The Fading Ad Blog, which fascinates us every day with its photos and words, has turned one. Among the things it features on its first anniversary is some auto-related signage from Clinton Hill and the Kingston Lounge in Crown Heights. Happy birthday, and here’s to a second year of cool stuff.

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We do love our Boerum Hill/Atlantic Avenue Times Plaza Post Office stories, particularly given the coverage we’ve done recently, for instance, here and here. So, here’s a angry email from the Yahool Boerum Hill Group that would indicate that claimed service improvements may not be taking place: had a horrendous, Third World experience at the […]

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Is a sex toy shop too much for Park Slope? Could be. Brownstoner broke the news of the new Toys in Babeland shop on Bergen Street last week. And, now, some resident are saying “no way” to the dil…sex toys. IE:”‘I don’t think it’s the ideal location for a provocative business,’ said resident Bruce Osborne, […]

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Cocotte on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope closed a couple of weeks ago. We swung by to grab a couple of photos of the chairs and tables still sitting outside and the notice left by the owners. One of the windows is boarded up, apparently because it was shattered.

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: More Detail on Brooklyn Heights Swastika Discovery [Sun] McCarren Park Meeting Tonight [WGPA] Hooking Up, East Williamsburg Style [New York Shitty] Brownstoner and the Modern Townhouse [IMBY] Writer Nostalgic for Fort Green Party [General Greene] Bed-Stuy Winter Blues [Bed-Stuy Banana] Shadows on S’Nice Site in […]

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The Carroll Gardens community activist message board we nicknamed the Democracy Wall acquired some new artwork on Saturday night about the 360 Smith Street development, work on which will likely be starting soon, given that building permits were issued on February 22. The artist named Art Dog, who has created the big murals, said the […]

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Some siding has come off a house in Windsor Terrace on Tenth Avenue at 17th Street and, apparently, the new version is going to be brick. “I’m not sure if the bricks they’re using on it were underneath the siding or if they came from elsewhere, but they are very nice bricks, in the sense […]

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Coal is not a “Brooklyn story” unless, of course, there happens to be a cool new documentary about the coal industry from a Brooklynite. Then, it’s very on topic. Chandru Murthi, who does the superb blog I’m Seeing Green, has put up a post about a new film called “Burning the Future: Coal in America,” […]

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Before Starbucks set up shop on Smith Street, there was Hughes Coffee. In fact, there were two branches. One is now Rime. The other is, uh, came down to create the entrance to the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. Bet the coffee was good.–PMFA

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This stop sign, with added gorilla, comes from N. 9 Street and Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg. We believe it is of fairly recent origin.

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It will be party sunny today with a high of 55 degrees, although it will feel like a meer 52. Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low of 46, leading into a gloomy and misty day on Tuesday.–Accuweather

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There is nothing that gets the blood of neighbors flowing with more vigor than surprise asbestos-related work and trucks and dumpsters carrying signs warning of asbestos removal. Yesterday, around noon, our inbox started lighting up with photos and emails about asbestos removal going on at the Carroll Street Station on the F & G line […]

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While G Train riders are accustomed to every possible permutation in terms of weekend service disruption, and L train riders (and more recently 7 Trainers) resigned themselves to enduring weekends without trains, people along the F Line have gotten a strong taste this weekend. A complicated set of service disruptions has basically left people depending […]

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For our Sunday Brooklyn Missed Connection this week, we again turn our attention to the L Train, starting with the dude who was passed out and could have ended up in (gasp) Canarsie: To the Girl Who Woke Me Up on the L Train – m4wIt was close to 5 in the morning when you […]

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Every week, we like to take a totally random sampling of a handful of comments left by GL readers during the previous seven days. There is always far more to highlight than we can choose for one post: More Public Place: Hudson Companies “Gowanus Green” in Detail. “Well that all looks pretty fascinating in a […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images:Brooklyn “Terror Teen” Goes Back to School Tomorrow [NYP]Another Swastika Found in Brooklyn Heights Building [NYT]MoCADA Speaks Out About Controversial Exhibit [Gothamist]Another Look at the Parachute Jump Lighting Issue [NYT]Dumbo Weekly Links [Dumbo NYC]In Honor of Schnäck [Brooklynometry]Stomach Pains for Seventh Ave. Restaurants [Brooklyn Paper]Polski Western […]

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Our Carrol Gardens Correspondent passed by the artwork painted on the construction fence at Third and Bond in Gowanus, where some condos are going up. The project is being chronicled with a cool insider feature at Brownstoner every week that offers an up-close at the project. Check out the latest installment here and the websit […]

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Among the “unauthorized activities” as Forest City Ratner’s MetroTech in Downtown Brooklyn is (surprise) photography. “While I was walking around the Commons, shooting a few photos, a couple of security guards told me (nicely) that photography was not permitted. I had already taken the photos I wanted, and they didn’t ask for the camera. Only […]

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Here’s a very nicely done little vid about a trip to Coney Island.

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It’s worth noting again there’s a meeting coming up to organize a new McCarren Park group to help push for a lot of improvements and changes to the park. It takes place at Automotive High School at 50 Bedford Ave. on Monday night at 7PM.–New York Shitty

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This alternate side parking sign on Court Street in Cobble Hill is still hanging in there, but it is a little worse from the wear.

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If you’ve looked outside, this is redundant, but it will be mostly sunny today. The high will be a balmy, early March 46, but it will feel like 42. Partly cloudy tonight with a low of 34. Tomorrow, the temperature is expected to hit 55.–Accuweather

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Opponents of the Atlantic Yards project got nowhere in court trying to get an injunction to block the demolition of the Carlton Avenue Bridge but gained a procedural advantage yesterday. An appeal of a lower court’s decision against the challenge to the Atlantic Yards Environmental Impact Review process won’t be argued until September. The decision […]

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Here’s this week’s adoptable pet of the week. We’re going to be featuring animals available for adoption at the Sean Casey Animal Rescue shelter in Kensington either every week or something close to that. If we help one kind soul hook up with one dog, cat or other creature in need of a home, we’ll […]

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“The Brooklyn cat lady who grabbed headlines in a string of bank robberies to help pay for her cat’s medical bills was caged last night after her arraignment in yet another heist. Catherine Kaczanowski, 49, was held in lieu of $15,000 bail for allegedly ripping off a North Fork branch on New Utrecht Avenue in […]

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