Do you have your mini dachshund puppy? They are, after all, symbols of luxury. We found this flier posted in Brighton Beach. So, if mini dachshunds in unique color patterns and colors are symbolically luxurious, what are chihuahuas? In any case, they sure are cute in those photos, symbols of luxury or not.

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[Original photos courtesy of A Year in the Park]We held off on posting about this yesterday because we were hoping to get high quality versions of these images that were presented publicly on Wednesday night. It is not be, however. The Prospect Park Alliance has declined to make quality images available, saying that these are […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Subway Access without the Urban Room? Sure. [AYR] Truck Kills Woman in Downtown Brooklyn [NYDN] House of the Day: 31 Prospect Park West at $3.25M [Brownstoner] Fedders Friday with Gas Guzzling [New York Shitty] Prospect Park Dog Beach Video [amNY] Tree Planting in the Hood […]

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Brighton Beach, Brooklyn

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The tail end of the month is not a big time for Community Board meetings, but there are a couple coming up next month, culled from the Daily News compilation of Brooklyn meetings: Community Board 13. (Coney Island, Brighton Beach, Gravesend, Seagate) will hold its next board meeting at 7 p.m. April 30 at Coney […]

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“Attention sexy hipster kids, there’s a new Craigslist poster that needs YOU…if you are, in fact, a young hip Brooklynite who has a penchant for blurbing and reading about the sexual encounters of teens. Interested? Read on…”–Gothamist

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Let’s just say that Prospect Park was quite the place yesterday evening on the most gorgeous day so far of Spring.

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The United Friends of McCarren Park (UFMP) group is having a meeting on Tuesday (4/29) at 7PM about (of course) McCarren Park. Per an email: “We’re a new group with the ambition of serving McCarren Park users, existing community groups and working with other parks groups in the area. With the influx of new park […]

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We found this sign on Keap Street and believe that it appeared very recently. We’re unclear on the artist, but do enjoy the juxtaposition of art and new construction in the background.

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If a weird Park Slope building keeps getting served with violations, but the owner ignores them, do they make a difference? That is the question with the notorious Park Slope Mystery Building at Seventh Avenue and Second Street.–Brownstoner

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These trees at the edge of Prospect Park are currently at peak bloom and beyond gorgeous. They are near the Litchfield Villa on Prospect Park West.

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The conditions outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory couldn’t be nicer right now. Spring sun shining through brand new leaves, with an early temperature of 60. Today’s forecast calls for mostly sunny and pleasantly warm conditions (although we heard one forecast say something about “partly cloudy”). The high will be 72. Tonight will be 54 with […]

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Howl/The Condo Building Goodbye GoodbyeI lost my sky,I spent the morningTrying to die.Goodbye GoodbyeYou made me cry.You stole my surroundingsAnd now I’ll fry.I spent the noontimeThinking instead,It’s the thunderous craneI wish be dead.Good bye good byeYou made me cryI took more meds and said,I’ll try.To fight you at the DOBDespite the force of entropyTo call […]

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[Right photo courtesy of Brooklyn Streets] After nearly a year of public debate, work has started at at 360 Smith Street, now known as Oliver House. The digging has been going full tilt this week and is proceeding quickly. We’re tempted to joke that the building will be completed by next week, but it won’t […]

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It’s hard to keep love down, particularly during Spring Fever season. With the original hearts having been removed by work crews on behalf of developer Billy Stein, the battle for the heart of the developer, if not the hearts of residents, seems to have escalated back to the kinds of posters that used to grace […]

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This condo development at Bedford Avenue and S. 2nd Street (official address for city purposes: 320 Bedford Avenue) has been underway so long that we began to think that it was in perpetual construction. It lost its fence…but, wait, it also gained a Stop Work Order a couple of weeks ago along with one of […]

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If you recognize this South Slope storefront as the former location of Laila on Seventh Avenue, it’s only because you recognize the location. Everything else about the spot has changed as it morphs into Ten, a new Japanese restaurant. There’s no opening date, but judging by the look of things, it will be soon. The […]

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This annotated poster from DEP urging people to pay their sewer bills has proven unpopular on the G Line. We found it at the Metropolitan Avenue stop in Williamsburg, where the “Capitalism=Death” opinion invited quite the conversation, some detail of which appears below for easier reading.

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You know that summer is coming when the Celebrate Brooklyn schedule–after leaking out in dribs and drabs for weeks–comes out in full. And so, we take pleasure in presenting it. As always, there are plenty of tasty morsels from which to choose between the Opening Night show with Isaac Hayes on June 12 to the […]

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Last week, the city announced a huge change in its Coney Island plan, shrinking the core of the Coney Island amusement district from 15 acres to 9 and, in turn, leaving a significant amount of land the city would have purchased from developer Joe Sitt potentially in his hands to develop (or sell with changed […]

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“On May 2, Studio B is slated to celebrate the debut of a large rooftop level…Fans of a cleaner, quieter Greenpoint (as in: the neighborhood’s residents), though, balk at the opening altogether. According to them, Studio B’s patrons forever vomit show flyers, cigarette butts, and broken glass (and occasionally actual vomit) onto the streets surrounding […]

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Some very big and noticeable tags have been appearing on the sides of buildings in Williamsburg the last couple of weeks. Two of them below, on Marcy Avenue and on N. 11 Street are clearly the work of the same person. The “Curtis” on Wythe Avenue would appear to have been done independently. The first […]

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“This afternoon, (4/23) at Cadman Plaza park in Brooklyn Heights at around 4PM. A little boy between two and a half and three, light brown hair and hazel eyes, rosy cheeks, wearing army green and navy striped t shirt, light blue and white kind of train engineer striped pants and navy blue shoes. I think […]

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Perhaps you recall Monday’s lost dog “Public Service Announcement.” We there is closure to report. The reader who originally emailed us about the her, writes: There is a happy ending to our found dog situation. We were able to locate the owners of our sweet chocolate lab/ pit bull mix. Although upon first glance, her […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: MTA “Concerned” About $100M for Rail Yards from Ratner [AYR] Vandalism Rising in Brooklyn Parks [NYDN] Bodega Hammer Attack Video [Gothamist] Mansions of Midwood [Brooklyn Junction] Wednesday Food & Drink Roundup [Brownstoner] Hotel Le Jolie Now with GTA IV [Curbed] Boiler Band-Aid [Bed-Stuy Banana] Health […]

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