Snow adds an element of beauty and meaning to everything, including street furniture. This is the “Huron Street Comfy Chair.” It was captured by our Greenpoint Correspondent while she was out photographing Greenpoint blanketed in snow yesterday. Even the hanging sneakers look nicer.

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A wintry mix likely this morning. An upper level disturbance will impact the area through this morning. Acting upon abundant low level moisture already in place. This result will be a mixture of light snow and sleet showers and patchy freezing drizzle across the tri-state through the morning hours until surface temperatures finally rise above […]

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[Photo courtesy of Mirabelle Studios]Our regular photo contributor Gary Mirabelle has been out in the snow today too and sends this image and some others we will feature later.

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The snow is an excuse for some pretty photos of Park Slope around Prospect Park and the Park itself. In the meantime, Eugene Patron who informs about all things related to Prospect Park has sent out emails inviting everyone to bring their sleds to the park and have fun.

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Mark this building at 169 N. 10 Street as toast. It’s had a “development site for sale” sign up for a long time and it changed hands for more than $2 million. Demolition permits were issued recently, and the rat poison is out. It’s unclear what will go up there as no plans have been […]

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No, you don’t need us to tell you it’s actually snowing, but our Carroll Gardens Correspondent filed these pics bright and early this morning. They certainly capture a snowy Brooklyn Friday morning:

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This is the Gowanus Whole Foods site. We took advantage of its always open to the public status to shoot a bunch of photos. Some are below for viewing on this snowy Friday.

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The much-needed and quite impressive renovation of the New York Aquarium in Coney Island is being “watered down because of soaring costs,” according to Jotham Sederstrom in today’s Daily News. Earlier this week, Sarah Ryley of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle broke the story that the renovation had been put on the back burner because of […]

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We wrote this on Wednesday night, then posted some of it on Curbed at lunchtime. It was on Gawker later in the afternoon, which added a poll about whether people would live in Park Slope. (67 percent of the votes so far are for moving to Park Slope and 37 percent are for moving to […]

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We did a pass through the booming little corner of Brooklyn between Withers Street and the BQE around Humboldt this week to check on things. The neighborhood is teeming with new condos, but we will restrict ourselves here to updating the situation of the Monitor Street Sandwich. That would be the house back there that […]

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Thor Equities has hired a lawyer to represent it in negotiations with the city again a local Council Member’s declaration that the land swap proposed by the Bloomberg Administration “is dead.” The developments were reported this week by Sarah Ryley in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. The Thor lawyer is Jesse Maysr and a member of […]

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“…Winter storm warning remains in effect until 1AM EST Saturday. Moderate to occasionally heavy now will continue through the morning. Snow accumulations of 5 to 7 inches are expected..with the highest amounts to the north and west of NYC. The snow will then change over to a mixture of freezing rain…snow and sleet during the […]

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Someone gone through a lot of trouble to keep this thing, on Greenpoint Avenue between West and Franklin, together. For that we give them an A for effort. It goes without saying that this series of images comes from our Greenpoint correspondent.

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Atlantic Yards Affordable Housing Jeopardized by Funding “Crisis” [AYR] What’s Up at 588 Union Street? [Brownstoner] Meet Brooklyn Parks Commissioner Julius Spiegel [NYT] Crazy Super Gets Print Coverage After Heavy Blog Exposure [NYDN] Have Your “Paml” Read in Bay Ridge [Right in Bay Ridge] South […]

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The Federal government is going to try to figure out whether there is unexploded ordinance at the bottom of Gravesend Bay that might cause a very unwanted kind of boom on the Southern Brooklyn waterfront. The issue has come up in the context of plans to dredge the bay so the city can open up […]

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“The previously desolate concrete streets—Berry, Wythe, Kent—that I often traversed to catch the L train at Bedford Avenue are now packed with giggling outer-borough and outer-island 20- and 30-somethings on a night out, excited that they can enjoy Manhattan-esque nightlife and park their cars for free. Hip local teenagers roughhoused on a corner. Now the […]

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We have taken photos of this “New York is Dead” message before. Now, however, with the addition of the Kalmon Dolgin property for sale sign, it would seem to take on extra meaning.

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So, here’s an interesting sounding weekend “to do”: Pop Subversion: Food as Art? Ad Hoc Art Gallery and Wheeler’s Frozen Desserts are hosting an interactive food gala in Brooklyn on Sunday, February 24th at 1:30PM. The menu will include Platinum Patron margarita, Moet-Rose champagne, and Mojito sorbets as well as 5 other surprise flavors of […]

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[Photo courtesy of Charles Andrisano] Local photographer Charles Andrisano sent us this gorgeous shot of Wednesday night’s lunar eclipse as seen from a rooftop in Bay Ridge. The streaks in the photo are the lights of a commercial airliner that he says “had crossed under the moon just as I tripped the shutter.” We love […]

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Is the Terrapin Playground behind developer Shaya Boymelgreen’s Novo Park Slope–a space about which there has been much consternation–going to be ready in May? That is what the word is, although it’s hard to say that immense progress has occurred in the last couple of months.–Brownstoner

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This comes from Eckford and Manhattan Avenue via our Greenpoint Correspondent who said, “Perhaps they could relocated this one way sign to one of the many locations where said signs are defective.” Or, you know, fix the others.

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Generally, the rats are the first to know that something is up with a property. So, we were fascinated to find that 475 Driggs, the building that shares much of the block to the west of the Roebling Oil Field Warehouse 11 now has a bunch of those big black rat poison things and rat […]

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Is that cool makeover of the New York Aquarium dead? The Brooklyn Daily Eagle’s Sarah Ryley reports that it could be sinking and might have been one of the things behind Borough President Marty Markowitz’s call for a Brooklyn coup d’etat to takeover the aquarium’s board of directors. The text is posted on the Coney […]

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Although it doesn’t happen frequently, the bridges over the Gowanus Canal are opened and closed to let barges and other vessels through. (We were dumbfounded to find the Hamilton Avenue Bridge raised at the height of rush hour one day causing traffic to clot into an angry gridlock in all directions.) Here’s an email we […]

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It’s unclear what’s up with the future of the Manhattan Chocolate property at 568 Union Avenue in Williamsburg, but we know that it was sold for $20 million a couple of weeks ago. Yesterday, we noted the sale on Curbed. City records confirm a transfer from McCarren Estates LLC to 568 Union LLC. The previous […]

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