Here’s a clip from the YouTube of Rev. Billy speaking at the Coney Island demonstration on Thursday. Remember, “Strippers, Not Strip Malls.”

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“Over the five months I’ve spent living in Prospect Heights, the neighborhood (including its border area with Crown Heights) has slowly revealed itself to me. Young professionals populate the areas closest to Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Museum. Further in, neo-hippie and hipster types might sell marijuana to get by on rent. During the day […]

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[Photo courtesy of lornagrl/flickr] This is the visually interesting Coney Island Creek with its collection of rotting ship and boat carcasses against the Coney Island skyline. It comes to our GL Photo Pool via the prolific lornagrl, who has posted a full photoset of excellent pics of the Creek. Check ’em out.

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There’s a Friends of Williamsburg Waterfront Park Meeting coming up on Thursday, May 29, at 7PM at the People’s Fire House, which is located at 113 Berry Street. “On the agenda will be an update about the plans for the Bushwick Inlet and an opportunity to explore ideas on how to organize the Friends Group.” […]

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This tidbit about boredom comes from Union Avenue in Williamsburg at the stairs to the L & G Train Stop.

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There is one word for what we are seeing at the Brooklyn Weather Observatory: spectacular. Today’s forecast calls for it to be sunny to partly cloudy and breezy with a high of 71. Tonight will be clear with a low of 52. All in all, brace for one of the nicest Memorial Day Weekends weather-wise […]

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When the Center for the Urban Environment (CUE) began our Gowanus Cruises in 1997, we were initially surprised to learn that we were following in a long tradition of pleasure cruising on the Gowanus Canal! Indeed, during the 19th century, the Gowanus Bay was an extremely popular site for sailing and enjoyment well before it […]

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We will never be able to get enough street art images of The Tricky One. He’s around in the Burg and each one seems to have a different flavor, depending on placement and how he’s been altered. This Tricky is found on N. 8 Street between Driggs and Roebling. He’s been gone a long time […]

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The small outdoor space on Grand Street in Williamsburg just off Bedford Avenue, that we thought would see no action this summer, appears to be getting set to open as Mercado Libre. It’s gone through several incarnations the last couple of summers, starting with Bauplatz in 2006 (our personal favorite in a Prenzlauerberg kind of […]

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And so, we come to our fourth day of Park Slope Parking Watch and find that two cars have moved, making for a total of five car movements on the side of the street that our Special Correspondent has been monitoring. Curiously, one space has accounted for four of the five movements. In other news, […]

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We saw the news on Brookynian last night before we saw the that the Tea Lounge on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope is closing. It is reportedly being killed by a massive rent increase. Says on commenter on Brooklynian: It makes me sad. I heard (from one of the people who work there) that apparently […]

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Here are today’s Brooklyn Bridge Anniversary Celebration Events: Brooklyn Bridge Film Series: How about a picnic dinner, sunset, DJ tunes and a movie at the foot of the Bridge tonight? It’s an open-air showing of Walt Disney Pictures’ Enchanted (2007; rated PG), “a modern-day fairy tale set in Manhattan.” It will be preceded by two […]

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The “narrow streets” zoning text amendment for Carroll Gardens, which was approved by Community Board 6 last week has been approved by Borough President Marty Markowitz. The amendment, which has attracted some opposition in the neighborhood, but even stronger support, would change an old definition in city zoning documents that considers very narrow streets to […]

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How about some organic skin care products from a Boerum Hill art historian? If that’s not your thing, perhaps you’ll be interested in the green storage facility in Clinton Hill? It’s not only cheaper than other storage facilities, it uses renewable energy. Now, back to the organic skin care…–Brooklyn Based

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Brooklyn Based‘s Nicole Davis files this special post and photos from the London Side of the Telectroscope, the Brooklyn side of which is at Fulton Ferry Landing: Compared to the fanfare over the Telectroscope in NYC (due in part to enthusiastic fans like myself), Londoners don’t seem nearly as excited about this tunnel-eye view across […]

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There is already a large memorial to Kyong-Sook Woo, the murdered Windsor Terrace Dry Cleaner, outside her store. Next week, residents are planting a blossoming tree in her memory on the corner outside the store where she worked and died.–NYDN

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[Photo courtesy of Silversalty/flickr] These are some of the temporary carnival rides that have gone up in Coney Island on property owned by developer Joe Sitt. The photographer writes, “It was a little strange to see what looked like a small town carnival being set up in one of the bigger lots in Coney Island.”

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[Image courtesy of The Weblicist of Manhattan] There was an interesting scene on the Coney Boardwalk yesterday, as city officials held the official opening of beach season in weather more suited to early Spring than the coming summer. In the background, about three dozen noisy and colorful demonstrators, including Diana Carlin of the Lola Staar […]

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Back in October, a fence went up around Grand Ferry Park, a much loved little park at the foot of Grand Street on the East River. Until East River State Park opened last year, in fact, it was the only legitimate park access to the water in Williamsburg. The renovation process was supposed to take […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: · Atlantic Yards Hearing or Breakfast Update? [AYR] · Rallying Around the G Train [NYT] · Prospect Park Gets $10 Million Donation [NYP] · Check Out the Rat-Squirrel House Backyard [Lost City] · Pit Bull Puppy Season [Bed-Stuy Banana] · Park Slope Seventh Avenue Storefront […]

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We found this vid of last night’s Brooklyn Bridge Fireworks originally embedded on the Brooklyn Heights Blog. Cool stuff.

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Late yesterday afternoon, our friends at Eater had a photo gallery with pics of this car, which almost turned Red Rose on Smith Street into Carroll Garden’s first drive-thru Italian restaurant (actually, its first drive-thru of any kind). Fortunately, no one was hurt, but there was no immediate explanation of how a car ended up […]

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