The Coney Island boardwalk seems to have gone from bad to worse just in time for the new season. The block between W. 12 Street and Stillwell Avenue–in front of Ruby’s and Lola Staar and other establishments–seems to have weathered the winter badly and is now frighteningly deteriorated. (And we do mean “frightening” in a […]

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Brooklinks is a selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Ratner Has Six+ Years to Build Arena [AYR] Nets Suites to Cost Up to $540K (Assuming Arena is Built) [NYDN] Mayor Markowitz? [Sun] Three Babies Found Dead in Different Brooklyn Homes [NYDN] Running of the Eggs at Brooklyn Bridge Park [McBrooklyn] Country in the City at […]

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Here are some upcoming Brooklyn Community Board meetings, courtesy of a list compiled by the New York Daily News: Community Board 5 (East New York, Cypress Hills, Highland Park, New Lots, City Line and Starrett City) will hold its next board meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 26, at the board office at 127 […]

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Matthew, the Bedford Avenue Dancer, was out doing his thing on Easter Sunday. He has a website too.

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Saturday night’s show at Goodbye Blue Monday (1087 Broadway in Bushwick) was definitely the loudest and the most rocking one I have seen at that venue. Usually the small coffee shop/thrift store/venue features more experimental, ambient or folky music, but their sound held up with the change of gears, and the ambience went well with […]

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In addition to the Stop Sign and the One-Way Sign, there are No Pigs Allowed on Ten Eyck Street. The pic comes from Miss Heather, who also hit us off with this one last week.

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From GL Correspondent Owen Roberts comes the following observation about two popular Williamsburg spots for pizza:I’ve heard that Fornino on Bedford Ave (187 Bedford) has been called “the best pizza in New York.” I’m not one to create hierarchies, especially when it comes to pizza, but I went to Acqua Santa (556 Driggs) only a […]

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One has to love an orange barcalounger on the street in Greenpoint, even if it’s not a street sofa, per se. It’s from Greenpoint Avenue and the red bike in the foreground is just a bonus. From the camera of Miss Heather, of course.

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It’s looking nice, if cold, right now at the Brooklyn Weather Observatory, and today’s official forecast calls for it to be chilly with sunshine mixing with clouds. The high will be 48. Tonight will feature clear to partly cloudy skies and a low of 34.–Accuweather

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We are delayed in posting our Adoptable Cutie of the Week, but when we got this time-sensitive photo from the Brooklyn Animal Resource Coalition, we knew what we had to do. Here’s some info about our heartbreakingly cute kitty: Buddha arrived at BARC with a thick file of vet records and an amazingly sunny and […]

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Some history was made in Coney Island last night when Dianna Carlin opened her Dreamland Roller Rink in the landmarked Childs Building on the boardwalk. It was only the second public event the historic structure in the last half century. The building–which has been made available by Taconic Investment–was decorated in white lights and billowing […]

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Here’s a vid of the opening last night of Lola Staar’s super cool roller rink at the Child’s Building on the Boardwalk. A significantly good time was had by all.

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The “Dreamland Roller Rink” in the historic Childs Building in Coney Island opened last night. Here is a preliminary slideshow with some pics we took.

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We’ve picked to items for our weekly Brooklyn Craigslist Missed Connection. They are oddly related in a first or second cousins kind of way. One involves an odd arrest at the Jay Street station and the other has as its focus a kumquat thief at Union Market in Park Slope: You got arrested Jay St […]

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We knew the resdesign of the Coney Island Aquarium was pretty much dead, so the story in today’s City Section of the Times doesn’t break much new ground in that regard. However, it does contain some definitive statements and details on why aquarium officials want to invest in a new shark exhibit rather than put […]

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Among the many bombshells in the Times story about the Atlantic Yards Stall on Good Friday, was the fact that the cost of the area has nearly doubled to just shy of $1 billion. No Land Grab lays out the interesting price history: The price tag of Bruce Ratner’s controversial Brooklyn arena has been steadily […]

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Blogger Brit in Brooklyn attended yesterday’s peace rally and sent us this photo of Brooklyn for Peace members participating. More rally shots at Brit in Brooklyn. The Times story on the march says that it “fell short” because not as many demonstrators as hoped where there. We can say, however, that Brooklyn was in the […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Heads Up: “Monster Cranes” in Every Borough [NYDN] Happy Easter from Greenpoint [New York Shitty] Palm Cross on Green Door [Brooklynometry] Eastertide [A Year in the Park] Peek-a-Boo Cornice [Lost City] Talking Trash & Signs of Spring [Bed-Stuy Banana] Elvis Left the Building [OTBKB] Dumbo […]

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[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather]

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Once a week, we select a few random comments from our readers. Here are this week’s choices: Atlantic Yards: Miss Brooklyn & Housing to Die as Arena Lives? “Let’s see…1 Billion to Ratner for a basketball court. 800 million to Stienbrener for a baseball Field300 million to the mats for another baseball Field. 200 million […]

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Graham Avenue, Williamsburg

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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 Prospect Park West in Park Slope.

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The huge Ikea property in Red Hook now has a lot of trees. They arrive by truck. “I saw the flatbed truck delivering some of these trees (or perhaps trees for another area on the site) the other day. It’s weird to watch nature being inserted. Note the pine trees in the background.”–Callalillie

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Another tree starts to bloom.

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Checking outside the Brooklyn weather observatory this Easter Sunday morning, our eyes tells us that the forecast is superfluous. It’s sunny and nice, if chilly. The forecast for today, of course, is mostly sunny and chilly. The high will be 47. Tonight, look for partly cloudy skies and cold temps with a low of 32.

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