There will be a craft fair outside John Jay High School on Seventh Ave. in Park Slope on Saturday, March 22, hosted by the Secondary School for Research PTA. It will take place from 10AM-4PM. The school is located in John Jay. Here’s what an email about them says, in part: The Secondary School for […]

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Well, this is probably more “street seating” than a street couch and it’s in much better shape than some of the sofas we’ve featured. In any case, it’s from Sudyam Street in Bushwick and comes from our traveling correspondent, Miss Heather.

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Soon, it will be time for an entire new round of stories about how screwed we will all be when a major hurricane hits New York City. (Yes, we said when, not if.) In the meantime, anyone that wants to read how generally screwed Brooklyn and various parts of the city will be in general […]

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This very stickered sign comes from Williamsburg on Union Avenue near the BQE. It used to call on drivers to keep the intersection clear.

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Today’s Brooklyn weather forecast calls for “clouds yielding to sun” with a high of 49 degrees. Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low of 37. The long-range forecast shows a possibility of clouds and perhaps some rain starting on Friday.–Accuweather

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It’s nice to be able to report some wonderful news via Eater: the Red Hook Taco Vendors have been awarded a six-year permit to operate at the Red Hook Ballfields. The announcement came this afternoon from the Parks Department. Our friends at Eater have the full text of the press release. Most of last year […]

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Seventh Avenue’s Sotte Voce is opening not one, but two, new spinoffs on Fifth Avenue in coming months, per our friends at Brownstoner. “Within the next month they’re going to open a bistro called Aperitivo on the corner of 1st street…One of Sotto’s managers says Aperitivo is going to be open from early morning to […]

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One gets the feeling that very little is going to happen at the 360 Smith development that will not be noticed. Over the weekend, we got an email that said “Work went on at 360 without the MTA knowing. The arrangement is that the MTA is ALWAYS supposed to know when work happens at 360.” […]

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Does Brooklyn Bridge Park have more trouble on its hands? Yes, it does. The latest issue, revealed in today’s Post, is objections from the Department of Environmental Conservation to many of the park’s water features. DEC says they could harm aquatic life. Negotiations are underway.–Curbed

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Yesterday, we updated the story we first ran on Friday that a reader had sent about the appearance of one-way signs on Fifth Avenue in Sunset Park. As it turned out info was on the MTA/New York City Transit website in the context of the B63 bus being rerouted going northbound. A reader left another […]

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If you live on Boerum Hill and you were waiting for your mail last week, there is a chance that it didn’t show up on several days. We saw a significant number of emails complaining about skipped deliveries, including one who was counting the number of days that her New Yorker was overdue. Here’s the […]

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It would be tempting to blame the wind for opening up the construction site at 208 N. 10 to public access yesterday, but it would be wrong. In point of fact, we have found the site wide open more times than we have found it closed over the last six months. The only surprise yesterday […]

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We have written about 1000 Manhattan Avenue before. Now, there is an entire story attached to it: “Two crossing steel beams—one apparently holding up the other—were placed against the building’s façade and onto the sidewalk. At the end of the beam, which is wrapped in yellow caution tape, there is a mysterious wooden box…At first […]

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The Childs Building in Coney Island, which will host a roller rink this summer operated by Lola Staar, is one of the most significant surviving structures from the “old” Coney Island. Taconic Development has a long-term lease on the landmarked building and has pledged to restore it. It was built in 1923 to house a […]

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“One corner of Brooklyn likes its hookers – and wants to keep them happy. On the streets of Red Hook Sunday, old-timers and newcomers alike said the FDNY should ease up on Engine 279/Ladder 131, whose firefighters call themselves the Happy Hookers. FDNY brass ordered the station to change its nickname and logo two years […]

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We’re bored with 33 Roebling, the wide-open Williamsburg site that has become a neighborhood dumping ground. (Was it only a couple of weeks ago that we had an item about the DOB violation it got?) In any case, the wind on Saturday night delivered a death blow to the crapshow of a “fence” around the […]

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Bank of America has finally affixed its name to the storefront it is taking over with a new branch bank on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope. The corner used to house a Gothic Cabinet Craft store and the space extends into the former D’Agostino’s supermarket space. The wood outside was painted red a couple of […]

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Way back when, a building with a laundromat on Court Street in Carroll Gardens that is now up for sale, housed a Dairy Queen and a KFC. Does that mean that Court St. was de-chainified for a time only to have the chains coming back with vengeance now?–PMFA

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One would think that developers that can pay $20 million for a property on Union Avenue in Williamsburg can afford a few thousand dollars for a fence that isn’t held together with spit and glue or can, at least, afford to send over a dude with a hammer and some nails to put it back […]

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The reviews are coming in for the two spots that opened this weekend in the Slope. Of ‘sNice on Fifth Avenue Slopehead writes, “Simply put, this place is a godsend for anyone with vegetarian inclinations. Evidently there are a lot of people like that in the neighborhood because the place was packed. Food was delicious […]

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The trash cans at Coney Island will likely be more colorful again this year. There’s going to be a “Trash Barrel Design and Painting Contest” on the boardwalk on April 5. The Coney Island USA website has some brief information about it, calling it “Boardwalk Barrels of Fun!” It will happen on the Boardwalk at […]

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The one and only Kevin Walsh, whose Forgotten NY is one of the truly superb New York City websites, visits Dyker Heights, the Brooklyn neighborhood best known for its over-the-top displays of Christmas Lights. The visit is during daylight hours and not during the holidays, so Mr. Walsh shows a different side of the neighborhood […]

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There’s a meeting coming up this week “to strategize about stopping the Department of Education (DOE) school budget cuts.” It’s on Thursday (3/13) and we got an email about it from “Friends of Bill de Blasio.” Here’s a bit from the email: I want to inform you about a meeting we are organizing on March […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: The Miss Brooklyn Switch: Less Density & More Public Revenue? [AYR] Some People Missed the Daylight Savings Thing Yesterday [NYDN] “A Published Report” Says Group Bidding to Buy Starrett City [NYP] “Weasley Response” on Red Hook Vendors from Parks Dept. [Lost City] At the Brooklyn […]

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N. 5th & Berry Streets, with (what else?) a Karl Fischer building in the background.

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