This was distributed yesterday evening by Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights and the assault would have occured in daylight. Aaron Brashear, who sent out the email, writes: “Does anyone have an more news on this? Most disturbing since this particular area of South Brooklyn has been very safe form many years. While I would hope […]

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The song speaks for itself. As a long deceased firend of ours, who took his own life, once said of a different songwriter’s soaring song, “He saw God when he wrote this song.” Same here.

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[Photo courtesy of Susan Fox] All we could say when we saw this photo sent to us by Susan Fox, founder of Park Slope Parents, was wow. This is a rainbow that appeared yesterday morning around 7AM.

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[Click on image to enlarge it] Hey, art lovers and gallery hoppers, we got an last minute email that is of interest: Cameo Art Gallery, a new Williamsburg performance and gallery space, will present its debut group show featuring the art of Ben Bronfman, Carrie Elston, Lukas James and Ivana Salander. The opening reception will […]

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Although it’s been stripped of all its good decorative elements, the buildings emptied and marked for demolition, the former Russo Realty Empire on the ass end of Smith Street still stands. We had expected it to be demolished a year ago, but like the gentleman who presided over Notary District until his death, it perseveres. […]

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We don’t know what Hop Obama tastes like, having never sampled the brewski, but we do know that it is has brought chuckles today. This morning Brownstoner reported that the Feds “recently forced the beer maker to shut down production of its popular ‘Hop Obama’ line started during campaign season. Even the Department of Homeland […]

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Are You Afraid of Losing Your Job? ( polls)

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We’ve been so not on the 111 Lawrence Street story that the more we think about it, the more we want to kick ourselves. It’s a little residential deveopment fromm the Clarett Group which will be Brooklyn’s tallest building at 51 stories and have 491 residential units when all is said and done. It’s rather astounding in that […]

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Looks like Love=? at 162 Fifth Avenue is going to the great shopping fest in the sky, at least if the close out sale signs in the window are any indication. Unclear if it’s poor business, increased rent or recession-related.

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Why not some Brooklyn August sky to the sound of Hot Chip in the dead of winter?

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Remember the old Fillmore Real Estate office at 486 Fifth Avenue in Park Slope? You know, the one between 11th and 12th Streets that closed down along with a couple of others as the real estate market started to, uh, sink. Well, the place is coming back to a life, per a tip from a […]

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· Cory Booker Says Getting Nets in Newark “Fixed” in His Mind [AYR] · Apple Store Still a Possibility for Edge [Brownstoner] · Climax of Boobification Project Involves Village Voice [New York Shitty] · The Dumbest Thing I’ve Ever Heard [Lost City] · Uh, Something’s Missing From This Picture [BVIB] · Thai Place Coming to […]

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We love our Brooklyn parrots and it appears they were having a time of it at Green-Wood Cemetery a few days ago. A GL reader sent us links to a couple of vids of the Party Parrots of Green-Wood.

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The convoluted and huge project on Myrtle Avenue being built by supermarket king John Catsimatidis at 202 Myrtle Avenue is going up. Yesterday, we found workers laboring furiously on the building, which is the first of four buildings Catsimatidis is supposed to build in Fort Greene. Work on the other projects is not going so […]

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[Click to enlarge rendering to full size] We’ve taken our share of shots at architect Henry Radusky and his firm, Bricolage Designs, over the years, so we were surprised yesterday to find several comments from one of the architect’s colleagues and an offer to send us a rendering of his latest building going up at […]

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[Photo for GL Courtesy of Charles Andrisano] This photo perfectly captures the emptiness of the far end of the Coney Boardwalk in front of the Child’s Building on a very cold winter day.

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This is New Order performing Ceremony at the Ukranian National Home in the East Village on Nov. 19, 1981 on their first tour after Ian Curtis killed himself on May 16, 1980. It is poignant watching Bernard Sumner sing this song (you can almost see the trepidation on his face as he takes the mike) […]

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[Photo courtesy of mikkime/GL Flickr Pool] Ain’t that Brooklyn sky beautiful. We love the combination of the skyline and the color in the sky.

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This comes from Ann Kansfield at the Greenpoint Reformed Church, which does superb work within the community. They will be running a “Count Your Ble$$ings” class on money basics for the next four weeks, starting tomorrow, Thursday (2/12). Here’s a bit from the email: With the downturn in the economy affecting so many people, we […]

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Ok… wow. If ever there were a romantic opportunity to show your love on Valentine’s Day, this is it! Take your sweetie down into Red Hook for… Noooooo, not the amazing and romantic wonderful meal ate The Good Fork… but a meal that’s as processed as the pressed-board wood you find in one of their […]

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[Renderings courtesy of Curbed and Racked] This, friends, is the first look at the humongous Red Hook Mall planned by developer Joe Sitt on the site of the former Revere Sugar Dome. This blockbuster comes courtesy of our compadres at Curbed and at Racked, which have full photogalleries of the plans. The details are that […]

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The Parks Department and Rogers Marvel Architects presented an update on McCarren Pool to Community Board 1 last night. We have the renderings that were shown and also a report from Mikki Halpin of PoolAid of her impressions of the meeting. This is an excerpt of the email she sent out: At the CB1 meeting […]

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So, with the economy tanking and so many people losing their jobs, the idea of amusements and spending frivolously like it’s fun times as usual is kind of scary… for some of us anyway. While many have changed their spending habits, many have not. Including the city. When do you say ‘no’ to the fun […]

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[Photo courtesy of jag9889/flickr] At some point today, we can picture some comanding officers at the 76th Precinct in Carroll Gardens turning red and cursing. Very red and a lot. This is because a GL tipster sent us some very interesting information that does not bode well for community-police relations. How to put this? Officers […]

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