By this time next year, the Williamsburg waterfront will have four residential towers in some stage of completion–two at Northside Piers, which is a Toll Brothers venture, and two at the Edge, the big complex to the north. Phase I of the Edge will have 575 luxury units and 347 affordable units. There will also […]

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[Photo courtesy of jplpagan/GL Flickr Pool]

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“Although sales at the Isabella Condos ‘officially started’ at the end of July, the Grand Opening of the 63-unit new development at 545 Washington Avenue in Clinton Hill is taking place this weekend. Go figure. Prices on the apartments currently listed range from $455,000 for a 710-square-foot one-bedroom to $840,000 for a 1,333-square-foot two-bedroom.”–Brownstoner

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[Photo courtesy of weenieart/GL Flickr Pool] This image from GL Flickr Pool Contributor weenieart comes from a laundromat on Fourth Avenue in Sunset Park. It certainly does seem to capture the act of waiting.

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory this morning it is gloomy. The forecast calls for today to be mainly cloudy with a shower or thunderstorm around from late morning on. The high will be 75. Tonight will be mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms and a low of 67.–Accuweather

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The development site at 95 Bedford Ave. in Williamsburg–the former parking lot and paint factory–whose toxicity has attained the status of urban legend still appears to be a mixed bag in terms of public safety. Some piles of dirt and rubble are covered and some are not. This is the current scene. The best we […]

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“I was walking to my apartment tonight from the Union St- R train stop to my apt on 4th and Garfield. All of a sudden a golden retriever comes bolting down Carroll Street and runs straight across 4th Ave. Hopefully dog and master were reunited, and that the dog survived any other trips across busy […]

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Are you a member of our wonderful GL Flickr Pool? If you haven’t taken the plunge please consider joining and/or tagging your photos “gowanuslounge.” [Photo courtesy of Josh Derr/GL Flickr Pool] This is a great view of Downtown Brooklyn as contributed to our GL Flickr Pool by Josh Derr.

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We’ve been running vids of the Save Coney Island documentary that’s going to premiere at the Coney Island Film Festival as its been released. Here’s the latest installment with thanks to Kinetic Carnival for making us aware it had been posted to the YouTube.

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And now, a selection of musical events taking place between today and Sunday: Thursday 9/4/08 Union Hall: The Drones, Brothers & Sisters, The Tall Pines (Indie)- $12, 7:30pm Friday 9/5/08 Southpaw: Maps & Atlases, Nurses, The Gang (Indie)- $10, 9:00pm Saturday 9/6/08 Barbes: Live Broadcast of WFMU’s Transpacific Sounds Paradise. Featuring: Brooklyn Qawwali Party, Red […]

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It looks like the development known as Warehouse 11, the one we used to call the Roebling Oil Building because of what had to be cleaned up when the site was excavated, is getting a parking garage. (Yes, this is only significant because we’ve been following this development since there was still a warehouse on […]

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Here’s an unpleasant tidbit that landed in our inbox via our very reliable Carroll Gardens Correspondent. It’s sort of unsettling. All our correspondent, who is normally quite effusive, said is this: “My neighbor got salmonella from some eggs bought from the Carroll Gardens farmers market.”–GL Inbox

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We do love sinkholes and we’ve been following the saga of the one on Bergen Streeet between Hoyt and Bond in Boerum Hill for a while. Here’s the latest, per an email on the Boerum Hill Group: The sink-hole re-sunk almost as soon as it was filled with asphalt; only the contractors made it bigger […]

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How about converting your car to run on Ethanol and, then, joining the Park Slope Ethanol Cooperative? Yes? No? Maybe? Well, here’s some info about it: Our plan is to build a station in Brooklyn and run our vehicles on 100% ethanol. Our goal is to make the fuel from locally-based sources. We need people […]

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A Brooklyn Heights reader wrote us this week about concern that Joralemon Street was about to lose the last of its beloved cobblestones, but it turns to have been a somewhat false alarm. The original email noted that there is no parking this weekend and that answers have not been forthcoming from the city. He […]

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There’s been a rash of car break-ins in Windsor Terrace in recent months, but the police have arrested suspects who may be responsible for dozens of them. Per an email: We received a call from Det. Mike Cleary from the 72nd precinct who attended last night’s Windsor Terrace Alliance meeting. Just hours after the meeting, […]

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Kevin Walsh and Forgotten New York take a look at some Park Slope scenes this week, focusing on old factories in the neighborhood, some of which have been converted (of course) to housing. Mr. Walsh writes: There has been a gradual coalescing of my observations as I walk through Brooklyn in the mid to late […]

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Brooklinks is very,very sad today. · Bay Ridge Dog Helps Rescue Neighbor [NYDN] · Eulogy for My Father [OTBKB] · “Brooklyn South” Offers Up Prospect Heights a Decade Ago [AYR] · Brooklyn Street Safety Fixes Are Lagging Despite Promises [Streetsblog] · Another Look at Fischer-Kaufman Sandwich on Burg’s N. 4 St. [Brownstoner] · Brooklyn Filmmaker’s […]

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Mayor Bloomberg speaking yesterday about Atlantic Yards and the need for $100M more in subsidies: “We desperately need to have development and that’s a very big part of the development in Brooklyn. I don’t know that we have to put government money in, but we certainly will do everything we can to work with [developer […]

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Apparently, someone is walking around Park Slope flashing people or, at least, flashing a nanny and child. Here’s the sordid story from a Park Slope Parents email: My nanny was at the park with my son on Monday, and a man came up and exposed himself. His description: 5’8″ to 5’10”, 200pounds, black hair with […]

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A bicyclist was hit and killed in Park Slope yesterday morning at Eighth Avenue and President Street. The 50-year-old man was hit by a school bus. Per one witness, “He was in very bad shape when the ambulance arrived and sadly did not make it.”–Streetsblog & Park Slope Parents

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A lot of people will experience a lot of emotions today from abject grief to raging anger and everything in between. It is hard to believe that it has been seven years and like everyone else reading these words, we remember exactly where we were and what we thought when we heard and saw on […]

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There are many events taking place around our Borough to commemorate September 11 and remember those who died. Here are some of them. The September Concert, which is a global series, will have many concert sites in Brookyn, including Borough Hall at 1PM. Here are some of the other sites: Bar 4 in Park Slope, […]

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[Photo courtesy of galvarez51/GL Flickr Pool]

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It’s cloudy outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory right now. Today’s forecast calls for low clouds followed by sun and a high of 74. Tonight will be clear to partly cloudy with a low of 62.–Accuweather

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