Is the Kent Avenue Power Plant near the Brooklyn Navy Yard being prepped for demolition so the site can be developed? Williamsburg blogger INSIJS offered up an excellent piece of reporting that strongly suggests that demolition of the historic building is a distinct possibility. While Con Ed, which owns the property, told INSIJS that it […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Mayor Offers Permit Parking [NYT] Incoming Gov. Paterson Protested Eminent Domain in 2005 [AYR] Construction Worker Crushed to Death in East New York [NYDN] Construction Worker Killed in Wall Collapse [NYT] Urban Green Finally Gets Green Light [Brownstoner] An Interview with Coney Island’s Dick Zigun […]

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NYS Politics: A Brand New Day [DITHOB] On Spitzer [Brooklyn Junction] What Will Be Spitzer’s Second Act? [OTBKB] It’s Not Unusual: NY Screwing You [Duffield St. Underground] “They Tell Me This Spitzer Guy Resigned” [Brooklyn Streets] Two Missed Morsels in the Feeding Frenzy [Brooklyn Optimist] Real Estate “Angst” About Paterson to Extend to Atlantic Yards […]

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This poster for the new Urban Outfitters opening on Atlantic Avenue today was found and posted by Gothamist yesterday, which means most readers have probably seen it. For those that haven’t, behold the odd mishmash of Brooklyn images the retailer has thrown together. Gothamist called it “bizarre” and “befuddling.”

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We’re sad to find that the Greenpoint blog 11222 is shutting down. The blogger writes, “It is with regret I announce that I plan to take 11222 down within the month. When I first started the blog, I imagined no end of things I wished to write about. I probably still wish to write about […]

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No, it’s not exactly street couch and it’s probably not even part of a sectional, but this golden beauty epitomizes luxurious street furniture in a suburban Memphis, circa 1981, kind of way. It is purely Street Lounge quality. We found it on N. 1 Street while checking out the big Karl Fischer construction site and […]

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Want to see a “Band Organ Rally”? Sunday is your moment. Coney Island USA and the Lady Liberty Chapter of the Automated Musical Instrument Collectors’ Association are helping kick off the Coney Island season with its annual Band Organ Rally. It takes place on Sunday, March 16 from Noon to 4:30PM at Sideshows by the […]

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[Image courtesy of GL’s Carroll Gardens Correspondent] This image from Van Brunt Street comes from our wonderful Carroll Gardens. Easter decorations are clear signs that the winter is almost over.

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There’s a Purim Carnival coming up in Park Slope on Sunday, March 16 from 12:30-2:00PM. Here’s a bit from an email about it: Bring your kids to Park Slope Jewish Center’s incredible Purim Carnival on Sunday, March 16th, from 12:30–2:00 p.m., followed by a sing-along with the fabulously fun, Jody Prusan, for kids aged 2-6 […]

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If you were one of the people hoping that all that ground floor space in the Novo Park Slope on Fourth Avenue (which many people have compared aesthetically to a psychiatric facility, hospital or dorm) was going to be a restaurant or retailer, you are SOL. It’s going to be an ambulatory care facility for […]

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Sometimes, it’s the “private” no parking signs that suffer the most interesting fates. We like the written over No Parking and the dog sticker. It’s from Williamsburg.

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The word from the Brooklyn weather center is that today will be a day of blending of sun and clouds, with sun predominating at times. The high will be 49. Tonight might feature a passing shower, with a low of 42. Otherwise, look for a wet Friday and Saturday here in the Kings County homeland.–Accuweather

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Borough President Marty Markowitz’s statement on the resignation of Gov. Eliot Spitzer: “In what can only be called a personal failure and tragedy, Governor Spitzer leaves office with great promise unfulfilled…I join all Brooklynites and New Yorkers in supporting our soon-to-be-Governor David Paterson. David and I served together in the Senate, and I have no […]

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Right up front: any tip we receive that talks about a storage facility collapsing due to the weight of 20,000 pounds of chopsticks is guaranteed to get our total attention. A big self-storage facility near the BQE in Wallabout that a number of evicted 475 Kent residents were using apparently suffered a partial structural collapse […]

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It looks like Urban Outfitters, which is opening a new store on Atlantic Avenue, has tried to hit a whole bunch of Brooklyn images and themes with the poster it has distributed locally. Think Wonder Wheel, L Train, Dumbo the Elephant, Jay-Z, Welcome Back Kotter, the Domino Plant, etc., etc. Also, think cut outs on […]

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As noted, Mayor Bloomberg held a press conference this morning in Boerum Hill to announce a new residential parking permit plan proposal as part of congestion pricing. He was joined by Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan. The press conference took place at about the time Gov. Spitzer was announcing his resignation. Per a […]

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A new bill being introduced in the City Council could give some teeth to community-based planning for rezoning and other initiatives. The legislation, which is an offshoot of a Municipal Art Society effort, would give extend the influence of what are known as 197-a plans. Currently, the plans developed by the community have no legislative […]

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As we’ve previously noted, there will be a forum tomorrow night (3/13) on Dept. of Education Budget cuts. A group called Friends of Bill de Blasio has sent out another big email blast today about the session to “bring together members of the community to strategize about stopping the Department Of Education (DOE) school budget […]

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The Mayor’s press schedule for today only says that Mayor Bloomberg will be making an announcement at Bergen and Bond Streets this morning at 11:30AM. The announcement, however, is one of interest: The Mayor and DOT Commissioner will announce “residential parking permits as part of congestion pricing.” It is unknown right now which neighborhoods will […]

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The graffiti annotator of Fourth Avenue has struck again. This annotated graffiti comes from a building site at the corner or of Sixth Street and Fourth Avenue, but the interesting thing about it is that it appears to the be the work of the same person who used to annotate graffiti left outside the Novo […]

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“Now comes the hard part for the plucky Red Hook taco vendors. A day after city officials announced the popular food stands won the right to stay in the Red Hook Ball Fields for six more years, vendors are scrambling to find as much as $30,000 needed per stand for professional food trucks to bring […]

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The Dreamland Roller Rink is opening March 22 at the historic Childs Building in Coney Island. The opening event is an invite-only party that sounds like it will be a blast. Here’s some info from Dianna Carlin (aka Lola Staar, in a picture from her website of her on skates in front of the Childs […]

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What where you thinking handing out your logo stickers? Where did you think they would end up? They are so annoying. They are everywhere on Smith and beyond. On every parking meter pole, on every public telephone, even on traffic signs…Please stop handing them out. And if you placed them around the neighborhood yourself, shame […]

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This is the shell of an old poultry market on Union Street in Red Hook just off Columbia. Our Carroll Gardens correspondent sent us these shots of the storefront and gutted interior. The space is on the market for $950,000. Perhaps the condo could be called The Feather.

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“The Department of City of Planning has the rezoning of ‘East Greenpoint’ next on their list…a large 170+ block area east of the BQE…City Planning has promised to have the larger rezoning (covering an area roughly from Maujer Street north to Newtown Creek) into the public review process by Autumn of this year.”–WGPA

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