We have seen many raccoons sauntering around Brooklyn, but we’re always amused by tales of raccoon sightings and reactions to them. This email comes from the Boerum Hill group on Yahoo: I saw a large raccoon last night, proceeding calmly down the south side of State between Smith and Hoyt, going up and down each […]

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The redesign of 360 Smith Street unveiled last week at a Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association meeting by the developer, Billy Stein, continues to elicit reaction from residents. The CORD group, which was formed after original renderings or the Robert Scarano-designed “Heavy Metal” building were posted last May, offered up a photoshopped view of Second Place […]

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Remember when it snowed on President’s Day? It was 2003.

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There’s been a matzo factory fire on Kent Avenue near Flushing. The blaze shows up on Gothamist Maps as a three alarm fire and an AP report on 1010WINS says that “a fire in a building along the Brooklyn waterfront erupted in a basement that contained a matzo bakery” and that it “is not far […]

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Happy President’s Day, circa 2003: “Brooklyn Vagrant” Rescues Father, Two Sons from Blaze [NYP] Will Vince Carter Now Step Up for Atlantic Yards? [AYR] Another Ocean Avenue Building Coming Down [Hawthorne Street] Salvage Fest ’07 Photos [Brownstoner] Lost on Madison Street in Bed-Stuy [New York Shitty] Miss Brooklyn is Back [Gothamist] Sun Sets on Red […]

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“A Brooklyn agency that’s supposed to help the disabled spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money on fancy cars, flat-panel TVs, business trips and a $100,000 no-show job for the director’s close friend, a report charges. Despite the scathing findings, the Sunset Park group’s longtime executive director, Seibert Phillips – who lied about […]

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Every week, we take a look at a few comments left during the previous seven days by GL readers. Here are a couple from the last week for this President’s Day: Bklink: Terrorist Photographers. “It’s fun to imagine witty replies to such coercive tactics, such as “Is this a police state” “Are you a fascist?” […]

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This isn’t strictly a street couch in the sense of being out in the street because it’s unwanted or put there for the purpose of seating, but today is President’s Day and this “Sofe & Love” special for $279 definitely fits. It comes from Graham Avenue in East Williamsburg and comes to us thanks to […]

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The Purchase Building under the Brooklyn Bridge is one of the first structures slated to come down as part of construction of Brooklyn Bridge Park. The building is now empty, so the police blockade of New Dock Street next to it is done too. Sadly, you still can’t get to the Esplanade on the water, […]

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This is the corner of N. 8 Street and Roebling. We have previously featured the stop sign in question, but it’s been joined by a “Lift Plow Blade” sign. The challenge, however, is seeing them through the construction scaffolding at the Karl Fischer building on the corner. Bricks now stacked in street make the game […]

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As we noted, weeks ago when the reports of credit card fraud hitting Park Slope residents started to surface, Detective Tony Shy at the 78th Precinct is investigating. An email that someone forwarded to us via the Park Slope Parents list urges “the 500 of you who have experienced the fraud charges on your cards […]

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The corner of 23rd Street and Seventh Avenue looks bad enough because of the longstanding construction site that was to be the Minerva Building, but the burned carcass of a what might have been a Hyundai Rav 4 has been added to the mix. The car went up on Friday night and, of course, the […]

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This is a video from Aaron Brashear of Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights showing a vehicle that went up in flames on 23rd Street at Seventh Avene on Friday night. The vehicle went up in flames next to the site of the former Minerva Building, which itself entertained with dangerous-looking work a couple of weeks […]

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When a man notices a woman, it doesn’t matter that she almost ran him down when fleeing a bar. Attraction is attraction. The evidence is right here in our Brooklyn Missed Connection of the week, which comes to us from Bay Ridge: You almost ran me over!!! – m4w – 38 I noticed you last […]

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Yesterday, we first reported a new tale of credit card fraud from Park Slope. By yesterday evening we found another new report added to the long, long list of cases reported at Brooklynian: “Hate to bring this up again, but the same thing happened to me recently, so it’s still going on. In my case […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Today, we wish a happy, happy Fifth Birthday to our friends at Gothamist, who wrote the book on New York City blogging and online news: Gothamist Turns Five!!! [Gothamist] Mums the Word on Ratner Money to Democratic “Slush Fund” [No Land Grab] NYDN Grudgingly Prints […]

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Prospect Park in Light Snow from rsguskind on Vimeo.

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This very chill German Shepard has been a resident of this back yard on Wythe Avenue for many, many years. Recently someone added a sign asking that he not be feed by strangers as he eats a lot and has dietary restrictions. Lack of food is not one of his problems, then, although the backyard […]

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“Speaking of shit that stinks,” nothing smells worse that finding a photo that you took and annotated on a rotten, thieving website that even has tosses their own watermark on your (annotated) photo.”Unfettered by such vagaries as copyright law or intellectual property they saw fit to neither link to the site where this photograph came […]

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This is S. 6 Street in Williamsburg near Broadway and Bedford. It has changed significantly in the last two years ago, one of the major changes being the complete overhauls of the gorgeous buildings on the right. One tenant is the Soma Fitness Club and the other is the restaurant, Viñas.

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This week’s taste of snow led to to think about previous Brooklyn snowfalls in previous years. Here are some vids:

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“I am looking for a woman who marched in the Mermaid Parade in 2007. White, early-mid thirties, light brown hair, VERY PREGNANT. She’d painted her belly to look like the planet Earth. My friend took a gorgeous picture of her and I am DYING to use it for a photo/visual art project I’m producing, but […]

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This “Stop Ahead” sign entangled in construction goodness is on N. 5 Street in Williamsburg. It’s actually across the street from the Sign at Rest we featured yesterday. This one doesn’t rest. It perseveres.

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Check out Eagle Provisions, an old store on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope south of the Prospect Expressway, and while you’re at it, do not miss the way cool mural on the side of the building. The local landmark offers “epicurian delights from around the world.”–Fading Ad Blog

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We wondered why nobody was working at the site of the Modern, the controversial Burg building on N. 7 Street, when we passed by last weeked. Now we know why: the building was hit with another Stop Work Order. This time, the trouble is that it was causing damage to a neighboring building “causing water […]

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