[Photo for GL courtesy of Deborah Matlack] For those who don’t know, there are still trains and train tracks on First Avenue in Sunset Park. This pic comes our wide-ranging photog, Deborah Matlack. She writes, “I had occasion to be on First Avenue in the 40’s, and got this shot of a Union Pacific caboose […]

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· PLG Leads in Speeding Cars [NYDN] · Education Secretary Visits Brooklyn School [CityRoom] · Atlantic Yards Construction Update [No Land Grab] · Chop Chop at 289 DeKalb [Brownstoner] · DOB on Scene at Neglected 194 Columbia Heights [BHB] · Grammar Gods to Save Temple Block Buiilding [McBrooklyn] · S’Up at 85 Driggs [New York […]

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We’ve been noticing more and more Bumper Badgers lately, to the point where it seems like every freaking car we see parked in neighborhoods like the Slope has one (because no one will surrender to the reality that their bumper is getting f’d up whether they like it or not). Yet, where there are tons […]

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Why have we posted this slideshow? Well, first off it show nearly an entire city block in Downtown Brooklyn where buisinesses have closed. Why? Because the properties have slowly been sold off for a huge project called Avalon Willoughby West that will tentively be 60 stories tall. Brownstoner has been following the development of this […]

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It’s probably not another day full of smiles at the world headquarters of Robert Scarano Architect in Dumbo. Today’s Daily News reports that Brooklyn’s most controversial architect has been fined for a project in Williamsburg that badly damaged an adjacent building. An except: A notorious Brooklyn architect accused of faking plans to skirt zoning laws […]

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[Photo courtesy of Jennifer Dunne/GL Flickr Pool] We usually like to start the day with “hard news” or “news” kind of post. Well, this morning, friends, this is news. The witch hazel is starting to bloom in Prospect Park. This can only mean one thing: winter will soon be drawing to an end. Yes, we […]

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This comes from an often racist and anti-semitic blog called Angry New Yorker. It is published anonymously, of course. Anonymity is a sort of cancer that is increasingly afflicting blogging and eating away at it on both the blogging and comment end of things. If you hate us, you’ll love this. If you like us, […]

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The long forgotten, yet important, post-punk band Magazine with ex-Buzzcock Howard Devoto letting the light pour out of him. “Time flies. Time crawls. Like an insect. Up and down the walls.”

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[Photo courtesy of nifty pete/GL Flickr Pool] An unidentified Brooklyn street on a rainy Wednesday night.

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In case you’ve missed it, we’ve started up our Twitter feed. Please follow us. Our posts are there and as time goes on there going to be more off-the-cuff and personal stuff. In other words, we’re going to be using it to communicate with you off the blog. Tweet. Tweet.

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The BCC just sent out another announcement that they’re extending the deadline for nominations of the 9th annual Building Brooklyn Award to the end of the work day of Thursday, 3/12. So yay… you still have a lil time to nominate your favorite Big Bob Scarano or Hot Karl Fischer or Lean Mean Gene Kaufman […]

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[Image courtesy of New York Public Library] Here’s our good, old Ninth Street Bridge over the Gowanus Canal as it appeared in 1940.

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[Photo courtesy of Best View in Brooklyn/GL Flickr Pool] Per our photographer, who creates the wonderful Sunset Park-based Best View in Brooklyn blog: “5th Avenue, across from Sunset Park. Its friend, the backless, black office chair, is a few feet down the block.”

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This video is from the first performance in May of 2008 of a group then known as Dixie Fried, recently changed to Puss N Boot (there was another Dixie Fried out there). They’re a covers band country and alt country, and they’re doing this for fun (they all have other more regular music gigs). This […]

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It says: “And so we beat on boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” Boy, ain’t that the freaking truth.

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Here’s one of our weekly features from the Center for the Urban Environment (CUE). This week’s interview is with Tom Fox, President of New York Water Taxi. CUE: Where are you from originally? Fox: Flatbush, Brooklyn. I lived there until about two years ago—except for a few years in both Vietnam and Washington DC. CUE: […]

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Make of it what you will. Going through Owls Head Park and on to the 69th St Pier with a 40 MPH tail wind.

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[All photos courtesy of Miss Heather] The horror show you are looking at is 126 India Street in Greenpoint and could serve as a textbook example of developer blight that is increasingly out of control in some of the neighborhoods hardest hit by the early 2000s development boom. You know, before Mr. Housing Bubble’s funeral. […]

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· Take a Dump or Whatever for 15 Minutes at GAP for a Quarter [NYDN] · Condo Plans Collapse [TRD] · Checking on 892 Bergen in Crown Heights [Brownstoner] · New york Foundation for the Arts Moving to Dumbo [DumboNYC] · A Downtown Brookyn Survivor [Lost City] · Sean Casey Animal Rescue Did Amazing Work […]

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[Photo for GL by Steven Skollar] WTF? First, Hotel Le Bleu was lit up in blue like a nighmare vision of a Latvian bordello designed by a Karl Fischer protege where they decided that the red and pink of Amsterdam is too gauche. And now? That is the m*therf*cking Holiday Inn Express on Union Street. […]

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Oh, Park Freaking Slope, also producing so much drama. (Well, producing emails that transmit drama that we choose to copy and paste. This one is about having neighbors upstairs with a rock and roll band. And, we’re not talking TV on the Radio here. We mean a tween band, which is a Park Slope specialty […]

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A while back, Thor Equities announced that it would have a flea market called “Flea by the Sea” in summer 2009 on the big empty lot it owns on Stillwell Avenue, between the Bowery and the boardwalk. (The lot is empty because he demolished all the rides and attractions two winters ago.) Last summer it […]

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Leave it to the Park Slope Food Coop to periodically attract attention for interesting reasons like banning bottled water and plastic bags. This time, the Coop is considering banning all products imported from Israel because of that nation’s actions in the Gaza. In Red Hook, people might shrug. In Park Slope, which has a large […]

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Here’s some jen-you-whine old school punk. The Buzzcocks with Howard Devoto before he split to form Magazine performing Breakdown in 19fucking76. All of which only serves to remind us to price space at Green-Wood Cemetery.

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[Photo courtesy of Josh Derr/GL Flickr Pool] Just like the sign says.

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