There’s a meeting coming up at Borough Hall on Wednesday (2/13) that’s bill as an “informational and strategizing session on fighting back the school budget cuts.” Council Member Bill de Blasio is one of the sponsors. The session will take place from 6:30PM-8:00PM in the Borough Hall Hearing Room. The location is 209 Joaralemon Street […]

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[Photo of frigid Feb. 11 Coney sunset courtesy of Deborah Matlack] Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Mortgage Crisis Spreading Past Subprime Loans [NYT] Ward Bakery Demolition Starting Soon [AYR] Brooklyn Paper Says “Brooklyn Needs Us” [Gothamist] Red Hook School Gets Great Grades But No Respect [NYDN] Monique Quality Products Corp., […]

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“Today at 6:30 p.m. G.W.A.P.P. will be conducting a general information session at the Pencil Factory regarding the park slated for the western terminus of India Street. Stephanie Thayer of the Open Space Alliance will give a general overview of the project (among other things, I have heard affordable housing is a component)…” The meeting […]

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There’s a screenshot of a Cyclone-like roller coaster from Grand Theft Auto IV that someone who goes by the name of keithnoir posted on the Coney Island message board. The shot below is a Brooklyn Bridge screencap, with many liberties taken as to the streetscape.

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The scourge of the BQE, the Kosciuszko Bridge, may not be replaced after all. “The long-awaited project to replace the deteriorating and traffic-choked Kosciuszko Bridge has hit a roadblock because a state agency believes the aging span could be worth saving. The state Historic Preservation Office has refused to approve final designs that call for […]

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Did you know there’s a dodge ball league in Park Slope? Indeed, there is. An email we got from ZogSports said: The best way to connect with fellow Brooklynites is on the court, pegging each other with red foam balls. Or on the turf with some two-hand touch. ZogSports, the social, co-ed, charity-focused sports club […]

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This downed sign, which was felled by some sidewalk digging in the last few days, comes from Roebling Street and N. 11, right across the street from our friend, the Roebling Oil Building. Presumably, it’s only down until they stop digging and fix the sidewalk, unless they’re looking for oil…

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A building on Fifth Avenue in Bay Ridge succumbed to the deadly combination of high winds and an unsupported cinder block wall built on the building’s roof. The building was once the site of the Leading Edge Radiation Oncology Services Center, and some residents wondered “about spillage of radioactive material following the collapse.”–Right in Bay […]

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Our Greenpoint Correspondent calls this image “Algonquin Rountable Meets Fred T. Sanford.” It come from Bushwick.

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Here’s the latest little uplifting incident that caught our eye in Boerum Hill: a car vandalized via shooting. Here are the details, via an email from the Boerum Hill Group on Yahoo: I thought everyone should know that the car vandalism problem is excalating. This family lives on Bergen between Bond & Hoyt. They parked […]

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Last week, the Department of Buildings issued the first permit for the planned Gowanus Whole Foods on Third Street. The permit, which was first reported by Brownstoner, would allow for some work on the foundation. The Friends and Residents of Greater Gowanus group, which opposes construction of the big project, sent an email to Community […]

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That New York Times article on the Union Hall stroller ban and Park Slope parent culture seems to have elicited a bit of a response in Park Slope. OTBKB wrote a post yesterday saying the paper got the story wrong, failing to mention a plan to lift the stroller ban on some afternoons. Late last […]

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Call it one of the most short-lived coup attempts in Brooklyn history. “A plan floated Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz for the city to take control of the New York Aquarium is dead in the water,” Jotham Sederstrom reports in today’s Daily News. On Thursday night, during his “State of the Borough” report, Borough President […]

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Looks like site of the huge 33 Roebling development that we mentioned last week (for the umpteenth time) for having a crappy, wide open fence and (now) a pile driver on the site got a visit from the Department of Buildings this week. We found a violation tacked to the cruddy fence (which has been […]

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This week’s New York Magazine takes a look back those wacky days of 1968 and lands in “the neighborhood known as Park Slope.” There is nothing we can add to this, so we’ll just quote a few highlights: So what’s a penny-pinching Manhattanite to do? It’s time to consider—and don’t laugh just yet—Brooklyn. Specifically, the […]

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The future of the embattled Moore Street Market in Williamsburg is almost here. “After winning a one-year reprieve from their landlord — the City of New York — the market’s 13 merchants may find themselves forced out by June if the city moves forward with a plan to demolish the building and replace it with […]

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This is not our first time tossing up some photos of the cruddy, dangerous conditions at our dear friend 80 Metropolitan in Williamsburg. In fact, today’s post makes 80 Met a Triple Crown winner (with other occasions having been here and here). Yesterday, we found the 80 Met construction site wide open, with some of […]

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Blogger and flickr photographer Lorna Keuning, whose work we like very much, has launched a new photo blog, appropriately called lornaglrphotos. The first photos she has put up are killer cool. Lorna has been chronicling her own life at her lornagrl blog, which is also worth checking out if you’re interested in knowing something about […]

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Here’s a detailed and photo-filled look at 18th Avenue and Bensonhurst that includes a walk on Christmas Eve. “A source of endless fascination to me has been the depiction of animals wearing crowns, chef hats, or similar anthropomorphism. At 61st Street, the Bari pig, captioned ‘King of the Sausage’ on other signs in Brooklyn, holds […]

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[Photo courtesy of Dope on the Slope/flickr] The “Atlantic Yards Photo Club,” a gathering of photographers exercising the right to take photos around the Atlantic Yards footprint after a videographer was harassed by the MTA police last week, got together yesterday afternoon. The photo above shows Katherin McInnis, who was stopped and questioned by an […]

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“At the hight of the wind, firefighters checked out the scaffolding built around 20 Henry Street — the Peaks Mason Mints building (also called the Candy Factory). Urban Realty Partners paid $19.6 million for the site last year.” Photo of firefighters walking on the scaffold included.–McBrooklyn

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The Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association is having its monthly meeting tonight (2/11). 360 Smith developer Billy Stein is expected to be there and, presumably, will offer updated renderings of the structure that we once nicknamed the Heavy Metal Building. The meeting will run from 7:30PM-9:00PM. Anyone that’s been should know that the meetings are no […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Forest City Ratner Reverses Course & Is Now Giving Campaign Cash [AYR] Brooklyn Latin School Requirements Are Tough [NYDN] Wrongly Convicted Man Who Spent 22 Years in Prison Suing for $22M [NYP] Scam Bargain Rentals on Craigslist [NYDN] Park Slope Community Bookstore Update [OTBKB] Arrivederci […]

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A very cool GL reader sent us this photo for our Street Couch series that is actually a shot of an entire living room set. It comes from Fifth Avenue in Park Slope and it is one of our favorites ever.

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