“Why are things moving so slowly at Love Lane Mews? Building permits were approved earlier this month, a couple of weeks after we reported that Sterling Equities had taken a $10 million buy-out from its partner Zucker Group. But a ride down College Place yesterday revealed a handful of workers who seemed to be dealing […]

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[Photo courtesy of Ruby’s Host/GL Flickr Pool] Here’s a really nice photo of the most recent Friday night fireworks in Coney Island courtesy of Rubys Host.

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory the sun is temporarily hiding behind some clouds. The forecast calls for it to be very warm and humid with clouds and sun, plus some afternoon showers and thunderstorms. The high will be (only) 89 and it will (only) feel like 98, which is an improvement from 100+. Tonight is […]

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This “We Live in Brooklyn” poster recently appeared on N. 6 Street near Kent Avenue, which is still a favorite spot for artists to show their work on the street.

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Here are a couple of show coming up in Brooklyn today, Monday, July 21, 2008. (We’ll have Tuesday and Wednesday listings tomorrow.): Jalopy: Jenny Scheinman (Violinist/Composer)- $8, 8:00pm Barbes: Chicha Libre (Latin, Surf Rock, Psychedelic)- $10, 9:30pm —Dan Bennis

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Even if you’re done with visuals and vids of Olafur Eliasson’s waterfalls, we highly recommend this one put into our GL Flickr Pool by Josh Derr. It’s a unique view of the top of the Brooklyn Bridge falls that he somehow shot from the bridge. Mr. Derr writes: Personally, I find the view from above […]

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There is some positive motion to report in the saga of the Long Island College Hospital playground in Cobble Hill, which has been the source of much neighborhood discontent both in terms of the park’s dirty condition and broken playground equipment. This is an email from “Staff at Long Island College Hospital” with some updates […]

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It’s been all of about two weeks since we came across a bitter rant about how badly the Pavilion Theater on Prospect Park West sucks. Well, with the opening weekend of Dark Knight more people than usual went to sample the theater’s charms and came away with love for the place. Here’s a charming tale […]

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Dick Zigun, the head of Coney Island USA and the unofficial “mayor” of Coney Island gave a talk yesterday. “The problem is that there is still no one involved in this project who understands how the amusement industry works,” said Zigun, who worries the development plan will result in “a nice mall for South Brooklyn […]

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Here’s our second photo gallery of Giglio photos from Williamsburg yesterday. All we can say is, it was hot on Havemeyer Street yesterday afternoon. For our earlier post with some closer shots of the people lifting the three-ton statues, scroll down or click here.

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[Photo courtesy of Urban Lisa/flickr] Speeches by Sen. Charles Schumer and Borough President Marty Markowitz among others preceded the official return of the Red Hook vendors to the ball fields on Saturday. The homespun affair has had an extreme makeover, with the vendors now dishing out their food from trucks and food carts instead of […]

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Here’s our first photo gallery from the Giglio Festival on Havemeyer Street in Williamsburg. The lift took place under a blazing sun at 2PM with a crowd that seemed smaller than usual, possibly because of the blistering heat. We decided to make the “faces” of the Giglio lift a separate photo gallery.

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It didn’t take long for Park Slopers to focus on the clusterf new alternate side parking regulations that went into effect this week. They are not going over well with some people. Someone over at Brooklynian event created a full color coded Google Map to show the new regime. The creator, who posts as 8thandPrez, […]

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The power outages that affected parts of Park Slope, Sunset Park, Bay Ridge and Borough Park on Sunday have been mostly cleared up, at least, according to Con Ed’s outage map. (Each green triangle is 1-50 people without power). The trouble was caused by malfunctions with 4 of the 12 big feeder cables. About 2,000 […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: · 3 Dems Vying for State Senate Seat Covering Flatbush & Midwood [NYT] · Nine-Year-Old Girl Left for Dead in Hit-And-Run [NYP] · Woman Barricades Self & Kids in Apt. for 3 Hours [NYDN] · Will Olin’s News Atlantic Yards Open Space Designs Surface in […]

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[Image courtesy of i’mjustsayin/flickr] The Liars played McCarren Pool yesterday and here’s a shot of Angus Andrew from the stage courtesy of i’mjustsayin. See the full set here.

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Musician Charles Sibersky sent us (another others) an email about his performance this week on the 24th at Aji, which is a new spot on Ninth Street below Fifth Avenue,asking for a shout out: Come out and support live jazz at 9st Street’s newest restaurant. Located at 287 9ST(4th &5th Aves.) in the Park Slope […]

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[Photo courtesy of Dope on the Slope/GL Flickr Pool] This image came to our GL Photo Pool courtesy of Dope on the Slope. The mirror in question is on Third Street in Gowanus, attached to a lot used by Verizon.

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory, it’s happening again. Today’s forecast calls for “Times of sun and clouds, very warm and humid; a shower or thunderstorm around this afternoon.” The high will be 90 and it will feel like 99 (which is better than 103). There will be some storms around tonight. The low will be […]

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[Image courtesy of heartonastick/flickr] The Siren Festival took place in blazing heat in Coney Island yesterday and the flickr images are starting to multiply. Click here for all the “Siren Festival” tagged images from this year. That’s Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks playing, above. And that’s the Siren Fest as it appeared from the top […]

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[Photo courtesy of sabeth718/flickr] The first Williamsburg Walks event took place yesterday under blazing sun and opposite the Siren Festival in Coney Island. It looks like it was more lively than the efforts on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, but almost anything on Bedford is going to have an edge in that sense. We’ll be […]

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[Image courtesy of dag2008/flicker] This Sunday, we turn our weekly Craigslist Missed Connection attention to the Siren Festival. We’ll start with one we like an then list a few more. Siren Festival Girl – m4w – 32 (* see below) hey…you know who you are…we exchanged glances, (or was i suffering from heat stroke and […]

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Today’s Times follows up with a story of iron gate thievery in in Brooklyn neighborhoods like Crown Heights and Clinton Hill that was first reported on Brownstoner in Crown Heights. They’re stealing big, heavy gates, people.–NYT

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This vid comes from GL Flickr Pool contributor jplpagan. Just a little bit of Gowanus Canal Jellyfish Zen.

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