This sign isn’t a sign. It’s a bit of a display station for street art and stickers and the like. It is at Manhattan Avenue and Ash Street, which is located near the end of Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint near Newtown Creek. It goes without saying that the image comes from the busy camera of […]

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Our friends at Racked received photos and observations about the new Union Market on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope: “Surely much needed by South Slopers who feel like the poor cousins of the Real Park Slope. I stopped in briefly for a few things, lots of MILFs on hand including a few with baby carriages […]

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[Photo courtesy of Gary Mirabelle] Artist and sculptor Gary Mirabelle, who we are honored to have as a frequent GL photo contributor, spent some time with his camera in Prospect Park one morning this week capturing the special beauty of the park in winter.

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When some people talk about the changing demographics of Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, they don’t talk about in terms of race. Some use terms like “pure poor people” and “gentrification people.” Take, for instance, someone working at City Jerk and this description: “Since he started working at City Jerk in November, the food prices have gone up […]

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[Photo courtesy of Mangy_Cur/flickr] Ah, bed bugs. This is the first photo we’ve ever seen of a street sofa wrapped up like this, trying to keep people away. It comes from the streets of East Williamsburg and there’s actually a full photoset that functions as a kind of short chronicle of bedbug infestation. Regarding a […]

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Remember that digging that upset some of the neighbors of the 340 Court Street Clarett Group development back in December? A contractor brought in an excavating machine to dig some holes and the neighbors started complaining bitterly. One neighbor on Union Street that we spoke with this week told us that his house shook so […]

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If only Anthony “Tough Tony” Anastasio were around to have seen the big inflatable rat outside the former International Longshoreman’s Association Building on Court Street yesterday that once bore his name. (Mr. Anastasio, who died of natural causes in 1963 and kept his position with the ILA even after his brother Albert Anastasio was killed, […]

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Proponents of the plan to tear down the historic structures on Admirals Row in the Brooklyn Navy Yard are upset that the Federal government will not be making a quick decision about the property. The National Guard Bureau of Cultural Resources is required by law to review whether the mansions can be preserved or whether […]

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The results from last night’s Atlantic Yards Quiz competition are in. The winning team was put together by No Land Grab. Atlantic Yards super-expert Norman Oder of Atlantic Yards Report, who would have been our odds on favorite because his mind is like a machine when it comes to Atlantic Yards, came in second. (Although […]

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News 12 did a report on the Times Plaza Station in Boerum Hill that we’ve been posting about all week (and it turns out that some of the emails we from residents that we related were featured in the story). Someone posted the vid to YouTube, so check out the embed below, especially noting the […]

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This is 380 Baltic Street, about which there was a small uproar back in 2006. There was even a protest/press conference outside at which Robert Scarano (who is not the building’s architect) made an appearance. Nearly two year later, the 11-story tall building is at an advanced stage. In November, Brownstoner reported that one of […]

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Assem. Millman Fighting Fliers [Brownstoner]Call for New Monitoring of Highrise Construction Sites [Sun]Sex Related Things in Bushwick [New York Shitty]More Talk About Blight and What It Is and Isn’t [AYR]Detail on Court’s Refusal to Rehear Arguments After Judge Leaves Case [No Land Grab]Jumper Stopped on Williamsburg Bridge [NYDN]Traffic Calming Without Speed Bumps [Hawthorne Street]Brooklyn HS […]

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Tired of winter, even a mild one? Fear not. There are only 64 days until spring. And, in Bay Ridge, the traditional counting off of the days has begun at the True Value Hardware Store on Third Avenue. Frankly, we like the idea a lot because it gives us hope of longer days, green trees […]

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We don’t normally post music videos, unless they have some local content we like. So it is with this song, called “Mannequin Legs” from Zucchini Drive. We think the music and images of Coney Island in winter go together like hand and glove.

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It’s probably just a sign of the times that the Department of Housing Preservation and Development has been sending out emails this week about the seminars it is holding about bedbugs. Complaints to 311 are skyrocketing, having doubled in the last 12 months. They are ten times what they were in 2003. Here’s the info […]

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There are four episodes, so far, of an online reality TV show called Born Ready that follows Coney Island high school basketball star Lance Stephenson. Episode Three is about the neighborhood in Coney Island itself. Give it a view.–Born Ready

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We found these heavily stuffed black leather discards on Graham Avenue in Williamsburg looking rather forlorn in their discarded state. It’s unclear whether they were rescued, became refuse or street furniture somewhere.

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This amusing example of a one way sign gone bad–or, at least, pointing in a direction which it was not intended to point–comes from Fayette Street and Broadway on the edge of Bushwick or of Bed-Stuy, depending. It is courtesy of our Greenpoint Correspondent.

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The Library of Congress has a pilot project to put several thousand of the 14 million photos in its collection online. So far, there are 3,100+ photos in the Library of Congress photostream including a couple of dozen that have been tagged “Brooklyn.” A number of the photos are of Luna Park in Coney Island.–Gothamist

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This is J.J. Byrne Park, which was the subject this past weekend of some public sessions to gather ideas for a redo of the Fifth Avenue side. The top photo is taken from Fifth Avenue. The tall building in the background is the Novo Park Slope development built by developer Shaya Boymelgreen. Which brings us […]

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This story is came to us via an email from the Carroll Gardens group CORD. It is from a third generation Carroll Gardens resident who lives on Sackett Street. It is beautifully done and deeply moved us when we read it late last night. If anyone wonders what a real sense of place and community […]

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From the Boerum Hill Association comes an email calling for the replacement of the Times Plaza Post Office, the frustrations of which we featured in two posts (here and here) earlier this week. Here is the email making the rounds from the Boerum Hill Group: The Times Plaza Post Office has been a source of […]

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“If residents living near the Atlantic Yards project didn’t feel personally affected by the controversial $4.2 billion basketball and skyscraper project, they might now. In one of the first irritations to hit Prospect Heights as a result of the project, hundreds of Dean St. residents awoke Wednesday without water – compliments of Forest City Ratner […]

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On Tuesday, we posted about Park Slope’s Seventh Avenue between Second and Third Streets where there a two empty storefronts and a third which will soon become vacant. Today, we’ve got a couple of photos of the comings and going on Fifth Avenue near Third Street. Above, is the future location of ‘sNice, the vegetarian […]

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Something Has Been Returned To Me., originally uploaded by woodendesigner. The clock in the old Williamsburgh Bank Tower, aka One Hanson, was turned on again yesterday at noon after a long absence. Presumably, it wasn’t an accident that it was returned to service on the same day that people started moving into one of the […]

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