Community Supported Agriculture, or CSA, is coming to Flatbush. “Shayna Lewis, last year’s market manager at the Cortelyou Rd. farmers’ market, is working with one of the farmers from that market, Jorge Carmona from Amantai Farm, to start a CSA in the neighborhood. They’ve already got 20 members signed up and their goal is 40. […]

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This long and once proud sofa comes from Greenpoint and is, as one would expect, from our Greenpoint Correspondent. Miss Heather found it on Franklin Street.

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Yes, there’s hope on Coney Island Avenue. Also, there are ads from Orange Outdoor Advertising Inc., known for some ads on Atlantic and Nevins years back.–Fading Ad Blog

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Sixth Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn

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Here is some info about upcoming Brooklyn Community Board meetings for the rest of this week as well as next week from the list compiled by the Daily News: Community Board 4 (Bushwick) will hold its regular monthly meeting at 6 p.m. on Feb. 20, at Hope Gardens Senior Citizens Center at 195 Linden St. […]

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Will Gowanus and Carroll Gardens community activists find new common ground? Last week, we broke the news about the major Toll Brothers development in Gowanus here and on Curbed as part of documents filed as part of the process of seeking a rezoning for the project. The scale of the development and the fact that […]

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Work is starting on the Fifth Avenue Committee’s Supportive Housing Development in the South Slope at 575 Fifth Avenue. From an email circulating via the South Slope email list: “They have taken out the pay-meter and all the signage and also closed off the entrances with plywood. Just what we need — more construction on […]

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Has the Fashion Cafe on Seventh Avenue at 16th Street sold its last shirt and cappucino? It appears so. Someone who’s clothes were being sold at the Slope spot writes: “The Fashion Cafe on 7th Avenue 17th street was carrying a bunch of my clothing on consignment. Unfortunately they closed without having the courtesy to […]

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[Photo courtesy of Capt Nemo/Coney Island Message Board] Coney Island watchers might remember that one of the first things that got the bulldozer treatment after developer Joe Sitt and Thor Equities bought up land in Coney Island was the ragtag assortment of stands on Stillwell Avenue between the boardwalk and Surf Avenue. Some sold food. […]

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There are some Park Slope things to catch up on, from the Fifth Avenue side: 1) Earth Tonez, a new veggie and vegan cafe, is open at 349 Fifth Avenue, between Fourth and Fifth Streets. The menus leans toward sandwiches and wraps, plus veggie burgers and salads. There’s also a pretty complete vegan dessert selection. […]

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We don’t know if cases of vandalism and weirdness like people taking craps on the street are more common to Boerum Hill than some Brooklyn neighborhoods or if we just happen to catch more of the emails, but here’s a little story about a rock going through someone’s window from the Boerum Hill Yahoo group’s […]

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The Coney story and photos that were published in print last week is finally online. “Kitsch nixes nostalgia. A pleasure strand designated for adolescent amusement, did it experience an adolescence of its own? Perhaps a century and a half ago, when it was still a hunting ground for the ubiquitous rabbits that gave it its […]

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Two of the biggest new buildings to go up so far on the South Side of Williamsburg are nearing completion. The building on the left, which is on S. 4th Street (and has a glorious view of cars trying to get on to the Williamsburg Bridge) is a 12-story building with 46 units. It come […]

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Another day, another tale of a Prospect Heights mugging. “i heard shouting (thought it was just the regular shouting that comes from washington ave side of things) but realized it was a guy saying ‘fuck you! give me my bag back’ or something to that effect. he said he got punched in the face…a few […]

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To tell the truth, we don’t like the advertecture that’s been at the corner of N. 6 and Bedford Avenue for a while now. So, were interested to come upon the aftermath of a splashing on Sunday. The activity underway was a cleaning, however, and we’re sure that the ad was back in top shape […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Does Atlantic Yards Community Benefits Agreement Have Any Teeth? [AYR] Seven Competing to be Miss Brooklyn (the Person, Not the Building) [NYDN] India Street Park Meeting Today (2/19) [New York Shitty] Raccoons Running Wild in Green-Wood Cemetery [Gothamist] Kosher Soup Kitchen Branching Out [NYDN] Does […]

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The pile driver is gone from the future site of 33 Roebling, a perennial Construction Site du Jour due to the fastidious nature of the upkeep of the site, and a violation from the Department of Buildings led the developers to invest in better rope to keep the gate closed. Up next: a lock.

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We don’t know a lot about the session that’s being planned to talk about Brooklyn Bridge Park, but we do know that it sounds like it’s going to be interesting. Groups that are working to develop the park in a manner that is different from the official Empire State Development Corp. model are holding it. […]

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A Few Moments in Red Hook from rsguskind on Vimeo.A few moments by the water in Red Hook on President’s Day with a dramatic sky and harbor sounds.

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While it’s not strictly a “street couch,” it is compelling adaptive reuse of seating. Miss Heather who shot this on Graham Avenue in Williamsburg and sent it our way calls it “Car Seat with Fruit.”

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As of 7:30 this morning, the petition calling on the Mayor to allow the 200 residents of 475 Kent Avenue to return to their home had attracted 3,732 signatures. The reports yesterday describing a matzo factory fire early Monday morning as being “close” to 475 Kent were off by more than a mile. The fire […]

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We hope you know the way at Broadway and Madison in Bed-Stuy, because the sign tells you to, you know, go down. It comes from Miss Heather, special for GL.

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On Nov. 8, 1909, a celluloid comb factory at 150-152 Columbia Street was hit by a devastating fire that took ten lives. There were no fire escapes and workers couldn’t get out because of iron bars on the second floor windows. The owner committed suicide ten days later.–Fading Ad Blog

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Ah, another shoot going on in the Burg. This one is happening today on N. 6 Street at Kent Avenue.

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[Bottom photo courtesy of Captain Nemo, Coney Island Message Board] While the B&B Carousell itself was saved and will someday reappear as part of the city’s planned Steeplechase Plaza, the sign for it that has been on Surf Avenue since the days of Luna Park is now gone. It fell victim to a paint job […]

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