Boy, do we like putting “Gowanus” and “parrot” in the same phrase. Yesterday, after we posted an item about the parrots in Thomas Greene Park, a number of readers left comments that fill in some valuable blanks. As it turns out, parrots have been seen in and around Gowanus for a while. There is also […]

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The B61 and B77 buses in Red Hook are going to be extended so that they stop at the new Ikea that will open on Beard Street. (For those who are in denial that this will happen and irrevocably change Red Hook, this is one more bit of evidence that the change is coming soon.) […]

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Are you being price gouged when you go to the bodega or grocery in your neighborhood to buy basics? (For instance, like the tiny $3.99 bottle of Listerine, oddly imported from Indonesia, that we scored on Bedford Avenue the other day…) Here’s your chance to participate in Brian Lehrer’s latest “crowdsourcing” project. Here’s a short […]

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We’re not sure we’re ready for the “get a jump start on the holidays” pitch in the press release we got from the sponsors of ArtMart 11225, a community arts and crafts market in Prospect Lefferts Gardens taking place on October 13. Nonetheless, we’ll happily note that it will happen on Lincoln Road between Ocean […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Fire Kills 3 in East 19th St. Home [NYT] 457 Atlantic Ready for Launch [Brownstoner] City May Clamp Down on Front Yard Paving [NYDN] David Yassky Enters Comptroller’s Race [Sun] Decline of Western Civilization in a Bathroom [newyorkshitty] Weekly Coney Hoopla Links [Kinetic Carnival] Mini […]

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The 9th Annual Brooklyn Community Board 7 Waterfront Festival, which seemed so distant when we first mentioned it during the summer, is coming up in Sunset Park this Saturday, September 29. (The rain date is Sat., October 6.) It will take place at the 58th Street Pier, which is off First Avenue, from 12:000PM to […]

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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It brings us pleasure to report that Brooklyn parrots now appear to be living in Thomas Greene Park in Gowanus. We’ve never noticed them there (and the parrots are very noticeable based on their distinctive squawking) and don’t recall seeing reports of a colony there–although parrots have been reported in Park Slope, possibly drawn by […]

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70 Berry Street in Williamsburg is a gift that keeps on giving and giving. This is our third time featuring the crappy fence at this construction site, which we have often found open . The only thing that seems to change, in fact, is the status of the site. Once, it was a cleared lot. […]

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The Caroll Gardens CORD group, which created and has been circulating a petition calling for a moratorium on certain types of development in the community until rezoning can be enacted, sent out an email highlighting some comments left by people that have signed. We thought a few are worth sharing: “My husband and I are […]

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There was no Sunday work going on at the Roebling Oil Building when we passed by late Sunday afternoon, but we noticed a pungent smell of oil in the air again that hasn’t been present since early this year. There is a chance that was oil that was pumped out of one the monitoring wells […]

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We stopped by the Riviera Real Estate office on Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg yesterday, and this is what we found. The gentleman identifies himself as Mr. Matt Hairyman. He told us that some people understand it’s a joke, but that others had walked in looking for condos. He gave us the key chain with the […]

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As if people using the Van Brunt Station on Ninth Street in Park Slope don’t have enough to complain about in terms of the, uh, service, we came across this item on the Park Slope Forum about a car getting nailed by a Postal Service truck. It apparently happened on Eighth Street. Here it is: […]

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1) First, Brooklyn Heights. Then, Flatbush Avenue. The Ricky’s invasion of Brooklyn is happening quickly. There was a story about in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle last week. Now, posters over at the Park Slope Forum report: On Friday I was on my way to work and was getting off the bus at the Bergen subway […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Citizens Clean Pacific Street Blight [AYR] Residents Clean Up Property in Atlantic Yards “Footprint” [Metro] Greenpoint Landlord Guttman Fined for Massachusetts Project Violations [The Repbulican] Words about 110 Green Street [newyorkshitty] Coney Island Tattoo and Motorcycle Fest [Brit in Brooklyn] Return to Coney Island Vid, […]

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Gowanus in Unity, a program that operates out of the Gowanus Community Center at the Gowanus Houses, needs volunteer tutors. Here’s the email that went out: Gowanus In Unity Tutoring provides one on one tutoring to students at the Gowanus Community Center, 420 Baltic St. in Gowanus Houses. We have been doing this for over […]

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This is one of the 99 cent stores on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope near Fourteenth Street. We don’t know what it’s slated to become, but we’re pretty sure it’s part of the slow change that overtaking Fifth Avenue south of Ninth Street. Another bank branch? A cell phone store? New restaurant? Chain retail of […]

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[Photo via GerritsenBeach.Net] The telephone poles in Gerritsen Beach this weekend are sporting more than stoop sale fliers. Apparently, a bunch of fliers like the one pictured above just went up in the neighborhood related to an incident in last August. This one was photographed and posted by GerritsenBeach.Net, which keeps up with the news […]

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It’s edgy. It’s ironic. It’s this week’s Craiglist Brooklyn Missed Connection. Here goes: L TRAIN BLAH BLAH BLAH HIPSTER LOVE – w4m – 22 Run of the mill hipster girl ISO anorexic hipster boy with androgynous hair and an apathetic look on his face on the L Train yesterday coming back from Mis-Shapes. I stared […]

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From last weekend’s Conflux Festival in Williamsburg, we bring you a selection of YouTube vids.

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Manhattan Avenue Couch [newyorkshitty] Welcome to Condoburg [A Test of Will] Bar Noise on Third Street in Park Slope [OTBKB] Bay Ridge Ready for End of Verrazano Bridge Work [NYT] Help Clean Up the Mess on Pacific Street Today [AYR] Hello Living Prices are Sky […]

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Park Slope, Brooklyn

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There’s going to be a “Party for the People” in Gowanus on Saturday, October 6, from 1PM-9PM at the very active and much promoted Yard on the Gowanus Canal. We got an email from the organizers in the wee hours of the morning about “A monumental Brooklyn-centric event is taking place IN GOWANUS on October […]

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Seven-Star Luxury Via Williamsburg’s Riviera Real Estate (above & below)It’s Mouse Season in Park SlopeCelebrate Fall by Squatting on a Parking SpaceFrank Gehry to Have Prospect Heights Historic District Neighbor?Battle for La Marqueta de Williamsburg ContinuesInteresting Williamsburg Building Goes GlassyFourth Avenue #2: The Park Slope FiveFourth Avenue #1: Olive Garden Building Grown TallA Sign That […]

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Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn

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