Check out Gary Atlas, who runs from Brighton Beach to Sea Gate, every day, in just his shorts. Even in the snow. “Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, it seems, can stop him from running the boardwalk shirtless and taking a dip in the waters. It’s his daily routine, but this day stood out because […]

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Most of us know of the Grand Prospect Hall through the ubiquitous television commercials starring its current owners, Michael and Alice Halkias (“The Grand Prospect Hall – we make your dreams come true!”). Prospect Hall, as it was known until its newest incarnation, has a very special place in the history of Brooklyn and in […]

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From the fine pages of Brooklynian comes this complaint from someone that the cops weren’t writing tickects for double-parked cars: So I’m at the Crunch Gym on Flatbush and I’m doing my cardio workout upstairs looking down on Flatbush Ave and I notice there are about four double-parked cars. So I’m wondering if the police […]

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[Photo courtesy of the New York Public Library] Building the Williamsburg Bridge around 1903, give or take.

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[RIP Lux Interior and thanks for not vomiting on us at a show once. Lux is dead? FUCK.] · Ratner Really Didn’t Tell Govt. He Was Stopping Atlantic Yards Work [AYR] · Checking in on the Absolute Condos [Brownstoner] · CB2 Has a Change of Heart About a Liquor License [Dumbo NYC] · Fresh Air […]

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We came across this odd listing in the Missed Connections sections of Craigslist. Have you been busted for weed? This person wants to talk to you for a pubic art piece in which you will no doubt be on video talking about how you were locked up at Central Booking or the Tombs forever before […]

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[Photo courtesy of Shannon Wagner/Picassa] This abandoned hulk is 23 Caton Place in Kensington. It represents another Blight Me category: the semi-finished abandoned buiding that has gone into foreclosure or on which has simply stopped. There’s a community meeting about this monstrosity tonight from 7PM-9PM at the International Baptist Church at 312 Coney Island Avenue. […]

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It’s always interesting to have confirmation that a huge planned project is indeed alive. So it is with big building designed by Ismael Leyva at 150 Fourth Avenue on the Gowanus side of dividing line. For a time the building next store had been vacated because construction work had undermined it, but that too, is […]

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You didn’t think the problem of “dog feces” in the toddler area at Carroll Park we posted about yesterday was going to just go away? Nah. This is the kind of, uh, shit, that draws attention. And that it did. This email from Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association: The response to the dog v toddler issue […]

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[Photo courtesy of Steve Soblick/GL Flickr Pool] Yet another gorgeous snow shot.

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Ah, the old New york. In the New Sanitized One, we can still think of one or two creeps, though.

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[Image courtesy of Bruce Bowman] Tired of snow pics or just snow in general? Eh, don’t worry, soon enough you’ll be tired of flower pics.

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[Photo of Bartholomeus Breenbergh Preaching of St John the Baptist; dmadeo/flickr Calling all photographers! There’s a new photo scavenger hunt in town. Wikipedia, the Brooklyn Museum (and 14 other art institutions) have gotten together to have a month-long contest for Wikipedia Loves Art. It’s a free content photography contest to win various prizes from each […]

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The world’s most important newspaper has paid virtually no attention to the Coney Island story, but today it runs an editorial that misses a lot of points–like why the city doesn’t have an interim plan for keeping Coney going–but makes one very good one: “The city’s version displays Mayor Bloomberg’s commendable effort to keep Coney […]

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For all the talk of a hotel bust and how people like Sam Chang are no longer building hotels in Brooklyn, the ones that are already financed are coming along just fine. They may end up charging $58 a night or renting by the hour, but the cranes are on site and the steel is […]

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[Photo courtesy of Best View in Brooklyn] We’d expect nothing less than this pristine white sectional from an undisclosed location in Sunset Park. We love Sunset Park sofas.

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Compared to the glacial pace of some private developments, the Fifth Avenue Committee’s supportive housing development on Fifth Ave. and 16th Street (which had moments of controversy as it was being planned), is moving like a rocket. (Our friends at Brownstoner checked it out in October when work was just getting underway.) In any case, […]

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Perhaps you recall the accusation that Coldplay copied one of their songs? No? Check it out here.

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We’ve spent years ranting about what we called Coney Island’s Trip and Fall Boardwalk. Well, the one bit of good news out of Coney right now is that the Parks Department, as promised, is starting to repair the most deteriorate section, starting at Stillwell Avenue. The new decking will be “pre-cast concrete slabs and new […]

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[All photos courtesy of Gary Mirabelle]

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What is it about hipsters that set some people off or leave some tragically confused? There’s a thread on Brookynian that keeps getting longer and long on the hispster topic. It started with this: What’s the deal? The dark frame glasses, tight jeans, scruffy faces, Brooklyn Industries bags, incredible skinniness, Chuck Taylor sneakers? Why are […]

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· Do It, Baby: Last Week’s Biggest Sales [Brownstoner] · More Store Closings [PMFA] · SOL: Values are Down but Taxes are Up [Brownstoner] · Staggeringly Beautiful Snowy Day in the Park [AYITP] · More Snow! [New York Shitty] · Brownstones & White Trees [Brit in Brooklyn] · Peeler Man of Court Street Dies [BHB] […]

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Countless words have been written about the gentrification of Williamsburg. We found this Bye Bye Buggy, the kind of thing one normally sees in Park Slope, parked on N. 6 Street. Just saying.

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Meet 385 Fourth Avenue, which is not the most solid member of our Dead Pool for project that may be dead in the water, but is start to gain that stench of death. This is supposed to be an 11-story building with 51 units from the shop of Richard Bienenfeld Arcitects in New Rochelle. Now, […]

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There seems to be a problem with “dog feces” in Carroll Park, specfically in the section used by infants and toddlers. Per an email on the Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association list: Yesterday, my friend’s sitter came home and mentioned that there was a lot of dog feces in the baby section of Carroll Park. It […]

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