Here is our adoptable pet of the week. We’re featuring animals available for adoption at the Sean Casey Animal Rescue shelter in Kensington every week. If we help one kind soul hook up with one dog, cat or other creature in need of a home, we’ll be quite content. This is Domino. He is an […]

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“While out documenting the despicable demolition of the Ward Bread Bakery Building for Atlantic Yards, i noticed that some birds appeared to be building a nest, or have already built a nest, inside of a support pole on a lamp post on the corner of Dean Street and Carlton Avenue.” Check out the fight over […]

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Photographer Nate Kensinger, whose work we love and whose forays into places that are hard to access have brought us great visual joy, sent us some photos of a condo in Fort Greene called the Verdi on Adelphi. It has been featured many times by our friends at Brownstoner, who have not minced words about […]

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The first group to announce a bid for the huge Starrett City development is a community-based one made up of the Christian Cultural Center, the Central Labor Council, and the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty. They say the goal is keeping Starrett City affordable. The bid is said to be “well below” the $1.3 billion […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Visual Court Street Windows [Park Slope Street Photography] Soft Storm [Atomische] Urban Gravestones 3 [Bed-Stuy Banana] Gowanus Untitled [Elizabeth Weinberg/flickr] Borough of Found Toys [New York Shitty] Eye on Seventh Avenue [Brit in Brooklyn] Shack [Atomische] Coney Summer [Lornagrlphotos] Golden Hour [f.trainer/flickr] Less Visual Are […]

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[Courtesy of Eric Provost] Speaking of interesting effects on visual things like the Super8 shots of Coney Island in the vid below, Eric Provost, who supplies us with many wonderful photos, sent us this photo of Dumbo taken from the Manhattan Bridge that he processed using a “fake model photography” creation trick on Photoshop. The […]

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There is a modest opportunity to recycle electronics at PS 321’s Winter Carnival today in Park Slope. From 10AM-4PM cell phones, cell phone chargers, cell phone batteries, PDA’s and MP3 players can be dropped off for recycling. As far as we understand, they are not accepting computers or other large items. PS 321 is on […]

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Here’s an odd little vid shot in Coney Island in Super 8 in 2004. We do love atmospheric Coney Island videos.

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“The Park Slope Civic Council hosted a great Sustainability Meeting titled PlanPS2008: How You Can Start Fighting Climate Change Today last night, well attended by over a hundred people. Introductions were by PSCC trustee Eric McClure and Ken Freeman, PSCC’s president.”–I’m Seeing Green

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[Photo courtesy of Gary Mirabelle/Mirabelle Studios] This is another photo sent to us by sculptor, artist and photographer Gary Mirabelle, who is a regular photo contributor to GL, from a group of several photos of Clinton Hill.

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A second round of heavy rainfall is expected to move over the region by late Saturday morning and into the afternoon. The rain will end by Saturday evening, but not before 2 to perhaps as much as 4 inches of rain has fallen. Some locally higher amounts are possible, especially if thunderstorms develop on Saturday…Saturated […]

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There is demolition and new building action to report at the far end of Court Street. A GL reader sent us these photos of 517 Court, which is at the corner of Ninth Street, and is clearly coming down. At the same time, demolition permits have been issued for 523, 525 and 527 Court, slightly […]

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Is Fifth Avenue going one-way in Sunset Park? We haven’t seen anything about this, but a reader sent us the photo above, which shows a new one-way sign waiting to be uncovered at Fifth Avenue and 34th Street that bears all the signs of some temporary changes. (That’s Green-Wood Cemetery in the background.) He writes: […]

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We were amused to find that someone found the inherent humor in the ongoing “Is There a Park Slope in (Fill in the Name of City)?” discussion at the Park Slope Parents group. This email clearly takes the prize in this week’s discussion: I checked the archives and can’t find any neighborhood quite like Park […]

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The work at Oshima on Seventh Avenue is ongoing. We took this photo of working going on yesterday afternoon, as we were making the rounds for our Friday Park Slope Focus reports which have covered: Yogo Monster, the Maggie Moo’s space, ‘sNic’es opening today, Purity Diner and the tagging up of the Bank of America […]

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Brace. The staff at Yogo Monster on Seventh Avenue near Union Street in Park Slope was busy getting the store ready yesterday. As the sign says, they open on Saturday, and there’s a free gift with a purchase. Oko vs. Yogo Death Match in the making or is Park Slope big enough for both of […]

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A Park Slope old timer–a gentleman who looks to be in his 70s–strolls down Seventh Avenue last night. He walks up to the shuttered Red Hot Szechuan at Tenth Street and see that it is closed. He clearly has dinner in mind. He stops and stares. He puts his face against the locked grate and […]

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This is the scene outside the former Seventh Avenue site of Maggie Moo’s (and a lot of other businesses that have passed on in this Storefront of Death) work is ongoing .and dumpsters have appeared on an off. There is no word on the future of the location, and utterly no truth to rumors that […]

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That is a rendering of a new 20-story building that is planned for Lincoln Road in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens near Ocean Avenue. The building would have 210,000 square feet of space and come from Gilman Architects. Yesterday, we talked with architect Tom Gilman who said it’s “a tall building, but in a way that it’s pulled […]

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This is easily the most enjoyable altered sign we’ve seen in a long time. It comes from Seventh Avenue in Park Slope at Carroll Street. We honestly don’t know how long it’s been like this, but we enjoyed finally noticing if it’s been that way for a while. Superb.

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‘sNice, the vegetarian cafe that is opening a branch on Fifth Avenue at Third Street in Park Slope is opening today. The menu is heavy on sandwiches and salads and choices include Brie, Pear & Arugula with raspberry mustard, a vegan Chicken Pot Pie Wrap, a Hummus Sandwich, a Philly Style Seitan Sandwich, Tri-Color Panini […]

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The Manhattan Beach Community Group, which has provided amusement in the past, particularly with the idea of beach privatization last year, is now proposing to block renters from joining its ranks. An email says that it is “leaving us without a say in our own community. It is completely unfair and I’m hoping someone will […]

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We haven’t sensed a lot of Park Slope enthusiasm for the new Bank of America branch that’s going to be opening at Sixth Street and Seventh Avenue in the space that used to house Gothic Cabinet Craft and D’Agostino’s. We can report that the big red thing out front has been tagged up as has […]

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This is the big Karl Fischer building rising at 405 Union Avenue in Williamsburg at Ainslie Street. It will offer 47 new Burg condos when it’s done, some of them with fabulous views of the Getty Station, the Kellog Diner and big building that will be rising behind it, and the comings and goings of […]

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Yes, for a minute there, we thought another one Seventh Avenue had met its maker, but a look at the sign revealed that the Purity Diner is closed from March 3-11 for renovations. Until then, visitors to patients at Methodist Hospital and everyone else that wants a Purity fix either have to go to Little […]

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