If you’re looking to support the people that have been waging the ongoing, long legal struggle against the Atlantic Yards project, you can do so today at a fundraiser that will include readings from a number of noted Brooklyn writers. There’s also a live auction featuring: Tour of the set of USA-TV series Law & […]

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There’s a bit of news to report on the Gowanus Whole Foods front. The headline, of course, was deep inside a story in the Sun: the company says the big store at Third Avenue and Third Street won’t open until 2009. Anyone who has viewed the site would have been hard pressed to imagine how […]

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Coney Island USA’s Dick Zigun, who is known as the neighborhood’s “Unofficial Mayor,” sent out an open letter on Wednesday that was widely circulated. Jotham Sederstrom wrote about the letter in the Daily News yesterday, noting that Mr. Zigun had referred to developer Joe Sitt and his firm Thor Equities as “a bully.” The letter […]

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If you have a car and you live in a Brooklyn neighborhood where each side of the street is cleaned twice a week rather than once a week, here is news that could make you smile: the city is going to cut street cleaning in Community Board Six. The news is in today’s Daily News. […]

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Here we are again at the old concrete plant across the street from 184 Kent Avenue in Williamsburg to which we return again and again. Not because we want to, but because it’s one of the oddest demolition sites we’ve seen in all of Brooklyn, although it may not be the most dramatic. The official […]

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Our Greenpoint correspondent, whose reports and contributions always life our spirits, filed this photo of the intersection of Metropolitan Avenue and Morgan in Bushwick, where the signals were sending some, uh, mixed signals. Which is fitting in its own way.

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For those of you that use the Manhattan Bridge to get in or out of Brooklyn sometimes, there’s new from the Department of Transportation that the long closure of the Lower Roadway is almost at an end. Well, it will be at an end on October 1: The lower roadway of the Manhattan Bridge will […]

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It’s already been blogged about extensively, but it’s always worth posting a reminder that the Brooklyn Book Festival will take place on Sunday (9/16) at Borough Hall and other close-by locations from 10AM to 6PM. There are a lot of publishers and book sellers that set up shop at the fest, but the real draw […]

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This altered sign is from–of course–Williamsburg, the kingdom of messed up signs. We like it because of the subtle alternation that has taken place and believe that signs should sometimes say “Noo Parking” instead of simply “No Parking.”

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That big, empty green warehouse building at Union and Bond Street in Gowanus is now home to the Ayyun Center for Jewish Enrichment. We can report this much: the building, which has been empty for years and is on the market for $12 million, was hosting some sort of event last night. A reader had […]

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Williamsburg advice and development blogger Bad Advice hit us off with this picture of a fence that went down at the Karl Fischer building that’s going up uber fast at the corner of N. 8 and Roebling. She writes that it’s “of a destroyed construction fence on the corner of N. 8th and Roebling. There […]

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There’s a meeting to “organize a group of active Save Coney Island members” coming up on Monday, Sept. 17. It will take place at 7PM at the City Reliquary Museum, which is located in Williamsburg at 370 Metropolitan Avenue. The goal is to, in the words of the person that posted the notice on the […]

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This blog item manages to blend two hot button topics–the Park Slope Food Coop and having one’s child “go potty” on the subway. (We’ve previously covered the topic of them going potty on trees in Park Slope.) This blog post was written by an Upper West Side mom taking her son with her to the […]

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The EPA has finally confirmed what environmentalists have said all along: the Exxon-Mobil oil spill sloshing around under Greenpoint is significantly larger than the originally estimated 17 million gallons. It could, in fact, be as large as 30 million gallons. The EPA also reported the results of testing, including the fact that methane gas is […]

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Generally, when the “rat poison” signs go up on a building in Williamsburg, you don’t even need to check city records to verify that demolition is coming. So it is with 5 Roebling Street, the building that was dubbed the Giant Fart Cloud Building by dating advice/real estate development blogger Bad Advice. The building was […]

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These photos of battered signage in Bushwick/East Williamsburg come from our Greenpoint correspondent, who notes that “It would appear that someone has a ‘thing’ for Bogart Street.” Given the way these signs are bent (especially the one in the top pic), it looks like a deliberate act of Sign Abuse rather than an accident via […]

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Do you have any old cell phones sitting around? Most of us have one or two old ones stashed in a drawer. Well, City Council Member Bill de Blasio is helping collect them for the Phones for Life program. Donated cell hones are given to senior citizens and victims of domestic violence, who can use […]

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We did a double take when we saw the subject line of an email that said, “The Gowanus Harvest Festival,” but that’s what the people producing events at The Yard on the Gowanus are calling it. The Harvest Fest takes place on Sunday (9/14) (10/14) from 3PM-9PM. It will feature local beer tasting, live music, […]

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Yesterday, we noted the Conflux Festival in Williamsburg, which kicks off today. Well, we came across some promotion for a “CIA Cell Tower” being put up by a Williamsburg art gallery to “capture, monitor and rebroadcast wireless signals in the internet-savvy neighborhood of Williamsburg Brooklyn.” The location is 121 Roebling. The release says: Possible terrorist […]

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You might recall that one of the issues connected to the building at 360 Smith Street in Carroll Gardens was the involvement of Robert Scarano as the architect. In fact, City Council Member Bill de Blasio had previously called on Billy Stein, the developer, to “end the curse of Scarano” and demanded his removal from […]

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Positive, constructive news about Coney Island has been hard to find of late, so we take great pleasure in noting that the city is formally looking for someone to restore and rebuild the historic B&B Carousell. The beloved ride was saved from the auction block by the city in 2005 for $1.8 million. It will […]

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If you read GL, you know that we often post photos and videos of illegal weekend construction. We are frankly dumbfounded as to why we can find it going on so widely, but the Department of Buildings can’t or won’t. One of the neighborhoods where the problem is concentrated is Williamsburg–and a Sunday sweep of […]

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The word that a McDonald’s is said to be slated for the old Blockbuster space on Court Street in Carroll Gardens is going over like a Lead McMuffin with some residents. One writes: We need a supermarket. Wide footage, the downstairs level- would be great. There is the double door entrance, the side entrance. Traffic […]

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