Mark today on your calendar as an important day in Brooklyn real estate history: The day on which the North Brookyn real estate bloodbath began. (Somebody cue up REM doing “It’s The End of the World” but do not add the words, “and I feel fine.”) Crain’s reports that Magic Johnson’s Viridian condo at 110 […]

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The Historic Chapel at Green-Wood Cemetery Book Talk and Trolley Tour is back with the acclaimed novelist and essayist Peter Quinn. Mr. Quinn will be reading at 1pm on Sunday, 3/8, from his much celebrated, award-winning historical novel “Banish Children of Eve,” a story of Irish immigrants during the 1863 Civil War draft riots in […]

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[Photo courtesy of Be in Brookyn] Ha. Now that we’ve got your attention, this is an item about what happens when people live in glass houses. We don’t often re-blog the material of other bloggers, but any items that mention Number One or Number Two are certain to get us to bend the rules. So, […]

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It took us a while to figure this one out after we came across the building above at Bedford and Gates Avenues, which is rising pretty quickly. The official address listed on the site is 315 Gates Ave, which turns up nothing with the Department of Buildings. But search 313 Gates, and bingo, you find […]

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Hunan Wok on Seventh Avenue went to the big wonton in the sky, as we reported in January. Today we can report that its replacement, Park Slope Farm, has just opened. It’s at 106 Seventh Ave., not far from Union Street. It’s a 24-hour spot, which will make it quite welcome to those for whom […]

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There are many things we could say here, but we’ll simply note that this rottweiler (mix) and this very cool pig met in McCarren Park last week. They get along quite well. Maybe next we could get a rottweiler playing with skateboarders vid. We understand that some of them are REALLY into them.

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Just in case you can’t get enough GL here, 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. We’re very, very […]

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If this car is so “smart” why is it going to Methodist Hospital in Park Slope? It wouldn’t be going to the Emergency Room from Hell, would it? God, that would be pretty stupid. Stupid Car. But smarter than going to LICH, we suppose. On another topic, we know Methodist met with Park Slope Parents […]

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Missed Connections come in all forms and styles and often our cup runneth over. So, we’re going to continue taking a short break from development, zoning, blight and the like and deal with something to make (some people) laugh: Your dog was trying to bone another dog in the park – m4w – 25 (Greenpoint) […]

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We’re thrilled to introduce you to our new GL Music Editor who’s going to be serving up a wide variety of musical content on GL, which is something we’ve been wanting to do for a loooooong time, because we know that Robert Scarano and Hot Karl Fischer don’t float everyone’s boat. His name is Eliot […]

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Friends, when the rezoning stuff hits the fan in Canarsie, you know you are dealing with some serious stuff. Yesterday, City Planning announced plans to rezone that far off neighborhood and make some major changes to a 250 block area. The rezoning area is generally bounded Foster Avenue to the north, Fresh Creek Basin and […]

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· Just Slap Us Hard: Last Week’s Biggest Brooklyn Sales [Brownstoner] · Jewish Press Building for Sale! [Vos lz Neias] · There’s a Brooklyn in New Zealand! Do They Have a Carroll St.? [FW] · Oh, to be Young and Uninsured [NYT] · What’s Happening on Van Brunt? [Gothamist] · Watching 18-20 Gerritsen Place [Brownstoner] […]

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[Click to enlarge to make it easier to read] You read it here first, friends, although we are certain that you will read this “original discovery” elsewhere shortly–by noon at the latest. (Coincidence and all that. It blows one’s mind when it happens.) La Bagel Delight, that Park Slope institution on the corner of Fifth […]

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We don’t know what’s up at City Point, the once grand development planned at a property originally owned by developer Joe Sitt–the Galleria Mall that he promised to turn into the “Belaggio” of shopping malls. (Guess “Bellagio” is Italian for sell it and tear it down?) In any case, what’s signficant about this, other the […]

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So much for the big plans to sell Starrett City. They have been killed by a combination of recession, a dead credit market and the delusions of owners that they get a price that won’t fly in 2009. The deal is D.E.A.D. Per the Times: The owners of Starrett City, the country’s largest federally subsidized […]

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On Wednesday (2/25), there’s a screening and discussion of the anti-gentrification documentary “Some Place Like Home” at 7pm at the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church (85 S. Oxford St b/w Fulton/Lafayette). For more information check out their website. But, if that don’t interest you or your still in a tangle about our contemporary hell on earth, […]

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This is the late, great Ofra Haza, the Israeli singer who died of complications related to HIV/AIDS on February 23, 2000 at the age of 43. This song is dedicated in the same spirit of, well, you know…love…as the subway shot.

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[Photo courtesy of mugsniffer/GL Flickr Pool] Our prolific photographer writes: “Peace and love graffiti at the entrance to the Nassau Ave. G train station along Norman Ave. in Greenpoint.” We could do a snarky dedication, but it’s really not necessary. They get it. And we don’t mean the MTA.

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[Jurassic Cigar Store (credit: Scott Specht)] The Municipal Art Society is hosting another meeting tonight to present (or reallly re-present) the work of its design team and all the ideas for Coney sent in by average people. Here’s a bit from the email: The Municipal Art Society will present submissions to the ImagineConey initiative by […]

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This is a from a postcard we found up for sale on eBay from a photo taken sometime in the 1950s. The large building on the left is the Half Moon Hotel. Demolished, of course.

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[Photo courtesy of DumboNYC/GL Flickr Pool] We’re excited. This is, we believe, our first ever Dumbo Street Couch. It’s in front of Powerhouse Arena and if we’re not mistaken, we’re seeing two couches and a matress.

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Take an interesting little trip through many parts of Coney Island in 2000, including the non-tourist kind of ones.

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We found this little white Smart Car in Park Slope on Fifth Avenue. Perhaps doing some grocery shopping at the Key Foods. If it was smart, though, wouldn’t it use the parking lot?

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The Avalon Fort Greene, across Myrtle Avenue from Toren is going up like gangbusters. For those of you who like construction porn, we’ve got a small gallery to get the juices flowing. The building–a rental–will ultimately be a 42-story, 650-unit rental development at 159 Myrtle Avenue. Will it rent, given the other units going up […]

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From 5:30-8pm on Thursday (2/19), the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is collaborating with Brooklyn Industries for an in-store “garden party” to celebrate the coming art-inspired spring line, modeled and shot in… you guessed it, the BBG. All BI stores are participating with this event, and are providing complimentary “green refreshments” (whatever that means?) and are raffling […]

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