“Ok, enough of this stroller mafia, whether it actually exists or only seems to. Now I train my vitriol on what can be called the Grammar Gestapo. Which of course is also formally non-existent. It seems that there are people out there who lay in wait for others to make a grammatical error so they […]

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That wall on Grand Street in Williamsburg that was being held up by an intricate bracing system after it threatened to come crashing down during demolition has been safely taken down. The wall started to collapse, possibly because of vibrations, during the takedown of the Gandar’s Building at Grand and Driggs and neighboring structures. Developers […]

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There are few words to describe the uniquely hideous nature of this building on Grand Street and to the two floors which now sit on top.–New York Shitty

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Of all the Brooklyn blogs that have debuted in the last six months or so, none has had us looking forward to more from the start than Prospect: A Year in the Park. (OTBKB featured it yesterday.) It’s from the blogger behind Crazy Stable and is devoted to daily posts on Prospect Park. From the […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: MSG Subsidy Debate Leads to Questions About Atlantic Yards Subsidies [AYR] Markowitz Considering Mayoral Bid “More Seriously” [NYDN] What’s Up with Bus Rapid Transit? [Brooklyn Junction] Cobble Hill Assoc. Says 110 Amity Plan “Unacceptable” [Brownstoner] Cell Tower Fears on 87th Street [Bay Ridge Rover] Brooklyn […]

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Among the things we weren’t expecting to post about this week was a vegan chicken wing eating contest, but here we are. Foodswings, the vegan eatery on Grand Street in the Burg is holding what is billed as the “first ever Vegan Buffalo Wing Eating Contest” on January 16. It takes place at 6PM and […]

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Voting in the New York Primary on Tuesday, February 5? Friday (1/11) is the deadline for registering to vote in it. The voter registration form can be downloaded by clicking here. (WARNING: PDF!!!) The form can be printed out, filled out and mailed in. One must declare a party affiliation in order to vote in […]

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The Brooklyn Optimist, whose name we enjoy, is a brand new Brooklyn blog that intends to carve out a niche for itself covering borough politics and community activism and offering up a local perspective on national issue. Its early coverage has been promising and good natured. Take this proposal for solving the nasty rat problem […]

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Park on Luquer Street once and get your windows smashed and it’s, well, life in the big city. Park more or less in the same place and have it happen a second time and it’s a weird and costly pattern. Oh, and nothing was stolen from the Prius.–Z. Madison

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An amusing image of the depressed portion of the BQE running through Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill as reimagined by thisoldhaus.

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Will tonight’s first public information session about the city Coney Island Redevelopment proposals be about public policy or political theater? We’re hoping that it will be mostly about the former, but fearing there is a very good chance that it will be significantly about the latter. Both sides appear ready to pack the meetings with […]

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Ever wonder why people can become somewhat desperately angry when a new building rises in their midst? The tall building at 162 Sixteenth Street in the South Slope, called the VUE, has been one of the most contentious new buildings to go up in all of Brooklyn. Even posts about the building tend to develop […]

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We often see cars stopped in the bike lane on Henry Street in Brooklyn Heights, but yesterday we found three vans from a local church parked in the famous lime green bike lanes (which have, thankfully, faded a bit with time and the weather). They were not double-parked or stopped. They were very parked near […]

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Overnight, there was a “hostage situation” on Ninth Street in Park Slope between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. What was described as a family dispute escalated into shots being fired and a standoff with a lot of police officers. “The yuppified Sunday evening calm in Park Slope has been shattered after a man became enraged, intoxicated, […]

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There’s one brand new restaurant opening in the Burg we want to note and a couple of things to get caught up on: 1) Fiore is supposed to be opening today at 284 Grand Street (above). It’s an Italian restaurant that traces it lineage to Baci & Abracci up the block. We haven’t seen the […]

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The image above is the latest poster to appear on the Carroll Gardens Democracy Wall in the plaza outside the Carroll Street subway stop. It reaffirms why the wall has proven a valuable outlet for community sentiment, whether one agrees with opinions being expressed or not. In an era when so many people are slammed […]

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The Sanitation Dept. has been prowling the streets of Carroll Gardens writing tickets to people putting out trash before 5PM. On the other hand, check out this mess at the Clarett Group-owned building on Court Street. Curiously, no tickets have been written here for this mess.–PMFA

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After all the drama associated with the ugly demolition of 5 Roebling, aka the Giant Fart Cloud Building, we can report that everything is down and has been carted away. In fact, we can confidently report that the site is clean because part of the fence is down and the site has been left open, […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Local Pol Jefferies Talks About Ratner Critics [AYR] Does Zoning Matter in Carroll Gardens? [PMFA] Wafels & Dinges Truck, Part I [Esthetic/Aesthetic] Wafels & Dinges Truck, Part II [OTBKB] Dub Pies Truck [Brooklynometry] Considering Russo Realty [Lost City] Polar Bear Hoopla Links [Kinetic Carnival] Remember, […]

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With Coney Island in the news this week because of theatrics at the public presentation of the city’s proposed zoning changes and plans, we thought we’d turn our attention again to the subject of the disgraceful condition of the boardwalk itself. We’ve focused on it from time to time over the last two years, and […]

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Some things change and some things don’t. One of the things, recently, that doesn’t change at all is the ability of both adults and children to go exploring in the environmentally-challenged, and currently abandoned, Whole Foods site in Gowanus. It’s been open again and again. Of course, it’s just an empty lot and it affords […]

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The inimitable Forgotten New York returns to Bay Ridge this week with a new feature offering dozens of pics and tidbits of that neighborhood. Here’s a sampling of the info about Shore Road, some of whose homes appear in the FNY photos above: Shore Road is as old as Bay Ridge itself. The neighborhood was […]

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Here’s the WNBC segment aired yesterday called “Open House Coney Island” about our favorite Brooklyn waterfront destination and its future. It was posted to YouTube by “Rapid T. Rabbit” on the Coney Island Message Board and we found it very early this morning thanks to Kinetic Carnival. It’s worth a quick viewing.

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Mulching Day is one of very mixed emotions for GL. On the one hand, our Christmas tree is mulched and we know it is being recycled in a good way. On the other, it’s sad to take down the decorations, strip off the lights, drag one’s tree out, take it to the mulch site and […]

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There are many Brooklyn Missed Connections that happened on New Year’s Eve, which may be one of the most biggest annual missed connections days of them all. There are 29 Brooklyn Missed Connections on Craigslist that mention New Year’s and 14 that say NYE. Here are two, from Williamsburg and Greenpoint, that we think go […]

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