[Photo courtesy of Adrian Kinloch/Brit in Brooklyn] This wall mural in the Atlantic Yards footprint in Prospect Heights has been up for a while, but given that today is the today that Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination and that GL Contributor Adrian Kinloch tossed it our way, we think it’s pretty on topic for […]

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If you answered “a Robert Scarano-designed condo” you win the prize, even though, to us, it sounds like the name of a scary bug. Alvora is in Prospect Park South and one of the buyers there has started a new blog called 34 Crooke Avenue to write about the building, neighborhood and other subjects.–Curbed

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[Photo courtesy of weenieart/GL Flickr Pool] This is Mr. Softee up close in a photo taken at an undisclosed location in Brooklyn.

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory the sun is shining, but there could be a lot of clouds around today at points. The forecast calls for variably cloudy skies and a high of 77. Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a low of 64.–Accuweather

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This really cool artwork is currently appearing on an old industrial building between N. 9 and N. 10 Street on Roebling in Williamsburg. We’re not sure about the artist, but have faith that someone knows.

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Is it us, or are the Park Slope Street Couches that we encounter often in much better shape than their Williamsburg, Greenpoint and other counterparts? In any case, this tan leather beauty that was hauled out as trash comes from Sixth Street near Prospect Park. There was a box spring sitting next to it, but […]

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The former storefront on Seventh Avenue that we reported on a couple of weeks ago via a Special Neighborhood Correspondent is going to be a Brooklyn branch of the footwear mini-chain Eric. The main branch is on Third Avenue at E. 76 Street. And so, the former Seventh Avenue Block of Death between Second and […]

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This is what Bay Ridge’s Green Church, which is being demolished so that condos can be built, and the old building replaced with a new one, looked like yesterday afternoon, after removal of stained glass windows started. Bay Ridge Journal, which has been following the story closely, writes of the photo above, which it posted: […]

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These two curious neighbors on N. 8 Street in Williamsburg, at 203 and 205, between Driggs and Roebling have either been moving slowly or not at all since last year. Number 205, which is to the right, would be a six-story building with five units and we’ve found the trailer the building has had since […]

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Here’s an interesting email that we found on the BoCoCa Parents group concerned what the writer alleges are dirty conditions at a local spot for kids called the NY City Explorers located at 388 Atlantic Ave. Here is the email: This has been bothering me for quite some time since I emailed the owners to […]

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Yes, the Pool Parties are McCarren Pool are but a memory (and about 100,000 Flickr photos), but the final Missed Connection they produced may be the best. It’s so good, we can’t let it sit until the Sunday of Labor Day Weekend when so many people won’t be paying attention: Orville Redenbacher IV at Yo […]

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The residents of Carroll Gardens that oppose the current planned height of 360 Smith (aka Oliver House) are not going to let the building slip through an appeal to the Board of Standards and Appeals without a fight. The building was stopped when a “Narrow Streets” Zoning Text Amendment was approved this summer. Among other […]

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[Photo courtesy of nycrouge/GL Flickr Pool] The Brooklyn Bridge Park “Pop-Up Park” on Pier One, which opened in June when Olafur Eliasson’s waterfalls were turned on, will be open for an extended period: More than 140,000 have visited Brooklyn’s latest hot spot for its café, picnic tables, benches, sandbox, and magnificent views of New York […]

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The mural that a group of young people from Groundswell have been painting this summer at Fourth Avenue and Sackett Street is completed and the scaffolding has come down in the last day or so. The mural is about water conservation and the environment and is painted on the side of a building adjoining a […]

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We didn’t know that someone was making a Save Coney Island documentary, but now we do. We came across this trailer on Kinetic Carnival. The wording on YouTube, where it was posted on Monday, says: “When Thor Equities, an infamous real-estate company, threatens to build condominiums on Coney Island’s core amusements, Amos Wengler, the troubadour, […]

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We post the photo above to ask a question rather than to offer any answers. The wall in front of the structure at 333 Fifth Avenue, we are told by a special correspondent who pays far greater attention to the local streetscape than we, appeared sometime during the summer. We do know that a building […]

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[Photo courtesy of mikebny/GL Flickr Pool] Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: · Woman Survives Fall Down Brownsville Church Elevator Shaft [NYDN] · Okay, So There’s Grumbling Over New Stadium Ticket Prices [AYR] · Slain Couple Left Bizarre Wills [NYDN] · Dowtown’s Dime Savings Bank Exterior Renovation Done [Brownstoner] · West […]

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[Photo courtesy 66 Square Feet] These are Easter Lillies growing on the grounds of a Brooklyn Heights church. 66 Square Feet blogger Marie Viljoen, who contributed the photo, explains: “These lilies (Lilium formosanum or Formosa Lilies [native to Taiwan, ex Formosa, blablabla], usually known in the States as Easter lilies) are growing in the grounds […]

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[Photo courtesy meghannmarco/GL Flickr Pool] This is some of the You Go Girl graffiti that has been popping up here and there around Brooklyn. This sample comes from Downtown.

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“what is this? stepford slope! Do you people need to monitor and micromanage even the use of words!!!! What a travesty. ps- Have you seen the fountain? It is beautiful and has made more people smile than anything I have ever seen . I live on its block.—pps — get a life. by the way– […]

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[Photo courtesy of Rubys Host/GL Flickr Pool] This is the Concorde at Floyd Bennett Field, which is now an honorary Brooklynite. It lost its distinctive sharp nose cone in an accident when a truck rammed into it in July. The plane is supposed to be repaired. It normally resides on the Intrepid in Manhattan. No […]

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The view from the Brooklyn Weather Observatory this morning includes blue sky, clouds and sun. The forecast calls for partly sunny skies and a high of 78. Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a low of 61.–Accuweather

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Uh, we know which way they should go, but these signs at N. 7 and Wythe in Williamsburg might leave a driver or two who was looking at which way the cars are parked scratching his or her head.

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This gorgeous sunflower is all the more so because it comes from Banker Street in Greenpoint, which can be a pretty desolate place in terms of flora, but here it is.

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[Photo courtesy of Katie Lee Rush/Flickr] For those that didn’t get a chance to say goodbye at the final JellyNYC show on Sunday or who aren’t going to be at the Sonic Youth show on the 30th (which will be a benefit for the Open Space Alliance), there will be a block party/community event at […]

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