Yes, it’s time for our Sunday Missed Connection and, yes, this one is, uh, different: Girl with a rubber chicken – m4w – 23 (L train) You got on a Brooklyn bound L train maybe at union sq or 1st ave. I was the tall guy who didn’t sit in the seat so you could, […]

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[Photo courtesy of Deborah Matlack] Oh, Green-Wood Cemetery, you sadden us so, because you are a cemetery, but you’re also so beautiful. GL Contributor Deborah Matlack traveled there yesterday and filed this pretty picture.

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[Photo courtesy of Flatbush Gardener/GL Flickr Pool] This looks like a Brooklyn Christmas card.

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[Photo courtesy of Mr. Jonesey/Coney Island Message Board] The slow and painful death of Astroland continues with rides being dismantled and put into shipping containers and the fate of the iconic Astroland rocket and Astrotower still up in the air. This is a pic of the death scene in the snow.

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[Photo courtesy of JP Pagán/GL Flickr Pool] This is the pretty little Transit Garden in Carroll Gardens all decorated and lit up for the holidays.

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Remember, the Gowanus Canal Conservancy is having an art show and sale called “A Sense of Place” through tomorrow. They’ve added some items too. It takes place at 298 Bond Street between Sackett and Union Street, today and tomorrow from 11AM to 7PM. On Monday, remaining art will be 20 per cent off. Here’s some […]

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[Photo courtesy of pixonomy/Gl Flickr Pool] PJ Hanley’s in the snow on Court Street in Carroll Gardens.

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There is a report from Boerum Hill of tires being slashed in what either could have been random vandalism or something a little more ugly (read the second emai). It happened to a car owned by people with a McCain sign in their window. There are two emails from the Boerum Hill group. Here is […]

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And now for Saturday’s adoptable kitty! So pull up to the computer, take a sip of that hot coffee and enjoy your GL morning edition of adorable adoptables. Today we have Cleo a lucky gal that along with her brothers were fortunate enough to be saved from a life on the street. Cleo is one […]

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This is a super cool vid of the old Thunderbolt Roller Coaster, in all its diminished glory, in Coney Island not long before Rudy Giuliani ordered it demoished. It was just posted in the last few days.

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[Photo courtesy of New York Public Library] This is the Williamsburg Bridge under consruction in the early 1900s as seen from Kent Avenue in Williamsburg.

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[Photo for GL Courtesy of Deborah Matlack] Valued GL Photographer Deborah Matlack stood out in the sleet with camera on tripod and holding an umbrella to capture this quintessential Southern Brooklyn Christmas scene. And it is pretty.

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Sunday, 1/4, a book reading by Daniel Walker Howe of his Pulitzer Prize–winning book What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, will be held at the Historic Chapel at Green-Wood Cemetery. Following, a trolley tour will move through the cemetery to the grave sites of notable writers who inspired the era, such as […]

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[Photo courtesy of Meg Greene] The photographer says: “During one of mymany sojurnes down 4th Ave I turned a corner and found a set of beautiful cars on the sidewalk. From across the street they appeared to be in pristine condition but upclose I noticed that the tires were flat and the inside was totally […]

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[Photo courtesy of pixonomy/GL Flickr Pool] The photographer writes: “It was a winter wonderland in Brooklyn when I got home from work tonight. Guess it snowed all day. I was trapped in my windowless office the whole day. Wish I could have gone out and played in the snow.”

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A GL reader sent this to us for GL, but we thought it was so amusing that we posted it on Curbed late yesterday afternoon, figuring a lot of people would get a chuckle out of it. We wrote: Don’t the holidays bring out the best in people? Let’s take this sign, a photo of […]

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This weekend (12/20 & 12/21) is the start of the first opening of the Artisan Market down at the old Brooklyn Lyceum (on 4th Ave between Union and President) from 11am-7pm. Over 60 local artists and vendors will be selling a vast array of everything you don’t need but would probably love to have or […]

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[Photos for Gowanus Lounge by E.C. Stephens] GL Correspondent E.C. Stephens braved the elements and came back with a couple of pics of Fifth Avenue and environs in Park Slope in the snow. Check out the Christmas trees with their coating.

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And a few musical selections for a cold and wet weekend: Friday 12/19/08 BAM Café: The Fay Victor Ensemble (Jazz) Free!! 10:00pm Saturday 12/20/08 BAM Café: Tamaraqs Winter Solstice Hafla (Belly Dancing/ Raqs Sharki) Free!! 10:00pm Music Hall of Williamsburg: The Slackers (Ska/Reggae/Rock) $15 Advance/$17 Day of Show, 9:00pm Southpaw: The Menahan Street Band, Naomi […]

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We have to admit that although we are animal lovers, small, yappy, football sized dogs sometimes give us the urge to punt. But all joking aside, this story from a Park Slope Parents email is a sad one and despite our hatred for puppy mills (they’re basically commercial enterprises which breed dogs in sometimes dispicable […]

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Arise Collective, in partnership with the Bed-Stuy Campaign Against Hunger, is presenting a “Drive for the Stuy,” a fundraiser event this Friday, December 19th, 7:00pm – 11:30pm, at the St. Phillips Episcopal Church (334 MacDonough St.) in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. “Drive for the Stuy is a food and clothing drive event that will feature an evening […]

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Here’s this week’s regular food thing from the good people at Eat It: The Brooklyn Food Blog, who check out Lobo on Court Street and find that it’s barfalicious: Having just over an hour before our movie at Cobble Hill Cinemas, we decided to try Lobo, (218 Court St., between Baltic St. & Warren St., […]

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Yes, friends, the snow is falling in Brooklyn. You read it on GL first. And in case you don’t believe us, here is photographic evidence.

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There’s nothing like a little Snow Job to get your holidays started and Public Assembly (the former Galapagos on N. 6 Street in the Burg) is doing it up right with free chicken & waffles from 8 – 9pm and an open bar of Red Bull and Vodka from 9 – 10pm. Spinning the tunes […]

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