The ULURP Committee of Community Board 1 is meeting tonight (2/26). The meeting starts at 6:30PM and will take place at Lady of the Snow Society Inc. Facility, which is at 410 Graham Avenue (between Withers Street and Jackson Street). The agenda includes a request from St. Nick’s for a letter of support regarding the […]

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[Photo courtesy of Eric Provost] This Coney Island sunset photo from regular GL photo contributor Eric Provost is only one of several he’s sent us that we’ll be featuring over the next few days. Check out a a serious of previous gorgeous Coney shots here.

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So, the “father of hip-hop,” Clive Campbell (D.J. Kool Herc) is suing Jay-Z, developer Bruce Ratner and Barclays Bank for $5 billion for slavery reparations. Jay-Z is a part owner of the Nets, which would play in the Barclays Center in Mr. Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project. Barclays has been accused of historic links to the […]

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[Photo courtesy of Mirabelle Studios] This is another photo sent to us by sculptor, artist and photographer Gary Mirabelle, who is a regular photo contributor to GL. If you missed Mr. Mirabelle’s snow photos, you can check them out here and here and here.

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Somehow, it’s fitting that Lysistrata is being staged in Park Slope by the Gallery Players. We got an email about it yesterday. It will be running from March 15-30. Here’s a bit from the email: The Gallery Players, Brooklyn’s premier Off-Off Broadway theater, is proud to present the classic and sexy Lysistrata by Aristophanes and […]

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This bus stop street couch, which sadly is facing the wrong way, comes from Bed-Stuy and the camera of our well-traveled Greenpoint Correspondent. It was on Halsey Street and, yes, that’s a microwave on top.

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We will have rain today and it will be breezy by this afternoon. The high will be 46, but it will feel like 42. Rain will continue through early evening. The low tonight will be 34.–Accuweather

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Permits were issued on Friday for the controversial Carroll Gardens condo that will be going up at 360 Smith Street. Documents on the Department of Buildings website, to which GL was directed by a neighborhood source, show an okay for a seven-story, 70-foot-tall structure with 44 units with a total of 65,203 square feet. The […]

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This is the new frozen yogurt shop on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope near Union Street. It has been known in its permit paperwork as Yogo Monster, although we’ll have to wait for signs to go up to know for sure. In any case, the exterior definitely has an Oko/Pinkberryish look and here’s a peek […]

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The public safety horror show at 208 N. 10, (aka 199-211 N. 9th Street and 489 Driggs) which has included free public access to a dangerous demolition site, has carried over into the excavation phase. We’ve featured it repeatedly because it is one of the scariest demolition and construction sites we’ve seen in Brooklyn in […]

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Apparently some people in Boerum Hill have been suffering from an internet outage courtesy Time Warner. Per a GL reader: “I don’t know of anyone else has mentioned this but I live in the Boerum Hill section of Brooklyn and we’ve been without cable since sometime Friday afternoon. Time Warner doesn’t seem to have any […]

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The Times City Section, the part of the paper to which many good Brooklyn stories are relegated, finally paid attention yesterday to the issue of Officer’s Row, the historic buildings in the Brooklyn Navy Yard that the city wants to demolish to make way for a supermarket and its parking lot. We don’t usually critique […]

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We wandered past the backside rusting hulk of the controversial Finger Building in Williamsburg on Sunday to find the back door was open. Whether it meant that workers were on the job inside or brunch was being served or things were being repossessed, we don’t know. The building has been stalled forever and the lifts […]

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“A Brooklyn mom flying back from Haiti on American Airlines died after two onboard oxygen tanks that could have been used to revive her failed to work, relatives said Sunday. Carine Desir, 44, a nurse from Lefferts Gardens, collapsed an hour into the flight on Friday, moaning, ‘Don’t let me die.’ Flight attendants and medical […]

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We are behind on our winter visits to Coney Island, compared to last year, when we were stopping in weekly to photograph the Thor Equities tear downs and land clearance. Indy Rob Leddy posted this photo by David Gratt on the Coney Island Message Board of the work going on to renovate the building that […]

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There’s a meeting on “What’s Going on at Public Place?” tonight in Carroll Gardens. The city is in the process of selecting a developer for the big project on one of the city’s most toxic parcels slated for development. The development could include 1,000 or more units of housing and buildings 10-12 stories tall. The […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images:Pols Say Closing Bay Ridge Hospital Will Kill People [NYDN]Housing Official “Curiously Unconcerned” About Atlantic Yard’s Funding [AYR]History at 68 Hicks [Brooklyn Heights Blog]Yes, Nathan’s Hot Dog Vending Machines [Kinetic Carnival]Bowling at Maple Lanes [Brooklynometry]Kensington 2008 CSA Sign Up [Kensingston (Brooklyn)]Early Map of the Mouth of […]

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A nice group showed up for the Greening Flatbush event yesterday. “It was the inaugural event for the Gardening Committee of Sustainable Flatbush, and we’re all pretty pleased with ourselves.” There was News 12 coverage and a full photoset is here.–Flatbush Gardener

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Our terrific Carroll Gardens Correspondent sent us a photo of this handmade sign/poetry on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope. We’ve seen many, many signs regarding crap and believe this one’s been around a while, but it gets points for rhyming “species” with “feces.”

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This once comfy armchair got some snow on Friday and has since gotten some trashed tossed on top. It comes from Eldert Street in Bushwick and is, of course, from the roaming camera of Miss Heather.

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$8,000 in rent for the summer will get your a “great spot opposite WONDER WHEEL. Very busy location. Rent includes all utilities. Perfect for game or novelties. Rent payable in 3 installments. Season ends Sept. 30th.”–Craigslist

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All of these signs at Lewis Avenue and Hancock Street have seen better days, as documented by Miss Heather.

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It will be sunny today with a predicted high of 47 and skies shifting to party cloudy as the day goes on in advance of some precipitation. It will feel like 50. Tonight, look for increasing clouds with “a bit of snow toward dawn.” The low will be 33. Tomorrow will be breezy with rain […]

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[Photos courtesy of Capt. Nemo/Coney Island Message Board] It definitely looks like, having cleared amusements and tenants from their Coney Island land in 2007, developer Joe Sitt and Thor Equities are looking to generate some revenue from it in 2008. Whether this turns out to be good news for Coney Island remains to be seen–it […]

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We don’t know what was up on the L Train on Thursday, but clearly something was in the air. In looking for our weekly Sunday Brooklyn Craigslist Missed Connection, we found these two posts that were made with the same 24-hour time span: Twilight zone serenade on the L train Thurs Eve – w4m – […]

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