Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Is Miss Brooklyn Dead or Undead? [AYR] Public Parkland Parking Lot Popular for Public Employees [NYDN] Explorer Frederick Cook, of Bushwick [NYT] Bed Bug Seminars Coming [New York Shitty] Man Shot by People Who Had Partied at City Councilman’s Club [NYDN] Cracked Sidewalks as Geology […]

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The Boerum Hill Association is showing the documentary “Twilight Becomes Night” on Wednesday, April 7 at 7PM at the Belarusan Church, which is at the corner of Atlantic Ave. & Bond St. Per the BHA: This film examines the devastating impact neighborhoods suffer when local businesses are forced out by rising rents and competition from […]

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Once a week, we like to look at some of the comments left by readers during the previous seven days. Here are a few random selections from this week’s batch: Toll Brothers Team Talks Up the Gowanus Project. “It was all a bit scary, that group, parading in single file with their renderings and statistics. […]

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Always look out for the crooked pedestrian crossing sign, especially on S. 3 Street in Williamsburg.

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Visible work is finally picking up on the conversion of Cobble Hill’s 156-year-old Strong Place Church, whose interior we visited before the start of work. “The structure—which has long reminded me of a bombed-out ruin you might find in postwar Dresden—has very visibly been getting the fresh starts of a roof in recent weeks. It […]

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It is hard to say anything about this overturned Greenpoint sofa except that Miss Heather calls it the Green Street Tartan based on location and pattern.

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It look gorgeous, if chilly, outside the windows at our Brooklyn weather observatory this morning. The forecast calls for a lot of sunshine followed by increasing clouds in the late afternoon. The high will be 48. Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a low of 36.–Accuweather

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Information about the Celebrate Brooklyn lineup this summer is trickling out and, once again, Bumpershine has helped spread word of the shows before anyone else. It’s not just any season either, but the 30th anniversary summer. The annual Opening Night Gala performance on Wednesday June 12 this year will feature Issac Hayes. There is more […]

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This could be one of the most riveting City Council hearings to be held in a long time: on April 8 the City Council Transportation Committee will be having an oversight hearing on G Train service. The announcement was made by committee Chair Chair John Liu yesterday. The release announcing the session said that “Witnesses […]

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Here’s this week’s adoptable pet of the week from the Brooklyn Animal Rescource Coalition (BARC) shelter in Williamsburg. [Photo courtesy of dog magician/flickr] Here is Aponte and some information about him: This is Aponte. He was liberated from Animal Care and Control and is one happy, friendly dog! He was skinny, and his handsome brindle […]

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Well, the joey at the Prospect Park Zoo, who was the sujbect of a naming contest, has been named Riley. The four finalist names were Nari, Kylie, Kinta and Riley. The Borough President made the announcement yesterday. The Wildlife Conservation Society and the Heart of Brooklyn conducted an online poll and received hundreds of suggestions. […]

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If you remember our post on March 12 about the 10 tons of chopsticks that caused a collapse at a StorageMart where refugees of the illegal matzo bakery induced clearance of 475 Kent Avenue were storing belongs, then this follow up detail will be of interest. Yesterday, Jake Mooney posted a story on the CityRoom […]

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Yesterday, we posted about the presentation by a team from the Toll Brothers about their big and controversial project on the Gowanus Canal. Here are some renderings of the development, which has been designed by GreenbergFarrow with landscape architecture by Lee Weintraub, which we posted yesterday on Curbed, but didn’t feature here.

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Preliminary work is underway at the Public Place site between Smith Street and the Gowanus Canal, with residents already expressing concern about safety precautions during the cleanup of the highly contaminated site. On March 31, representatives from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Mayor’s Office of Environmental Coordination and KeySpan/National Grid will make […]

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This was the scene on Thursday night at the opening of Coney Island of the Heart at the Bond Street Gallery in Gowanus. The neighborhood’s first photography gallery is “housed in a 100-year-old townhouse. Inside, it has exposed brick walls, and out back is a tranquil courtyard.” The show features photos shot by Harold Feinstein […]

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[Image for GL courtesy of Deborah Matlack/Matlack Photography] Photos: From the Forte Roof #1 [Blue Jake] Prospect Park West [Velvet Sea] From the Forte Roof #2 [Blue Jake] Bring Our Troops Home [Atomische] Shadow Play [Lex’s Folly] Hero Worship [Brit in Brooklyn] Not Entirely Photos: Ratner Finances His Manhattan Office Tower [AYR] Lights Out Today […]

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No, not a sofa, but it’s a very distinguished bit of street seating. It’s from Harrison Avenue in Williamsburg and comes of course, from Miss Heather.

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One doesn’t need a weather forecast to know that it’s going to be gorgeous out there today. The view from the Brooklyn weather observatory is one of blue skies and brilliant sun on this Saturday morning. The forecast calls for a day that will be breezy with a lot of sun and a high of […]

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This is a rendering of what a new shelter on N. 1 Street in Williamsburg from the Brooklyn Animal Resource Coalition, or BARC, will look like. It would be a few hundred feet from the 80 Metropolitan luxury development being put up by Steiner Equities.

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A team of architects, planners and others working on the big Toll Brothers project along the Gowanus Canal made a presentation in Carroll Gardens last night. The group briefed the Community Board 6 Land Use Committee and fielded questions from an audience of about 50 people. Despite rhetoric in the community that has been heated […]

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While preliminary work on the Public Place site between Smith Street and the Gowanus Canal only started last week, work crews have already denuded the site of trees and vegetation and it would appear that some digging has started. Neighbors have been concerned about whether the site will be monitored for any possible airborne contaminants, […]

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We love tales of construction work going on after or before hours. So we immediately gravitated to this post on the Prospect Heights forum on Brooklynian because it’s titled “Jackhammering on Vanderbilt at 5:30AM“: who did this? why would you do this? 5:30 am and then at 7 am (when I had just gotten back […]

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There is a good chance that trouble is just starting for the Atlantic Yards project as public officials potentially take a fresh look at the development. Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries says he’s “deeply troubled” by the Atlantic Yards Stall. “I’m deeply troubled by the notion of moving forward with an arena without a firm commitment to […]

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This is our dear friend 525 Union Avenue, which is the winner of the Lifetime Achievement for Sunday Work. The days of loud, fun work are in the building’s past, however. Today it sits there as the most utilitarian building in the Williamsburg Karl Fischer collection. The interesting question is, will it get an odd […]

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