Earlier this week, we had a street couch whose parts were in two different spots in Greenpoint. Today, we have a street couch that someone is moving around on Roebling Street. They are not moving it very far–only across the street. Yet, this couch has been on Roebling for several weeks and someone has taken […]

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Yesterday, Kinetic Carnival posted a link to a Coney Island dancing elves thing they had created. Well, you too can create your own Brooklyn Elf flash flash fun. Of course, you can do it with friends and family, but you can also do it with public figures like City Council Members, developers and the like. […]

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Here are some upcoming Brooklyn Community Board meetings, from a list compiled by the Daily News: Community Board 7 will hold its monthly meeting on Nov. 28 at 6:30 PM at the district office, 4201 Fourth Ave. Community Board 9 will have its general meeting on Nov. 27 at 7 PM at Middle School 61, […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Happy Friday after Thanksgiving. Brooklyn Hospital Center Counting on Gentrification [Sun] Did Vieve Van Buren Survive a Plunge Into the East River? [PMFA] Thanksgiving in Prospect Park [Sustainable Flatbush] A Blogged Week [Bay Ridge Rover] Attention Park Slope Parents: Cute Stuffed Dog Toy Found in […]

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Bay Ridge’s excellent “stupid + retarded” tenant situation has taken another turn. Now, there is a festive sign in red and green telling tenants to “stop being sissy’s” and demand lights in the hallway go on by 4 PM. It the signs keep going up, will it be long before reporters seeing pics of the […]

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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In case you were not up and out in time to get into a store at 4AM today, it might be of interest that today is Buy Nothing Day in the U.S. and Canada. (It’s tomorrow elsewhere.) Buy Nothing Day is “an informal day of protest against consumerism observed by social activists.” The real question […]

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Like last year, we’ll be running a lot of holiday-related photos between now and December 25 or so. Here is the first, from Bedford Avenue. We think it has a certain holiday & workaday appeal.

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Upon careful reflection on this Thanksgiving Day, we’ve opted to forgo Brooklinks, although we have new posts below as well as a number of Bklinks. We wish everyone a very happy and fulfilling Thanksgiving. Here at GL, we’re especially thankful for all our readers and supporters and contributors. We thank you all!

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Thanksgiving is not a day for vegetarians (and certainly not for turkeys), so in the interest of information sharing, here are a couple of options. There is the do-it-yourself vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner (with or without Tofurky) option and there are some interesting recipes here. While there are any number of options in Brooklyn and New […]

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On this holiday, we’re thinking about the bedbug infested neighborhood horror known as the Astral and its new myspace group as well as the good people building 143 Huron Street who were pounding on their building last night until after 9PM in blatant disregard for neighbors and laws. Sadly, the Department of Buildings doesn’t care […]

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All we can say is this Coney Elf Boys creation by the gang at Kinetic Carnival is pure genius. Go there, and it will lead you to Joe Sitt, Marty Markowitz and other dressed as elves and dancing to a Coney song. Click here to visit.

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Among the many things we’re thankful for on this tradition American day of Thanksgiving, is that we don’t live next to any developments under construction or any buildings that are about to come down. One of the projects that we’re especially thankful we don’t live next to is Urban Green in Williamsburg. We would not, […]

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Is there anyone out there that is interesting in taking in a sweet, older cat that is friendly, knows how to use a litter box and was rescued from an empty lot? If so, Mamacita needs a home. Please help.–Bad Advice

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This long lost Brooklyn sunset came our way courtesy of our Greenpoint correspondent, who recently acquired a treasure trove of old images, of which she graciously shared some early scans. We don’t know when this Brooklyn sunset took place or where, but we would guess that many of the people that viewed it are no […]

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Slowly, everyone is starting to admit that the Altantic Yards area would be as close to the street as the Prudential Center in Newark, which is a recognized security problem that has led to street closures. Why has it taken so long and what will be done about it?–Atlantic Yards Report

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Here are a few Brooklyn-related, Thanksgiving-related vids from the YouTube.

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This is the Roebling Oil Building development known as Warehouse 11 in Williamsburg. We believe it looks especially fetching in green with fall colors.

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The Turkey Trot…is awarded to Bruce Ratner, the Empire State Development Corporation, and the New York Police Department for dancing around the terrorism and security issue. The Leaky Turkey…goes to Frank Gehry, who came up with this canard last week: “My name is Frank Gehry, and my buildings don’t leak.” Like, ok, at least half […]

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From Gary Mirabelle of Mirabelle Studios, we bring you the last in a series of several gorgeous photos he sent us of fall in Green-Wood Cemetery.

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That didn’t take long. Barely two weeks after the Bloomberg Administration’s announcement of Coney Island zoning recommendations and its intention to undertake a complicated process of land acquisition in the heart of the Coney amusement district, the battle lines are taking shape. Predictably, one of them is likely to be in Albany and one of […]

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[Photo courtesy of dnblog1/flickr] We have always joked that Coney Island was the “Next Atlantic Yards.” As it turns out, among those opposing the city’s Coney Island proposal that came to the canceled meeting on Monday night were members of BUILD, the pro-Atlantic Yards group that signed the “Community Benefits Agreement” for the project and […]

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It’s unclear what’s going to end up being built at 340 Court Street with the developers, the Clarett Group, saying that they’ll be putting up a six or seven story building and residents still afraid of a 21-story tower (which is theoretically okay under current zoning). What’s more certain is that the demolition crews got […]

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Coney Island Development Corp. Chair Lynn Kelly sent out a letter yesterday apologizing for the cancellation of a chaotic meeting at Coney Island Hospital Monday night. She promised to reschedule the session about the city’s new Coney plan at a bigger venue. The meeting was scuttled after up to 500 people, many wearing identical yellow […]

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