Yes, this barrel, which we found sitting on the corner of N. 4 Street and Driggs Avenue this weekend says that it’s “non-hazardous” and has a sticker saying it’s empty, but it originated with DEC Spill 0800695 and reminds us of barrels that once graced the sidewalk in front of the Roebling Oil Building, aka […]

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Yesterday’s Sunday Brooklyn Missed Connection about the sex addict in Park Slope was such an obvious choice to feature that we had to leave an excellent candidate behind at the station. It’s about a somewhat hirsute Missed Connection: Subway Sasquatch, where are you? – w4m – 22 (L train 8AM) YOU: Head of a hipster, […]

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Versions of this art, which streetsy.com identifies as thirdeye, have popped up in a few places around Williamsburg. This and some other pieces are also identified as the work of Peripheral Media Projects.

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The next step in the Carroll Gardens “narrow streets” zoning text amendment process (it was approved by Community Board 6 last week) is a hearing before the City Planning Commission. The City Planning hearing will be coming up on June 4. The change must be approved by the City Council as well.

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The development on the site of the now-demolished International Longshoreman’s Association Building at 340 Court Street has gotten a name: It will be “The Collection at Court Street“and a placeholder website is up. Our Carroll Gardens Correspondent sent news of the naming, which has been revealed via a sign on the construction fence. Those that […]

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The definitive expansion of the Roebling Oil Building to the west (aka the Roebling Oil Building West), with another big Karl Fischer building, is about to get underway with the demolition of buildings on Driggs Avenue between N. 9 and N. 10 Street. Plans have already been approved for the new Roebling Oil extension, which […]

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Penny Licks on Bedford Avenue has opened in Williamsburg and the little shop, which aims to recreate an old-time ice cream and candy store, is loaded with vegan and organic treats. Actually, organic and vegan is the theme of the place. Among the features are the cakes (Peanut Butter Mousse Bombs, Death by Chocolate, etc.) […]

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New plans for 110 Amity Street in Cobble Hill, also known as the former Lamm Institute Building, are supposed to be show tonight. The original idea for the building was panned by the community and by the Landmarks Preservation Commission before being withdrawn by the developer so that suggestions from the community could be incorporated. […]

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There’s a mystery film shooting on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope between Third and Fourth Streets this week. We say “mystery” because the sign for the shoot on the 21st says “untitled” production. We can say that a rumor that the film is about a Park Slope-based incident that is set off when a child […]

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[Photo courtesy of Lauren Collins] Windsor Terrace is mourning Kyung-Sook Woo, the beloved owner of the dry cleaning store who was murdered in a robbery on Friday. (A suspect was arrested yesterday.) Lauren Collins of the Windsor Terrace Alliance sent of photos of the very sad and moving memorial that has grown outside the store. […]

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The annual Fifth Avenue Fair in Park Slope took place yesterday and was dampened by rain for the second time in the last three years. The rain started coming down around 1:30 and by the time it let up around 4:30 a lot of the vendors had already packed up. The street was filled before […]

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[Photo courtesy of Screwtape/Coney Island Message Board] This is a roller coast called the Indy 500, which is one of the temporary Reithoffer Shows rides rising on property in Coney Island owned by developer Joe Sitt that will open on May 2 and run through early June. It’s a small, portable coaster that is also […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: · Sales of Net Suites Met with “Partial Shrug” [AYR] · Brooklyn Artist Says He’s Being Ripped Off Online [NYP] · Two Hurt in PLG Apartment Fire [NYDN] · Urban Decay [Bed-Stuy Banana] · Bed-Stuy Steeplechase Bike Ride [Sustainable Flatbush] · The Bodegas of Fort […]

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An arrest has been made in the murder of Kyong Sook-Woo inside the dry cleaning store she operated in Windsor Terrace. The suspect, Jamal Winter, was arrested at his home in Park Slope. He has been charged with murder and robbery. The beloved 63-year-old grandmother, who routinely worked 12 hours days in the shop, was […]

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Black and Jewish community leaders in Crown Heights called Sunday for calm – and more help from police and City Hall – in the wake of racially charged violence in the Brooklyn neighborhood. Geoffrey Davis, brother of slain City Councilman James Davis, organized the gathering at Albany Ave. and Empire Blvd., where black attackers pummeled […]

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The latest Karl Fischer development to come on the market in Williamsburg, NV at N. 5 Street and Berry, had its opening party last week. A GL North Brooklyn Correspondent sends along a photo of the festivities, which took place in what looks like it will be the courtyard/garden behind the building. The party had […]

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The Brooklyn Preservation Council will be hearing a presentation about Green Church is Bay Ridge, which is slated to be torn down for condo development. The session is at 6PM on Tuesday (5/20) in the First Floor Conference Room at Brooklyn Borough Hall. Bob Cassara of the Committee to Save Green Church will speak.–Bay Ridge […]

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We love our new Gowanus Lounge Photo Pool and hope you’ll think about joining if you shoot Brooklyn photos and post them on flickr and that you’ll tag photos you want us to see, “gowanuslounge.” [Photo courtesy of Heather D/flickr] GL Photo Pool contributor Heather-D, who’s been hitting us off with some very cool stuff, […]

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The G Train may have problems, but it does have some friends and people that really want to see service improvements. We got an email from Assem. Hakeem Jeffries office about a rally he is organizing next week to call for service improvements on the G. It says in part: In partnership with a number […]

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Sunset Park’s Chinatown has gotten some serious press in the last week with a Village Voice article by Robert Sietsema, who says it’s less crowded, less tourist and, well, better than those in the other boroughs. We’ll take that.–Best View in Brooklyn

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[Photo courtesy of lornagrl/flckr] The Brooklyn Bridge’s 125th Anniversary festivities start this week, most notably with a concert and fireworks Thursday night. This is a shot from lornagrl dropped into our GL Photo Pool.

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We almost never get to use the the little wind icon that appears here. Right now, it’s calm outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory, but today’s forecast is calling for winds gusting past 45 MPH later on and cooler temps with clouds and sun and a shower here and there in the afternoon. The high will […]

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[Image via Potato Potato/flickr] This is an LP of Coney Island sounds dating back to 1957 that we found on flickr. There’s a bit more info about it here. We can tell you that Coney Island in Stereo on vinyl will set you back $59.00 and that many of the sounds recorded are of rides […]

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Is a confrontation brewing between Matthew Silver, aka the Bedford Avenue Dancer, and employees of Earwax, a CD shop on the corner of Bedford and N. 5 Street? Could be. Yesterday, Mr. Silver sent out an email to just about every blogger in Brooklyn that included the photo above and a video of an employee […]

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