After several weeks of work removing asbestos at the Clarett Group’s 340 Court Street in Carroll Gardens and a host of reports of bags of unknown substances being tossed from the roof after midnight, asbestos removal signs have finally appeared. Our correspondent notes: This sign is at 340 Court street on the Union street side. […]

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The uproar about 475 Kent continues. Here is the latest: 1) The “explosive grain” from the illegal matzo factory has been removed from the building and the state Department of Agriculture has been informed. 2) The building is supposed to be open from today through Sunday from 10AM-4PM so that people can move things out. […]

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A couple of weeks ago, we posted about the impending closure of the No. 1 Dry Cleaner on Smith Street, which was being pushed out by a massive rent increase. Well, they’re closed, and if you’ve ever wanted to see a dry cleaning operation taken apart piece by piece, here’s your chance.–PMFA

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The CEO and Chairman of 110 Amity Street developer Time Equities says that the firm is going back to the drawing board to “re-conceive the project.” The Cobble Hill development, which would put an addition atop a 1903 building and would have added townhouses on vacant land in a “mews” setting, got a cold reception […]

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Followers of construction-related mayhem in the South Slope might recall the South Slope Crack Building. It’s formally known as 406-408 15th Street and has caused an exceptional amount of upset among neighbors as well as such severe damage to a neighboring building that it had to be evacuated in the summer of 2006. Well, the […]

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The latest Park Slope mother-child issue is a new policy at Union Hall that is said to bar mothers with toddlers and older children. The word comes via a Union Hall employee that says the bar and popular hangout has been having issues with minors being sent in as bait by the police without ID. […]

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The Park Slope Food Coop prides itself on serving organic produce and, at least in one case, it includes a very hearty frog. The frog traveled from South Florida to the Park Slope Food Coop in some lettuce and then spent three days in a Prospect Heights fridge. “Rather than get hopping mad, Brechbuhler and […]

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1) We assume the new cafe at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Carroll Street on the Gowanus side of the tracks is still going to be called Brooklyn Bean, although the mural on the plywood has come down revealing the storefront. It’s of interest because the Fourth Avenue Brooklyn Bean is not related to […]

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From A-Z, as in auto repair to watch repairs, here’s a very useful list of places in Brooklyn to get things fixed and to get some services like electrical work and plumbing. And, the places have been culled from comments left on blogs, so that they’re not just random picks. Bookmark this baby, because you […]

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Ikea has been taking applications from Red Hook residents for more than a week-and-a-half, having given them a three-week head start, but it sent out a release with the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce yesterday that it will start general hiring for the Red Hook store on February 4. Some of the publicizing of job opportunities […]

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There has been a great deal of confusion about the date of the rally being planned by City Council Member Bill de Blasio to support a resolution he is introducing calling for a quick rezoning of Carroll Gardens and an interim moratorium on development more than 50 feet tall. At first, it was said to […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Michelle Williams Returns Home to Brooklyn [NYDN] Carlton Avenue Bridge Closes for Two Years [AYR] Carlton Avenue Bridge Closing Impact [No Land Grab] 10 Jay Street to Add Five Stories [Dumbo NYC] First Residents Move Into Downtown Brooklyn [Sun] 6 Members of Brooklyn Family Charged […]

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The inimitable Kevin Walsh and Forgotten NY have turned their attention to Gowanus with a brand new web page. Here’s a sample: Way back in November 2005 I went wandering about the part of Brooklyn that’s not quite Cobble Hill and not quite Park Slope, that was dangerous in the 60s and 70s and just […]

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So, what’s the little addition to the building in Williamsburg at Grand and Driggs? “It has a light glowing through the window, so someone has definitely set up shop in there. We asked an architect about the structure, and she said, ‘looks like a small room, some sort of extension off the building.’”–Gothamist

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Anyone interested in the topic of water quality in the Gowanus Canal and plans to improve it will want to mark their calendars for February 12 when there will be a meeting to present that massive Gowanus Canal Waterbody/Watershed Facility Plan Report. The 564-page document deals with water quality in the canal and plans to […]

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[Photo courtesy of jaredswafford/flickr] The controversy continues over 475 Kent Avenue, whose residents were ordered out on Sunday night–one of the winter’s coldest–because of an illegal matzo factory and stored grain in the basement as well as a raft of fire code violations. Yesterday, Council Member David Yassky sent out an email with a statement […]

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First, the rushed evacuation of 475 Kent led to the creation of 475kent.com, which is now functioning to keep communications going among residents of the building. So far, there are 74 registered users and thousands of views of the items that have been posted. Then, it led to a flickr pool for photos of life […]

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It would appear that 355 Union Avenue, which is next to 365 Union, a building going up in the booming Union Corridor, ended up as collateral damage. This photo was filed by our intrepid Greenpoint Correspondent, who ranges far and wide. The building that caused the problem comes from the studios of Robert Scarano and […]

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We have no idea what is going to end up at the corner of Nassau Avenue and Guernsey Street in Greenpoint where the building in the photo above stands. What we do know is that we checked on its status after we noticed that the windows had been newly boarded up, and found that 24 […]

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The work on Columbia Street in Red Hook goes on. And on. And on. Our Carroll Gardens correspondent filed these photos in an email with the subject line “Columbia Street Wasteland.” She writes of the construction work: I know people on that block and the construction shakes their foundations. It’s impossible to drive there, too. […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Two Killed in Stolen Car Crash on Ft. Hamilton Parkway [NYDN] Navy Yard Tow Pound Building Clad in Yellow [Brownstoner] State of the Brooklyn Condo Market [Urban Digs] Brooklyn South Narcotics Corruption Case Could Nix Arrests [Sun] Atlantic Yards Demolition Update [No Land Grab] Atlantic […]

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Some local coverage of the tragic passing of 28-year-old Heath Ledger: Onetime Idyllic Dad in Upscale Brooklyn [NYP] Neighbors Shocked by Ledger’s Death [NYDN] Heath Ledger Found Dead in NYC Apartment [Gothamist] Star’s Tragic Death in Soho [NYP] Heath Ledger, Actor, Is Found Dead at 28 [NYT] Heath Ledger Dies at 28 [NYDN] Heath Ledger […]

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This is not the first time we’ve posted a photo of the site we like to called Greenpoint’s Crater Lake, but we passed by the site the other day and found that the only things that have changed are that the banks of the crater have eroded a bit and that ice was forming on […]

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Does the UA Court Street Stadium 12 really suck? One reader says “and how”: “We’ve noticed a deterioration in quality of service and cleanliness at the UA Court Street Stadium 12 over the years (not that it was that nice to begin with). My wife has come to a point where she wants to boycott […]

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Women’s Wear Daily weighed in a with a long article yesterday about Gowanus that was motivated by some fashion designers setting up shop in the neighborhood. Other than being a curious thing to find in WWD, the article serves as a reminder of how many businesses and artists work in Gowanus and how their fate […]

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