For all you last minute shoppers. Though they’ll be open every weekend between now and then, the weekend before Xmas (12/20 & 12/21) the collective of fashion and product designers at Brooklyn Indie Market Partners (at Smith & Union Streets) will be donating 15-20% of their proceeds to St. John’s Bread and Life, Brooklyn’s largest […]

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A Message from the Brooklyn Tourism Board from jeff on Vimeo. Curbed had this earlier. It is quite something.

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This is a gorgeous and touching vid shot on the fishing pier in Coney Island that touches us deeply and that we think might move another soul or two as well, including some of our very own correspondents. We found it through Kinetic Carnival. Please take three minutes from your day and watch it.

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So, here’s a heartwarming little holiday scene from Dean Street in Boerum Hill on a block between Fourtrh and Third Avenue that is made of mostly of wood frame homes. Some are rundown, but some have been lovingly renovated, showing what an architectural gem the block could be. The houses on the left in red […]

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For the record, it is a Greenpoint santa.

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“Williamsburg is slowly turning into Cobble Hill. Consider the evidence: Grown-up kitchen store Whisk appears on Bedford Avenue. BoCoCa mainstay Bird opens a pop-up shop around the corner on Grand Street. And on the same block, new design store Abode offers stair runners—essential for cozy brownstone living, not so useful for 22-year-olds in crumbling studio […]

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This is a trailer for a documentary about the gentrification of Downtown Brooklyn produced by FUREE. AYR had a great deal of detail about it a few day ago.

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· Vigil for Bushwick Hate Crime Victims [NYT] · Guy Stabbed for Cutting Line at Fort Greene Senior Center Fundraiser [NYP] #183; Will Investment Analyists Finally Ask Forest City Enterprises Tough Questions? [AYR] · Why Marty Markowitz and the Kosher Nostra Kept a Reputed Mobster From Prison [BHB] · New York’s Finest: “Sodomy Cops” Turn […]

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GL Correspondent Max Casey got some bad news last night while munching some snacks and checking out vids at Video Free Brooklyn on Fifth Avenue: the store, which is the only video rental spot in that section of the Slope is going to be closing. Word came from the store’s owner, who said that the […]

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“So, in all of eight minutes, the IFC Media Project tonight tried to address how the three major New York newspapers have covered Atlantic Yards. The segment landed a body blow on the New York Daily News, treated the New York Post far more gently than it deserved, and took some swipes–only partly effective–at the […]

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[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] Okay, it’s just some smart asses around Greenpoint that call the giant digester eggs at the Wastewater Treatment Plant the “shit tits.” Most other people, who are unfamiliar with the Great Greenpoint Megalopolis just say “What is that fucking thing?” and other simply don’t notice the plant but do notice […]

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A quarter century from now, when the planners analyze what went wrong in Brooklyn in the early 2000s, they will have a lot to say (and none of it good) about the chain of events that started on December 10, 2003, when developer Bruce Ratner, flanked by a beaming Marty Markowitz and other public officials […]

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It is that time of year when God (aka the Department of Transportation) speaks and releases its 2009 Alternate Side Parking Calendar. The calendar is posted on DOT’s website, which can be found by clicking here. It apparently can be downloaded in formats that allow import into Outlook, Google Calendar and iCal (look at our […]

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What with it being the holidays, now, you may notice the dullness of the cold cast over our fair borough (especially today)… but, that’s a good reason for the lights and colors and decorations to come out. And boy is the Borough Hall a beaut this fine season! The lights and 40-foot tree have been […]

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[Photo courtesy of nifty pete/GL Flickr Pool] Somewhere in Park Slope.

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We love anniversaries because they can be so meaningful. Well, tomorrow (12/10) marks the Fifth Anniversary of the announcement of the Atlantic Yards project. For those who enjoy taking trips down memory chain, we highly recommend the Curbed Atlantic Yards Timeline of Despair, which only runs through this spring, but rather hits on many of […]

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We will avoid the temptation that to say that this makes Rudolph a hipster reindeer because that would be lame, but he’s only a block from Enid’s.

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There’s nothing like a comedy night get our minds off the doom and gloom of the recession. Add a little beer into that mix and you have perfection. We were excited to learn that stand-up comic Pat O’Shea will be launching his new comedy CD “Not Friendly” with “a whole mess of funny folks.” Featured […]

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Attention Greenpoint Doctors Immediate Care, you might want to tend to your little billboard on Lorimer Street. Maybe.

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We turn now to an email from our close and valued friends at Park Slope Parents who are always supplying Slopians with valuable information. This is about people showing up to fix a boiler that no had asked to be fixed. Sounds like a set up for a robbery about which the community should be […]

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This is a vid of fake snow during Park Slope’s “Snowflake Celebration” on Thursday. Sadly, we didn’t get a pic of the real snow in Williamsburg last night.

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There are not many things in this world about which we are certain and we think our level of certainty decreases with each passing day. However one thing we know with absolutely certainty that we love are the Gowanus Canal ducks. There is nothing new about the ducks or other wildlife on the Gowanus. It’s […]

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[Photo courtesy of mikime/GL Flickr Pool] We have no idea what this is except that it was placed in our GL Flickr Pool by mikime and was found in Bushwick on a walk home from Third Ward. There is a set of photos of the beasts, as there are apparently two of them.

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· Bus Driver Murdered in Brooklyn is Buried [CityRoom] · Failing PS 27 in Red Hook to Be Shut, Won’t Graduate a HS Class [NYDN] · Arsenal Found in Bath Beach “War Zone” [NYP] · Vito Fossella Sentences to Five Days for Drunk Driving [NYT] · Portside’s Mary Whalen Celebrates 70 Years [Eagle] · Dude […]

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[Photo courtesy of 66squarefeet] Uh oh. Those are icicles. The picture was taken today at the Bergen Street subway station as our correspondent Marie Viljoen was waiting for the F Train. First comes the ice. Then comes the winter. It’s fair to say that summer is officially over. Guess the trip to the Hamptons this […]

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