You’ve heard me mention Regina McBride’s amazing writing workshops, Inner Lives, Developing Characters. Some of the best writers I know take her workshops. That’s why Brooklyn Reading Works is presenting a reading of work from these workshops called Inner Lives Out Loud on Thursday March 27th at 8 pm at the Old Stone House. Fifth […]

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There are so many elements at work in this sign from Ten Eyck Street in East Williamsburg that it’s hard to know where to start. Well, we know that we need to start with the Curb Your Piggy element, which is superb, but we also have to note the damaged one-way signs and tagged Stop […]

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The big new Williamsburg building known as 125 N. 10 appears to be done gobbling up the windows at 55 Berry, proving that once a construction project gets going–even if it takes a couple of years–it really gets going.–Curbed

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[Photo courtesy of Anna Lewis] Old First Church on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope yesterday in the rain. After a short absence that began in November and a great deal of conversation, the homeless have returned to the church steps.

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While there is early morning gloom and clouds at the Brooklyn weather observatory, today’s forecast calls for mostly sunny skies with a high of 51. It will be windy and it will feel like 41. Tonight will be clear and windy with a low of 31. However, it will feel like 15.–Accuweather

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We have posted many times about the Robert Scarano-designed building at Bond and Carroll Streets that we call the Bunker, but this scary story isn’t about the building or its design or the slow progress on the structure. It is about a GL reader who wrote to say that she and her husband and their […]

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A GL reader sent this photo taken today on Bedford Avenue at N. 3 Street where a Dunkin Donuts sign is up on the scaffolding around the Quadriad Development project. The Dunkin Donuts–which is not going to be opening immediately, would be just up the block from the Commerce Bank. Perhaps it is time to […]

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Big changes are coming to the Public Place site between Smith Street and the Gowanus Canal as a prelude to a clean up of severe contamination and eventual development. Yesterday, we got an email from Community Board 6 District Manager Craig Hammerman noting that work is about to start on concrete removal at the site, […]

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Barrio, the new Mexican restaurant opening in the space on Seventh Avenue most recently occupied by the defunct Tempo Presto, has put up pink and orange fabric bearing its name over its outdoor patio. (It was too dark for a photo when we passed by.) It looks like things will be ready just in time […]

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Among the many actions taken by the Landmarks Preservation Commission yesterday was a vote to create a Fiske Terrace-Midwood Park Historic District. The new district will be bounded by Foster Avenue on the north, Avenue H on the south, Ocean Avenue on the east and the subway line carrying the Q and other trains on […]

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[Photo courtesy of Anna Lewis] Store windows are as reliable a harbinger of Spring as the budding of trees and flowers. These images from Correspondent Anna Lewis are part of the seasonal display at Houtie Couture at Flatbush Avenue and Seventh Avenue. [Photo courtesy of Anna Lewis]

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Ah, the good old days. Remember Ex-Lax, the pride of Brooklyn? “Also known as ‘the Ideal Laxative.’…It is hard to imagine that there was ever a time when Brooklyn produced Ex-Lax…on Atlantic Avenue no less!” And, the little Ex-Lax tin boxes were certainly excellent.–PMFA

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The ongoing mystery of what is happening on Beard Street in Red Hook has been solved: Signage indicates that it’s an Ikea. (If you are just tuning in to this program, which has been in progress for a number of years, just kidding. We realized this when the building started turning blue and yellow….) The […]

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“They haven’t started construction on the building right next door, but as I live within what one Curbed commenter brilliantly dubbed ‘The Williamsburg Quadrangle of Death,’ there is no shortage of construction projects going on within spitting distance. One of them is shaking the hell out of my building at the moment and the most […]

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We will avoid discussion of five-year-olds with iPod Shuffles and simply say that if you or someone you know found one in Carroll Park, please return it. How could someone not after seeing this sign?

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Dentist Pleads Guilty in Ghoulish Body Parts Scheme [NYT] Brownsville Rapist Being Sought [NYDN] Net’s Mascot Pitches Healthy Food & McDonald’s [AYR] Burg’s 53 Broadway Will Be Rental [Brownstoner] New Community Group Forms in Divided Manhattan Beach [GerristenBeach.Net] Sundance at BAM [General Greene] If Burg’s […]

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“It’s official. We’re having the 3rd Annual Brooklyn Blogfest at the Brooklyn Lyceum (Fourth Avenue and President) on May 8th at 8 p.m. This year’s theme: Place Matters; Blogging My World. The Blogfest, an annual gathering of Brooklyn Bloggers, is for everyone. Bloggers and non-bloggers alike. What happens at the Blogfest? Lots of bloggers, non-bloggers, […]

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There is a lot of background to this crazy video, which involves a tenant of a building on Ninth Street pursuing someone that works with/for the landlord.

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The results are in and people that responded would most like to see…a grocery in the new 20-story glass tower proposed for Prospect-Lefferts Gardens. A grocery was the choice of 67 percent of those that filled out the survey for the ground floor, while 12 percent said bank and 10 percent said gym. Nearly 92 […]

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We got an email from Terry Corrao who has a new show on WLIW called “A Little Bit of Brooklyn.” The email says: Ito would like to welcome readers to tune into my new TV show, “A Little Bit of Brooklyn,” premiering this coming Saturday, March 22, 2008, on WLIW, Ch 21. The pilot will […]

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[Photo courtesy of Stanley Greenberg] This photo of flowers starting to bloom came to us courtesy of the Gowanus Dredgers, which planted them at the foot of Second Street at the Gowanus Canal where they launch their canoes. The trailers in the background, by the way, are on property that would become part of the […]

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Via a post on No Land Grab titled “MTA Police DDDB Database? Photographers Detained at AY Site,” here’s a vid about the recent incident of police harassment of a videographer in the Atlantic Yards “footprint.”

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Yes, it’s time for the Egg-O-Rama in Prospect Park. It takes place on Saturday, March 22 and Sunday, March 23, with an Egg Hunt hosted by WBLS on Saturday. Per an email from the Prospect Park Alliance: Which comes first, the bird or the egg? Which bird has the largest egg? Why are eggs different […]

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If ever there was a sign that Spring is right around the corner, this line up of street furniture from Arion Place in Bed-Stuy is it. It comes from the camera of our Roving Correspondent, Miss Heather, of course.

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