Have jumped into our GL Photo Pool yet? We’d love to see your photos, so please join and/or tag you photos “gowanuslounge.” [Photo courtesy of Brooklyn Bred/GL Flickr Pool] This is the view of the placid waters of the Gowanus Canal on a nice summer evening that found its way into our Gowanus Lounge Flickr […]

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory it looks like a great early summer day is taking shape. The forecast calls for it to be mostly sunny and nice with a high of 84. There isn’t even a chance of thunderstorms noted. Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low of 70.–Accuweather

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[Photo courtesy of Heather-D/GL Flickr Pool] We return to our street couch series with a contribution from Heather-D to our GL Photo Photo pool that almost rendered us speechless with its magnificence and by virtue of its location. It comes from Union Street in Gowanus and all it needs is a side table and a […]

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There’s a big and interesting music series coming to Brooklyn Bridge Park starting Wednesday, July 9 called Music At The Bridge. Headliners include John Zorn, French Kicks, and Las Rubias Del Norte. The concerts will run on five consecutive Wenesdays starting at 6:30PM and a different Brooklyn musical venue “will curate a three-hour jewel of […]

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We realize that it’s a little late to be posting Mermaid Parade pics, as any photos more than 24 hours old of an event are, by definition, almost prehistoric, yet we never got to these photos of the Gowanus development controversy as it appeared at the Mermaid Parade. And, now, we have.

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This morning, the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved a redone design for the landmarked Domino plant in Williamsburg. It is part of a larger $1.3 billion development with an eventual 2,200 units of housing. The design from Beyer Blinder Bell included a significantly smaller rooftop addition and the preservation of the old Domino sign. Brownstoner live […]

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“Mau Mau/White Island is surrounded by hundred if not thousands of black sand bags which are holding the entire island together. Most of these bags are completely worn out from weather, tides and time. Over the last few years, these bags have been killing horseshoe crabs. You can see from the pictures (above and below) […]

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The new Bank of America branch coming to Seventh Avenue has lost the bright red fence that had been surrounding it and the sign has gone up on the neighboring Five Guys Burger. It’s safe to assume a July opening for both. Well, at least for the Five Guys, which has had a sign up […]

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The next step in the Coney Island redevelopment process takes place tonight at 6PM, which is when the Scoping Meeting on the revised Coney Island zoning proposal takes place. (The meeting was held earlier this year but the plan has changed since then, so it has to be done again. It will take place at […]

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This vid, which was just posted to the YouTube yesterday, is making the rounds. Gothamist had it yesterday and we got an email saying that it was a response to a video of old-time Carroll Gardens residents talking about how the neighborhood had changed.

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It was only a matter of time before someone started a Brooklyn NIMBY blog and it has finally come to pass. The effort, called NIMBY Brooklyn, is a satirical (for now) look at some Carroll Gardens neighborhood blogs. (We say Carroll Gardens because the focus seems to be Carroll Gardens and some of the disputes […]

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[Photo courtesy of Ruby’s Host/GL Flickr Pool] Hunger striking Coney Island Mermaid Queen Savitri D. has been getting her share of press attention, including an appearance on the Brian Lehrer Show yesterday with the Coney Island History Project’s Charles Denson. She’s in her final hunger strike day today, as it was designed to draw attention […]

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While it would seem anecdotally that the Great Park Slope Alternate Side Parking Experiment hasn’t made it noticeably more difficult to park in most parts of the neighborhood (our own sense of the situation), there’s some concern that filth has started building up on the street. The problem involves what people are saying is more […]

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Kinetic Carnival has chatted with hunger striking Mermaid Savitri D. Here’s a sample: “KC: Is this the first time you put yourself through this kind of thing for a protest? coneyislandmermaid: Yeah I have never fasted like this or lived in a window before, I have fasted before with juice and maple syrup but never […]

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The “intrusive banner” hung by rapidnyc.com on a wall next to a Community Garden on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope has already been taken down. We wandered past yesterday evening and found that the only thing remaining of the banner, which had advertised apartments for rent, were the metal brackets holding in place. After the […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Atlantic Yards: · Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Atlantic Yards Case [NYT] · Court Won’t Review Nets Arena Project [NYDN] · Supreme Court Denies Eminent Domain Appeal [AYR] · Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Atlantic Yards [Sun] Not Atlantic Yards: · Building Collapse on Bergen […]

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The moment we saw this latest photo sent to us of the oil spill at the site of a luxury apartment building at 40 Berry Street in Williamsburg, we thought of the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. The La Brea oil is remnant of prehistoric times. The Williamsburg Black Gold happened when some […]

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“The New York Aquarium is mourning the loss of a Pacific walrus named Ayveq. Ayveq was about 14. He died Sunday after a short illness. The aquarium is awaiting the results of a necropsy done to determine the cause of his death. The director, Jon Forrest Dohlin, says aquarium workers took extraordinary steps to try […]

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[Photo courtesy of Shield/GL Flickr Pool] Mermaid Parade day always yields some interesting visuals, as per this scene captured on the N Train going in the direction of Coney Island by Shield and put into our GL Flickr Pool.

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No Large Losses good developers have always relied on a great deal of background information gleaned over a lifetime of conversation, observation, and reading- newsletters, newspapers, academic journals, and the like data are fundamental to sophisticated players in the marketplace and will not make money for a developer. assimilation of such historical and current public […]

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory at the moment there is bright sun. Today’s forcast calls for “intervals of clouds and sun with a shower or thunderstorm around this afternoon” and a high of 82. There will be some showers and thundershowers around tonight with a low of 65.–Accuweather

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And, now, it’s time for a small anecdote about a little car break-in in the South Slope. (The level of such incidents in the Slope is almost non-existent compared to, say, what goes on in Williamsburg where there’s such an abundance of broken glass from car windows is almost like a weird public art project […]

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Herewith, a selection of shows coming up in Brooklyn today through Wednesday. Monday 6/23/08 Union Hall: Jenny Owen Youngs, Food Will Win The War $12, 8:30pm Tuesday 6/24/08 Southpaw: Chris Devoe // Multitudes w/ DJ sets by Prefuse 73, Leb Laze, Epstein, JayTram, J-Stroke $8, 8:00pm Wednesday 6/25/08 Barbes: Norden Bombsight $10, 8:00pm; Andrew D’Angelo […]

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Yes, we attended the Mermaid Ball at the historic Childs Restaurant building on Saturday. We’ve already posted a short vid, but here’s a photo gallery to make the record complete.

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If you know how to do trapeze and you were wearing a fedora and fishnets while waiting for the L at Bedford Avenue, someone is looking for you: Trapeze Bruise in a Fedora – m4w – 27 (L-train Bedford) You have a bruise on your leg. I was wearing a navy blue baseball cap. Around […]

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