[Photo courtesy of the New York Pubic Library] This is Rosie Bernier in her home on Nostrand Avenue in Flatbush in a photo taken October 15, 1978.

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[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] This is from George Street in Bushwick. Because of the way the sign is pointing and the Cathedral of Joy Church of God sort of juxtaposed like that Miss Heather has titled this baby “Highway to Hell.”

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And, now, we present our weekly restaurant review from our friends at Eat It: The Brooklyn Food Blog. This week’s feature is Cafe Steinhof in Park Slope: Searching for adventure, some friends and I picked Cafe Steinhof (422 Seventh Ave. at 14th Street, 718-369-7776) for dinner, not knowing what to expect. I don’t know anyone […]

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Yeah, we did a “train week” thing last week, but when we saw this vid of the A train at 5 AM we felt a need to post it.

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A kind GL reader sent us a link to an absolutely fascinating article taking a looking a the different kinds of lettering found on different kinds of buildings in various Brooklyn neighborhoods. It’s from AIGA Design Archives and was just published. An excerpt: In Brooklyn, commercial and industrial neighborhoods are the best places to find […]

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· Guess Which Brooklyn Nabe is Top Ten Dreamy [Curbed] · Checking on 47 Dean [Brownstoner] · Thngs to Call the Wilson L Stop [BushwickBK] · It’s Bruce Ratner’s Birthday [No and Grab] · Rec Center Murals [BVIB] · Car Accident Aftermath [GerritsenBeach.Net] · The Notorious Prospect Place [I Love Franklin Avenue] · Galapagos Has […]

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Brook-Vin, the much anticipated new Park Slope wine bar at 387 Seventh Avenue (between 11th & 12th Streets) opened to a packed house last night and a crowd that got thicker as the night wore on. There was a lot of wine flowing and containers of liquids like bacon-infused bourbon and fruit-soaked vodkas sitting on […]

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This overgrown field was the site of a bakery before it was demolished. Then foundation work was so frantic that it was going on until 4AM some nights and neighbors were calling the Department of Buildings. Now, nothing’s happened on the site for close to a year. It was being developed as a rental building […]

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This is 205 N. 8 Street in Williamsburg, which has been under construction since 1986. Just kidding. But it’s been going up for a long, long time. It’s a six story building with five units and the original permit was approved four years ago. It’s also attracted 14 complaints to the Dept. of Buildings and […]

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[Photo courtesy of Deborah Matlack] Saying anything about this would just be stupid.

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This is a very emotional day for us and when we feel emotional we always turn to Joy Division. We have been doing this for more than 30 years. This is the only music video Joy Division ever made. As many of you know, Ian Curtis, the most brilliant songwriter and singer of his generation […]

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[Photo courtesy of K. Lapp/GL Flickr Pool] When we first glanced at this photo in thumbnail form, it struck as an English Village but it is Carroll Gardens. The photographer writes, “This guy is walking down one of my favorite streets in all of NYC – Dennett Place. You see the entire length of it […]

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The Brooklyn Public Library 4th Annual PowerUP! business plan competition awarded Brooklyn Fudge with $15,000 for their great business plan on how to get more people to eat more fudge. Amanda Jones has concocted one hell of a business plan that has spread her family’s secret fudge recipe throughout our great borough, and broken the […]

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Few people probably have the patience for watching this entire vid, but we definitely suggest checking it out and skipping around. It’s one person’s visions for a huge roller coaster in Coney Island. Def worth a glance.

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In July (7/15) the 9th Annual Building Brooklyn Awards, presented by the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce and the Real Estate & Development Committee, will be at Steiner Studio’s Stage 6 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. But now’s the time to submit nominees for recognition of nineteen different categories of the bettering of the Brooklyn community […]

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[Photo for GL by E.C. Stephens] It was small and it looks like it had dignity, but when E.C. Stephens came across it, it was out on the sidewalks of Park Slope waiting to die, covered with snow.

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A young woman expresses her feelings about President Obama.

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We’re reluctant to buy a plot for it yet in Green-Wood Cemetery, but if we were to put a wager on 544 Union Avenue, which was supposed to be a huge Gene Kaufman building at 544 Union Avenue in Williamsburg on the site of a former factory, we’d say it was looking a little corpse-like. […]

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[Click to enlarge image] If you thought planning and zoning maps were boring, think again. Well, actually, they are boring and confusing. They’re like the law–meant only to be understood by planning and zoning experts so that only they really know what’s going on and the average member of the public, upon seeing the 40-story […]

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This letter from an architect who identifies himself only as JL, comes our way via the CORD neighborhood group. We’re running it because we think it makes some interesting points about how development is outstripping the community’s ability to handle it: As a trained architect and urban planner, but more importantly, as a concerned 20-year […]

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· Brooklyn Pol Goes From Free House to Big House [NYP] · Brooklyn’s Slowest Pizza Place to Open Next Month [Brownstoner] · New Childcare Cooperative in Sunset Park [BVIB] · Rose Walkway Returned to Public [McBrooklyn] · Save the Baltic St. Community Garden [Flatbush Gardener] · How They Hug in Greenpoint [New York Shitty] · […]

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[Photo courtesy Barry Yanowitz] Electricia writes of this pic on the Coney Island Message Board: “I love this photo and also like cats! I found out this kitty is one of what I call the “Cyclone cats”— feral cats living in the precincts of the Cyclone. They are used to going back and forth across […]

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As we noted there was some sledding mayhem in Prospect Park on Martin Luther King Day and a child ended up being injured. Here’s the rest of the story and the outcome from a Park Slope Parents email. As it turns out, it wasn’t a teen that injured the child, but an adult, who then […]

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Of all the things to end up discussing after the city’s massive Coney Island plan was released, the fate of Nathan’s famous seemed unllikely. We figured we’d be talking about the four high rise hotels the city would allow or the dozens of residential towers. But no. One of the biggest items of mainstream media […]

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“The issue of sex shops and adult-related businesses near the Sunset Park waterfront was raised again yesterday by David Galarza of Sunset Park Alliance of Neighbors. Galarza, who is also active in zoning and housing issues in the neighborhood, organized a rally yesterday afternoon. This included a march from 39th Street and Second Avenue to […]

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