[Photo courtesy of mugsniffer/GL Flickr Pool] We often have photos of pretty South Brooklyn sunsets, but they’re nice in the north too. This is a Greenpoint rooftop at sunset.

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory, the wind and rain are gone and the sun is back as Hannah is nothing but a damp memory. Today’s forecast calls for sunny to party cloudy skies with breezy conditions and (thank you) less humidity. The high will be 88. Tonight will be clear with a low of 64. […]

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Astroland’s rides are on the market, featured in a “Liquidatioin” Sale from a firm called Rides-4-U, which is based in Sommerville, NJ. On Thursday, Astroland owner Carol Hill Albert announced the venerable little park will close permanently on Sunday and that she needs to start packing up and disposing of things. So, here we are. […]

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Here are our Adoptable Brooklyn Cuties for this week, some killer cute kitties from the Empty Cages Collective: The kitty featured in the vid is Jadzia Dax. She and her friends are available via the Empty Cages Collective, which is a new North Brooklyn Group which has a large supply of gorgeous felines that really […]

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Tropical Storm Hannah continues heading our way. This is the 11AM tracking map from the National Hurricane Center, which puts the storm slightly closer to us than the 8AM track as it moves past us. Tropical storm force winds extend outward 200 miles from the center. (The further to the east that it veers the […]

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With Astroland ostensibly about to have its “last day” tomorrow, the Save Coney Island group is looking for volunteers to hand out flyers this weekend (pictured above). Here’s the email making the rounds and posted on the Coney Island Message Board: We Need Volunteers to Pass Out Save Coney Island Flyers This weekend!!! Come one, […]

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PortSide New York, which is headquartered on the wonderful retired tanker Mary Whalen, which is docked at the Brooklyn Container Port, is having a Volunteer Day tomorrow (September 7). We got an email from PortSide Director Carolina Salguero asking for volunteers to help with painting and prep work. Here is some of it: There IS […]

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NAG (Neighbors Allied for Good Growth) is having a Town Hall Organizing Meeting in early October, per the group’s great new blog, Neighborhood Watch: Save October 2 for NAG’s Town Hall Organizing Meetin. Our neighborhood is facing major challenges. The L Train is crowded, the G never comes. We need more open space. We need […]

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We won’t normally post a TV ad, but this Bank of America ad was shot at Astroland, and given that it’s Astroland Time here at GL, we figured we’d put it up. If you’re not into watching B of A propaganda, just pass it by.

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[Photo courtesy of Rubys Host/GL Flickr Pool] With Tropical Storm Hanna moving up the coast and Astroland closing tomorrow, we zeroed in on this photo of the end of Labor Day Weekend dropped into our GL Flickr Pool by Rubys Host. Summer memories, yes?

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The Quaker Cemetery in the Prospect Park is surrounded by a tall fence topped by barbed wire. “I suppose one has to protect one’s self from our stupid fucking local teen pseudo-thugs. Barbed wire though? Zowee. Don’t be like that, baby. I thought we were Friends. Actually, I’m kidding. I really do have respect for […]

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[Photo courtesy of rembklyn/GL Flickr Pool] Here is the Gowanus Canal reflecting some of its tagged up surroundings in another gorgeous shot submitted to our GL Flickr Pool by rembklyn.

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory right now it is doing nothing. But that will change. Tropical Storm Hanna continues to head in our direction, bringing the threat of heavy rains a strong wind gusts. Today’s forecast calls for wind and rain. It will be breezy and humid this morning. “Heavy tropical rainfall will lead to […]

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[Photo courtesy of Charley Andrisano] This gorgeous shot comes from frequent GL Photo Contributor Charley Andrisano. He writes: ” I shot this about 8PM on Wednesday evening, as the sun had already set. I wanted that beautiful glow you get, after the sun sets. A time exposure of 20 seconds, with my camera set on […]

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We’re inaugurating a new GL Feature today called GL Lost & Found, in which we’ll hope to reunite a lost object and the person who might have found it with the original owner. We’ll be culling our material from multiple sources. While we won’t identify people or print email addresses, except anonymous ones in the […]

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We noted this back in August, but it’s worth repeating now that the Summer Torpor is lifting: there will be a Seventh Avenue Restaurant Tour coming up on Thursday, September 18. Here are the details from an email: The Park Slope Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce the first 7th Avenue Restaurant Tour. On […]

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Are you a member of our rocking Gowanus Lounge Flickr Pool? More than 120 local photographers are and they’ve contributed more than 1,800 photos since Spring. We’d love to see your work and to be able to feature it here. Please join the GL Flickr Pool and/or tag your pics “gowanuslounge.” Also, we do take […]

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The Vermont Market & Pharmacy, at the corner of Henry and Sackett Streets in Carroll Gardens, is one of the more mysterious spots in the neighborhood. The store has been closed about a decade and it even drew the attention of the Times a while back this summer. The article noted that the building’s owner […]

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Located next to the decidedly utilitarian Van Brunt Station of the Post Office on Ninth Street, a beautiful blue jewel of a building – certainly not its original color – was designed as a residence for one William B. Cronyn in 1855 and remodeled in 1895. The Blue Jewel of Ninth Street is a remarkable […]

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Tropical Storm Hanna continues headed up the East Coast with current tracking showing the storm off the coast and likely to cross Montauk and the East End of Long Island. This means potentially less wind tomorrow, but a flood watch is in effect with the National Weather Service predicting a possible 3-6 inches of rain, […]

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The Brooklyn Children’s Museum is having the grand reopening for its $48M Rafael Vinoly design on September 20 and 21. In the meantime, the new exhibits and attractions are going up. In the photo above, Tim Watkins of May & Watkins Design, readies the “Splashdown” exhibit. It’s an interactive sculpture that “provides water for a […]

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This is, of course, Hotel Le Bleu which opened earlier this year on Fourth Avenue in Gowanus. It was supposed to have a futuristic-looking lounge and restaurant at the top called Vue, which is described as “The new haunt of New York’s chic set. From its lofty perch on the 8th & 9th floors, take […]

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Residents in Carroll Gardens are now circulating petitions to save the job Kathleen Henderson, the woman who runs recreation programs at Carroll Park. An email was making the round last night with the subject line “Help Save the Park Lady’s Job.” Here the text: Our beloved “park lady,” Kathleen Henderson of Carroll Park, is losing […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: · Diversity Day in Brooklyn is Reaction to Hate Crimes [Sun] · 9/11 Memorial Stolen from Greenpoint Church [NYDN] · In Markowitz’s “Brooklyn!” Publication, No Mention of Brooklyn Day [AYR] · Connor-Squadron Debate Vids [BHB] · Are the Battle of Brooklyn Dead Here at Third […]

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News of Carol Albert’s statement that Astroland will close for good on Sunday hit around 2PM yesterday. By 5PM our inbox was starting to get statements about the closure, some of them more curious than others. Lynn Kelly, who chairs the Coney Island Development Corp. and is one of the key city players in the […]

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