Those with memories of the “old” Red Hook will remember the abandoned cars that used to be left on Red Hook and the tendency they have to catch fire. A dedicated GL reader emailed us to reminisce and to point out that, in addition to a traffic light and other alterations, Beard Street is changing […]

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A video artist and teacher taking photos and video of the Atlantic Yards development site was stopped and questioned by an MTA police offer this Sunday. The incident is throughly reported in Atlantic Yards Report. Here’s a bit of what Norman Oder writes about the disturbing little story: Though a good number of photographers regularly […]

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In case you haven’t heard (or seen the campaign paraphernalia everywhere), today is the New York Primary. The polls are open from 6AM-9PM. If you don’t know the location of your polling place and you want to find out, you can click here for the New York City Poll Site Locator and enter your address.–NYC […]

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It looks like the residents of the Greenpoint building called Loftology, which is the building on Driggs Avenue on the left in the top photo, will be losing the views from the back of their building before too long. (The building with the exterior wood veneer is called the Manhattan Park Condos. It was designed […]

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The city can’t seem to put enough cut on the stench that is making resident of Bay Ridge on Fort Hamilton Parkway between Marine Ave. and 99th Street a little sick to their stomach. The smell, they say, is coming from a former sewer pipe project. The city has tried tossing pine-scented deodorizer down there, […]

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Brooklyn’s favorite somewhat toxic playground is open to the public again. The flimsy fence at the Whole Foods site on Third Street has been opened up again by vandals. We stopped by on Saturday and a curious people were taking tours of the site over the weekend. Will it be “repaired” quickly, or will the […]

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There are a number of community gardens in Coney Island that are particularly threatened by development. They are under the jurisdiction of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development and don’t have the protection of those transfered to the Parks Department or the Trust for Public Land–Flatbush Gardener

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These two boats and this crane are at the far end of the Gowanus Canal, between the Union Street Bridge and the pumping station. A reader emailed last week to note that they were and wondered what they might be doing. Dredging? Construction? While dredging might eventually happen–and this end of the canal is at […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Super Tuesday: Voting in Brooklyn [About Brooklyn] Options for Watching Super Tuesday Results [INSIJS] Super Tuesday Green Guide [Green Brookyn] For Election Day [No Land Grab] Where to Celebrate Super/Fat Tuesday [Brooklyn Based] Not Super Tuesday: City Planning Dept. is “Obdurate, Arrogant, Dismissive” [Lost City] […]

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We got an email with a photo off the latest art work posted in Carroll Gardens about the development at 360 Smith Street. This one isn’t posted on the Democracy Wall, but rather, is nearby because it’s aimed at parents of the Hannah School. “I wonder how much the parents are of about the coming […]

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It’s hard to know for certain where the chickens on the streets of Greenpoint come from, but most likely, they are coming from a chicken-related business in a building near the site of the burned Greenpoint Terminal Market. No matter. What can someone do when one of our feathered friends is being menaced by some […]

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As street sofas go, the one that our Greenpoint Correspondent photographed over the weekend on Roebling Street is quite nice. One can easily picture people hanging out on it and watching TV.

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On Sunday, the Times described a certain building that many people in Park Slope consider a dangerous eyesore as “whimsy.” Not exactly. “Ya gotta be kidding. Dorothy Nash, the woman who owns that building is a menace to Seventh Avenue, as well as pedestrians who have been hit by materials falling off that falling down […]

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Union Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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Where do you go when you need 10,000 pounds of confetti for a Super Bowl celebratory parade? Red Hook, of course. “The confetti is recycled packaging paper cut into approximately 10-inch strips and is being provided by the Atlas Material Company in Red Hook. Downtown Alliance personnel spent today at the company’s plant, breaking down […]

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The plans for McCarren Pool are coming. They’ll be discussed tonight at a meeting at 6:30 PM at The Lady of the Snow Society, which is located at 410 Graham Ave. (btwn Withers & Jackson Sts.). The Bloomberg Administration has committed $50 million for renovating the pool. The design is coming from Rogers & Marvel, […]

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It’s hard to know where to start in talking about the renderings that of the New Domino in Williamsburg designed by Rafael Viñoly. It’s long been known that this would be one of the biggest mega-projects planned for Brooklyn, with 2,400 units of housing and towers up to 40 stories tall. Until now, however, the […]

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As of this morning, there are still no reports of the cute dog who was found seriously injured in Park Slope being reunited with his owner. The dog was found wearing a collar and with a leash, so he clearly belongs to someone. Still, the person who lost him and the good soul that found […]

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We have a few random notes to convey about food and retail things in Park Slope: 1) The GL reader who sent the first word of the death of the 2nd Street Cafe, sends a photo of a sign noting that Grand Canyon has cut back its hours. He writes: “Grand Canyon, the diner on […]

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We are major fans of the uber-shitty fence at the huge site of 33 Roebling (aka 250 N. 10 Street), which has been a wretched mess and wide open for nearly a year-and-a-half and a major dumping ground for all kinds of crap. At one point, two of the gates were closed, but a third […]

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There are conflicting reports about the status of the Trader Joe’s at Atlantic Avenue and Court Street. One the one hand, it may be dead, per a comment on the Cobble Hill Blog: “I work for TJ’s at 14th st store and we were officlally told the store is not coming. Management could not agree […]

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Anyone who likes to watch steel being put in place would have found the work at 405 Union Avenue (aka 68 Ainslie Street) in Williamsburg Sunday afternoon quite fascinating. It’s a Karl Fischer building that is rising quickly, with ample help from all the steel being hoisted on weekend. The Fischer will clock in at […]

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After all the dust has settled, it may turn out that nothing has changed in terms of movement on the rezoning of Carroll Gardens. The Department of City Planning still can’t commit to “a precise timeframe for action,” which is what they’ve said all along. This does not sit so well with some, and never […]

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Here’s a fun email circulating via a Community Board 1 mailing list on Yahoo that gets at the subject of “after hours work” in a major way: Early this morning ( 2/2/08 ) at around 2 a.m. we were awakened by pile driving. The pile driving continued for over an hour. Our apartment is on […]

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“The city has used a brand new law to ban a rogue engineer for faking construction plans – but a loophole in Buildings Department rules let the alleged mastermind off scot-free. The Buildings Department barred licensed engineer Leon St. Clair Nation from city work on Jan 15…In trying to go after higher-ups in the scheme, […]

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