It’s starting to look like the big development at Public Place is going to get a lot larger. The winning Hudson Companies proposal included 774 units of housing and tens of thousands of square feet of commercial and community space. When presentations were made in Carroll Gardens during the winter the possibility that an adjacent […]

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The Issue Project Room, currently based in Gowanus, will be moving into the theater and arts space at 110 Livingston, the big condo renovation in Downtown Brooklyn that was done by Two Trees Management. The group is working on raising $2 million for the eventual move.–110 Livingston News & Blog

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After we put up a post yesterday about the (possibly in violation of Stop Work Order) demolition going on at the site of a Fairfield Inn in Gowanus, we got an email from Friends and Residents of Greater Gowanus about a meeting that the Department of Environmental Conservation is having on Wednesday, May 7 from […]

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Our Carroll Gardens Correspondent has been out and about with camera, focusing on the beauty of spring. Here’s what she sent us, in photo gallery form.

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We must say that the Karl Fischer site at 239 N. 9 Street, whose cheap wooden fence is ripped open more than we find it closed, is rapidly becoming our favorite spot in the nasty Williamsburg Triangle of Death. Here’s the scene on Sunday, when mountains of dangerous, shifting rubble were still available for the […]

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We’ve always thought about creating a Gowanus Lounge Flickr Pool and a comment left yesterday by photoblogger Dalton Rooney, whose work is superb, reminded us that it was one of those things on our long-term “to do” list that’s never gotten done. So, why not now, as we’ve retooled the format of GL? To join […]

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With Community Board 6 having approved the zoning text amendment to change a number of streets in Carroll Gardens from being officially “wide” to “narrow” and, therefore, changing the density and height of what can be built, a review process is underway that is creating some strong opinions in the neighborhood. While there is a […]

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A new establishment will be opening in the Pioneer Bar-B-Q space on Van Brunt Street. It will reopen as ‘Brooklyn Ice House’…a bar with burgers and bbq. “There you have it Red Hook. A new burger, bbq, and beer bar, opening ‘soon’.”–Eater

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New York, I Love You a huge all-star, anthology film whose cast includes Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman, Ethan Hawke, Cristina Ricci, Drea de Matteo and a ton of others is shooting in Greenpoint this week. We found this signage on Franklin Street.

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: · Delays for Bus Rapid Transit? [AYR] · MTA Delays at 53 Broadway in Burg [Brownstoner] · Markowitz Desperately Seeking Driver [NYDN] · Happy Birthday Borden Avenue Bridge [New York Shitty] · Brooklyn Blogfest Has a Mini Blog [OTBKB] · Ah, the Rain at Borough […]

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It comes from Williamsburg, on N. 10 Street near Driggs, where it has been bolted into a wall. We don’t know how long it’s been there, but the creature certainly has sharp teeth.

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We got an email from the Cobble Hill Association, which is having its Spring 2008 Meeting on Monday, May 12, at 7:00 PM. The meeting will take place at the Kane Street Synagogue, which is between Court Street and Tompkins Place. The agenda includes the nomination of officers for 2008 and a presentation about “predators […]

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This gorgeous, bright bloom is from McCarren Park in Williamsburg.

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Things are a little pissy in Boerum Hill. “One neighbor has had the bed of his pickup truck repeatedly doused with urine, and on several occasions large quantities of urine have been used to soak the gardens and sidewalks in the middle of the block…”–Curbed

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[Photo courtesy of lostinbrooklyn/flickr] One of the often unrecognized beautiful spots in Brooklyn in spring is Green-Wood Cemetery. This photo is from a full flickr set which can be viewed here. The blossoms are gorgeous.

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Toren, the flashy condo from SOM on Flatbush Avenue, is shooting for gold LEED certification. Among other things, its power will be supplied by five on-site 100-kilowatt generators and it will offer “premier parking” for hybrid vehicles.–Brownstoner

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We do enjoy a good Fallout Shelter sign from the 1950s and the overwhelming optimism that putting fallout shelters in Greenpoint and Williamsburg across the river from Manhattan represented. What, no instant vaporization?

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The view from the Brooklyn Weather Observatory right now is not one of promise, but the forecast says that things will get better. It calls for “a little rain early this morning; breezy with clouds giving way to some sun.” The high will be 60. Tonight will be clear with a low of 41.–Accuweather

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What can be simpler and more elegant than a bicycle reduced to a single tire? Or, is it a tire locked to a sign post for safe keeping while the bicycle resides elsewhere? In any case, it comes from the Kingdom of Trashed Bikes, Williamsburg.

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images, which is delayed and thin today because of our New Look GL Debut: · Edolphus Towns Faces a Fight [NYT] · Attack of the “Urine Vandals” Continues [Curbed] · DOT to Overhaul Brooklyn Bridge [Brownstoner] · Bruce Ratner on NY1 “One on One” Tonight at […]

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On Saturday, we had another item about the Park Slope Branch Library and some dissatisfaction with the staff and its attitude. A follow up came our way via the Park Slope Parents group having to do with anti-stroller allegations, which is the Park Slope equivalent of tossing a hand grenade. Here it is: I must […]

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This is the corner of India and West Streets in Greenpoint, where demolition is still going on at 30 India Street. The site is going to become home to a new six-story building with 45 units and 55,592 square feet a (long) block from the Greenpoint waterfront. The building will be from the shop of […]

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A reader passed along some interesting news about a new cafe and wine bar that’s going to be opening in Gowanus near the Carroll Street Bridge. We don’t have a name or more specific info on it, but we stopped by over the weekend and looked through the window to check out the cafe/bar under […]

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There is a long, long, long story behind Brooklyn’s Khalil Gibran International Academy and its former principal Debbie Almontaser. “Since the school opened in Brooklyn last fall, children have been suspended for carrying weapons, repeatedly gotten into fights and taunted an Arabic teacher by calling her a “terrorist,” staff members and students said in interviews. […]

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The Bedford Avenue Art Walk took place yesterday. There were some street performances and there are art installations in a bunch of storefronts. Some select photos in the gallery below.

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