[Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Weinberg/GL Flickr Pool] Are those shell casings on the beach? it certain would appear so.

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Remember the murderous siege of Sarajevo and how the West did nothing to stop it? We do. You can crack all the joke you want about Bono, but seeing him, Brian Eno and the late Luciano Pavarotti singing “Miss Sarajevo” gives us chills.

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Thursday (2/19), from 6-8pm, the Center for Urban Environment (168 7th St. b/t 3rd & 2nd Ave.) is having a special viewing and post-screening discussion of the Sundance Film Festival’s Best Documentary of 2008 “Fuel.” Brent Baker (CEO of Tri State Biodiesal) will be discussing this Josh Tickell documentary that focuses the oil industry and […]

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This is Second Avenue and 13th Street, roughly in the area where the big Lowe’s is located today. What’s of interest are the big structures in the background, which are the remnants of the Manufactured Gas Plant (MGP) that was on the site and left a toxic soup deep underground. The toxins, which are left […]

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Free the Ponz! Now! Our friend Miss Heather beat us to this one by a couple of days, but we could not let this superb bit of topical street art slip by without taking note of it. Justice for Maddoff. Look at the bright side, if he’d been caught selling crack, he’d be going to […]

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When we were on Kent Avenue yesterday we couldn’t help but step into the now very creepy Miss Williamsburg Diner to shoot some pics of the aftermath of last week’s fire, which was reported and photographed by INSIJS. Yeah, Brownstoner beat us to the pics earlier this week, but WTF, it’s a Friday and we […]

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Well, yeah, they came to Brooklyn as opposed to coming from Brooklyn, but isn’t that often the case?

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[All photos by a GL Reader] We are no strangers to 318 N. 9 Street in Williamsburg. We’ve posted about the crappy and dangerous condition of the construction site more times than we count. For instance, here. We’ve also posted about another huge site on N. 9, in fact, using it as the first Blight […]

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Friends, the moment for which we’ve been waiting for months has arrived. A tipster let us know that the scaffolding was down at 111 Kent Avenue, so we trudged down to Kent Avenue in yesterday’s freezing cold to see if it’s as ugly as the redone rendering had promised. All we can say is: it does […]

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So there you have it. At least one owner at Richard Meier’s signature Grand Army Plaza building (which was first reported as a possible bird killer by Brookynian, a post we picked up and then made headlines in the New York Post, which seemed to discover the story on its own) is renting. And not […]

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City Controller William Thompson slammed City Hall Thursday for out-of-control costs at the Brooklyn House of Detention – putting a halt to the unpopular project. Thompson, a plaintiff in the lawsuit to stop the reopening and expansion of the downtown Brooklyn jail, rejected a $31 million architectural contract. The move effectively blocks the project – […]

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Why is the good stuff only in the G Train stations? Is it because people stand around and wait forever? Anyway, this is from the Queens-bound side of the Fulton Street Station.

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· City Jobless Rate Could Hit Incredible 10.5 Percent [NYP] · 598K Jobs Go in January, Jobless Rate Now 7.6 Percent [NYP] · Brooklyn Foreclosures Holding at Low Levels [Brownstoner] · NYC Expecting More Federal Housing Aid [NYT] · McCarren Pool Update [WPA] · Former CEO’s Furniture on Sale on CL [McBrooklyn] · Remembering Bloody […]

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Williamsburg’s 268 Wythe, which we have to say we’ve liked from the moment we saw the renderings, has lost its scaffolding and finally revealed itself to the world. And the results are pretty darned nice, expecially when compared to 80 Met across the street. It’s new construction, obviously, but it filled an empty lot and […]

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Walk by the Brooklyn Academy of Music recently after a snowstorm and notice barricades and police tape? This is because the canopy that was added (which we like) collects snow and ice and is angled in such a way that said frozen precipitation can then fall on pedestrians walking by. Well, a little snow slide […]

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[Photo courtesy of Coney Island History Project/GL Flickr Pool] These signs from the waterflume at Astroland were rescued on the park’s last day, January 31. The Coney Island History Project writes: “Lynn Kowalewski , a Brooklyn resident and member of the Coney Island History Project, helped carry the DO NOT ROCK THE BOAT sign from […]

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The Feelies perform Wire’s classic Outdoor Miner at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on September 20 of last year, a show to which we had tickets but, uh, couldn’t attend due to circumstances beyond our control.

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[Photo courtesy of Rubys Host/GL Flickr Pool] Yes. Yes. More snow pics. But they’re so pretty.

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There’s an event coming up this Sunday for those who are serious about trying to bring about change right here in Brooklyn. Here’s the email we just got: Hundreds of Brooklynites who volunteered for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign will join together this Sunday, Feb. 8., to make sure change comes right to their own backyard. […]

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We are freaking idiots. This is what you call a day late and a dollar short or behaving like a print journalist. We should have posted this in the morning, given that Lux Interior passed away yesterday. One of our favorite memories of a show is a booze-fueled Cramps show in DC in 1978 in […]

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This is by no means a new addition to the graveyard of abandoned projects. This sucker has been a member of the Dead Pool for as long as we can remember. Permits for the thing (a vertical enlargement and renovation) to bring it to four stories were filed in 2002. We think work may have […]

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God, you HATE to see this happen but there has been major bloodletting at Northside Piers where the Toll Brothers appear to be getting increasingly desperate to move their pricey units. One top priced unit has gotten a $314,000 buzz cut, meaning the price is still nearly $895K, but still. More average units have gotten […]

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[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] This comes from S. 5 Street on the Southside of Williamsburg and whether the sign has the proper DOT permit or not, we think we’d skip parking here.

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Whether the original date in the email that was circulated was screwed up or whether the date was changed is irrelevant, but the session with the Parks Department and Rogers Marvel to review the status of the renovation of the landmarked McCarren Pool and its conversion back to a swimming pool was a mistake. The […]

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It’s one of Brooklyn’s finest doing Satan Said Dance. Dedicated to someone in Gowanus on intimate terms with the Big Dude.

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