The issue of parking tickets being given out on alternate side parking days in Brooklyn neighborhoods, where it’s traditional to double park during street cleaning hours arises from time to time. For instance, as in this case, in an email circulating with our friends at Park Slope Parents: So we (only some of us) were […]

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If anyone is looking for good news about Coney Island, forget it. About the only positive development we can report is that it appears the city has started work repairing the most decrepit stretch of boardwalk in front of Nathan’s, Shoot the Freak, Cha Chas, Ruby’s, Lola Staar and other shops. The irony is that […]

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On New Year’s Eve we sat at this computer and picked “five rotting corpses“–projects we didn’t think would make it or that would be radically altered as we work our way through this economic crisis. One of them was Atlantic Yards. We wrote: “We think there is a good chance most of the project will […]

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[Photo courtesy of nifty pete/GL Flickr Pool] It’s either an F or a G Train (we presume an F) in the Great Gowanus Metroplex at night.

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[Photo courtesy Smith & 9th/GL Flickr Pool] Here’s a fascinating and different angle on an old Gowanus landmark.

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Alright all you folks out there that got your new flat screen tvs and iPhones and iPod Touches for the holidays – time to toss that old archaic stuff and make some room! But don’t just toss it anywhere, head on down to Lower East Side Ecology Center first electronics recycling of the year this […]

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[Photo courtesy of New York Public Library] The Gowanus Canal looking south from the Carroll Street Bridge in 1930

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And, now, a selection of musical events through the weekend: Thursday 1/8/09 Bell House: The Depreciation Guild, Dead Leaf Echo, Luxa (Indie/Electronic/Rock)) Free!!, 8:00pm * There is also free Brooklyn Lager from 8-9pm (Shhhhh….don’t tell too many people) Friday 1/9/09 BAM Café: Marshall Crenshaw (Pop/Rock) Free!! 9:00pm Saturday 1/10/09 BAM Café: Takka Takka, Tamar Eisenman […]

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Here’s a sad excerpt from Lola Staar’s latest email. We like Lola and appreciate her unbridled–if sometimes over the top–enthusiasm for and boosterism of Coney Island. Once again, her outspokenness has led to a kick in the ass from Thor Equities. This was news on Christmas Eve. But this is the story in Lola’s own […]

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[All photos by E.C. Stephens]

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Oh that crazy election night (11/5) a lot of people were excited. So excited, in fact, that a now notorious and somewhat violent scene happed in Williamsburg (Bedford Avenue and North 7th St in Williamsburg to be exact). The police became nasty, roughed up some people and arrested others. Were you there? Did you whip […]

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Naturally, the great Park Slope Fresh Direct debate continues on Park Slope Parents, where our dear and valued friends are pleased to raise issue of import to the community at large. We’re going to highlight several more opinions as to the Satanic or God-like nature of FD before we stop beating this dead horse. We […]

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[Photo for GL courtesy of Meg Groome] · Red Hook Brewery Making Hop Obama Beer [NYDN] · Ratner Gives $100K to Markowitz Concert Series. Enjoy. [AYR] · Do You Wish Your Neighbors Would Eat Shit and Die? [Curbed] · Jesus: Broken Angel Now Up for Sale [Brownstoner] · Vice in Greenpoint. Oh no. [New York […]

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We got this email from a reader a few days ago: “Rumor has it Catty Shack was closed down on New Years, and may remain closed.” Now, there’s an interesting discussion on Brooklynian about whether Park Slope’s fave lebsbian bar is doneski. One poster yesterday afternoon writes: ” I hear they got shut down for […]

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If you invest a couple of minutes of your time today looking at some amazing photos, take a look at the photos in the slideshow below that Jack Szwergold shot from inside Astroland yesterday. There are amazing angles and photos of the iconic rocket that was senselessly removed from the roof of Gregory & Paul’s […]

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Just last week we called the Toll Brothers proposed condo on the banks of the Gowanus one of our five rotting corpses of 2009. That’s because we think the project will be approved but won’t be built in the current economic climate. The Toll firm itself so deep in financial shit that Robert Toll is […]

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[Photo courtesy of Captain Nemo] We have absolutely nothing to add to this.

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[Photo courtesy of Meg Groome] This photo from outside a church in Park Slope does raise an interesting question.

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[Photo courtesy of chadwbecks] Shot in Brighton Beach and/or Coney Island. Gorgeous.

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Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration is currently exhibiting “Legacy: The Next 50 Years” through Saturday, January 17. This exhibition features eight incredible and primarily figurative African American artists of the 20th century that will captivate you: Otto Neals, Miriam Francis, Edward Bates, Onaway Millar, Violet Hewitt Chandler, Emmett Wigglesworth, Brian Strong-Wind Williams, and Brent Bailer. This multi-media […]

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This one didn’t take long to hit the market. There are permits in place for a five-story building designed by Burg architect Philip Toscano, but we’re guessing that in this market that plans for 105 Metropolitan Avenue, which is behind the garden at the popular eatery Relish didn’t work out. It’s on the market via […]

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At first we thought the danger at this intersection near Seventh Ave. and Flatbush Ave. was just because of shitty trash. And then we realized courtesy of McBrooklyn that, oh no, the danger is that the freaking lamp post might electrocute you. One would think they’d fix it instead of just putting up a danger […]

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Here’s what’s up at the former JJ Byrne Park in Park Slope which is now Washington Park. Above is the dog in the Boymelpark, which was looking pretty popular when we visited, but which is unlit, creating very dangerous conditions for people at night. We don’t know how many complaints Community Board 6 has gotten […]

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Hall Street Self-Storage (at 12 Hall Street) opened as the country’s first green self-storage facility back in May 2008. Now it seems they’re going one step further and becoming their own brand – iStoreGreen. As a leading local company using 100% Green-E renewable energy, iStoreGreen is growing to meet even more environmental needs to assist […]

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