[Photo courtesy of lornagrl/GL Flickr Pool] Writes photographer lornagrl, whose pics we dig a lot: “I guess Bart Simpson had a little too much to drink in Brighton Beach on New Years.” Dude. That’s just undignified.

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Dear God. We began the day with a post about the disgraceful state of Coney Island and the staggering ineptitude of everyone at every level of the process to ensure that Coney Island remains viable in the short-term. So, if you want to hear the official version you can join the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce’s […]

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And now, some musical choices between today and Wednesday: Monday 1/5/09 Jalopy: Tony Scherr (Folk) $5, 9:00pm Barbes: Chicha Libre (Latin/Surf/Psychedelic) $10, 9:30pm Tuesday 1/6/09 Bar 4: Open Mike Night: Hosted by Tanya Buziak. Pre-list @ 6:15pm, Sign up @ 8:00pm, Start @ 8:30pm (mostly Singer-Songwriters) Free!! Wednesday 1/7/09 Issue Project Room: Car Commercial, Talibam! […]

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[Photo for GL courtesy of E.C. Stephens] This beauty of a street sofa comes from an undisclosed location in Sunset Park and, we think, is one our first Sunset Parkers. It’s a beauty.

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Given the number of people about who we’d like to write this using a different variant and appending the word “painfully.” We almost pissed ourselves yesterday when we found this on N. 6 Street in Williamsburg. Eat Fruit & Die, indeed.

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If you want to flip a switch in our brain that turns us from a nice and normal person to a ranting one simply tell us in a public place that we can’t take a photo. Yesterday, we were enjoying our first look at the public pier behind Northside Piers and shooting a lot of […]

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This is the Dumpling Rickshaw Truck on Seventh Avenue and First Street on Saturday morning. In addition, the Waffles and Dinges truck was only a few blocks away in front of Old First Church. Given the generally horrific nature of Seventh Avenue food. These trucks are a Godsend.

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If you weren’t around on New Year’s Eve or weren’t paying attention, you might want to check out our year-end coverage. Here are the links: · GL’s Top Ten Brooklyn Stories of 2008 · 2009 Will Change Brooklyn’s Development Vocabulary · GL’s 2009 Brooklyn Deathwatch: Five Rotting Corpses??? · Thanks to Our Readers and Contributors […]

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Oh, just a few shots we took here and there of discarded Christmas trees, which are sad and compelling in their own way.

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This is Fourth Avenue and Carroll Streets, which we think of as the corner of nightmares for different reasons, but mainly architectural ones. The building on the left is the shaft erected by Bricolage Designs and Henry Radusky. The now Christo-wrapped thing on the right is the building from which Robert Scarano was booted and […]

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· Cheyenne Diner’s Trip to Brooklyn Stalled [NYDN] · A Look Back at Atlantic Yards in 2008 [AYR] · Learn How To Work With Your Elected Officials [PMFA] · Star Building [WGPA] · What You Missed on BHB Over the Holidays [BHB] · Pubic Hearing for Second Avenue Gentlemen’s Club [BVIB] · After Skating [Brooklynometry] […]

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There seems to be some indication, per the email flow on the Boerum Hill group that break-ins may be on the rise. (Not that you don’t see shattered car glass on the curb in a lot of Brooklyn neighborhoods, especially Williamsburg.) In any case, here’s the email: On 12/26 my car, parked on Nevins @ […]

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We knew this crap had to be around, and we’ve certainly dealt with the topic of mommy and daddy bringing the little ones into the bar while they get shitfaced and whether this is appropriate. But we just couldn’t help notice this item and it isn’t even from Park Fucking Slope, friends. It’s from Greenpoint. […]

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We finally visited Coney Island this weekend, having stayed away for a long time for both personal reasons and because we were depressed by what was going on. What we saw brought tears to our eyes and enraged us. Coney Island in its current state is an absolute disgrace. Every city official involved in this […]

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We do love the Toll Brothers proposal for a condo on the shores of the Gowanus that we are fairly convinced won’t be built any time soon, partly because the developer’s finances are–how to put this–going down the shitter with astounding speed. In any case the firm is looking for a spot rezoning of property […]

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[Vid courtesy of chadwbecks/GL Flickr Pool]

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After months of blog coverage (and a couple of newspaper articles) about the controversies over bike lanes in Williamsburg, the newspaper of record has taken note: “The city’s Department of Transportation painted 1.75 miles of bike lanes on Kent Avenue in Williamsburg last fall, the first step of an ambitious plan to create a 14-mile […]

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[Photo courtesy of sabeth718/Gl Flickr Pool] Normally, this building doesn’t look quite as nice as it does in this photo.

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Here’s an interesting Sunday Missed Connection that comes to us from that hotbed of lust, Anna Maria’s Pizza in Williamsburg: garlic breath seeks respectable girl with asshole friend – m4w – 24 (anna maria pizza, williamsburg, brooklyn) we were at anna maria’s pizzeria when your douchey male friend littered my pizza slices with garlic powder. […]

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[Photo for GL courtesy of Meg Groome] Meg writes, “thin and crispy.”

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We finally confronted some ghosts yesterday and went to Coney Island. What we saw brought tears to our eyes, for many reasons. Our overall impression was that a lot of people were in Coney on a frigid day to take pictures of the devastation of the land emptied by developer Joe Sitt, of the FOR […]

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[Photo courtesy of nine6sevenfour/GL Flick Pool] Just a little moment in time at Botanica in Red Hook.

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It starts out with views of Manhattan and Jersey, but the pan back to Brooklyn over Sunset Park is actually more interesting.

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[Photo courtesy of Deborah Matlack] This is another photo shot on New Year’s Day in Coney Island that Deborah Matlack just sent us. It hasn’t been run through Photoshop. Rather she accidentally changed some settings on her camera and this is the gorgeous result. This is Surf Avenue in front of Astroland, looking west.

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[All photos courtesy of Pablo Jonesy/Coney Island Message Board] The latest from Coney Island came yesterday when Dick Zigun of Coney Island USA reported that a firm working for Thor Equities had put up no trespassing signs on buildings that also have huge Thor FOR LEASE signs. (If we had to do PR for Mr. […]

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