City Council Members Bill de Blasio and Letitia James, who have led the fight against extending terms limits, are having a press conference with other city officials on the steps of City Hall today at noon to announce the lawsuit they’re filing against the Council’s action. [GL Inbox]

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[Photo courtesy of Erin Melina/GL Flickr Pool] This is the photo of the Esquire Building in Williamsburg that once said Save Domino. It now says Vote Obama. The pic clearly appears to have been taken from the Williamsburg Bridge.

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[Courtesy of the New York Times; Click to Enlarge] We’ve been featuring CNN’s electoral map since Monday, but we’re changing up today and using the New York Times map, which show Sen. Barack Obama with a slightly larger Electoral Vote lead than CNN. The Times map ranks a couple of more states as “solid” for […]

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On October 24, we had a photo of flyer that a trusted GL Correspondent found in Park Slope recruiting phone bank workers for Barack Obama at different locations around the Slope including Al di La and the Lyceum. Word about these has been spreading here is some detail about some of them, including the Lyceum […]

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[Photo for GL courtesy of Marie Viljoen] It’s been a while since we featured the trash heap behind the Fairway in Red Hook. We suppose it’s looking better than it used to, since it seems confined to the property now. There was a while is was being stacked at the end of Van Brunt Street. […]

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The pharmacy that is replacing the (loved by some, reviled by others) Second Street Cafe on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope, is almost ready. We caught this shot with the new signs lit up last night. Seems like we’re looking at an opening in a week or two.

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The Board of Standards and Appeals, which rules on disputes about developments about which there is deep controversy, has postponed making a decision about the troubled 360 Smith Street development in Carroll Gardens. The issue is whether the building should rise to 70 feet under original zoning or be reduced to 55 feet per a […]

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Hey, nothing like a bit of Live Action Role Playing in Prospect Park, right?

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We believe in good dental hygiene as much as anybody, but we have to say that today’s Missed Connection takes love and hygiene to another level. It’s so impressive, in fact, that it cause us to leave Brooklyn for an unheard of venture into…gasp…Manhattan. Check it out: you told me about bigfoot – m4w You […]

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[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] This comes from Meserole and Leonard in East Williamsburg and it definitely demands that someone who wants to rent this space “be creative.” Among the creative uses mentioned on another sign are spa and record store. Surely, someone can do better than that, we hope.

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[Photo courtesy Brooklyn Botanic Garden] This is, per the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s photo archive the “Gowanus Canal Children’s Garden, 1920, supervised by BBG graduate, A. J. Boylan of 1914 class.” We take no credit for locating this. That goes to Brenda Becker, who produces the always engaging and wonderful A Year in the Park blog. […]

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A GL reader asks if there was any, uh, shooting in Carroll Gardens last night. Saying there were “about 6 at around 1 am, i think…only heard a few sirens afterward, i suppose it could have been firecrackers or whatnot.” Anybody else know of gunplay in CG last night? We have no fix on the […]

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· Fort Greene Hair Salon Bloodbath [NYT] · Cohousing Group Planting Roots in Fort Greene [Brownstoner] · Why is the Midwood High Park Still Off-Limits? [Flatbush Pigeon] · Flatbush Bar Had Rowdy, “Sporty Youths” in 1902 [A Year in the Park] · The Prospect Park Carousel Celebrates Halloween [Lost City] · Will Flatbush Aves’s Toren […]

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Everybody that’s ever had an experience with a ginkgo tree knows they smell like crap, although some people think they smell like puke. So we’ve been amused by the ongoing discussion on the BoCoCa Parents group about the stanky sandbox in lovely Cobble Hill Park. It started with this: Smelly Sandbox at Cobble Hill Park: […]

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Given the verbal disembowelment that we directed at Council Member David Yassky last week for what we saw as a revolting betrayal of the public trust by calling for a public referendum on extending terms limits, but ultimately voting with the Mayor, we found it fascinating that the Council Member has been sending out email […]

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Yesterday, we related the tale originally brought to the world by Bitchcakes Commutes, of the G Train (used) condoms and loss of virginity graffiti. Today, we bring something less gross. A G Train clown, courtesy of a GL Correspondent who found the dude doing his thing on the Crosstown Local yesterday afternoon. If there is […]

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We’ve had plenty of pics of people selling Barack Obama shirts and other things in the Slope and the Burg. Here’s a shot from Dowtnown Brookyn on Flatbush Avenue.

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[Photo courtesy of Rubys Host/GL Flickr Pool] Dude in a lobster suit in a pretty heavy wind on the beach in Coney Island. Nice stuff.

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[Photo courtesy of Deborah Matlack] Here’s another lovely photo of Coney Island in the off season courtesy of our contributing photographer Deborah Matlack, who loves documenting our favorite place in Brooklyn. All we can say is it’s quiet down there on Surf Avenue at night in October, but Faber’s Fascination is clearly open.

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[Courtesy CNN.Com/click to enlarge] The vote estimate and map remain the same. Some polls and organizations show Sen. Obama with an even more solid lead over Sen. McCain.

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It’s back to the mysterious and obscure, yet powerful, Board of Standards and Appeals for the controversy-plagued 360 Smith Building in Carroll Gardens. First, the issue was its Heavy Metal Look designed by Robert Scarano. Subsequently the sticking point was the building’s height. In the meantime, there was a zoning changing on the block on […]

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[Image Courtesy of lornagrl/GL Photo Pool] This leather beauty has clearly lost some of its luster and comes from an undisclosed location that we assume is somewhere in Southern Brooklyn, but what we really like about is the placement of the plant next to it which does manage to give it that homey feeling.

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It seems like everywhere you turn, someone’s digging a hole somewhere to just go right back and build a big building in its place. Most of the time, it happens so fast and the view is blocked by plywood fences that we never get a good glimpse at what once was there. Well, here’s one […]

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And now, a selection of upcoming music events courtesy of our faithful contributor Dan Bennis: Monday 10/27/08 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 BARBES: Chicha Libre (Latin/Surf/Psychedelic) $10, 9:30pm Tuesday 10/28/08 Brooklyn Botanic Gardens: No music, […]

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Could it be that the duplicated shops of Kensington have finally out numbered themselves and are now bleeding out into the rest of our fine borough? And here we were thinking we had the nail salons all contained…–Kensington Stories

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