Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Police Shooting: A Troubled Man and 20 Police Bullets in Brooklyn [NYT] Cops say slain teen claimed he had a gun [amNY] Rage in Brooklyn [Metro] Not Police Shooting: A Sad Day on 12th Street in the Slope After a Killing [Brooklynometry] Charges in Fatal […]

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That big Carroll Gardens meeting that appears like it will primarily be dealing with the issue of expanding the small neighborhood landmarking district will be taking place next Monday, November 19, at PS58 in Carroll Gardens. It will run from 6:30PM-8:30PM and is described as “an opportunity to learn about landmarking from the experts.” There […]

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This sign is a construction victim. First, it was lowered in order to accommodate the scaffolding at 125 N. 10 in Williamsburg. And, now, it’s just sort of hanging there.

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With photos, it’s all about timing and placement. Take for instance this truck for Bimbo product. It wouldn’t seem nearly as interesting if it had been parked somewhere else.–Icky in Brooklyn

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Street couch week at GL continues. We found this specimen on Roebling Street at N. 10th Street in Williamsburg, the neighborhood where we have found many, many street sofas. This one has had a run approaching two weeks near the Roebling Oil Building Warehouse 11.

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It only took…well…forever. Dumbo now has a drugstore, the Bridge Apothecary, which is now open in the J Condo. Jane Walentas is a customer.–Brownstoner

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There have been no breaks that we know of in the case of the alleged Park Slope Pigeon serial killings. However, we heard from the woman at the center of the feather storm, who is known as the Pigeon Advocate. She says she wasn’t serious about installing surveillance cameras as her fliers say, but was […]

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What the media giveth, the media taketh away. So it is with Red Hook’s moment of gentrification, which ran for nearly two years in the press. Now, in the same way the pendulum swung too far in the direction of declaring Red Hook the Next Big Thing, there are jokes about Dead Hook and the […]

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There is news to report about the Roebling Oil Building. No, there is no new smell of oil coming from the property or test well being drilled. The building now has a name: Warehouse 11. The news was in a New York Magazine story yesterday looking at some new condos and who will buy them. […]

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Could fresh heavy equipment tracks at a property that has had two Stop Work Orders since August be evidence of recent work? It’s possible, although it’s possible the order was lifted in the last 18 hours and hasn’t shown up on the Department of Buildings website. Regardless, our Greenpoint Correspondent sent along these photos of […]

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The Tiffany Diner, a holdover from a different era when Bay Ridge was “a raucous free-wheeling bar town,” has been demolished. It’s a big hole now, waiting a new Commerce Bank branch.–Bay Ridge Rover

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Matthew, the Bedford Avenue dancer, at work again, with some crowd participation.

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If you like grande lattes, chain drugstores and bank branches, the following information will be a veritable symphony to your ears: Crain’s Insider, via a report last week on Brownstoner and the Prospect Heights Forum on Brooklynian, notes that Starbucks, which has 21 Brooklyn locations, wants to add 25 more in each of the next […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Teen Holding Hairbrush Shot Dead by Cops in Bed-Stuy [NYT] ESDC is “Stonewalling” on Atlantic Yards Arena Setback from Street [AYR] One Brooklyn Bridge Park Update [Brownstoner] DOT Rolls Out Fort Greene Traffic Calming & Bike Lanes [Streets Blog] Not Yet Renovated on Columbia St. […]

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Here’s an opportunity to swap or (better yet) donate some clothing and books this weekend. There’s a children’s clothing Swap at the Park Slope Food Coop (782 Union Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues) on Saturday, November 17. Clothing can be dropped off for swapping from 10:30AM-1:30PM. Clothing that is left at the end of […]

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It’s turning out to be an excellent week for street sofas after a long dry spell. From our Greenpoint correspondent comes what she calls the DIY Street Sofa. It is sort of sad to see such a homespun endeavor meet such an ignominious end, but it certainly looks nice sitting there.

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So, which food retailer is coming to the new space at State and Court streets? The only hint is that they’ve been in the food production business for 100 years and both Balducci’s and Citarella fall a few years short, which leaves Gristede’s, according to one of the nearly 70 comments.–Brownstoner

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It’s hard to say whether the allegations of pigeons being slaughtered in Park Slope are a case of animal cruelty or lunacy or a little bit of both, but the photos show signs that popped up along Eighth Avenue between Fifth and Sixth Streets over the weekend. There are more than a half-dozen of them. […]

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On a recent swing past the construction site of 80 Metropolitan, the building rising on the site of the historic, demolished Old Dutch Mustard Company building, we found the construction site wide open. The good news is the gate is closed. The bad news is that it’s only tied closed with a cord that anyone […]

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And, now, the latest flap surrounding Barclays Bank, which owns the naming rights to an Atlantic Yards area: “BARCLAYS is bankrolling President Robert Mugabe’s corrupt regime in Zimbabwe by providing substantial loans to cronies given land seized from white farmers. The British bank lent £750m to the country’s new landowning elite in the first half […]

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The top is the newly-released city vision of Surf and Stillwell Avenues in Coney Island. The bottom is one of the batch of renderings released a year ago by developer Joe Sitt. The juxtaposition of what one might call Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff’s Coney Island and developer Joe Sitt’s Coney Island is interesting, no? Related […]

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If you read GL, you know we have a long standing fascination with street sofas that are dragged out to the sidewalk for a variety of reasons, mostly having to do with disposal. We haven’t had one for a while, but our Greenpoint Correspondent has restarted the series with this photo that she filed last […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. An Arena by 20011-12? [AYR] Frank Gehry on the “Uplifting Effect” of “Real Architecture” [AYR] An Historic Park Slope Laundromat [Lost City] Coney Island Redevelopment Plan Circa ’07 [Newyorkology] “Gentrification” Aside, Windsor Terrace Still Pretty Diverse [Icy in Brooklyn] Coney Island Community Information Session is […]

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Here’s an interesting tidbit for Brooklynites bothered by after-hours construction noise. It comes courtesy of an email from the Boerum Hill Association, saying that the city’s recently enacted noise ordinance still allows citizens to pursue action “against construction noise violators and share in the fees (which can be substantial).” The emails says in part: After […]

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In case anyone doubted that winter is closing in on us, ice skating time in Prospect Park is almost here. The Wollman Rink opens for the season on November 21. It will be open for skating through March 16, 2008. Skating hours vary daily: Monday, 8:30 AM-2:00 PM Tuesday, 8:30 AM-5:00 PM Wednesday, 8:30 AM-3:00 […]

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