We awoke this morning and thought we were still dreaming. Charles Bagli of the New York Times has finally focused on Coney Island. Of course, to close Coney watchers it’s the once-over lightly and fails to capture the truly ugly nature of the ongoing battle for Coney Island. The story is exceptionally kind to developer […]

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· Brookynites Work to Help Former Haitian School [NYT] · Bedbug Complaints Up 34 Percent [NYDN] · Decoding “Shovel Ready” & Atlantic Yards [AYR] · Norah Jones Buys in Cobble Hill [Brownstoner] · Ah, the Raccuglia Funeral Home of Carroll Gardens [NYDN] · 181 York St. Update [Dumbo NYC] · The People of My Neighorhood […]

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It feels good to report when people in the community band together and do something positive with what could have been a fiasco. Many may remember the furor over the wealthy and elite Berkeley-Carroll School’s decision to close its child care center and, in particular, the shoddy way in which they treated longtime employees. Well, […]

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[All photos for GL courtesy of Nathan Kensinger Photgraphy] Boy, we’ve been writing a lot about the warehouse on the Public Place site in the last week. But the hell with writing, GL Contributing photographer Nathan Kensinger, along with a couple of other famed Brooklyn photographic adventurers, got into the site over the weekend. Mr. […]

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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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Ha. Ha. It could be a trick question or it might not. What is this building? Where is it? Is it in Eastern Berlin, say in the wilds of Prenzlauerberg? Or is it in our very own borough, and if so where?

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Do you care about public art in North Brooklyn? No? Well, skip this item. If the answer is “yes,” then read on, friends. This dropped into our inbox from Council Member David Yassky and the Open Space Alliance which are going to be presenting something called Public Art Opportunities: Inaugural Meeting of the North Brooklyn […]

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This is a fucking classic we tripped across and had never seen. Check out Brian Eno with the glam look and hair. This is the stuff from which all else of any value evolved through the 70s, punk included. Sorry if some of the people watching this weren’t even born when this performance was recorded.

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[Photo courtesy of Rubys Host/GL Flickr Pool] We do love the photos that Rubys Host is kind enough to drop into our Flickr pool because they are always magnficent and evocative like this Brighton Beach scene.

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Want to check out a new voting machine? We have learned via email that “the Board of Elections is holding presentations on two poll site voting systems which are being evaluated for use beginning in the fall of 2009. The Brooklyn session, including demonstrations (with hands-on experience) is on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 from 6:00-8:30 […]

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[Photos for GL courtesy of Steven Skollar] Once again, those Red Hook sunsets prove themselves to be spectacular.

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[Photo courtesy of Jennifer Dunne/GL Flickr Pool] This is the first Windsor Terrace street couch we’ve ever had that we can recall. It is somewhat cropped from the original, and we apologize to the kind contributor for that, but to see the original click here.

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This is a building at the corner of Bedford and N. 9 in the Burg that now seems to say Go Go Girls in the window. This is interesting in the sense that this was once actually a topless bar called Belinda’s. Also, this is the spot where some signs were put in the window […]

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This is a watercolor of the Gowanus painted in 1938. It was up for sale on eBay until last night for the sum of $449.99, which was chopped from $499. (This is the seller, he may still have it if you need this in your living room.) Here’s the description: “For sale here is an […]

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[Photo courtesy of Caryn Rose/GL Flickr Pool] Ah, the L Train on Valentine’s Day.

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Just posted to the YouTube, the video maker writes: “I’m not keen on the new luxury towers cropping up in NYC’s low-rise neighborhoods but there they are. I sped this up to make the movement of the elevator and crane more obvious on this construction site. February 2009.”

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Check out this Robert Scarano masterpiece with lots of wall on at 1056 Bedford Avenue at Clifton Place. The building has been slow coming along and was hobbled for a time by a partial Stop Work Order. The complaints lodged during construction of the building also make for interesting reading and include “chunks of falling […]

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Given that it’s President’s Day and most of us have the day off and we all know that most people do most of their blog reading at work, we’ll be doing a semi-regular day today that will have more of a weekend feel. There will be some news items, some pics, some vids and probably […]

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This isn’t strictly a Missed Connection, but it’s topical: my valentine had a boyfriend I didn’t know about. – m4w – 24 (WB) Fuck valentines day first of all. I thought I finally had a Valentine this year on Valentines day but she ended up having a boyfriend. What the fuck. Her boyfriend doesn’t even […]

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We’re not sure if we’ve ever seen more and more problematic service changes on subway lines than this weekend. (Well, we probably have, but whatever…) In a lot of Brooklyn stations, you can spend 10 minutes reading and trying to figure out the changes on the lines you are trying to take. The L Train […]

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We’ve always appreciated the Liquid Love Lounge on Bedford Avenue in Bed-Stuy. We wandered past on Valentine’s Day yesteray and knew what we had to do.

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From a Benefit Concert for the Stop The War Coalition (StWC) was filmed & recorded at The Astoria in London on November 27th, 2005. Cool stuff.

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[Photo courtesy of Steven Skollar] The moon comes up over Fourth Avenue and Union Street.

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Watch this superb vid. From the description: “Famed New York amusement park Coney Island faces an uncertain future due to commercial and residential development in its surrounding area. This video won Best Documentary short at this year’s Webby Awards.”

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