We had the pleasure of going up the Gowanus Canal on a New York Water Taxi on a tour sponsored by our friends at the Center for the Urban Environment, whose posts appear on GL every week. Here’s a little vid of the cruise that shows all those drawbridges in action and water views of […]

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“Yesterday, dozens of Brooklyn residents waving ‘Stop the Jail’ signs stood in protest with the local City Council member, David Yassky, the city comptroller, William Thompson Jr., and a handful of state legislators. ‘This is a case where the Department of Correction is saying, ‘If it isn’t broke, break it,” Mr. Thompson, an expected mayoral […]

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These Brooklyn Bridge Park renderings are totally cheating in the sense that they’re photos of some of the banners that have been hung at the temporary Pop-Up Park. Nonetheless, they represent the latest iteration of the park, the first segments of which will actually be opening next year. Among the first part of the park […]

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Here’s a special extra edition of Brooklinks for this Friday featuring waterfall coverage: · The Waterfalls Start Falling [Brownstoner] · The Freakin’ Waterfalls are On: Brooklyn Bridge Edition [Curbed] · The Waterfalls are Here! [Gothamist] · And, Now, the Brooklyn Bridge Waterfall [GL] · Waterfalls Display Opens on Harbor [CityRoom] · Falls Get Mayor Gushing […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: · Midwood Real Estate Agency Accused of Discrimination [Metro] · Memories: “No Taxypayer Dollars Will Go To Build a Sports Arena” [AYR] · New Coney Island USA Building Sets the Stage [Kinetic Carnival] · Bay Ridge Residents Forming Food Coop After Key Foods Closing [NYDN] […]

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Within the city’s presentation prepared for the Coney Island Scoping Hearing on Tuesday night were some new renderings of a proposed Coney future, as well as new detailed maps and diagrams of what would go where. The raucous meeting ended up with the following headline in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle: “Coney Plan Overwhelmingly Rejected at […]

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Here’s a weekend event for the animal lover in everyone, per a posting to our GL Photo Pool by lisacat, a kind soul that has provided us with many GL Adoptable Cuties of the Week and provided homes for countless cats: I’m not homeless, I just haven’t found the right human yet!” The Beehive Salon […]

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Eliasson Waterfall at Brooklyn Bridge from rsguskind on Vimeo.

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The sun is struggling with clouds outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory early this morning. Meanwhile, the forecast says this will be a hot and muggy day, with the requisite change of thunderstorms this afternoon and this evening to make going to Celebrate Brooklyn or the Coney Island Fireworks an adventure. The high will be 89 […]

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[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] There are still some googly eyes here and there in Williamsburg from a bunch that were pasted everywhere a couple of years ago. This pair, for instance, survives on a “No Entry” sign at McCarren Pool.

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[Photo courtesy of F. Jasmin Adams] At first, when our Carroll Gardens Correspondent sent this image, we thought yesterday’s Union Street Gowanus Luxury sofa had been attacked. Then, we compared the sofas and found that this another remarkably similar one that is also on Union Street. This is a Carroll Gardens model rather than a […]

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Like “unsinkable,” fireproof is likely a word that should be used with trepidation. So it was with the St. George Hotel, once a fine hotel in Brooklyn Heights, that back at the turn of the century was said to be “absolutely fire-proof.” Of course, in 1995, the St. George suffered one of the bigger blazes […]

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Olafur Eliasson’s waterfalls were turned on early this morning. Here are some views of the one under the Brooklyn Bridge, which we checked out from Fulton Ferry Landing.

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[Photo courtesy of LICH Watch] The last time we turned our attention to the Long Island College Hospital Playground in Cobble Hill, it was about the issue of, uh, rats running wild. Now, it’s about the general topic of “filth.” We present the following observation about the playground–which was built by the troubled hospital during […]

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The screening of ET and fireworks in Prospect Park scheduled for tonight has been canceled, per an email from the Borough President’s office “due to inclement weather.” A new date will be scheduled.–GL Inbox

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We have another entry for the long list of Park Slope openings and closings that we’ve been reporting in recent weeks and that will, no doubt, be noted elsewhere too: A new restaurant called Shinjuku II will be opening on Seventh Avenue in the space formerly occupied by Inaka Sushi, which closed over the winter. […]

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And now, a look at some concerts and shows taking place today. We’ll have the full, and busy, Friday-Sunday Calendar tomorrow: Thursday 6/26/08 BAM Rhythm & Blues Festival at Metrotech: Orchestra Baobab (Senegalese Afro-Pop Orchestra) – Free!!, 12:00pm Jalopy: Eamonn Dowd (Country/Rockabilly) – $8, 9:00pm Union Hall: Stars Like Fleas, Josef Och Erika, Inlets, Paul […]

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Coney Island USA’s Dick Zigun, recently resigned his membership on the board of the Coney Island Development Corporation and has become an outspoken critic of the city’s revised rezoning proposal. Here’s a video of testimony at the often raucous Scoping Hearing on Tuesday night, as well as a written version of his words after the […]

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ISlice did a Park Slope Slice Walk, sampling all the pizzerias from Flatbush Avenue and the Prospect Expressway to the north and south, and Fourth Avenue and Prospect Park West to the west and east. They checked on places where slices are available. The results are interesting. Lenny’s on Fifth Avenue was “a highlight.”–Slice

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Opponents of the plan to reopen and double the size of the Brooklyn House of Detention on Atlantic Avenue are holding a press conference today in front of the closed facility. The event is happening today at 12:30 and “various elected officials will make known their opposition to the City’s plan to reopen and expand […]

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Here are the lineups for two other significant Brooklyn summer concert series, one of which will feature shows by Jill Scott, Erykah Badu and Patti LaBelle. The other will have Micheal Bolton, Liza Minelli and others, which isn’t our thing, but is sure to appeal many as well, even for ironic hipster kitsch. (Brian Wilson […]

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Two Bay Ridge drug houses, whose activities have been widely chronicled on the Bay Ridge Talk Message board and by the neighborhood’s large number of blogs has been busted. The buildings were on 93rd Street. Here’s a bit from the Times: Most neighborhoods in Brooklyn have at least one blog — and in some places, […]

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Remember the story we had last week of a scary knife attack on Sixth Avenue in Park Slope? The attacker has been caught. Per the New York Post: A violent ex-con who had violated his parole in April was still free to brutally attack a professional dancer from Park Slope, authorities said yesterday. Thomas Russo, […]

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It looks like some workers were behaving badly at the Harmony Playground in Park Slope this week. (This is not to be confused with the workers smoking at the same playground or with the recently wet ‘n wild gyrating nanny.) The story comes through our Park Slope Network in the form of a forwarded email […]

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· Candor on WTC Timeline, Same Old Thing on Atlantic Yards [AYR] · Delays for Cameras in Subways [NYT] · Hot Karl Fischer Doing Wallabout Street [Brownstoner] · Brooklyn Bees & More at Fort Greene Market [Green Brooklyn] · Who Do You Call When Its Nuts Outside? [Bed-Stuy Blog] · Unter den Lindens [Brooklynometry] · […]

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