And, now, the Saturday moment that keeps us happy, our Adoptable Cutie of the Week: The story of Chatzee begins on a sad note. One day his owner up and moved to Florida and left this kitty behind. Now why anyone would want to move to Florida is a another story, but even more of […]

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Are we addicted to the forums at Brooklynian? “Addicted” is such a strong word…how about “attached”? Seriously, we can quit anytime we want to. We just don’t want to, that’s all. For those of you who are still social lurkers, GL is offering a weekly peek at what’s weird, funny, and gentriconfrontational over at Kings […]

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[Photo courtesy of Deborah Matlack] Contributing photogrpaher Deborah Matlack has outdone herself with this shot of Nathan’s on Coney’s Surf Avenue in Fall. Bravo.

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[Photo courtesy of vaduzuvunt/GL Flickr Pool] 50 Most Influential Brooklynians [Brownstoner] Halloween Festivities for your Pets [Gothamist] Curtain Falls on BAM’s Free Movies for Seniors [NY Daily News] Tax Snag Arises in Brooklyn Nets Development [Reuters] City Halts Lundy’s Restaurant Restoration in Sheepshead Bay [NY Daily News] Robert Levine backs out of Historic Hotel Bossert […]

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[Photo courtesy of five25tenthstreet/GL Flickr Pool] It is one of the pretty waterfalls in Prospect Park captured by the photog in a most pretty way.

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Our friends of What’s the Hook gave us the heads up that this weekend is the final screening forthe documentary “A Hole in the Fence”, and a final look at the What’s the Hook 07 photography exhibition. We’re inclined to think that this documentary and the community captured exhibition are also going to be one […]

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A bunch of Park Slope businesses are holding phone banks for the Obama-Biden campaign. A GL Correspondent hit us up with a photo of the sign for the cell phone bank Al Di La is hosting on Carroll Street. The Lyceum and Proteus Gowanus are also welcoming people to bring in their cells and ring […]

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While the fact that there are John McCain voters in Park Slope was so amusing to the Times that it made the paper, there may be more than we think. This, in fact, could be behind Park Slope Parents censorship of political discussion, because the Brookynian board is where some of the pro-McCain sentiment is […]

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Crown Heights North, Old & New. Saturday, October 25 – 2-4 pm – with Matt Postal. Unusually rich in architecture and history, Crown Heights is being rediscovered. Focusing on the long blocks between Eastern Parkway and Grant Square, our route includes free-standing mansions and rowhouses, as well as Dean Street, one of the borough’s finest […]

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Today, we introduce a new feature and a new contributor, Eat It: The Brooklyn Food Blog. Eat It will be producing a weekly post that is a summary of a review/reviews appearing on Eat It. Today’s introductory effort is about Ghenet, the Ethiopian restaurant on Fourth Avenue in Park Slope: I recently went with a […]

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If you are a fan of demolition porn. This flickr album of Green Church in Bay Ridge coming down is as hard core as it gets. It’s raw. It’s brutal. It defines pornography which, as someone once famously said: “You know it when you see it.”–Flickr

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[Photo courtesy of Brooklynian.com] Approaching the corner of Bedford Avenue and Dean Street in Crown Heights, one would have a hard time conjuring up the magnificent structure that once graced the corner in the bare bones of what stands there now. At the turn of the century, Grant Square in Crown Heights was one of […]

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Eponymy, a women’s boutique, opened on Bergen Street a few weeks ago. Aside from frocks, the store also sells local art (see pic on jump). The person who runs the shop, in fact, told a GL Correspondent that everything in the space is for sale, “including the fixtures, though I doubt anyone would want to […]

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“Don’t be surprised if you see a few Sarah Palin look-alikes in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods like Brooklyn’s Borough Park. A wig wholesaler there says its Palin wig has become one of the company’s most popular items. Georgie Wigs Vice President Shlomo Klein said Thursday that the company has sold about 50 Palin wigs since the […]

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184 Kent, Version 2004 [Curbed] Dumbo, Before the $7 Million Condos [DumboNYC] No One Can Resist the Gowanus Whole Foods Site’s Verdant Fields [JVNY] The New Look Kellogg’s Diner [Grub Street] Doggie Costume Parade in the Heights this Sunday [BHB] Nothing Says Halloween Like a Can of Pabst [NY Shitty] Not Bklyn, But: No-Duh-Should-Be-Landmark Pavilion […]

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There is irony today in the aftermath of yesterday’s outrageous and appalling approval of the term limit extension that will allow Mayor Bloomberg and others like Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz to run for new terms in office. America is poised on the brink of a paradigm shift and one of the most historic electoral […]

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Here’s a list of how the City Council Members from Brooklyn voted on extending term limits which, of course, passed the City Council yesterday. There were 11 that voted “yes” and only 5 that voted “no”: Charles Barron: no; Bill de Blasio: no; Erik Martin Dilan: yes; Mathieu Eugene: no; Simcha Felder: yes; Lewis A. […]

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So, how, one might wonder, does a couch in Red Hook end up atop a bus shelter? The GL tipster who sent us the photo explains:The couch was in the apartment when i moved in a year ago and out of sheer laziness kept it even though hand me down fabric couches skeeve the hell […]

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[Photo courtesy of PMFA] The Land Use Committee of Community Board Six voted overwhelmingly in favor of the zoning changes requested by Toll Brothers to build their big condo project on the shores of the Gowanus Canal. Only one committee member voted “no.” The firm has spent more than $375,000 lobbying for the zoning change […]

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Just so you know what’s coming today: there’s more political content than usual on GL today. Then, again, an historic Presidential election is almost upon us and, yesterday, the City Council rolled back the clock on democracy in New York City. Hence, politics in many different shapes and forms. The irony is we normally avoid […]

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It’s a sad and sullen time at the corner of 215 Prospect Park West. Daniel Mills Sr., the long time owner of Farrell’s Bar & Grill, took his own life at the Verrazano Bridge this past Sunday, October 19, apparently after his doctor’s diagnosis of a terminal illness. A well known and liked face of […]

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Well, the Gowanus Whole Foods isn’t dead, but God only knows what’s going to happen on the polluted property that could cost a fortune to remediate and develop. Yesterday, Curbed posted an email that Whole Foods sent out late last week to local officials saying that it was looking for a development partner on the […]

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“The people will long remember what we have done here today, and the people will be unforgiving. We are stealing like a thief in the night their right to decide the shape of their democracy. We are forgetting who we work for.” Council Member Bill de Blasio, speaking about the effort to extend term limits.

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This Sunday (10/26) is another big day for pumpkins and related festivities. Come join Friends of the East River State Park at, well, the East River State Park (located on the waterfront on Kent Avenue between North 7th and 9th Streets) from noon to 6pm for pumpkins til you puke, fun and games for the […]

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[Photo courtesy of Rubys Host/GL Flickr Pool] All we can say about this pic shot by Rubys Host in front of Shoot the Freak on the Coney boardwalk is: Ruby, we love your photos.

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