[Photo courtesy of the Food of the Future] The Moore Street Retail Market, popularly known as La Marqueta de Williamsburg, has been saved! It has long been threatened with closure and the mom-and-pop merchants there have charged the city didn’t care about them or their future. About two years ago, the city tried to shut […]

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[The Performance Stair and Tidal Pool at Pier 2/Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates] There has been much info floating around in recent days about Brooklyn Bridge Park and none of it has been very good. First, came a press release from a host of Brooklyn pols that would seem to have been an indication that segments […]

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Tracy Feith, whose dress shop closed up on Mulberry Street in Nolita, is getting ready to open a new dress emporium in Williamsburg. The surfer who became a designer is opening at 64 Grand Street and this was the scene a couple of days ago as Team Feith worked to get the store ready. It […]

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Since today seems to be fire in Brooklyn day, here’s a little something just posted to the YouTube of a fire in Boro Park.

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[Photos courtesy of E.C. Stephens; click to enlarge] We have run a photo of the single tire here in the past, but hawk-eyed correspondent E.C. Stephens went us one step better. She took pictures of the bike next to it. One of them is from December. The other is from a few days ago. This […]

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[Image courtesy of Forgotten NY] Forgotten NY takes a trip to Sheepshead Bay this week and features a mural from 1994 that still offers glimpses of Sheepshead Bay’s past and presumed future. Here’s a bit of what Master New York Factologist Kevin Walsh has to say: Sometimes, NYC history can be preserved in the unlikeliest […]

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As noted, the once popular Miss Williamsburg Diner on Kent Avenue burned last night. The FDNY will figure out why, but for a couple of months there was free access to the lot next store between Miss Williamsburg and Duff’s. We had the pleasure of wandering around and shooting some pics a while back. When […]

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[All photos by I’m Just Sayin’/flickr] The old Miss Williamsburg Diner on Kent Avenue went up in flames last night. These photos were shot by INSIJS who is all over the Avenue when he’s available. He’s got a post up about the fire on his blog. The fire gutted the diner and damaged the adjacent […]

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· Things Get Ugly at Brooklyn MTA Hearing [NYP] · Hey, the Coney Rocket Gets Donated to City [NYT] · Smithsonian and Empirestate Aeroscience Museum Wanted Rocket [NYDN] · Hey, Brooklyn is Only Fourth Most Unhappiest Borough [NYP] · New Buswick Condo Indicates Bear Market [Brownstoner] · More Horrific Construction Choices [BVIB] · Party’s Over […]

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[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] We think the key word here is “all,” but in any case this wall wisdom from Freeman Street in Greenpoint is part of an excellent photoset from Miss Heather shot during yesterday’s snow/slush.

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We’ve followed the Giant Fart Cloud Building in Williamsburg every step of the way. It earned that name because it occupies the site of a former cabbage processing factory. Well, the Fart Cloud Buiding has been topped off and Phase II is underway and we’ll be damned if it really doesn’t look like it’s going […]

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richard meier’s bldg is almost done. Originally uploaded by urzzz Is Richard Meier’s glassy On Prospect Park building killing birds? One poster on Brooklynian writes: The last couple of days I have noticed dead starlings along Eastern Parkway and Plaza Street West. This morning it dawned on me the things were’t cold or old, they […]

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There was big fun in Coney Island yesterday as everyone from Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Robert Lieber to Planning Director Amanda Burden showed up during the slush storm to accept the donation of the iconic Astroland Rocket. Astroland owner Caroll Hill Albert gave the rocket to the city. It is being exiled to a […]

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If it’s not one thing, it’s another. This morning at 10:30 AM the New York Straphanger’s Camapign and Borough President Marty Markowitz are going to be having a “mock funeral” for M and R Lines. Now, if that doesn’t sound like a fun thing to do as opposed to sitting at one’s desk or in […]

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[Photo courtesy of pixonomy/GL Photo Flickr Pool] This is a pretty picture of yesterday morning’s very early morning snow before it all turned into a nasty, rainy slushy mess. Looked nice for a few hours though.

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Here’sa cool vid of Coney Island in 1973 that includes footage of riding the Thunderbolt several minutes in. We found it courtesy of gottaloveconeyisland.com, which has a feature on the Tornado, which was demolished in 1977 after a series of arson fires.

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The Wolverine Chair of Keap Street survives. It is deteriorating from weather. The stuff sitting atop it changes from time to time. In early January, it was metal and cups. Back in early December, it was a plastic bag. The other day it was a bottle of Corona and some juice type liquid. Also, someone […]

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This is Berry St. at N. 9 in Williamsburg. An industrial building stood here until virtually the entire block was leveled for a development more than a year ago that we’ll be adding to our Dead Pool. Developer blight is what happens when developers mess up a neighborhood worse than the normal process of urban […]

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Coney Island’s Parachute Jump was originally part of the 1939-40 New York Worlds Fair. Here it is in action at the Fair.

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A little while ago Astroland owner Carol Albert and city officials announced that the iconic Astroland rocket is being donated to the city and will remain in Coney Island. No landing area was announced, but Ms. Albert said it would be displayed in a “prominent location.” It will also bear a plaque dedicating to to […]

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Pablo Jonesy who shot these photos, writes on the Coney Island Message Board: It was a very sad moment, a dramatic moment.  I only had a short window of opportunity to visit Astroland today.  It was a few moments I will remember for the rest of my life.  I could write chapters about the 30 […]

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Some people have balls and some people have balls. This dude has balls. Keep reading and you will understand why: Animal Collective Scammer 4 Cute Wburg Scam Victim – m4w – 23 (Williamsburg) You had cute bangs and funky glasses. I printed ten copies of my Animal Collective ticket and sold you one near the […]

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Our continuing coverage of the nasty energy scams being perpetrated by IDT Energy and other firms all over Brooklyn resulted in an email from the State Consumer Protection Board. They’ve produced some information for people and working to stop the practice, although we’d argue they aren’t doing enough or doing it fast enough. In any […]

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Sometimes our readers leave comments that we think are worth of posts. This is one of them. Of course, it has to do with IDT energy scammers. The irony is that the person who was scammed is a former IDT employee. He/she does not identify the neighborhood, which could be anywhere, as they are everywhere: […]

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· Yowza, Top Brooklyn Weekly Sales [Brownstoner] · Public Hearing for MTA Hatchet Plan Tonight [NYDN] · People Pissed That Two Trees Project Will “Ruin” Brookyn Bridge View [Metro] · Is Most of Brooklyn Bridge Park Being Put to Sleep for Now? [Curbed] · Snowy Morning, President St. at 5AM [PMFA] · Sunset Park Alliance […]

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