We don’t know who adopted the two killer cute kitties that we featured yesterday who were residents of BARC, but we got word from our friend Miss Heather that “by the time I got to BARC today (3:00-ish) both Brandy and Alexandra were adopted! Horatio and Gitano are still available and they have a TON […]

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Someday, current day Brooklynites (or their grandchildren) might be able to walk and bicycle on a huge greenway where the vile Gowanus Expressway once stood. Ideas to tear it down and bury it have been floated, but above is a new vision in today’s Daily News that was obtained by Jotham Sederstrom. He writes: The […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Hot Saturday Night in the Burg [New York Shitty] Baby Killing Kensington Doberman Euthanized [Gothamist] Revisiting the Scene of a Firefighter’s Death [NYT] Mulchfest at Park Circle [Flatbush Gardener] Weekly Dumbo Links [Dumbo NYC] Lightpost Philosophy [Brooklyn Junction] A Lot of Reasons to Love Brooklyn […]

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Once a week, we like to feature a few comments left during the previous seven days by GL readers. Here are a few of them: GL Reader Question: Why So Many Cash Only Restaurants?:“It used to be more of a thing in Manhattan than it is now. I think in Manhattan they realized they had […]

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Uh, one of those Craigslist Personal Ad with a Brooklyn woman offering, uh, services because she needed Christmas cash was bogus. And so, a 40-year-old Brooklyn woman was bombarded with phone calls from guys offering to pay her for, you know, services. Investigation underway.–NYDN

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So, it’s Sunday and we came across a travel story about visiting Brooklyn at the Chatanoogan. The story is titled “Brooklyn: More Than Trees Are Growing Here.” Here’s a sample, because we always find the out-of-town perspective on Brooklyn–and, in this case, Williamsburg–interesting: So we left the safety and sanity of our digs on Manhattan’s […]

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Here are some vids posted to the YouTube since New Year’s Day of the Coney Island Polar Bears January 1, 2008 swim.

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GL has recently made an appearance on the Carroll Gardens Democracy Wall. The wall, which bears dozens of posters and statements about development issues in the neighborhood, can be found in the plaza at the Carroll Street subway station on Smith Street.

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The Prospect Heights Forum over a Brooklynian has been buzzing for months because of a mini-crime wave of muggings around the Heights. Now, there’s an email that is being circulated via the Park Slope Parents Group that says some serial muggers seem to be hard at work in Park Slope and are targeting women. (Reported […]

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If you read GL, you know we totally love animals. The kitties pictured here are still available for adoption at the BARC Shelter in Williamsburg. Our friend Miss Heather passed along this email and links to some of the photos of these kitties (that’s Brandy on the left and Alexandra on the right): Would you […]

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Coney Island USA’s David Gratt is spreading the word that State Sen. Karl Kruger, who used his campaign funds to bus in people that shut down the first public information session about the Coney Island plan, is planning an encore. He will be bring protestors to the new sessions, the first of which is on […]

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Yesterday, Brooklynometry expressed some very pointed second thoughts about the “Park Slope stroller mafia.” Then, we came across a long thread on the Park Slope Forum at Brooklynian.com: “The defining moment of Park Slope Parents’ stupidity.” Here is the first post in the thread: This was posted on Park Slope Parents, and forwarded to me. […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Photos: Cold and Calm in Coney Desktop [Brit in Brooklyn] New Year’s Day on the Boardwalk [Park Slope Street Photography] Fulton Mall I [Atomische] Fulton Mall II [Atomische] Marine Park #24 [seriously excited!] Pray for Me [Brooklynometry] Fenced [Not Another F*cking Blog] Water Street [f.trainer/flckr] […]

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Some possible renovations to JJ Byrne Park in Park Slope, which is the home of a big playground and the Old Stone House among other things, are in the works. The Parks Department and the Old Stone House will be hosting two sessions for group discussions about possible renovations to the Fifth Avenue side of […]

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N7 Street & Berry, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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The Empire State Development Corp. is hiring an “Owner’s Rep” to be its “eyes and ears” during any Atlantic Yards construction (though, uh, not demolition, which has been going on without “eyes and ears”). “The Owner’s Rep will help ESDC identify, address and investigate risks associated with construction activities, including; demolition, site and civil construction, […]

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Remember the heady days of predictions that a Nets arena would open in Brooklyn in 2006? For a long time, the official word from the teams and Forest City Ratner has been that the project–which is still tangled in legal challenges and has recently been the subject of questions about security concerns–would open in 2009. […]

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Every GL reader has probably had an Oh Crap Moment in a restaurant upon realizing that they were dining in an establishment that only takes cash and didn’t have enough cash money on them. We’re veering into territory belong to our friends at Eater here, and so aren’t sure if Brooklyn has more or fewer […]

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Someday, there will be a new pavilion at the base of Coney Island’s Parachute Jump and a Steeplechase Plaza around it, fronting on the boardwalk. The “when” is up in the air, given that the project will probably extend past the end of the Bloomberg Administration, but it continues to move forward. Yesterday, the city […]

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If you chain a bike to the Seventh Avenue F Station in Park Slope, new signs make it easier to find if the lock is cut and it’s taken away. Well, that would be a positive spin. The GL reader that sent the photo above, had a less charitable reading: the Transit Authority has put […]

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Our special Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill Correspondent found these “It’s OK. You’re Okay” signs with words of encouragement on the Cobble Hill part of the beat. Detail of the “Don’t Give Up” tear-offs below.

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Those that have been waiting for a public information session about the Coney Island plan since the original meeting was shut down because of people bused in by State Sen. Carl Kruger (paid for with his campaign funds) will get their chance next week. The Coney Island Development Corp. will be having sessions for the […]

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Good news for Park Slope vegetarians. West Village veggie outpost ‘sNice will be opening on Fifth Avenue at Third Street. Tempeh Reubens and Philly-style seitan sandwiches by February.–Brownstoner

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There are a number of buildings in Brooklyn that could contend for the title of being the Ugliest Karl Fischer, yet there’s only one that is not only the most vile Fischer but one of the most wretched big new structures in Williamsburg: 525 Union Avenue. The building that has delighted us with it weekly […]

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