Anyone interested in “calming” traffic on Prospect Park West or Eighth Avenue in Park Slope will definitely be interested in a meeting of the Community Board 6 Transportation Committee taking place next week with representatives from the Department of Transportation. It will happen on Thursday (1/17) at 6:30PM at the Prospect Park Residence, which is […]

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“How come the greatest schoolyard in the history of outdoor basketball is no longer in use? Where are all the ball players? Do they still play there? Do the students at Holy Name still use it for recess? I see two backboards up on the middle court but remember there used to be three full-courts? […]

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This Williamsburg street couch, which is clearly in excellent condition and abandoned prematurely, is from the keen eye and busy camera of our indefatigable Greenpoint correspondent. The email she sent along with the photo simply said, “Williamsburg is sporting some damned stylish sofas nowadays.” We agree.

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Here are a few Brooklyn community board meetings coming up over the next few days from a list compiled by the Daily News: COMMUNITY BOARD 8 (Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, Weeksville) is holding its regular monthly meeting at 7 p.m. tonight (1/10) at Berean Baptist Church, 1641 Bergen St. COMMUNITY BOARD 11 (Bath Beach, Gravesend, […]

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[Photo courtesy of Mirabelle Studios] We don’t know exactly where photographer, sculptor and artist Gary Mirabelle shot this bent up one-way sign, although we believe it to be in the Windsor Terrace area. What we do know is that it’s the most gorgeous “Say What” shot we’ve ever run.

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“The Old Stone House will open its doors to the community tomorrow and Saturday to discuss conceptual plans for renovating the Fifth Avenue side of the park. Plans for the Fourth Avenue side are underway.” A $2 million phase will include a large synthetic turf field by 2009.–Metro

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Yesterday, one of the victims of the rash of Park Slope muggings we posted about on Saturday emailed OTBKB with her story of being mugged on Sunday. She noted that someone had been arrested in Prospect Park afterward. Yet, the details of the mugging sounded like different people might be responsible than the ones causing […]

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Testing work has gotten underway at the site of the controversial building that will be going up at 360 Smith Street. An email we got said that workers were on the job by 8AM yesterday: Residents were quite shocked to see two trucks on the site and one large dumpster. People counted “5 spots” that […]

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[Photo courtesy of Union-Sackett Block Association Blog] The other day, Carroll Gardens blogger Pardon Me For Asking, posted some photos of the mess outside 340 Court Street. Meanwhile, the new Union-Sackett Block Assocation has a post about asbestos removal at the building. (A document filed with the Department of Environmental Protection shows that the asbestos […]

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What goes up, must come down. In Dyker Heights, the process of taking down the over-the-top Christmas displays that draw crowds from far and wide is itself a complicated undertaking. “The neighborhood looked as if it had been struck by a neutron bomb that killed only Arctic animals. Cater-corner from Mr. Mazza’s house, a deflated […]

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One of the curiosities of Carroll Gardens is that very narrow streets such as Second Place are defined as “wide streets” because the gardens in front of the buildings are counted as being part of the width of the street. In reality, the street itself is barely wide enough for a car to make it […]

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“Could a Coney Express ever begin zipping passengers from Manhattan’s connecting point in a bee line to Coney Island? At Monday’s Coney Island Development Corporation meeting CIDC president, Lynn Kelly mentioned the need for an express line to Coney. For many years one of the main reason’s Coney Island could not so easily thrive as […]

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One of the interesting things about the Coney Island meetings this week is an organization that is calling itself Coney Island CLEAR. A poster on the Coney Island Message Board named Tricia made this observation from the Monday meeting: The other interesting thing was a lot of people wearing shirts that said “Coney Island Clear” […]

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If you want to help reinvent Grand Army Plaza and help create a kinder, gentler place, then here are some questions you can answer.–Streets Blog

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Sen. Carl Kruger managed to cause quite a stir at the kickoff meeting on the Coney Island plan on Monday night by repeatedly referring to it as “Brighton Beach,” and drawing loud boos from the audience. The Senator, who Coney Island critics derisively call “Krazy Kruger,” created the biggest stir at the meeting and was […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Atlantic Yards Ombudsman Faces Critical Audience [AYR] Khalil Gibran School Now On Its Third Principal [NYDN] Development Watch: 236 Livingston [Brownstoner] Hate the Stucco at the Hannah Senesh School? No Problem, It’s Peeling [PMFA] Coney Meetings Stay Tame [Metro] Our Neighbors [Bed-Stuy Banana] An Address […]

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There’s going to be a “Town Hall” meeting sponsored by the Greenpoint Waterfront Assocation for Parks & Planning at Warsaw on January 17 at 7PM (261 Driggs Ave.). The email we got says: The neighborhoods of Greenpoint/Williamsburg are at a point of crisis and opportunity. Crisis because rampant development threatens what little open space and […]

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GL reader Eric Provost, who most recently sent us a set of photos of the New Year’s Eve fireworks in Prospect Park, emailed us these gorgeous shots of a winter sunset in Coney Island. The end of the day is especially pretty there this time of year.

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We’ve been watching the building being renovated at Fifth Avenue and Thirteenth Streets wondering what would go there, and now we know: a 7-11. It’s unclear how widely the news has spread in the neighborhood or whether the 7-11 will be welcomed or greeted with derision. Chains and bank branches have been slowly opening on […]

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[Photo courtesy of Mirabelle Studios] Regular GL photo contributor and local artist Gary Mirabelle got this shot at 10th Avenue and 18th Street, just above Ocean Parkway.

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We found this bike lane sign on N. 4 Street in Williamsburg, a significant distance from the bike lane to which it might have referred, which is on Berry Street. Interesting how it traveled about a half block after being felled.

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Miss Heather takes a stroll on Maujer Street and what she sees in terms of architecture does not please the eye, the camera or the human spirit.–New York Shitty

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Last night’s meeting on the city’s Coney Island plan worked out to be uneventful, except for a long and rambling statement by State Sen. Carl Kruger and some outbursts by an audience member described as drunk. There was a moderate turnout that didn’t come close to filling a large auditorium and promised busloads of protesters […]

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The Modern, the Robert Scarano-designed building on N. 7th Street in Williamsburg, is ready to rock again. We got a call from neighborhood activist Phillip Depaolo who noted that construction equipment was arriving at the site and that the Stop Work Order that was slapped on the site in the summer had been lifted. Fans […]

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There was a confusing decision on the Finger Building from the Board of Standards and Appeals before the holidays that allowed the completion of the controversial Williamsburg building at its current 10 stories (and to 16 stories if current litigation is definitively settled in favor of the developer). Ever since, opponents have been planning to […]

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