Community Board 6 has submitted its written testimony in the “scoping” process for the big Toll Brothers development on the Gowanus Canal. Among other things, the Community Board says the environmental review must look at the development in the context of other big projects that could be coming to the neighborhood and weigh its impact […]

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A special Carroll Gardens correspondent who’s been keeping an eye on the southern reaches of Court Street for us sent along these photos of the exterior of the space that will be the expansion of Frankies 457. Our friends at Eater had a look inside last month, and it’s unclear what’s up except that it’s […]

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We caught the Dog Addiction fliers up all over Williamsburg on Sunday and then checked out the rock and roll dog stuff. We didn’t see any of the stuffed dogs they’d left out around the neighborhood, though, and the photo above might explain why. Here’s what a reader writes: this past saturday, dog addiction took […]

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It looks like work is underway on the phase two of the Warehouse 11 development (aka W-11 and/or the Roebling Oil Building). The developers bought the property on the Driggs Avenue side and will be putting up a 70-foot high Karl Fischer building with 54 units. Per an email: This morning there was a pile […]

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Work on Coney Island USA‘s building should be done in time for Memorial Day when the Coney summer season starts in earnest. The group is renovating its building to include a Freak Bar and new gift shop on the ground floor and giving the exterior a new look, including some cool new lighting.

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After months of having a crappy fence, the former Manhattan Chocolate property on Union Avenue in Williamsburg now has no fence at all. Perhaps the new owners, who purchased the property for $20 million, are prepping for some new wood and stronger nails. Or, maybe they have decided to contribute the property to Williamsburg’s supply […]

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The city is actually treading carefully with its planning process in Coney Island. “But what’s the fallback if Sitt and the other three major property owners don’t agree to sell? ‘If we’re not successful at acquiring it as parkland, there are other options we’re considering,’ [Coney Island Development Corp. Chair Lynn] Kelly said. Queried to […]

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PS 154 in Windsor Terrace is becoming the first school in New York City to jettison styrofoam trays and Council Member Bill de Blasio is holding a press event at the school today with students and parents. The trays are being replaced with ones made from sugar cane fiber. Per an email: The new environmentally […]

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We’ve actually lost track of the number of emails we’ve gotten saying “check out this Brooklyn house” with a photo of the house shown above. The email is circulating around and says “You have to know this part of brooklyn to appreciate this! This house, located near the intersection of Ave T and Van Sicklen […]

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[Photo courtesy of a roving GL Corresspondent]Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Ouroussoff’s Gehry Defense Was Hero Worship [AYR] Rush Hour Shooting in Crown Heights Subway Station [NYP] New Gilman Building Coming to Atlantic Avenue Near Smith [Brownstoner] Is There a Polite Way to Tow Cars? [New York Shitty] A Wheelchair […]

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Brooklyn Flea, the huge flea market coming from our friends at Brownstoner is set to open on April 6 in Fort Greene “with about 200 vendors selling their wares outside Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School. But don’t think of this market as your run-of-the-mill mart, hawking tons of tube socks and old magazines. Brownstoner’s Brooklyn […]

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There will be a community forum on residential parking permits hosted by Council Member Bill de Blasio and Community Board 7 in Windsor Terrace on Wednesday (3/26). It will take place from 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm at Shepherds Hall at Holy Name Church, which is located at 245 Prospect Park West. Last week, CB7 […]

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[Photo courtesy of Adrian Kinloch/www.britinbrooklyn.com] This photo from Brit in Brooklyn blogger Adrian Kinloch, shows just how nice a photo of compromised street signs can be. It’s from Flatbush and 6th Avenue and has clearly seen better days.

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I had never been to Space Space, a residence/performance space at 390 Seneca Avenue in Ridgewood, when I went to see a friend, Paul Rome, read from his novel. The space is charming and welcoming, offering cheap spirits and only suggesting an entrance fee. The living room in the five-person residence could fit my apartment […]

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[Photo courtesy of Anna Lewis] This is second floor of a storefront on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope yesterday at 6PM in the evening sunlight. The image comes from GL Correspondent Anna Lewis.

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Perhaps you recall the piazza the city created last July in Dumbo from a former parking median. There were plants. There was green paint. Now? It looks a little ratty and in need of a spring spruce up.–Brownstoner

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[Photo courtesy of Gary Mirabelle/Mirabelle Studios] This is a photo of dusk at Tenth Avenue and 18th Street in Windsor Terrace from sculptor, artist and photographer Gary Mirabelle, who is a regular photo contributor to GL.

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Things are looking clear at the Brooklyn weather observatory, but the forecast calls for “sun giving way to clouds” today. The high will be 49 and it will feel like 53. Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a shower here and there, late. The low will be 40.–Accuweather

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As we noted on Friday, expected work has started on the Public Place site between Smith Street and Gowanus Canal. Workers are clearing shrubbery and brush and Bovis Lend Lease (the same firm involved in the fatal accident at the Trump Soho condo hotel recently) is removing concrete from the site. The prep work is […]

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We have to say that the opening of Lola Staar’s roller rink in the historic Childs Building in Coney Island on Saturday night was an event so nice we feel compelled to blog it twice. (Well, given that we posted everything on Easter Sunday, we thought we’d air it all out again on a Monday […]

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It’s probably coincidence that we found things tacked up for both a new Burg dog center called Dog Addiction and for Doggie Day Trips on the same day. Dog Addiction is opening on March 31 at 243 Berry Street at N. 1. It’s your basic doggie day care center with a twist. It’s in a […]

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“He’s known simply as Tyril, the dog whisperer of Prospect Park. Fans need no last name – his work at curing out-of-control canines speaks for itself…His actual name is Tyril Frith, and he’s a Caribbean immigrant who saw his first dog tricks on TV’s ‘Lassie.’ Now, Frith can get a pit bull mongrel to stop […]

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We’re used to seeing repeat Construction Site Du Jour winners in what we might call the Williamsburg Triangle of Death–an area with frequently wide open construction and demolition sites between Driggs Avenue on the west, Manhattan Avenue on the north, the BQE on the east and N. 8 Street on the south. (Some of the […]

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On Saturday, we picked up an item from the Coney Island Message Board that said developer Joe Sitt was planning to use the big parcel of land he cleared last winter for carnival rides and games this season and will be reopening games in a building he kept closed last year. One Coney hand we […]

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The bankification of Manhattan Avenue continues. This time, a housewares store has closed and is morphing into a bank. It will be WaMu, per the plans spotted sitting on a table. “That makes three banks on one block: CitiBank, Dime Bank and WaMu…P.S.: Could someone please explain to me why banks have not seen fit […]

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