That thing in the distance? Why, it’s the Carroll Gardens Monstrosity, an addition to the neighborhood skylyine that has risen on Luquer Street. The building was planned several years ago before there was any real organized opposition to out-of-context buildings in the neighborhood.–PMFA

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A week after tenants were evicted from 475 Kent Avenue by the city, the building was padlocked. The building was locked on Sunday afternoon and tenants held a rally and press event at 4PM to mark the building’s closing. About 50 people turned out for the protest, not counting media. There was local news coverage, […]

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There is a rally/media event tomorrow (1/29) at 11AM at the Brooklyn office of the Department of City Planning (16 Court Street) to call for quick action on a downzoning of Carroll Gardens and for an interim moratorium on developments more than 50 feet tall. The rally was called by City Council Member Bill de […]

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If you’re a fan of industrial buildings, you might want to check out some specimens from Canarsie and their old signs. There’s Morris Rosenberg Scrap Metal, for instance, and Beckers Aniline & Chemical Works. For good measure, you can always detour to Red Hook for the old H. Kohnstamm dye factory in Red Hook. Maybe, […]

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This empty lot at 14 Bayard Street was the site of the Beauty Addiction Building until it came down last year and is the future site of a five-story building that will fill in the last hole on Karl Fischer Row. It was last noted when the demolition left the building next door a little […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Two Men Charged with Separate Brooklyn Hate Crimes [Metro] Hate Crime Charges in Graffiti Cases [NYT] Hate Crimes on Rise in Crown Heights? [NYDN] Neighborhood Closings and the Atlantic Yards Effect [AYR] Windsor Terrace Dog-Napping That Broke Online Gets Print Media Coverage [NYDN] Needs Unmet […]

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There’s an interesting session coming up on Monday, February 4, about environmental and remediation issues in Gowanus. It’s called New Voices on the Gowanus: Focus on the Public Place. It takes place at 6:30PM on 2/4 at the PS 58 Auditorium, which is located at 330 Smith Street (entrance on Carroll Street). Here’s an email […]

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One of the 25,000 posters (give or take) posted around Brooklyn for Rambo has gotten a tweak. The one is on N. 10th Street near Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg.

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The Parks Department is talking about offering naming rights to buildings and facilities within city parks. So, think about the possibilities in Prospect Park: the Corcoran Villa or the Starbucks Tennis House, for instance. There’s also the Dunkin Donuts Rustic Shelter, CitiFowl and the biggest opportunity, the Forest City Ratner arch.–A Year in the Park

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On Saturday, we had news of a dog-napped Maltese in Windsor Terrace. (We had it, along with other blogs and the Daily News runs the story today without any reference to the many emails circulated by the dog napping victim to get the word out or of the blog posts about the dog-napping.) Yesterday, we […]

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Here are some photos we shot yesterday at the 2008 Idiotarod in Gowanus, at the Carroll Street Bridge, and in Red Hook, at Moonshine, which was the finish line. Related Posts:Idiotarod ’08 Has Taken Off [Gothamist]1,186 Idiotarod Tagged Photos So Far [flickr]NYC Idiotarod 2008 [Brit in Brooklyn]A Group of Idiots in Search of Idiotarod ’08 […]

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We caught some of the 2008 Idiotarod–that annual small-scale Halloween meets the Mermaid Parade, but with pimped shopping carts and a very long route–in Gowanus and Red Hook. Here’s our video of the race, as it leaves “Checkpoint Two” at The Yard, next to the Carroll Street Bridge in Gowanus and at the finish line, […]

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The Second Street Cafe on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope is toast. The eatery, which had been open for a decade and had done a top-to-bottom renovation last summer, has locked its doors and papered up the windows. GL can exclusively confirm the news that they have gone out of business. A tipster emails to […]

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These are clips of the Idiotarod, including some early posted clips of the 2008 edition.

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Fort Greene residents are reporting “an alluring smell of fresh bread near the Clinton/Washington C train.” So, where is it coming from? Some says it’s from a new bakery on Vanderbilt, but other say it’s been around for years. “Whatever the reason, it seems from this thread that realtors would do well to promote this […]

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This week’s Sunday Brooklyn Missed Connection is more of a lost & found item than a missed connection in the strictest sense, but there’s something about it that appealed to us, typos and all: throwing stuff off of bridges i was wondering aroudn NYC. i am a traveling kid that was exporing williamsburg area. and […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: 500 Cases Might Be Tossed Because of Brooklyn South Narcotics Scandal [NYDN] Ten-Year-Old Handcuffed by Security Was Terrified [NYP] State Sen. Marty Connor Has a Challenger [Brooklyn Heights Blog] Thoughts on the Still Endangered Red Hook Vendors [Lost City] Heard of Carmelo the Science Fellow? […]

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Every week, we highlight a few comments left by GL readers during the previous sevent days. Here are this week’s selections (with a thank you to the GL reader that suggested a tweak to our logo): Weeks Later, 340 Court Posts an Asbestos Sign. “So far Clarett is off to a shoddy job. The community […]

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[Photo courtesy of Mirabelle Studios] This photo comes from the camera of sculptor, artists and photographer Gary Mirabelle who is a regular GL photo contributor. Check out a couple of other shots he sent recently of Prospect Park’s winter beauty, here and here.

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How do you run a Park Slope bar called Beer Table, without beer? You don’t. Instead, you start going a little nuts waiting for the State Liquor Authority to approve your application. “For almost six months, the owners of Beer Table, on Seventh Avenue near 14th Street, have been trapped in liquor license limbo. The […]

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We’ve posted a couple of old Astroland commercials in the past. Here’s one that was just posted to YouTube that haven’t had before.

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Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn

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That was quick. The Department of Buildings pounced on what looked like a very unsafe excavation operation at the Minerva Building site (614 Seventh Avenue) in Greenwood Heights yesterday. We posted photos yesterday sent by Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights. By afternoon, the group had sent word of a Stop Work Order and new photos […]

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Here’s a heartbreaking little story that combines the awfulness of having one’s home broken into with the horror of finding they have taken one’s dog. An email and flier is circulating widely on discussion boards about a little dog in Windsor Terrace who was dognapped. Here is the email: I am posting to all the […]

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