And now, some musical selections between today and Wednesday: Monday 12/15/08 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 Tuesday 12/16/08 Bar 4: Open Mike Night: Hosted by Tanya Buziak. Pre-list @ 6:15pm, Sign up @ 8:00pm, Start […]

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Over the weekend, the Times ran a story about the likely closing of the Montessori School’s “Little Room” at Court and Bergen Streets. The highly-regarded facility serves children with special needs and “has become a nationally recognized program for 3- and 4-year-olds with speech and language delays across Brooklyn and Manhattan.” Someone forwarded us a […]

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There are new developments with the nightmarishly long process of building the LIRR station at Atlantic and Flatbush Avenue. First, the scaffolds are back on the building as God Only Knows what is being done, but secondly the sidewalk in front is now open to pedestrians who no longer have to risk their lives walking […]

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· Equador Burial for Bushwick Hate Crime Victim [NYP] · Justice is Served: Greenpoint Can Shit on New Jersey [NYDN] · South Ferry Artists Have Red Hook Studio [NYT] · Times Says Hipsters Kind of Have SROs [Brownstoner] · Go Hang Out in Harlem Instead of Brooklyn [Metro] · The 2008 ‘List of the Dead’ […]

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GL’s Meg Greene checked out the Polar Bears on Saturday at Coney Island and came away with a bunch of photos and a lot of observations. She wrote us: Today was a perfect day to take pictures at Coney Island, the light was great and it was a bit warmer than yesterday. After taking a […]

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[Photo for GL by Meg Groome] After much rumor and speculation, a Hanco’s Vietnamese Sandwich and Bubble Tea sign appeared outside the old Tea Lounge on 7th and 10th in Park Slope. If it is anything like its twin in Boerum Hill, this Hanco’s will offer vietnamese sandwiches, bubble teas, and other vietnamese snacks. What […]

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Given the hornet’s nest of opposition stirred by a relatively small project like Billy Stein’s 360 Smith Street and the intense hostility directed at the Toll Brothers Gowanus condo rezoning proposal, there has been relatively little discussion about the huge Gowanus Green (Public Place) development between Smith Street and the Gowanus Canal. The picked the […]

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[Photo courtesy of spiffae/GL Flickr Pool] It is red. It is round. And it does have a surf shack look about it. Maybe it’s the next Shake Shack.

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[Photo for GL Courtesy of Adrian Kinloch/Brit in Brooklyn] Aren’t the way new buildings blend with old ones great, either during the construction phase or when they’re done? GL Contributor and Brit in Brooklyn blogger Adrian Kinloch caught this shot at Carroll Street and Fourth Avenue where a building that was oirginally supposed to be […]

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We had intended to go to Coney Island to shoot the destruction of Astroland yesterday, which we’ve beenn avoiding because it personally hurts, but some things happened to interfere with that. We’re putting up this old vid for a very special old friend whose kinship we will miss dearly. With deep thanks for all. Maybe […]

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This is more like a sad poem than one our usual Sunday Missed Connections but we had it in an open tab for day and feel like running it. Some will think it’s sappy. We think a few people will relate to it: I forgive you. LET’S REMEMBER THE GOOD. Even if its over. – […]

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“This is Martin Luiten’s soundtrack to the film Coney Island. It is part of an experiment where one film gets many soundtracks to see what sound can do to the feel of a film.”

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[Photo courtesy of megunski/GL Flickr Pool] The Wollman Rink in Prospect Park at night.

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While looking through all the beautiful cats for adoption through the Empty Cages Collective we ran across this beauty: Adam, a little marmalade kitty with the prettiest blue eyes! How such a heart breaker could still be up for adoption is mind boggling. Adam is an adorable small orange tabby kitten ready for a new […]

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[Photo courtesy of Rubys Host/GL Flickr Pool] Samurai Party at Yume Gallery [Bed Stuy Blog] Up from the Subway [Big Sky Brooklyn] More BK Cyclists Bike to Work [NY Post] Lattes and Condos and Strollers, Oh My! [Brooklyn Based] Dumbo Art Sale [Brooklyn Heights Blog] LICH Interns, Residents Unionize; Vow to Save Hospital [Cobble Hill […]

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[Photo courtesy of New York Pubic Library] This is the Erie Basin in Red Hook, which was home to maritime industries for generations and is now the home of the Red Hook Ikea, as it looked in 1920.

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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, we here at GL offer a weekly peek at what’s weird, funny, and gentriconfrontational over […]

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A montage of water around the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges.

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As long as you can read the reg upside down and a little curved, you’ll be fine. This comes from Williamsburg, naturally.

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[Photo courtesy of New York Pubic Library] This is Bedford Avenue at Empire Boulevard in an undated photo that is most likely from the 1930s.

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Next Saturday (12/20) is the 109th Annual Christmas Bird Count at Prospect Park Audubon Center. From 12-1pm and 3-4pm, join the Prospect Park Alliance and Audubon Naturalists at the Prospect Park Audubon Center to track the bird population and movement of our area. Binoculars will be provided. The boroughs of New York City are within […]

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We found this on Bayard Street, the row of buildings that we personally named Karl Fischer Row way back in 2006.

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Half-Off Friday at Prospect Park Wollman Rink: Enjoy 50% off regular paid admission to Wollman Rink every Friday. Excludes holiday weekends (12/26, 1/2, 2/20). Thought there was nothing better than skating on Brooklyn’s only outdoor rink? How about only paying half the admission fee! With the discount, admission is $2.50 for adults; $1.50 for seniors […]

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This week, Eat It: The Brooklyn Food Blog, takes us to Buttermilk Channel on Court Street in Carroll Gardens. I got to try out Buttermilk Channel (524 Court St., at Huntington St., 718-852-8490), the newest addition to dining on Court St. A few months ago, owner Doug Crowell set up a tasting table at the […]

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