Here’s an oddly amusing travel magazine vid about Bedford Avenue and Williamsburg. It’s from Colorado Magazine Online, posted to YouTube. It’s scenes and music without any narration. The accompanying story and photos on “Williamsburg’s Hip Scene” can be found here.

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Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn

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We received a call from one of our many Williamsburg sources this morning at an hour on a Saturday morning when no one should be getting calls about this kind of thing: The work crew at 5 Roebling (aka The Giant Fart Cloud Building) was at the site around 8:30AM, working. The regular reader might […]

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Wonder what’s going on with the controversial Brooklyn Bridge Park? The short answer is: nothing but a lot of infighting and wrangling that has stalled the expensive and contentious project. It is “stalled while the city and state wrangle over control of what would become Brooklyn’s first major park built since Prospect Park 135 years […]

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PortSide New York’s headquarters, the Mary A. Whalen is moving to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The retired tanker, which is being converted for a variety of uses, will be docked at GMD Shipyard in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. True to form, PortSide–which hosted a Puccini opera aboard the Whalen at the Red Hook Container Port–will […]

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The Green-wood Historic Fund is presenting Unexpected New York, which is about “87 New York City places you thought you knew. 87 surprising but true stories you’ve never heard before.” The event takes place tomorrow, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2007 at 1:00 PM at the Historic Chapel at Green-Wood Cemetery. The speaker and reader will be […]

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We bring back “Brooklyn Back in the Day,” our series of historic photos of Brooklyn, with this shot of the Brooklyn waterfront in the 1940s. Our Greenpoint correspondent is sending a treasure trove of previously unpublished Brooklyn shots our way, so we should have a lot more interesting and never-published photos to post in coming […]

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Yesterday, our friends at Kinetic Carnival, who consistently post superb items about Coney Island, made a fascinating comparison between Coney Island and Blackpool, England, a beach resort that has a lot more current success than our own waterfront amusement area. Here’s a YouTube vid showing Blackpool’s Pleasure Beach.

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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Community Board #7 is putting on its 20th Annual Holiday Gift Drive for the needy children in the Sunset Park & Windsor Terrace communities, and they are accepting donations. Their email says: Over the years we have distributed thousands of toys to children but our success depends upon the kindness & generosity of everyone in […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Photos: Bergen Street [Seriously Excited] Hood Kiss [A Test of Will] Park Slope [Joe’s NYC] Brilliant Windsor Terrace Color [Icky in Brooklyn] Flame On! [A Test of Will] Dog in Park [Clinton Hill Blog] Disappear [Lex’s Folly] Words: Legal Value of Nearly Being Decapitated in […]

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Here’s a vid we came across featuring great vintage footage of Coney Island with Deathcab for Cutie’s Coney Island as the soundtrack. Why? Because we’re in the mood.

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No, not the L Train. The Subway on Bedford Avenue. An email arrived with the subject line “Retail Darwinism on Beford” with a photo of the Department of Health closure sticker affixed to the door of the Burg’s favorite fast food spot. Which roll would you like with that?–Eater

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Gowanus, Brooklyn

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Forty Corcoran brokers are coming to Bedford Avenue in the Burg between N. 3 and N. 4 Streets. Their big new office is coming along nicely.–Curbed

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The Department of Buildings stepped in yesterday to halt the demolition of 5 Roebling Street, also known as the Giant Fart Cloud Building because of its fragrant recent past as a cabbage processing plant. Neighbors had complained that the demolition was so violent that they were in fear that it would damage their building and […]

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It doesn’t seem to us that anything has changed dramatically, but Planning Commissioner Amanda Burden recently noted in a letter to Borough President Marty Markowitz that there will be a fairly long time line for rezoning Carroll Gardens (as per significant local sentiment) and that she can’t “commit to a precise timeframe.” She writes, in […]

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We heard from the woman who calls herself the “Pigeon Advocate” again, and it turns out that important evidence that could have furthered the ASPCA investigation of the Park Slope Pigeon Killings of 07 was thrown away. (Which is what one might tend to do with a sack full of dead pigeons.) She explains: The […]

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Is this the future of Bedford Avenue at N. 4th, where the skeleton building has stood for nearly two years? It could be. Brownstoner reports on the presentation made to Community Board One about the possible future of 118-130 North 4th Street. It will include 72 units of housing and a 5,000 square foot Commerce […]

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H.P. Lovecraft had an interesting take on Red Hook. In The Horror at Red Hook, he wrote, “Red Hook is a maze of hybrid squalor near the ancient waterfront opposite Governor’s Island, with dirty highways climbing the hill from the wharves to that higher ground where the decayed lengths of Clinton and Court Streets lead […]

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We’ve watched a lot of things come down along Beard Street in Red Hook over the last couple of years. Yesterday, work crews were tearing out the cobblestones so that it can be paved for Ikea. Curiously, the trucks loaded with removed paving stones were being driven into the Ikea site. Given that Ikea finished […]

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The Great Park Slope Umbrella Experiment, as well as the Buy Local campaign have begun. The Park Slope Civic Council’s 400 yellow umbrellas that can be used on the honor system have been distributed. So far, (two days) store owners say that “it’s working.”–NYDN

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As it turns out, Brooklyn Paper editor Gersh Kuntzman has a bit of history with the Park Slope pigeon serial killings, having reported on the 1998 dart killings. When reports of the new massacre and fliers surfaced he went over to Eighth Avenue and Sixth Street in the Slope to try to find the source […]

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We got a call yesterday evening that the Botanica religious articles shop on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope was “fire bombed” last night shortly after 5PM. According to witnesses, and there were apparently many, several men threw devices described as “Molotov cocktails” through the windows. Gothamist Newsmap showed that an “arson robbery” occurred. This morning, […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Elderly Holocaust Survivors Need Help Adjusting to Brooklyn [NYT] New Bike Stands on Clinton Street Holding Up Well (Not) [BK11201] Much Business Intrigue in Windsor Terrace [Icky in Brooklyn] ACORN Trying to Dump Principal at Bushwick School [NYDN] Chronicle of Third and Bond Development Project […]

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