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Entries from May 2008

Upcoming: “The Selling of Brooklyn Bridge Park”

May 22nd, 2008 · Comments Off on Upcoming: “The Selling of Brooklyn Bridge Park”

Rather than being universally embraced, Brooklyn Bridge Park has sparked deep controversy in some quarters in Brooklyn, primarily because high rise condo development will be used to finance the park. The Sierra Club, which opposes the way the park is being developed, is sponsoring a presentation called “The Selling of Brooklyn Bridge Park” on Friday, […]

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Tags: Brooklyn Bridge Park · Brooklyn Heights · Parks

Bklink: Cooler with Showers

May 22nd, 2008 · Comments Off on Bklink: Cooler with Showers

It’s going to be another cool-ish day today, before a glorious Memorial Day weekend. Today’s forecast calls for cooler with periods of sunshine and a shower in the afternoon. The low will ber 61. Tonight will be partly cloudy and cool wth a low of 48. Right now, Saturday-Monday is looking magnificent.–Accuweather

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Tags: Shortlink · Weather

GL Photo Du Jour: Gowanus Blooming

May 21st, 2008 · 3 Comments

We love these flowers, which bloom every year in May at the Union Street Bridge over the Gowanus Canal. They are a type of Clematis, which is part of the buttercup family. It’s a Royal Paulownia.

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Tags: Gowanus Canal

524 Manhattan Rising in Greenpoint

May 21st, 2008 · 4 Comments

This is 524 Manhattan Avenue, which is located at the edge of what we call the Tahoe Triangle near McCarren Park in Greenpoint. The area has been an epicenter of new development, getting a number of condo projects from Tahoe Development that have gone on the market with names like Manhattan Avenue Condo and Northpoint […]

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Tags: Greenpoint · Uncategorized

Here’s Another Fire Extinguisher-Painted Building

May 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments

We’re not clear how long “Curtis” has been painted (via fire extinguisher) on this building on S. 5 Street in Williamsburg. All we know is that it’s there and it’s big and would appear to have been applied from the roof of a neighboring building. It is also significantly larger than this “Curtis.”

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Tags: Williamsburg

New Brooklyn Blog: Sheepshead Bites

May 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments

There’s a new blog in Sheepshead Bay called Sheepshead Bites. It is billed as “Sheepshead Bay’s community meetings, development issues, local politics, interesting people, happenings and cool new places — these are just some of the beats the Bite will walk. Welcome to Sheepshead Bites. Real Brooklynites. Real teeth.”

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Tags: Brooklyn Blogs · Sheepshead Bay

Park Slope Parking Watch: Day One

May 21st, 2008 · 5 Comments

We’re starting a new feature today called Park Slope Parking Watch that may be long lived or may be short lived. It’s motivated by the Great Park Slope Alternate Side Parking Suspension Experiment, which will either bring joy to residents that don’t have to move their car or will bring misery to them because people […]

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Tags: Park Slope · Park Slope Parking Watch

Bklink: Brooklyn Green Drinks

May 21st, 2008 · Comments Off on Bklink: Brooklyn Green Drinks

The Center for the Urban Environment is having a kind of happy hour and recycling opportunity today from 7PM-9PM. They’ll be accepting a bunch of things for recycling, including: alkaline batteries, Inkjet/laser cartridges, Compact Florescent Lightbulbs (CFLs), hard drives, printer cartridges including toner, pagers, PDAS, cords, cables, boards and chips removed from computers. It’s at […]

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Tags: CUE · Evnironment · Shortlink

Coney #2: Trying to Destroy a Gazebo in GTA IV

May 21st, 2008 · Comments Off on Coney #2: Trying to Destroy a Gazebo in GTA IV

Unlike Coney’s real gazebos, one of which collapsed on itself this winter, the ones in Grand Theft Auto IV can withstand anything.

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Tags: coney island

“Emergency Meeting” on Windsor Terrace Neighborhood Safety

May 21st, 2008 · Comments Off on “Emergency Meeting” on Windsor Terrace Neighborhood Safety

The Windsor Terrace Alliance passes along word of an “emergency meeting” taking place tonight on neighborhood safety issues in Windsor Terrace, which is still in shock over the robbery and murder neighborhood dry cleaner Kyung-Sook Woo. Here’s a bit from the email that is in circulation: Councilmember Bill de Blasio and Assembly member Jim Brennan […]

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Tags: Crime · Windsor Terrace

Signs You Don’t Want to See at the Playground

May 21st, 2008 · Comments Off on Signs You Don’t Want to See at the Playground

Yes, the toxic coal tar beneath Thomas Greene Playground in Gowanus is said to be far enough underground that it doesn’t pose a threat to, say, children on slides. Still, it’s unsettling to find a sign about the “remedial investigation” of pollution there. A GL reader sent in this shot, which comes from the Third […]

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Tags: Environment · Gowanus

Bklink: Coney Rides for Now

May 21st, 2008 · Comments Off on Bklink: Coney Rides for Now

Most Coney Island hands are happy with the thirty temporary rides going up on property owned by developer Joe Sitt (that will shrink to 13 in mid-June) and not particularly concerned about the competition with Astroland and Deno’s Wonder Wheel Park. What they’re still worried about, though, is that “they’re still planning a shopping mall […]

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Tags: coney island · Joe Sitt · Shortlink

Coney #1: Dreamland Rink Needs Helping Hand to Reopen

May 21st, 2008 · Comments Off on Coney #1: Dreamland Rink Needs Helping Hand to Reopen

