Again from our good friends at Park Slope Parents, a mystery post in code designed to escape the clutches of greasy and nosy bloggers. Something happened with a kid named Nathaniel in Carroll Park. We want to help solve this mystery. Here it is: Please contact me if you are the parents of Nathanael/Nathaniel (unsure […]

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[Photo for GL Courtesy of E.C. Stephens] GL Correspondent E.C. Stephens headed down to Red Hook to catch the last pupusas and huaraches being served up at the ballfields until next spring. The scene this year, of course, was very different than it’s been in the past. The old set up with the tents and […]

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There isn’t enough Purel in the world to make sitting down on the train feel safe after reading this story. We’ve go to hand it to Bitch Cakes. She seems to always find herself at the right place, at the right time… or just a few seconds shy of catching the culprit(s) in the act, […]

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It’s always nice to say thank you, and today is as good a day as any to acknowledge our wonderful contributors. Huge thanks for your wonderful posts, assistance and moral support to: Dan Bennis, Miss Heather, E.C. Stephens, Max Casey, Marie Viljoen, Jean Kahler, Lauren Fairbanks, JP Pagán, F. Jasmin Adams, Vaduz Uvunt, Vanessa Raymond, […]

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You have to admit that it’s both a political statement and a great advertising gimmick. Brooklyn Industries has decorated all its window displays with mannequins (both male and female) wearing Barack Obama masks. (We don’t understand the lack of Sarah Palin masks on the females, we must say.) This is the store at the corner […]

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This comes from the BoCoCa Parent Group. The Food Network is going to be around shooting today: if anyone is interested in talking to Bruce Seidel of The FN Dish about their holiday plans please pass this info along. They’ll be in Brooklyn around noon, wrapping by 3 pm… doing a quick shoot on Montague […]

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If you missed it, you suck… at least that’s what the status quo of the revelers of this years Bike Kill would certainly say. The best description of what exactly you missed would probably come directly from the Bike Kill myspace page: “We’ve always understood the event as not just a celebration of bikes, but […]

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The restaurant row of Smith Street in Carroll Gardens has a new partner near the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. Joining in the retail boom of its partners to the North, Olga’s restaurant on 407 Smith Street has a banner up announcing that it will soon be opening and serving vegan, vegetarian, and pescitarian food. A look […]

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· Brookyn Woman Questioned in 11-Year-Old Daughter’s Death [NYT] · Prospect Heights Historic District Hearing Tomorrow [AYR] · Cops Kill Two Men Outside East Flatbush Club [NYT] · Dig Smith Street in 1936 [PMFA] · Light Industry Travels to Vietnam [BVIB] · Packer Pumpkin Patch Does Well [McBrooklyn] · You Have to Love Soviet Santa […]

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Many people have been arguing that no matter what the outcome of the city’s rezoning effort for Coney Island and whether efforts to dislodge developer Joe Sitt from the heart of the amusement district are successful, that the city lacks an interim plan to keep Coney Island from turning into a desolate wasteland of Thor […]

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[Photos for GL courtesy of E.C. Stephens] To those who live in Carroll Gardens or who travel Third Street, none of this will probably come as news. Yet’s it’s still interesting. Perhaps you’ve noticed the Magic Touch sign at Third and Hoyt Streets? If you’ve looked closely, you understand that it was “cocktail lounge” and […]

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The energy scam reports keep on coming and, in some ways, keep getting stranger. Here’s one from Sheepshead Bay, via the email list from our good friends at Park Slope Parents, who are always performing a community service in getting the work out: Im in Sheepshead Bay was at the nail salon. Two well dressed […]

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Day trippers and skinny dippers under the Manhattan Bridge, originally uploaded by gemini-j. The photog calls this one “Day trippers and skinny dippers under the Manhattan Bridge.” Not only can’t we believe that someone would set foo in the East River, we can’t believe they’d, uh, skinny dip.

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It sounds as if Precinct 68 is getting back into the swing of what their thing is – protecting and serving the residents of Bay Ridge. After many unfortunate crimes and a town hall evening of complaints, the cops are now getting it that just because it’s better than what it was this time last […]

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There’s a new flea market coming to Brookyn next month. Per an email that hit our inbox: I’m launching an indoor Flea Market on Bedford Avenue and Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn November 2008. The flea market is going to be in an old collision shop that is “L” shaped. The space is approximately 3000 sq […]

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[Map from cnn.com; click to enlarge] GL readers know we generally stick to Brooklyn and tend to avoid politics. The latter part is due to having covered politics in Washington for longer than we care to remember. (We recoil in horror at the October we watched 1,000 political ads for an in-depth story determining the […]

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Our friends at Park Slope Parents may be censoring political emails, but a couple have made it through The Committee and it involves the little ones (excited by Obama) and the election. We’re not certain if it would have made it past The Committee if the little ones got giddy when seeing Sen. McCain and […]

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This week’s Sunday Missed Connection has that perfect combination of attraction and anti-social behavior that we find so compelling. (Also, we can’t resist MC’s that involve pee, poop, farting and/or puking, plus theft.) So, here’s our choice for this week: Apparently you pee in public – w4m – 27 (East Williamsburg) Good, Seed, and Edible […]

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Puppets! The New York Puppet Library, once housed in ye old Grand Army Plaza but now at Brooklyn College in conjunction with Puppetry in Practice, seems to offer a lot of fun times and opportunities to crawl up into something bigger than us and play pretend amongst friends.–Brooklynometry

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[Photo courtesy of woodendesigner/GL Flickr Pool] This came in as a submission to our GL Flickr Pool, but it’s so much more than a pool photo. It’s a statement on these times we live in. The photog writes: So I have been meaning to take a picture of this dollar since last week when I […]

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Brighton Beach has a lot of gourmet coffee places, none of which are open before 8am and if you work in midtown, you most likely need to be on the B Train before then. The places that do open early–Rocco’s, Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts are very crowded with very long lines. Meanwhile there are several […]

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This is the new Freak Bar and Gift Shop at Coney Island. Do make sure to check out the backgroiund music.

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William Bolcom’s opera, “A View from the Bridge” debuted inn 1999 in Chicago was described as “Brooklyn verismo,” something that was emotive enough to bring to mind Puccini. (We are talking out of our asses here more than usual as opera is not something about which know much. Ask us about Arcade Fire.)( In any […]

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[Photo courtesy of Max Casey] GL Correspondent Max Casey came upon the open doors of Tom Otterness’s fascinating Gowanus studio and this photo is the result. Our Max has a habit of putting the old nose where it doesn’t belong and in this case, it paid off.

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One suspects there will be multiple legal challenges to the City Council’s vote this week to change terms limits. Whether any have a chance or the real issue will be voter’s response next year is another matter. In the meantime, Mr. de Blasio’s office sent out out word that “In response to yesterday’s City Council […]

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