[Image courtesy of Josh Derr/GL Flickr Pool] Per our photographer, “The entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge as framed by a skybridge.”

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Elton’s story particularly touches our hearts: Elton is a 3 year old Pekingese. Elton is blind but that doesn’t change the fact that he has a lot of love to give. It’s very confusing for him at the shelter…he needs the comfort of knowing his surroundings and what to expect. We hope someone special will […]

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Here are more versions of Love Will Tear Us Part, the Joy Division classic, than you will ever need. But, hey, it’s Valentine’s Day. There are some cool surprises in here and probably some annoyances too.

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Nothing says Valentine’s Day like “Let’s Do It” in the Craigslist Casual Encounters section. This is the selection through last night. We’re confident today’s will be even more, uh, special and, er, tender: Feb 13 – anyone else tired of all the vday crap? lets just get drunk and hookup – m4w – 26 – […]

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Described as “star crossed lovers traveling in opposite directions.”

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[Brooklyn Pin Up Monica courtesy of nine6sevenfour/GL Flickr Pool] It’s Official: D’Amato Lobbied Feds for AY Stimulus Funds [AYR] Father of Two Risks Life to Save Stranger’s Hat [Bed Stuy Banana] Sexual Assault in Greenwood Heights [Best View in Brooklyn] Only in Brooklyn: Guard Dogs on Rooftops [Big Sky Brooklyn] Creature Feature: Transportation Alternatives [Brit […]

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We loved this graffiti near the Carroll Street Bridge and were sad when it was painted over recently. Fortunately, it lives on through the miracle of photography. We have two versions of the scene. Pick you favorite. Ours is the bottom one.

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The creator of this vid writes: “Tme lapse video in Brooklyn from my third story apartment. One picture every thirty seconds. Starts around 2 am and goes until sometime the next day. Music is Pop a Top by Jim Ed Brown. All those cars clearing one side of the street is because of street cleaning.” […]

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[Photo courtesy of Rubys Host/GL Flickr Pool] It just takes on a special feeling in black and white.

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This is either awful or cool, depending on one’s point of view. There will be a long playlist of vids later. When the routine bites hard And ambitions are low And the resentment rides high But emotions wont grow And were changing our ways, Taking different roads Then love, love will tear us apart again […]

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Yes, Obama said what we all already knew: There’s little doubt we’re in a recession. A really big one. Well that’s just great! So… now what? You prepared for one? Well, next Saturday (2/21) from 9:30am-3pm the Community Empowerment Expo will be at the First AME Zion Church (54 MacDonough St at Tompkins Ave) in […]

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[Photo courtesy New York Public Library] This is a photo of the coffee warehouse (aka the Empire Stores) on Water Street in Dumbo, which is currently being allowed to rot and deteriorate. It was taken by Berenice Abbott on May 22, 1936. Per notes from the NYPL: “Four-story brick warehouse with arched windows and doors, […]

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We lost track of how many years the MTA was doing a big dig at Flatbush Avenue, Lafayette Avenue and Rockwell Place, but the Brooklyn Bear’s Community Garden that will sitt on top of it all is almost done. Well, at least it should look a heck of a lot more inviting by April or […]

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There’s some bad news from two of Brooklyn’s top-of-the-line developments, Williamsburg’s Edge and Flatbush Avenue’s Toren: they haven’t sold any units since September. The news comes right from the developers speaking at a real estate roundtable. “Two of the speakers yesterday, Jeffrey Levine of Douglaston Development and Levine Builders, and Don Capoccia of BFC Partners, […]

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Poor Grimshaw Architects. They design an ampitheater for Asser-Levy Park on the Coney Island-Brighton Beach Board and people start calling the world famous firm’s work a “potato chip.” Welcome to Brooklyn, Grimshaw friends. The new Bay Currents, which is unfortunately not available online except in PDF form, starts to detail some of the neighborhood opposition […]

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Given that tomorrow is that great exercise in love-oriented commercialism called Valentine’s Day, we thought it would be fun to post this Craigslist Missed Connection dug up by our Chief Correspondent E.C. Stephens: Milk and cookies at the corner store – m4w (Park Slope) Around 10pm on Friday night, you made your way to the […]

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“Four years after rejecting the advances of Shaya Boymelgreen and Isaac Katan who were in the process of buying three adjacent properties, the owners of the Jewish Press building have put their headquarters on the market with a $10 million price tag. A lot has changed since then: Boymelgreen and Katan split up and the […]

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em>And, now, we present our weekly restaurant review from our friends at Eat It: The Brooklyn Food Blog. This week’s feature is Sam’s on Court Street: Such a strange place Sam’s Restaurant is (238 Court St., at Baltic St., 718-596-3458). A group of my friends decided they wanted to try it as I was the […]

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When we screw up, it’s always nice to do so in a big way. So, we were pretty bummed to learn that we’d put some bad information out there the other day regarding the fact that the Gowanus Green project had doubled in size to 1,500 units with the addition of the warehouse that is […]

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· Bedbug Hearings Coming Up at City Council [McBrooklyn] · State Senate to Hold Atlantic Yards Oversight Hearing [AYR] · Revisiting 109 Gold [Brownstoner] · East Williamsburg Economic Stimulus Plan [New York Shitty] · Markowitz Wants Shops at Brooklyn Municipal Building [110 Livingston] · Jack Goes Boating Filming Downtown [McBrooklyn] · Pfizer Conversion Not Happening […]

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This is Jim Prince whose butcher shop on Mermaid Avenue was in a slideshow we just posted. If you take the time to watch one vid today, invest it in this one. What Jimmy has to say, days before he closes his shop forever, is worth hearing. He’s been working in Coney for nearly 60 […]

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Major Markets Meats is not the kind of Coney landmark that most tourists would see and Jimmy Prince is not the kind of guy that most visitors would meet unless they happened to wander into his butcher shop on Mermaid Avenue. Yet, the shop has been there since the 1930s and Jimmy has worked there […]

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[Click to enlarge and read more easily] The case of the controversial Toll Brothers Gowanus development, which was approved by Commmunity Board 6, has just gotten a bit curiouser. The firm had promised 130 affordable units, or about 30 percent of the housing to be built on the banks of Brooklyn’s Grand Canal. Only, CB6 […]

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[Photo courtesy of Josh Derr/GL Flickr Pool] Looks like yesterday’s high winds were strong enough to liberate some of the protective canvas or tarp under the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday.

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