[Photo courtesy of Sabeth718/GL Flickr Pool] Brooklyn Bridge Park may have been dogged by controversy from Day One (and may still be embroiled in a great deal of it), but land clearance has been going on for a while and it has opened up many new vistas. This is one such look at Manhattan through […]

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Attention fans of First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum: there will be none this month. Well, there will be a First Saturday, but there just won’t be anything going on at the Museum. The Urbanite blog reports “It’s not happening!” and a check of the museum’s website shows that the next listing for First Saturday […]

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We’ve already run items about a spike in car break ins in the Slope, now we apparently have windshield wiper thieves, indicating that times may be getting very tough indeed. From the Park Slope Parents emailbag: “Twice in the past week we have had our wiper blades stolen off of our car overnight. Has this […]

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We almost hesitate to post this because it’s like embedding a commercial, but there’s something so compellingly odd about this vid for the upoming Gowanus venue Littlefield that we’re allowing ourselves to be suckered. What’s the name of the venue again?

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A GL reader sent us these photos of the aftermath of a house fire that took place yesterday in Windsor Terrace. Our photographer writes: “FIre today close to noon on the otherwise-quiet Reeve Place in Windsor Terrace. The fire seems to have started quickly on the second floor and everyone got out safely but it […]

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A Special GL Correspondent emailed us with this photo to note that an old Park Slope friend, Law and Order, is shooting on Fifth Avenue today. The location is around First and Second Streets.

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Chalk it up to the pop-up park on Pier One and the Olafur Eliasson waterfall under the Brooklyn Bridge, but Fulton Ferry landing has been even more hopping with our tourist friends than usual this summer. “Indeed, visitors, whether they come here by walking over the bridge, by taking the Water Taxi or by one […]

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Ninth Street is not only going atomic, but the space into which a new Atomic Wings will be moving has an interesting back story. A tipster emails with word of the new Atomic Wings outpost, noting that “they are putting an Atomic Wings on 9th Street, b/n 5th and 6th ave in park slope- next […]

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[Photo courtesy of David “Paco” Abraham] Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: · More Issues for Embattled Arabic School [NYP] · Victim of Beating at Ebbets Field Houses Laid to Rest [NYDN] · Checking in on a Slow Moving Bed-Stuy Highrise [Brownstoner] · Sesame Street Special Shooting in Brooklyn Heights [BHB] […]

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Workers have started reducing a President Street warehouse to rubble, clearing the way for another entry in Gowanus’ burgeoning hot-sheet scene hotel boom. A developer named SAI Hospitality plans to build a 100-plus-room hotel in place of the warehouse ; SAI also has designs on another vacant warehouse on the street, between 3rd and 4th […]

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That new venue on Degraw Street that was first reported in July by our friends at Brownstoner, has been fleshed out in detail by Gothamist and by Bumpershine after a press release started circulating. The venue, which will be located at 622 Degraw, will be called Littlefield. There’s a new website (which is just a […]

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[Click to enlarge] The last phase of the ongoing changeover of Alternate Side Parking regulations that started in May in Park Slope will happen in Red Hook starting on Monday, September 8, when they are suspended for several weeks. Alternate Side regs will be re-instituted in Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens and other areas west of […]

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[Photo courtesy of David Paco Abraham] Okay, so it’s really “Staring at the Harbor” rather than “Staring at the Sea,” but we like this shot from Valentino Pier in Red Hook that came our way via the camera of David Paco Abraham of the Cobble Hill Association.

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“Ricky’s just announced that its 23rd location will be 191-193 Bedford between North Sixth and North Seventh streets. We knew the discount beauty supply store was coming to the ‘Burg, but we didn’t know it would manage to grab such a front-and-central location—it’s going to sit nearly on top of the Bedford Avenue L stop, […]

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With Labor Day behind us, it’s that time of year when the community meeting schedule heats up again. So it is that the Windsor Terrace Alliance will be having its general meeting on Tuesday, September 9, at 216 Prospect Park West, which is the future location of Windsor Wines (and a storefront where lovely old […]

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[Photo courtesy of Incandenza/GL Flickr Pool] This is some flower action alongside the Gowanus Canal at the Union Street Bridge courtesy of Incandenza and our GL Flickr Pool.

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory the sun has broken through some early morning clouds. Today’s forecast calls for it to be mostly sunny and very warm with a high of 88. Tonight will be clear with a low of 67. Looking ahead, possible inland tracks of Tropical Storm Hanna bring it right over the city […]

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This is a Judith Supine from Keap Street in Williamsburg east of the BQE. It has, unfortunately, seen better days.

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No, these aren’t street couches, per se, but they certainly fall into the category of street seating and, frankly, they are quite compelling as very deconstructed Adirondack chairs. The photographer writes, “looks like someone got rough with the adirondacks at lonelyville.” Lonelyville is on Prospect Park Southwest in Windsor Terrace.

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This comes from Snark in the Park, whose new blog we noted on Friday. We continue to look forward to great things from Mr. Snark.

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And now, Brooklyn Fashion Indie Week is upon us, running today through September 10th. The kickoff even is a runway show at the Brooklyn Bridge at 6PM today called “No Sleep Till Brooklyn.” Other events include live performances and runway shows. There will also be after parties for designers. Curiously, many of the events take […]

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Here’s another massively big, late summer Brooklyn sunflower.

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That wine bar on Seventh Avenue that we reported back in April would be opening as a wine bar in the old Cafe Eleven space, now has a target opening date: the first two weeks of October. Carmen on Brooklynian reports: …they’ve got their liquor license in order and are looking at inspections this week […]

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We’ve posted about cohousing before and there’s a meeting coming up about it later this week. Here, from an email we received from Alex Marshall of the Brooklyn Cohousing Group: Interested in a more community-oriented way of living? Mary Kraus of Kraus-Fitch Architects will give a free public slide show and lecture about Cohousing communities […]

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“It’s Sunday nite, around 8pm and I just got back from a walk along Prospect Park West, near Grand Army Plaza, and I found 3 bags of jewelry sitting on a park bench. Some costume, watches, rings, earrings, bracelets, necklaces, some gold, some that I would imagine has sentimental value to someone. Please PM me […]

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