Will Lola Staar’s Dreamland Roller Rink, which was open for a very fun night back in March, open its doors for the summer in the historic Childs Building? Yesterday, Diana Carlin, aka Lola, sent out an email noting that she is very close, but is looking for sponsors or members to help give the wonderful […]

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Tags: coney island · Lola Staar

End of Spring: New Building at Smith & Warren

May 21st, 2008 · 9 Comments

Our wonderful Carroll Gardens Correspondent supplied us with these photos of, uh, changes at the corner of Smith Street and Warren Street at one of the exits to the Bergen Street Station, writing: “First, nice Spring trees and sunny yellow clapboard. Today, brick-red construction fence. Bye Bye clapboard history and fantastic dogwood trees.” The abrupt […]

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Tags: Boerum Hill

Brooklinks: Wednesday Midweek Edition

May 21st, 2008 · Comments Off on Brooklinks: Wednesday Midweek Edition

Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: · Loophole Let Accused Windsor Terrace Killer Go Free [NYDN] · Gehry’s “Dutiful B1 Charade” [AYR] · What’s Up at the Gretsch in Williamsburg? [Brownstoner] · Brunch in Fort Greene [The Real Fort Greene] · Park Slope/Prospect Heights Meditation [Brooklynometry] · American Apparel and Other […]

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Tags: Brooklinks

Brooklyn Photog Showing His Work in Harlem

May 21st, 2008 · Comments Off on Brooklyn Photog Showing His Work in Harlem

[Photo courtesy of Nathan Kensinger] We love the photography of Nate Dorr, a Park Slope resident who posts on flickr as Mercurialn, so we’re happy to pass along work that his work is showing at the 139th Street Branch Gallery in Harlem for the next five weeks. The shot above is from the opening this […]

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Tags: Uncategorized

Bklink: Brooklyn Pigeons

May 21st, 2008 · Comments Off on Bklink: Brooklyn Pigeons

“Brooklyn pigeons have got it good these days. On Kane Street, they’ve found a cozy home under the scaffolding at the Rat-Squirrel House, with no one to kick them them to the curb. Meanwhile, on the corner of Richards and Coffey in Red Hook, some happy birds have made themselves at home in the very […]

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Tags: Animals · Red Hook · Shortlink

Brooklyn Bridge Pop-Up Park for Eliasson Waterfalls?

May 21st, 2008 · Comments Off on Brooklyn Bridge Pop-Up Park for Eliasson Waterfalls?

This is a Brooklyn Bridge Pop-Up Park designed by dlandstuio for the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy for a temporary viewing area for one of Olafur Eliasson’s waterfalls under the Brooklyn Bridge. Tropolism first published the renderings and info yesterday. It would be designed for viewing of Olafur Eliasson’s waterfall under the Brooklyn Bridge. The same […]

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Tags: Brooklyn Bridge Park · Parks

In the Pool: Brooklyn Bridge Underside

May 21st, 2008 · Comments Off on In the Pool: Brooklyn Bridge Underside

[Photo courtesy of Josh Derr/flickr] These are some preparations for the Brooklyn Bridge Anniversary celebration. The photographer writes, “The underside of the Brooklyn Bridge gets a luminous make-over in preparation for its 125 anniversary. Overhead light strips should make it very obvious to even the most clueless of tourist where the pedestrian entrance is.” Perhaps.

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Tags: In the Pool

Say What: Spraypainted No Parking

May 21st, 2008 · Comments Off on Say What: Spraypainted No Parking

This “No Parking” except Sunday has not only been attached to some scaffolding it has also been attacked with black spraypaint. It can be found on Wythe Avenue near the Williamsburg Bridge.

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Tags: Signs Under Siege · Williamsburg

Upcoming: Internet Safety Forum

May 21st, 2008 · Comments Off on Upcoming: Internet Safety Forum

There will be a forum on Internet Safety at the Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza on June 4 as part of Internet Week New York. It will take place from 7PM-8:30PM. The session, Checking the Monitor: A Forum on Internet Safety, is free and open to the public. Anyone that wants to register […]

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Tags: Event

In the Pool: Wysteria

May 21st, 2008 · Comments Off on In the Pool: Wysteria

[Photo courtesy of lornagrl/flickr] This photo which was placed in our GL Photo Pool by lornagrl show the gorgeous wysteria at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Very, very pretty.

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Tags: In the Pool · Prospect Heights

Bklink: Chance of Showers

May 21st, 2008 · Comments Off on Bklink: Chance of Showers

Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory, there are signs of a day that could be worse (completely cloudy and gloomy) and could be better (totally sunny). Instead, we are somewhere in between. The forecast calls for it to be a cool day with times of sun and clouds and a possible afternoon shower. The high will […]

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Tags: Shortlink · Weather

Cops Stop Slope Tire Slashers, Do Nothing?

May 20th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Here’s an interesting post on Brooklynian by someone named parkslopeboy that, at first, we thought was about vandalism of cars on Park Place in Park Slope, but it turns out to have some added information about what happened when two suspects were found by the police: We were at our neighbor’s house on Park Place […]

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Tags: Crime · Park Slope

Eye on the Street: Heart Vandalism w/ Rowboat

May 20th, 2008 · Comments Off on Eye on the Street: Heart Vandalism w/ Rowboat

This recent addition to the Williamsburg streetscape comes from Berry Street on the side of the Mill Building. Streetsy identifies the artist behind the rowboat as nickwalker.

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Tags: Street Art · Williamsburg