We don’t know for a fact that this brown mass we found floating on the Gowanus on Saturday is, uh, crap. However, it looks disturbingly like what might happen if King Kong had the runs at the Carroll Street Bridge. (Actually, we watched the mass of whatever it was float from the Union Street Bridge […]

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[Photo courtesy of Right in Bay Ridge; many more by clicking here.] Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Bay Ridge Goes a Little Wild in the Streets for Big Blue [Bay Ridge Rover] Yes, They Were in the Streets in Bay Ridge [Right in Bay Ridge] Park Slope Simply Cheered for […]

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When our friends at Brownstoner launch an exciting flea market we would naturally expect a blog to come with it. And so it is with the Brooklyn Flea Blog that’s just been started by Brownstoner in advance of the April 6 opening of Brooklyn Flea. Brownstoner writes: With the April 6 launch date of the […]

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The Lunar New Year celebration in Sunset Park will take place on Eighth Avenue on Sunday February 10. The festivities start around 11AM and will go for about three hours. In any case, if you want to see some great photos of last year’s celebration, you can click here and here.–Sunset Park Blog

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Here’s a reminder about the forum taking place tonight (2/4) about Public Place that will feature professors and students from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Civil Engineering and Architecture that have been looking at the Public Place site. It’s called New Voices on the Gowanus: Focus on the Public Place. It takes place at 6:30PM […]

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[Photo courtesy of threecee/flickr] These could be our favorite street couches ever. We’ve seen better ones, of course, but the placement on these–on Atlantic Avenue near S. Oxford in the Atlantic Yards footprint–is perfect. So perfect, in fact, that we got two photos of it within 12 hours of each other. The photo on top […]

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This is another photo of the dog that was hit by one, or possibly two, cars on Sixth Avenue and was rescued by a kind hearted passerby and taken to a vet for help. He is described as being seriously hurt. As of early this morning his owner hadn’t been found, although fliers were handed […]

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Talk about Yin and Yang. We found two Brooklyn Missed Connection ads that were posted yesterday that are very different sides of the same coin. One is to someone that stole someone’s coat at Union Pool in Williamsburg. The other is to someone that turned in someone’s clutch at Union Pool in Williamsburg. First, the […]

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Dusk in Red Hook, looking across the water at Sunset Park and at Staten Island.

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Gravesend Bay hides a potentially explosive secret, and it’s not the soup of toxins sitting at the bottom. “A HALF-CENTURY ago, an ammunition barge broke loose from the U.S.S. Bennington, an aircraft carrier anchored a mile offshore in Gravesend Bay. The barge drifted over to Rockaway Point, but somewhere along the way it overturned, scattering […]

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We can see why some people get a little perturbed about fliers being tossed outside their buildings. This picture is from Carroll Gardens and came our way via our intrepid Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill Correspondent. It can’t be seen in this particular frame, but the good news for bargain hunters is that Kohl’s is having a […]

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Every week, we like to a highlight a few of comments left behind by GL readers during the previous seven days. Here’s a selection from this week: More Renderings of the Domino Glass Box. “Surely with all those giant massive towers filled with apartments, does this really need a glass topped whatever? Hell, it could […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Happy Superbowl Sunday. Serious Development Comes to Crown Heights [NYT] Courts Haven’t Affirmed “Significant Positive Impact” of Atlantic Yards [AYR] Fire at 140 Henry [Brooklyn Heights Blog] About That Park Slope House at Seventh Ave. and Second Street [NYT] Cops Have a Meeting on Jay […]

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What better piece of street furniture to offer up on this Superbowl Sunday than this recliner that was sent our way by our Greenpoint Correspondent. It comes from Kingsland Avenue in Greenpoint. Sadly, there was no TV on the sidewalk with it.

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It’s Superbowl Sunday and that only means one thing: Superbowl TV ads. It’s way off-top for us, but here’s a selection of ads, with an emphasis on humor.

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Some videos of the 2008 Idiotarod that have been posted this week.

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We came across an email relating a disturbing incident at Carroll Park on Thursday afternoon in which an adult (a father, no less) is alleged to have kicked a five-year-old boy because he didn’t like the way the little boy “had grabbed” his own child. The child ended up with a bruise and the adult […]

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We will refrain from extended comment on what we will be calling Williamsburg’s Nightmare in Glass until Monday. In the meantime, that should offer an indication of our general feelings about the modification to the landmarked Domino Sugar Plant on Kent Avenue that developers are proposing. Yesterday, Brownstoner offered a first look at renderings that […]

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Yesterday’s big news was that a Federal Appeals Court had dismissed an appeal of an earlier ruling in the Atlantic Yards eminent domain suit. In a 24-page ruling, the judges noted the project creates public benefits like housing and that “Federal judges may not intervene in such matters simply on the basis of our sympathies.” […]

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The Carroll Gardens development battle over the building at 360 Smith Street has spawned many things, including a neighborhood group that has agitated for a downzoning and development moratorium and the wall we named “The Democracy Wall.” This is about the latter. Apparently the person who goes by “Art Dog” and has created many of […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Images: Ice Stick [Atomische] Williamsburg Sunset [INSIJS] Something is Missing [Blue Jake] B63 [Park Slope Street Photography] Siamese Standpipe [Clinton Hill Blog] Pigeons at TJ’s [McBrooklyn] Terrace Bridge [Atomische] Not Images: Development Watch: 186 Grand [Brownstoner] Union Hall Succumbs to Stroller Rage [Curbed] Phil Says […]

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This sign on Flushing Avenue gets extra points for hanging in there, so to speak. It comes from Bushwick and was sent by our Greenpoint Correspondent.

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A fun vid shot in winter in Coney Island, before the clearance of some land by developer Joe Sitt and Thor Equities.

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What people want to know is, what’s up with the Trader Joe’s that’s supposed to open at Atlantic and Court? “Ah! The steel drums, the calypso dancers… Marty! That was the dreamy scene SIX MONTHS ago when a friggin PARADE announced that Trader Joe’s would open at the corner of Atlantic and Court.. you know […]

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This specimen is from Marcus Garvey Boulevard in Bed-Stuy. It was a blue print and probably served someone well before its service came to an end like this. It comes from the digital camera of our wide-ranging Greenpoint Correspondent, who covers an incredible amount of territory.

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