Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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The wild and crazy lights of Dyker Heights are on full blast. Head out to check them out. You’ll be glad you did.–Gothamist

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Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn[Photo courtesy of a special GL Correspondent]

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We hate to go off-topic, but there appear to be some scary things going on with Blogger at the moment that make us glad we’re going to be transitioning away from the platform in the near future. A couple of days ago, we got an email from Brit in Brooklyn, noting that he’d been locked […]

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We doubt that 103 104 complaints to the Department of Buildings generated by a small renovation project is a record. (Between the time we posted this on Curbed yesterday afternoon and the time we wrote this in the evening, another complaint was added.) Likewise, three years of work probably isn’t a record either. However, the […]

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[Photos courtesy of Carol Gardens] One of the things we love about the medium in which we work is the way that readers, in effect, become correspondents and can move the conversation forward or add to the flow of information. So it is with some photos we posted yesterday of two old florist’s signs. Those […]

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Earlier this week, the obscure yet powerful Board of Standards and Appeals okayed the continued construction of the Finger Building on N. 7th Street in Williamsburg to ten stories. (The growth of the building to 16 stories is in the hands of a judge and a legal appeal. A decision in February denied the 16-story […]

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Is Gowanus becoming Brooklyn’s other hotel district, after downtown? It just might be. Our friend Gabby Warshawer at Brownstoner scored a huge scoop with news that not one, but two, hotels are being planned for President Street between Third and Fourth Avenues. SAI Hospitality, which specializes in budget lodging is building a 105-room hotel at […]

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One might agree or disagree with the activists over at CORD in Carroll Gardens, but they are one of the most tireless groups in South Brooklyn. (Not to mention the fact that they are the community activism story of the year, having come out of nowhere in late May.) The group’s latest effort is a […]

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Since prime Brooklyn Holiday Light viewing season is in full swing, we thought this would be an ideal day to put up a little guide to spots where you can see some Christmas lights, Brooklyn-style: Dyker Heights. First among equals in Brooklyn, the Lights of Dyker Heights are something to behold. They’re insane, over the […]

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The first concrete is being poured at the site of the big Edge development on Kent Avenue, which is destined to have about 900 apartments and 100,000 square feet of retail. “Consider it Battery Park City’s cousin Vinny from Brooklyn.”–INSIJS

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There’s an interesting competition underway to solicit ideas for reenvisioning and reimagining Grand Army Plaza. Per Streets Blog: The Grand Army Plaza Coalition (GAPCo) and the Design Trust for Public Space are launching an “Ideas Competition” called Reinventing Grand Army Plaza. Building on GAPCo’s on-going effort to re-envision this historic Brooklyn crossroads, the Ideas Competition […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Gang Bust Could Help Area Around Marcy Houses [Sun] Last Night’s South Street Seaport Fireworks “No Cause for Alarm” [McBrooklyn] Sometimes, Bureaucrats Surprise You (Like with Admiral’s Row) [Lost City] How Tish James Got Her Footing [AYR] Victory Hospital in Bay Ridge Stays Open for […]

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We return to our longstanding Street Couch Series with this submission from our Greenpoint Correspondent. Of course, it’s not a street couch per se. It’s actually a seat from a large van, but it wins a place in our series because it’s out in front of one of the ugly Greenpoint Belvederes on Eckford Street. […]

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We’ve watched glass blowing many, many times and actually had a chance to take a lesson at Pier Glass in Red Hook last year. If you’d like to watch the process in action, Scanlan Glass, which is at 103 14th Street (near Third Avenue), is having an open house tomorrow (12/15) and Sunday (12/16) from […]

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The days of the Fifth Avenue Coffee Shop, which is one of our favorite storefronts and signs in Park Slope, are coming to an end. Check out the cool pics.–Brooklynometry

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Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn[Photo courtesy of M>K>F/flickr, check out the full Carroll Gardens Christmas Set here]

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There are many nativity scenes to be found on the streets of Greenpoint. Oddly, many of them lack an actual baby Jesus. Hmm. Take a look.–New York Shitty

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Sam’s Chops, Court Street[Photo courtesy of a special GL correspondent]

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It looks like that video on YouTube of the Ingrassia family celebrating Christmas in Brooklyn many years ago has attracted many amusing family comments. The vid is worth seeing & the comments worth reading.–Pardon Me For Asking

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Henry Street, Brooklyn Heights[Photo courtesy of a special GL Correspondent]

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Anybody that doubts that people don’t pay attention to school “report cards” and performance might want to reconsider. The photo of this flier comes, of course, from our Greenpoint Correspondent. The irony that it is front of the notoriously poorly-run and bedbug infested (if historic) Astral apartment building is not lost on us. Nor is […]

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Saving a slice of Brooklyn’s and America’s history, we are learning, may have a very small price tag. Yet, it’s one that a host of local officials seem unwilling to pay. The report that was delivered to a public meeting about Officer’s Row at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on Tuesday night said that the buildings […]

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We love old signs, and we’re especially amused to find not one, but two, old florist shop signs currently showing themselves in Carroll Gardens and Brooklyn Heights. A special GL correspondent shot and submitted both photos. The “RK LANE FLORI” sign on top is over Bagels by the Park on Smith Street. The one below […]

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Go back four years in the Atlantic Yards time machine, to a time when Borough President Marty Markowitz said the city had “no money to provide” to the big project and said that neighborhood opponents would “be involved.”–Atlantic Yards Report

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