Every week, we like to take a look at comments left during the previous seven days and highlight a few. Here are this week’s selections: Carroll Gardens News: Monteleone’s Up for Sale. “The true Monteleone’s died back in 2006 when they shuttered it for renovation. That place was a gem, and the people who worked […]

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Here’s a very short Brookvid of snow falling on Sunday morning around Prospect Park.

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Forget redoing the new lighting at the Parachute Jump or returning it to use as a ride. It’s already a favorite spot for peregrine falcons. “The unused steel tower is a favorite perch for the local peregrines…it was during my first or second game that I discovered the raptor’s choice perch. Our seats were along […]

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Here are some vids of the Great Snow Storm of 2008 as seen in Brooklyn and posted to YouTube:

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Earlier in the week, we noted the big book sale at Park Slope United Methodist Church this weekend, but we got another email from them about tomorrow’s continuation of the sale, so why not? Here’s what they have to say: We had so many books this year that we were only able to put a […]

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Our wonderful Carroll Gardens Correspondent has been out and about, pointing a camera at things this weekend. This photo of loading dock, with snow and “Death is Upon You” message comes from Bond and Fourth Street.

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Meet Agate Court in Bed-Stuy [NYT] Fields Fine Wine and Spirits Moves on in Windsor Terrace [DITHOB] Memoirs at Brooklyn Reading Works [OTBKB] Memorializing Spot [Flatbush Gardener] Live in Park Slope, Commute to Long Island [NYT] Coney Defends Democracy During WWII [Kinetic Carnival] No Mikva, […]

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This isn’t so much a video as a collection of still shots–many of them quite lovely–of Coney Island set to a favorite Coney song, Death Cab for Cutie’s “Coney Island.”

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The Prospect Park Zoo now has a rare red panda, who is an immigrant from a zoo in Michigan. Mao Mi move to Brooklyn as part of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s breeding program. “Red pandas are endangered, and Mao Mi is part of a Wildlife Conservation Society breeding program that’s trying to ensure the survival […]

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[Photo courtesy of Mirabelle Studios] We’ve run several of the gorgeous snow shots sent to us by sculptor, artist and photographer Gary Mirabelle since Friday. This is the last of them. It was shot in Windsor Terrace, and it is just as beautiful as the others.

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Sunny today with a high of 41. It will feel like 43. Clear with a low of 30 tonight. Sunset is 5:41PM. Tomorrow will be sunny to partly cloudy with a high of 48. Rain and snow late on Monday night, with rain on Tuesday and temperature in the 40s.–Accuweather

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This battered bit of signage come from Dodworth and Broadway in Bushwick via the roving camera of Miss Heather. We’re not sure what we like more–the sign or the street lamp around which it is wrapped.

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A bunch of cool Coney photos, many of which look like they were shot from a cherry picker on the boardwalk on a foggy day, are finally online along with a short essay on Coney Island. A sample: “Like most oceanfront real estate, Coney Island has forever attracted self-anointed improvers with all manner of motives. […]

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The award for some of the most depressing local news we saw yesterday comes courtesy of Lost City, which came across a sale listing for Monteleone’s on Court Street. Fans of cannoli, cheesecake and little pastries might remember that the bakery only reopened last year after much mystery and drama. Now it’s up for sale. […]

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NYPD Was On The Scene Too., originally uploaded by woodendesigner. Anyone that was out last night on Smith Street near Atlantic Avenue (and certainly anyone that was there when it happened) probably noticed a huge commotion. It was the aftermath of a police chase that started in Newark, crossed New Jersey into Manhattan, and ended […]

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[Photo courtesy of Joe Holmes/flickr] This is a photo of snow on the Gowanus from photographer Joe Holmes that we found while looking at snow pics on flickr. It’s a great pic, but what’s even more s interesting about it, though, is what is in the description. Mr. Holmes, whose photoblog Joe’s NYC is very […]

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Here’s this week’s adoptable pet of the week. We’re going to be featuring animals available for adoption at the Sean Casey Animal Rescue shelter in Kensington either every week or something close to that. If we help one kind soul hook up with one dog, cat or other creature in need of a home, we’ll […]

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It’s nice to be able to note on a Saturday morning when it’s gray and slushy outside that the big Coney Island event known as the Mermaid Parade has been scheduled for Saturday, June 21 this year. All relevant details to follow as time goes on.

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[Cool Gowanus photo courtesy of jpchan/flickr] Brooklinks is a selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Very Visual: Admiral’s Row in Winter [Blue Jake] Backyard in Snow [A Brooklyn Life] Regular [Park Slope Street Photography] Jogger [Atomische] Snowy Dumbo [Dumbo NYC] Sheepshead Bay No. 8 [seriously excited!] Leffert’s Homestead [Dope on the Slope] Space Invader [A […]

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The first significant snow of the season had a lot of people outside yesterday recording the images with their cameras. There are 609 photos on flickr tagged “Brooklyn Snow” since yesterday. We’ve selected a handful and could have devoted pages of shots to the cool photos. Enjoy. Coney Island, courtesy of BlueGoa../flickr Crown Heights, courtesy […]

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Support for saving the Brooklyn Heights lobster sign is growing. A candidate for the State Senate even suppors preserving it, telling “BHB exclusively that the sign for Armando’s Restaurant, a fixture on the block since 1936, should be saved. Squadron tells BHB exclusively via Facebook, “I urge the next tenant or a neighboring establishment to […]

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[Photo courtesy of Mirabelle Studios] This gorgeous snow shot from Prospect Park comes to us from the camera of sculptor, artist and photographer Gary Mirabelle who is a regular GL photo contributor and whose work we love to feature. Check out a couple of other shots he sent us recently here and here.

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“Does this sweet pup look familiar? She was found in Greenpoint and has a collar. If you know who owns her, please email this guy and let him know so she can go home.”–Bad Advice

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These signs at Beard and Dwight Street in Red Hook, across the street from the big Ikea site, looks like they’ve taken it on the chin from construction in the last couple of months. If one were into cheesy humor, one might say they were bent out of shape about their big blue-and-yellow friend.

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Some people are up in arms about honey mustard colored awning added to the Park Slope McDonalds on Ninth Street. The interesting question is, is it any worse than the Avon 9th Street, “a small neighborhood movie house which stood on 9th Street between 4th and 5th Avenues in Park Slope. It ran double features […]

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