From the look of the trailer that you can click above, the new Red Hook documentary A Hole in a Fence, is a valuable look at a pat of the neighborhood that is nearly being erased and recreated. The film looks at Red Hook through the big empty lot that is adjacent to the former […]

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Some Carroll Gardeners are fighting the war against plastic bags by avoiding them when they toss their recycling on the sidewalk. Way to go, neighbors.–Pardon Me for Asking

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We were prompted to scan the hard drives yesterday and, among other things, pulled up some long shots down Beard Street in Red Hook taken over the last 18 months. Here is a small series.

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The wonderful and friendly crew at Baked on Van Brunt Street in Red Hook make some of the best baked goods in Brooklyn, including some to-die-for cakes. They just signed a lease through 2016. Plus, all the Thanksgiving Pie ordering info and deadlines!–Brooklyn Based

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Our friends at Racked produced this vid yesterday of our huge blue-and-yellow friend on Beard Street in Red Hook. Ikea also told Racked that the opening date estimated for the store that will change Red Hook in a major way is a pretty big window between March and July. Previous estimates have said spring, but […]

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Remember the Giant Fart Cloud Building, aka Five Roebling? It’s the one that the blogger Bad Advice lives next to. She has been afraid demolition work would destroy her home and, at least, seriously effect her life. Well, it’s happening and it’s scary. Her story gets the at the heart of the powerlessness that everyone […]

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The campaign to publicly sell the massive project that developers want to build the New Domino on the site of the old Domino Sugar Plant in Williamsburg includes a poll sponsored by the developer that finds that people support the project and say that big buildings are okay in return for affordable housing. The interesting […]

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We appeared on Brian Lehrer’s WNYC show yesterday to talk about Coney Island development. Here’s the embed in case you missed it and care to listen.

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In Carroll Gardens, there is a “commandment” that has nothing to do with the traditional one. It does, however, have to do with one of the most popular New York City and Brooklyn topics out there. Yep. You guessed it. Parking.–Pardon Me for Asking

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We have seen ASPCA Humane Enforcement vehicles in Park Slope near the site of the alleged pigeon mass murders twice this week. There are no reports of any dead pigeons being found this week. In the meantime, we found this description on the New York City Bird Club website: Last week in my passings there […]

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This is 66 N. 1st Street in Williamsburg, which was a What’s That Thing on Top honoree back in May. The building has evolved since then and its latest turn has left it looking like a facadomy victim. Not only does it have that rather odd thing on top, but it now sports a new […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Legendary Mentor in Coney Island Passes Away, Stephon Marbury Comes [NYT] 25 Years of Manhattan Bridge Rehab, Six More to Come [Brownstoner] Clinton Hill Food Share Program [Clinton Hill Blog] Sunset Park Rally Today [Sunset Park Autonomous Zone] Arts Business Expanding at Navy Yard [Sun] […]

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All we can say for sure is that this house isn’t in Park Slope, Williamsburg, Prospect Heights, Greenpoint or Brooklyn Heights. Readers, however, say that it is in Bay Ridge.–Brit in Brooklyn

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We’re still not sure what it is about fall that has resulted in such an excellent recent selection of street couches, but we’re glad to find them out there. Today’s specimen, which is a little ratty, but still shows some of the comfort it once offered, comes from Havemeyer Street in Williamsburg. Huzzah.

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Meet the Park Slope Court, which is destined to rise at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Warren. It comes from Toma Development (which is behind Hotel Le Bleu) and one is likely to have an opinion about it.–Brownstoner

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It almost hurts to type “Holiday Craft Fair” as we’re still getting over the end of summer, yet there it is. The Brooklyn Friends School is having its Annual Holiday Craft Fair on Saturday, December 1st from 10AM to 5PM at 375 Pearl Street in Downtown Brooklyn near the Marriott. It will feature ceramics, sweaters, […]

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Someday, this waterfront land in Sunset Park will be a magnificent $36 million public space, but it will require users to overlook a very toxic past. In the meantime, there are some incredible photos to be had.–Nathan Kensinger Photography

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The Learning About Multimedia Project (the LAMP) will be running a “Town Hall” discussion on Thursday, November 29th, at 7 PM at the Park Slope YMCA, about how people use media, how they shape us and how parents, educators and children need to think about them. LAMP has run a series of workshops at the […]

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We spotted the actual Gowanus Canal swans and got them in photos and on video. We watched one of them swim from the Union Street Bridge to the Third Street Bridge, where it joined its mate and paddled around for while. We don’t know if they understand that Prospect Park Lake is just a short […]

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The Underground Railroad Houses on Duffield Street in Downtown Brooklyn may eventually fall to bulldozers, but it’s looking more and more likely that the city is putting up some sort of museum or other commemoration at the site or in another location. The New York City Economic Development Corp., which is in charge of the […]

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In case you haven’t had your fill of Gowanus Lounge today, you can check out today on the Brian Lehrer Show. We’ll be on at 11:40AM, although the segment could be on at 11:40AM. We’ll be talking about one of our favorite topics: Coney Island redevelopment. The segment is called “Is the Future of Coney […]

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For those who want a quick look at the many recent iterations of Coney Island renderings and plans, we present a short, selective look: 1) Here’s the original Thor Equities Coney Island 1.0 (Beta) that was released two years ago. It’s the one with the blimps landing on the hotel roof. It was also called […]

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“Park Slope’s South Slope, for example, is rapidly becoming condo-ized. Over the past year, at astonishing speed, sleepy little blocks long made up of working-class, aluminum-sided townhouses, brick and tar-paper tenements have been systematically leveled and rebuilt to look like the rest of the former city.”–Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York

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Things are moving forward at the Public Place site in Gowanus. A reader emailed us the other day to note that work crews were still on site with a drilling rig taking soil samples or digging test wells, and the Brooklyn Daily Eagle has reported five developers have submitted proposals–including many heavyweights–to develop the environmentally […]

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What would happen if the Park Slope Pigeon Serial Killer ran into the Greenpoint Rat Man? Once upon a time, perhaps nothing. But ever since the Rat Man’s lot was baited, he’s become a lover of pigeons.–New York Shitty

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