Things are coming along well in the Gowanus Hotel Row, ie President Street between Third and Fourth Avenues. The new hotel at President & Third is taking shape and demolition permits are out for properties up the street where SAI is building two hotels. The day is coming when there’s a very good chance mom […]

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Everyone can breath easier today. Last week, we noted that Purity Diner on Seventh Avenue was papered up with a sign in the window saying it was closed for renovations until March 13. Yesterday, it was open again, insuring the supply of dinerlike food across Seventh Street from Methodist Hospital.

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Cross Frank Gehry off the list of people born in Brooklyn. Because he was born in Canada. The Atlantic Yards architect’s birthplace has never been a mystery, but according to the Forest City Ratner website for the project, Mr. Gehry had morphed from being a product of Canada to being a Brooklyn native. At least, […]

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Brooklyn Industries completed its takeover of the corner of Seventh Avenue and Ninth Street in the last few days and now occupies two storefronts at the busy intersection. Urban Optical, which used to be in the corner location, has moved to an adjacent storefront.

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The building at 48 Box Street continues to be a miracle of virtually immaculate construction. Having been hit by a series of Stop Work Orders, the building has still gone up rather nicely and might even be called a “masterpiece of illegal construction.” It’s friend at 95 Clay Street, on the other hand, hasn’t even […]

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This is the tote bag that Urban Outfitters was giving out with purchases at its new Atlantic Avenue store yesterday as posted by our friends at Racked. (Images of the store, which is apparently not very stroller friendly, here.) It continues the odd advertising approach of the posters that have popped up, in fact, taking […]

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[Photo courtesy of GL’s Carroll Gardens Correspondent] Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Brooklyn Assemblywoman’s Bribery Trial Start [Sun] Residential Permit Plan Advances [AYR] Brooklyn Boy Accidentally Shot in Head [NYDN] New Law Lets Tenants Sue Over Harassment [NYT] Former ESDC Chair Charles Gargano Won’t Be Ambassador to Austria [Sun] Spring […]

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The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy sent out an email blast yesterday afternoon with this photo and the title “Brooklyn Bridge Park is on the Move!” Pre-demolition work has been ongoing for weeks, with a lot of trees on the property being cut down and other site clearance activity going on. This is Pier One coming […]

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Check out the lowdown on Jack, which is an “occasional restaurant” that is open for one seating at 7 pm on Saturday nights, every other week or so. It’s at the Brooklyn Lyceum with a fixed multi-course tasting menu that changes each time. If the photo of the apple in the cardamom wine doesn’t intrigue […]

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From Seventh Avenue in Park Slope come big buds on the tress. Of course, it was pretty cold yesterday when we took the photo, but no matter, the trees are starting to bud.

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This survey isn’t intended to determine whether people want a 20-story glass tower in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens but what they’d like to see there if it’s built. “The ground floor of the building will most likely be a major retailer or a bank. (This is a premium space that will price out most restaurants and smaller […]

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We’re probably going to start running a whole series of “Street Bikes,” but for today, here’s some very basic transportation distilled to its essence from N. 10 Street in Williamsburg.

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If you’re looking for something to do, we highly recommend this list of suggestions and info about things that are coming up over the next few weeks.–Brooklyn Based

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They’re not street couches per se in the sense of being discarded or put out on the sidewalk to sit on, but they’re definitely the Street Couches of 2015 through 2050, depending. Miss Heather captured this glimpse of the Street Couches of the future on McKibben Street in Bushwick.

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No blue skies or sun at the Brooklyn observatory today. The forecast calls for overcast skies with showers this afternoon and a high of 55. Tonight will be rainy with a low of 42. There is rain in the forecast for parts of both Saturday and Sunday, though nothing like last weekend’s deluge.–Accuweather

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As Brooklyn neighborhoods go, Park Slope probably has less weird buildings–ones that are beacons of abandonment in blocks of well kept buildings–than many neighborhoods. This is probably because property values are so high that they can overwhelm even eccentricity, family squabbles and struggles over property ownership. The two most well-known examples, ironically, are within a […]

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The GL reader that originally let us know that one-way signs had been put up on Fifth Avenue in Sunset Park, which led to more information about the big dig, found more info about the project. As it turns out it was supposed to start last summer and won’t be finished until sometime in 2010. […]

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The signs are up. The former Maggie Moo’s space on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope–aka the Storefront of Death–is going to be a “high end” nail salon called Dashing Diva, the nail salon part of the equation having been scooped last week by OTBKB. Will it crash and burn like everything else to move into […]

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Mayor Bloomberg and Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan announced a Residential Parking Permit proposal yesterday. They held a press conference in Boerum Hill that ended up taking place at the same time as Gov. Spitzer’s resignation speech. They used it to announce a new residential parking permit plan that will be part of congestion pricing legislation. […]

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The Clarrett Group got its first Stop Work Order at 340 Court Street on Friday. The development was noted on the Union-Sackett Block Association blog. The blog said, “If you witness work being done on the site before the Stop Work Order is lifted, or that is unrelated to the resolution of the protective netting […]

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The “Scoping Hearing” for the big, proposed Toll Brothers Gowanus development is today (3/13). There are two sessions, one from 2PM-5:30PM and the other from 6PM-8:45PM. It will take place at 22 Reade Street. Attendees can make statements of up to three minutes about the project and written statements can also be submitted through March […]

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“Sunday while I was at the point, the parks department was summonsing some paintballers, and as I was taking pictures of them, this woman who never identified herself (pictured above) said “Excuse me you can’t take pictures of officers doing their jobs“. I responded by saying that Yes I can, that’s your misinformed opinion. Nothing […]

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At first glance, 197-a looks like one more addition to the alphabet soup of bureaucratic programs and acronyms and reminds one of 421-a. Both are important parts of how business is done in neighborhoods around the city, and particularly around Brooklyn. Yesterday Brownstoner noted that 197-a would get some teeth under a new bill introduced […]

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From Atlantic Yards Report: “If you have $1000 or more to spend, you can attend the Brooklyn Museum’s Brooklyn Ball 2008 on April 3, honoring developer Bruce Ratner and celebrating the opening of an exhibition billed as “the most comprehensive retrospective to date of the work of internationally acclaimed Japanese artist Takashi Murakami.”

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Anyone with a hankering for some Atlantic Yards discussion has another chance tonight. There will be an update on Atlantic Yards tonight (3/13) that is expected to draw some public officials. The session will cover the status of Atlantic Yards litigation as well as the financing issues around the development in a very changed economic […]

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