Caputo’s Bakery, which is one of several excellent bakeries on Court Street, is ready for love. It has “Big pink heart-shaped cookies with chocolate glaze…Cup cakes with, oh, so colorful flowers and of course, the frosted chef d’oeuvre with delicate sugar roses.” In case you don’t know, it’s at 329 Court Street.–Pardon Me For Asking

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Gowanus, Brooklyn

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There’s another showing of the plans for McCarren Pool tonight (and, hopefully, the Parks Department and the architects will also soon release some high-quality renderings of its plans so that everyone in Brooklyn can see them). As we noted last week, McCarren Pool is being returned to service as a pool, so the days of […]

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Here are a few photos, in slideshow format, taken in Prospect Park very late yesterday afternoon as snow was falling.

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The residents of 475 Kent have launched an online petition drive to gain more support for their efforts to be allowed to turn to the vacated building. In just a couple of days, the petition has apparently garnered 1,200 signatures. Here is some of the text of the letter directed to Mayor Bloomberg: My attention […]

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That oyster bar planned by Jim Mamary on Hoyt Street is not wining friends among the neighbors. They’ve now organized as the Hoyt Street Alliance and are distributing fliers around the neighborhood asking residents to oppose the opening of the establishment on a residential street. They’re urging people not to sign a petition in favor […]

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The Red Hook vendors are getting things together to bid on getting a long term permit to operate this summer and beyond, but it’s not a foregone conclusion that they’ll win and the conditions imposed by the Parks Department and the Health Department are so onerous it may make it impossible. The Village Voice Eat […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Snow: It’s Snowing [Lost City] Gerritsen Beach Snow [GerritenBeach.Net/flickr] Ah, Yes, Some Snow [Z. Madison] Light Snow in Carroll Park [PMFA] New Brooklyn Snow Photos [flickr] Not Snow: Pintchik Sites Are the Future of Flatbush Ave. [AYR] Duffield St. Hotel Halway There [Brownstoner] Successful Red […]

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There are not happy times at Carroll Gardens’ Marco Polo restaurant on Court Street. The restaurant’s owner, Joseph (Marco Polo) Chirico, was caught up in the Gambino crime family busts last week. The 63-year-old restaurant owner, who is a friend of many of Brooklyn’s top public officials, including Borough President Marty Markowitz, was arraigned yesterday […]

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Sustainable Flatbush is sponsoring a “Greening Flatbush” event on Sunday, February 24. Here’s something from the release we got about it from Chris Kreussling, who is also the person behind the Flatbush Gardener blog: On Sunday, February 24, residents and other members of the greater Flatbush community can learn what they can do to beautify […]

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Lovers of Karl Fischer are sure to especially enjoy the latest from Hot Karl, which is planned for India Street and Franklin, across the street from the Astral. A reader asks: “Any idea what Jetsons-looking, maxed-out bit of Narcotecture this ass clown is looking to unleash upon me and mine?” It’s a 12-story “vertical addition” […]

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[Image courtesy of SINCEAGAIN/flickr]

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“A Williamsburg community activist who would be the first Hasidic Jew on the City Council if elected has decided to run for David Yassky’s seat. Isaac Abraham, a hardware store owner and tenants advocate, said he is responding to “very strong” pressure from friends, colleagues and community residents to seek the post Yassky must vacate […]

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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The jail with retail idea is still alive even if the jail with retail & condos scheme crashed and burned and the jail with school concept was DOA. Now, the city has trotted out a rendering from no less than Skidmore, Owings and Merrill to try to build support for doubling the capacity of the […]

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This Alternate Side of the Street parking sign on Berry Street near N. 4 has been stickered up for a long time, but it just gained some advertising for a personal assistant. Why not? It’s not like you can read the sign.

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Of all the things we would expect to find a fight about, the city’s “Green Streets” program is not one of them. Yet, there’s a battle about a plan in Gerritsen Beach, where GerritsenBeach.Net, which does superb work covering issues in that neighborhood and environs, has been writing about the fight, which includes some heavy-duty […]

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The inner part of a sofa bed, as find by our Greenpoint Correspondent on Manhattan Avenue, who write that the trash bags on either side are like end tables.

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Our wonderful Carroll Gardens Correspondent just sent us this pretty shot. Finally, a little snow in Brooklyn.

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The big news to come out of developer Billy Stein’s appearance at the Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association meeting last night wasn’t even fresh: architect Robert Scarano has been off the job at 360 Smith Street since December. Mr. Scarano, who had designed the early versions of the 360 Smith Street structure that we named the […]

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This is an ad for space at the Sweater Factory in Gowanus that we found on Craigslist, where many listings have been posted recently. Were amused by how the loft space is marketed as being in a “hip Gowanus locale” and call Gowanus “Brooklyn’s next creative business hub.” Also we like the design of the […]

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Depending on one’s point of view the new marketing campaign for the SteelWorks Lofts on N. 4 Street is either creative or loathsome. We came across it due to a few posters randomly posted on Driggs Avenue in Williamsburg, which reminded us of the big industrial building on N. 4 between Wythe and Berry that […]

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Last spring we reported that a bank would be taking over the old D’Agostino’s space on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope. In late January, we noted trucks out front and work crews hauling debris from the basement. The news has now been confirmed. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle reports: A bank is moving into a portion […]

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Last week, we posted about the rising steel of the North Building of the Robert Scarano-designed 125 N10 condos, which was starting to eliminate some of the windows at 55 Berry in Williamsburg. The work is more advanced this week. If anything, they’re interesting photos of disappearing windows. All buyers are said to have been […]

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If anyone’s looking for Valentine’s Day related things in Brooklyn, they might want to check this little list for something like a horseback ride through Propsect Park or death via chocolate at the Chocolate Room in Park Slope. And if these activities aren’t one’s cup of tea, then perhaps a ride with the “Cupid Cabbie” […]

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