We bring back our Construction Site Du Jour feature today to handout a Lifetime Achievement Award for Endangering Public Safety to 208 N. 10 Street, which is a huge site between Driggs and Robeling & N. 9 and N. 10 Street in Williamsburg that has provided a rainbow of safety issues over the course of […]

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Oftentimes, we feature bikes that have been stripped down to their essence while chained to a pole or sign. But, there’s nothing in life like multi-tasking, so we’re always fascinated by bikes that are parked and have baskets attached that end up being used as trash receptacles. On the one hand, it’s not cool. On […]

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1) Work on the former Cocotte, which is slated to become an Italian restaurant, is well underway (above). The sign that was in the window proclaiming it an Italian place, however, is gone. 2) Slightly up the block, a new wine store will be opening up. Our strong powers of deduction told us this based […]

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This item, which appeared on the Prospect Heights Forum on Brooklynian, is interesting to us because it’s from someone who got an inexplicably large gas bill from National Grid. Subsequent posters complained of similar problems. We know someone who also got a monster gas bill from National Grid that made no sense for an apartment […]

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The “Summer of Hope,” the label attached by Thor Equities to its summer activities in Coney Island, has boiled down to a few inflatable attractions at the corner of the big lot on Stillwell Avenue on which the developer demolished attractions nearly two year ago. Rides were on the property for part of the summer […]

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It’s worth reminding everyone that there’s a meeting coming up about the controversial 360 Smith Street project on Thursday, August 28, given the unfortunate late August timing of the Community Board 6 Land Use Committee hearing. The meeting is being held to consider developer Billy Stein’s application to the obscure, yet powerful, Board of Standards […]

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“Stealing a scene from a hit movie, two Brooklyn cops used their patrol car to ‘do doughnuts’ in a Bay Ridge park, a woman who witnessed the crazy stunt said Monday. The cigar-chomping officers tore through a baseball field at Shore Road Park in Bay Ridge, spinning the car wildly in circles and almost hitting […]

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So, is Monte’s Venetian Room on Carroll Street in Gowanus closed for renovations? Well, it is. If you look at the front door. A special GL Correspondent reveals, however, that there is more to it that than, particularly if one approaches from a different direction: On the face of it, Monte’s Venetian Room is telling […]

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This is 53 Java Street. Followers of architect Robert Scarano might recall the odd bit of drama last September when a truck back into a neighboring house and did a bit of damage to it while apparently working in violation of a Stop Work Order. Back then we had the following report: …As the fine […]

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After much urging, the federal Environmental Protection Agency is going to test some site along Newtwon Creek to see if they should be included in the Superfund program. The designation would theoretically speed some clean-ups along the creek which is both the site of the Exxon-Mobil Oil Spill and has a number of terribly polluted […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: · More on the Coney Island Craigslist Hookup Slaying [NYP] · Slope Grandfather of 12 Hit and Killed on Fourth Ave. [NYDN] · Meet the Animal Rescuer Behind SNIP [NYP] · Markowitz Backs Changes to Term Limits [CityLimits] · LPC Postponing Riverside Apartments Decision [Brownstoner] […]

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[Photo courtesy of Lost in Brooklyn/Flickr] The annual reenactment of the Battle of Brooklyn took place at Green-Wood Cemetery this weekend, as part of a series of events commemorating that bloody bit of local history. (In case you missed it, yesterday, Ruth Edebohls from CUE posted a fascinating item about the location of a burial […]

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“…apparently there is a new kid working in the Shoot the Freak pit called the ‘zone’ dodging paint balls. At one point when a customer had finished playing and put his gun down – the customer’s child grabbed the gun and shot the unsuspecting kid working as the ‘freak’ and nailed him in the eye […]

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[Photo courtesy of Erinmelina/GL Flickr Pool] Here’s another cool pic of Sheepshead Bay around dusk placed in our GL Flickr Pool by Erinmelina. Fishing boat, orange clouds and water, a perfect Southern Brooklyn scene. The boat sails at 7AM.

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A reader reports: “I’m having dinner this evening al fresco at Tutt Café, and there’s a huge cat crossing the street. But it’s not a cat, it’s clearly a raccoon walking on the west side of Hicks Street, crossing Middagh and heading downhill towards Poplar. I got a good look at it. Stripe across the […]

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[Photo courtesy of Rubys Host/GL Flickr Pool] This is Plumb Beach in Southern Brooklyn as seen from the bike trail there. The photo comes from one of our favorite GL Flickr Pool contributors, Rubys Host.

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory, we’ve got blue skies and bright sun. That’s the way it will stay today. The forecast calls for it to be pleasant “with brilliant sunshine” and a high of 82. Tonight will be clear with a low of 61.–Accuweather

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Here’s another Williamsburg Wolfie, the stencil that has appeared here and there on some walls and sidewalks. This Wolfie is from Berry Street not far from Radegast Hall.

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Prefer your doctor on a poster dressed in a tux, pitching health procedures? “I am quite at a loss for words. Please forgive the poor photography as I was completely unprepared for this inspiration. I am currently contacting my OB/GYN (whom I have yet to notice on ANY poster, mmmmkay?) to cancel as I have […]

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Herewith a selection of music being performed between today and Wednesday: Monday 8/25/08 Jalopy: Country Blues Jam: Bring you fiddle, accordion, banjo, washtub, mandolin, guitar, or maybe even spoons and participate in an open jam session. Free!! 9:30pm Tuesday 8/12/08 Barbes: Jenny Scheinman (Violinist/Composer) $10, 7:00pm Wednesday 8/13/08 Jalopy: “Roots n’ Ruckus” w/ Sean Condron […]

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“What is it about the inexorable approach of the end of summer. Even though I love the fall, and even the winter, when it is not too intense, the approach of the week before labor day brings a little bit of ennui, a rootlessness and sense of endings, of movings on..For most households that include […]

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What better way to have fun on a warm August Sunday evening than taking a pleasure cruise up Newtown Creek on a tugboat? For the news angle on one of our favorite bodies of water, check out CityRoom, which is reporting the EPA will test around the creek to see if it’s horrendous enough to […]

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On Saturday, August 16th, a “Maryland 400” remembrance ceremony was held at the Michael A. Rawley American Legion Post, located between 8th and 9th Streets and Third & Fourth Avenues. A faded New York State historic blue and yellow sign has been hanging in front of the Post on 9th Street commemorating the “Maryland Heroes” […]

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A little while ago, we had a rant from someone’s whose bike was knocked over and damaged by someone pulling out of a parking space. At least it wasn’t stolen, however: Two of my motorcycles have been stolen within 6 weeks. Both were parked right in front of my house between Bond and Nevins. Both […]

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This is part of the somewhat incoherent message that has appeared in the Slope on Seventh Avenue at the former Second Street Cafe location, which will become a Kids Rx. We’re not entirely sure what the message is supposed to say in its entirety except that we can clearly see that it’s related to child […]

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