’s currently online.) In any case, Jelly NYC, which produces […]

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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Make of it what you will. It’s from electrorockers Mesh and it features Billyburg.

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You didn’t think that Carroll Gardens “Town Hall” Meeting to be hosted by City Council Member Bill de Blasio this evening (8/23) was going to a love fest, did you? Well, what we didn’t count on was conflict before the meeting. We got an email noting that the meeting had been scheduled on the same […]

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If you want to check out an interestiing online discussion, head over to the Coney Island Message Board and start reading “The Enemy is Amongst Us.” It’s about Thor Equities reading and monitoring posts on the Board. Most interestingly, it contains a comment from Lee Silberstein of the Marino Organization, which is Thor’s PR firm. […]

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Among the hundreds of pages that make up the sprawling Forgotten New York website maintained by the inimitable Keven Walsh is a fascinating look at Park Slope’s Fifth Avenue called 5 Alive. It’s got some great shots of Fifth Avenue in the old days and an interesting discussion of whether Fifth Avenue is really a […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Atlantic Yards Community Benefits Agreement vs. Columbia CBA [AYR] The Original Sin of Atlantic Yards [No Land Grab] Demolition Underway at Gowanus Whole Foods Site [Brownstoner] Fun with the Greenpoint Wikipedia Entry [newyorkshitty] Neighborhood Associations Gang up on Walentas [Brooklyn Heights Blog] Cell Phone Pic […]

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This specimen is one of the seriously stickered and tagged signs along Kent Avenue in Williamsburg. What’s particularly interesting about this one, though, is that it’s attached to the fence outside Radiac, which is best known for storing hazardous and low-level radioactive waste. In the scheme of things, what’s a little doggy poo?

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Curbed had this rendering a while ago, but we figured it’s worth revisiting in the context of our review of some of the buildings going up on Kent Avenue in Williamsburg. This is 184 Kent, the Austin Nichols warehouse building that was the subject of that bitter landmarking fight two year ago in which the […]

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If you’ve been following the numerous threats to the existence of the Latino vendors at the Red Hook Ballfields, you know that the latest comes from the Department of Health, which discovered the vendors this month and started cracking down on them for a variety of reasons. After a couple of meetings and outlining both […]

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Just a reminder that that “Town Hall” meeting in Carroll Gardens with Council Member Bill de Blasio is coming up on Thursday. While the hot potato known as 360 Smith Street (the Robert Scarano-designed building that started a mini-neighborhood revolution back in May) wasn’t mentioned in the email sent out by the Council Member’s office, […]

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The issue of Engine Company 212 in Williamsburg (AKA The People’s Firehouse) has faded from the headlines, except in the context of the city’s plans to dispose of the fire house and several others that were closed. Neighborhood activists who fought to keep the fire station open are still smoking about the closure and make […]

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[A note from the GL management: Broolinks was missing earlier today due to prolonged bout of internet access that began just as we were about to post them. More to the point, however, we will traveling and covering a lot of miles and time zones over the next 24 hour. Tomorrow’s posts will either be […]

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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If you read GL, you know we dig Kevin Walsh‘s Forgotten NY. The site is full of fascinating nuggets of information, like his FNY webpage on the corner of Brooklyn known as White Sands. If you know the part of Brooklyn between Gravesend and Coney Island, you might know it as the site of a […]

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There are a lot of videos of the Wonder Wheel in Coney Island posted on YouTube. We’ve tossed a random selection into the player below for your Wednesday viewing pleasure should you be so inclined, just as a reminder that it’s still August, in case the last couple of days led anyone to forget and […]

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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What you’re looking at is the foundation of 155 Berry Street. It’s a new building at Berry and N. 5th that will reach six stories and have 70 new condos. The building is the work of that Williamsburg fixture, Karl Fischer. Sadly, all we’ve got right now are construction shots. No rendering has been posted.

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The Department of Housing Preservation and Development has formally approved the seizure via eminent domain of a number of buildings in Downtown Brooklyn, including the Underground Railroad Buildings on Duffield Street. The formal HPD action was reported by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. A total of 21 properties were actually approved for seizure on different blocks, […]

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We’re fascinated by history (both recent and less so) and one of Brooklyn events that is more interesting than most is the Great Greenpoint Sewer Explosion of 1950. It happened on October 5 a little after 12 Noon. A huge explosion in the sewer system ripped a hole in the street and sent those massive […]

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