Always count on high winds to cause some sort of construction-related issue. For instance, in Midwood, where a scaffold collapsed yesterday, “leaving a big mess on a nearby sidewalk but causing no injuries, firefighters said. The collapse happened at a site near East 12th Street and Avenue O in the Midwood section.A witness said the […]

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Given that it’s Valentine’s Week, we’ll be running a few,um, Valentine’s-related photos through Thursday. Enjoy.

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Community Board 1 will be making a decision about whether to support the Brooklyn Greenway along Kent Avenue and West Street. Because the waterfront esplanades that aren’t wide enough, the bikeway would have to go on the street and, as a result, some parking would have to be eliminated. A letter from the Brooklyn Greenway […]

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[Photo courtesy of threecee/flickr] This contribution to our Say What series of street signs that have been compromised for a wide range of reasons (with our favorite being construction and second favorite being vandalism) comes from photographer Tracy Collins. This is a temporary sign announcing the closure of the Carlton Avenue Bridge, which is now […]

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[Photos by Poci, Coney Island Message Board] Of all the structures in Coney Island, one of the most interesting ones to many visitors is the ruined Playland arcade. It sits on Surf Avenue at one end of the big lot that was once occupied by the demolished Thunderbolt roller coaster. Viewed from the boardwalk, it […]

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Our Sunday Brooklyn Missed Connection this week isn’t so much about a Missed Connection as it is about wanting to make a connection at the Steve’s C-Town on Ninth Street in Park Slope. Here it is: all the sexual tension at C town – m4w – 36is it me, or does everyone who shops at […]

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[Photo courtesy threecee/flickr] Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: The Atlantic Yards Camera Club Meets at 3PM Today! [Not Another F*cking Blog] The Right to Bear Cameras at Atlantic Yards [McBrooklyn] Bring Your Cameras Today [DDDB] Connecting Dots Between Local Pol & Atlantic Yards [AYR] Parole Overturned in Deadly 1973 Robbery […]

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Every week, we like to highlight a few comments left by GL readers during the previous seven days. Here’s this week’s somewhat random selection: No Spike in Park Slope Muggings (and a Map). “These statistics really aren’t helpful, because many, many, people who have been mugged have concluded that reporting the crime is more trouble […]

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It seems like only yesterday we look over our shoulder on Astroland’s “last day” and said goodbye. Well, there are already signs that Astroland is preparing to reopen for the 2008 season, according to the gentleman who goes by the name of Captain Nemo on the Coney Island Message Board. In fact, because Easter is […]

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There’s an “x-ray billboard” on the Dumbo side of the Manhattan Bridge. Well, a couple of the images have been tweaked a little, but some haven’t and it does look strange.–Fading Ad Blog

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“Stories like these rarely end well for artists. Dozens of residents were ousted from lofts in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn after the city found violations in 2000. The tenants fought bitterly with their landlord, Joshua Guttman, accusing him in a lawsuit of harassment and trashing their homes, which he denied. They eventually settled, but […]

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Gowanus, BrooklynOne finds many popular outdoor decorations in Brooklyn. One of the popular themes in Gowanus and Carroll Gardens is the religious icon, although we are not certain how many air conditioner Jesuses one will find.

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“I took a few minutes during my travels in the past few days to both shoot some photos with my cell phone, and send some of the old ones that have been there for months to my email. Here’s a little slice of Brooklyn for the lot of youse who’ve never been here.” Definite slice […]

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Here’s a short vid featuring some recollections of Coney Island in the old days.

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We got this email, like, ten minutes ago and immediately knew what we had to do. There’s a new animal rescue storefront in Kensington. The animals are killer cute. It’s located at 155 East Third Street, right at Fort Hamilton Parkway, not far from McDonald Avenue and very close to the Fort Hamilton Parkway F […]

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[Click to Expand] Early yesterday morning, we ran an account of a mugging that occurred on Tenth Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues that occurred when a man followed someone from the Seventh Avenue station to his door. More about that in moment, but we checked on the 78th Precinct’s latest crime statistics and found […]

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The Boerum Hill Association is having a “Quality of Life Meeting” on Wednesday (2/13) at 7PM at the Belarusian church on Atlantic & Bond Streets. Topics and presentations will include: Crime – 84th Precinct Community Affairs Sanitation — Department of Sanitation Noise — Department of Environmental Protection Rats — Department of Health and Mental Hygiene […]

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“Affordable-housing activists in Brooklyn, N.Y., are proposing eminent domain be used to seize a prime piece of New York real estate from Pfizer Inc. Pfizer is the same company that inspired economic-development plans in the Fort Trumbull neighborhood of New London after the pharmaceutical giant started building its Global Research & Development headquarters there nearly […]

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This vid was posted on the always wonderful Amy’s New York Notebook. It is lovely. It’s a few minutes of natural beauty as seen from Red Hook.

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[Photo courtesy of lornagrl/flickr] Visual: Red Hook Mural [Blue Jake] Gowanus [f.trainer/flckr] Bed-Stuy Architectural Digest [Bed-Stuy Banana] Urban Cowboy [Park Slope Street Photography] Rainbow Clouds + Security [Brooklynometry] Manhattan Ave. [autovac/flckr] Signs of Life/Metropolitan-Lorimer [Blather from Brooklyn] Dead Tree, BQE [Blue Jake] Botanica de la BQE [f.trainer/flckr] Sunset Park 2000 [Fading Ad Blog] Vintage in […]

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Our street couch series gets around. This floral print specimen comes from Dean Street in Prospect Heights and comes from our Greenpoint Correspondent. Nice.

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Icky in Brooklyn, who so brilliantly chronicled things in Windsor Terrace and weighed in on issues elsewhere that inspired him, is back. We’re noting this because we miss Icky’s voice. He writes: This blog was in effect, retired last month. But sometimes sometimes a story so appealing happens along, well … ya know.” The issue […]

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It comes from Starr Street in Bushwick and this One Way sign has got some serious curves. It comes to us courtesy of our Greenpoint Correspondent, who knows a good sign when she sees one and who spots them everywhere.

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“What had once been the site of the Hollywood-connected Bay Ridge Funeral Home is now nearly a half-block long hole in the ground, easily providing passersby a glimpse into their neighbors’ side-street backyards from the rare vantage point of Fourth Avenue – for now.” It will become a seven-story condo. Earlier excavation unearthed a time […]

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Here’s a very shot vid of one of Brooklyn’s pigs going for a walk, with some shots from pig height. (Warning: kind of irritating soundtrack).

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