Last week, we featured utility scammers working around Greenwood Heights courtesy of warning from Aaron Brashear of Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights. We had this story and this follow up the very same day. In those cases, reps from IDT Energy were switching people from Con Ed without their consent. (We don’t have a love […]

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Some people have apparently found a way around the high cost of housing in Boerum Hill: sleeping in their car. Here’s an email from the Boerum Hill Group: about a month or more ago, i noticed two people sleeping in a car outside of my apartment on Dean b/t Hoyt and Bond. They looked as […]

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We do love sinkholes and we’ve been following the saga of the one on Bergen Streeet between Hoyt and Bond in Boerum Hill for a while. Here’s the latest, per an email on the Boerum Hill Group: The sink-hole re-sunk almost as soon as it was filled with asphalt; only the contractors made it bigger […]

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We’re inaugurating a new GL Feature today called GL Lost & Found, in which we’ll hope to reunite a lost object and the person who might have found it with the original owner. We’ll be culling our material from multiple sources. While we won’t identify people or print email addresses, except anonymous ones in the […]

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There is a bit of Smith Street news and drama to report, thanks to a special Carroll Gardens Correspondent who hit us off with a bunch of different things. To make a long story short, 1) the Boerum Hill Food Company, which has been open from 8AM-4PM may be expanding its evening hours and 2) […]

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The mystery of the latest sinkhole on Bergen Street may be close to a solution, per an email making the rounds via the Boerum Hill Group. “DEP came to my house to day and ran a camera through my sewer line. It turns out there are some cracks in my sewer line that could be […]

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The Bergen Street sinkhole is still there and the city is still is going to be looking into it either before or after it opens wide and eats something. Here’s an update from the Boerum Hill Group: Your information is inaccurate. They have not determined it is a defective sewer line and have not threatened […]

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[Photo courtesy of June Carter Cash Peeps/GL Flickr Pool] This is a house in Boerum Hill. Per the photographer: “In the Midwest, they put campaign signs on their lawns. In NYC, they express their political leanings in mosaic/mural form. This is 108 Wyckoff — otherwise known as the house of hope.”

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Here’s an interesting email that we found on the BoCoCa Parents group concerned what the writer alleges are dirty conditions at a local spot for kids called the NY City Explorers located at 388 Atlantic Ave. Here is the email: This has been bothering me for quite some time since I emailed the owners to […]

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A little while ago, we had a rant from someone’s whose bike was knocked over and damaged by someone pulling out of a parking space. At least it wasn’t stolen, however: Two of my motorcycles have been stolen within 6 weeks. Both were parked right in front of my house between Bond and Nevins. Both […]

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From the Boerum Hill Group, comes word of a sinkhole that is forming as we speak on Bergen Street between Hoyt and Bond. Here’s the news: There is a sinkhole forming beneath the pavement of Bergen Street between Hoyt and Bond, in front of #135 Bergen, just at the corner of Hoyt. The hole in […]

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[Photo courtesy of popattyny/flickr] There are multiple reports (and photos) of raccoons in Boerum Hill courtesy of the Boerum Hill Group. One is around State Street: I was walking home last night on State Street between Bond and Nevins when I suddenly realized that the “stray cat” walking along the curb near me was in […]

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Here’s an interesting question that comes via the Boerum Hill Group that raises the issue of dealing with a vacant building next door. While the issue is less widespread than it used to be, it still pops up here and there. Here it is: I live next door to a building that has been vacant […]

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This is Part I of a three part vid produced of the 2008 Boerum Hill House Tour. It’s narrated, has background music and seems to make heavy use of Microsoft Virtual Earth to navigate around. You can find Part II here and Part III here.

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No, not that Miss Brooklyn. The Miss Brooklyn whose photo appears here. She’s for hire. We know this because the listing appeared on the BoCoCa Parents email list. To wit: Book Miss Brooklyn 2008 for your next event! Miss Brooklyn, official preliminary to Miss New York & Miss America, is available to sing, make an […]

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Hundreds of people in Boerum Hill are still without power a day after manhole fires knocked out service and took the F, G and other lines out for a while. Readers reported nasty service problems on the subway lines all day and one reader writes that he’s “still without power and living in a sweatbox,” […]

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Manhole fires in Brooklyn yesterday caused disruptions on five subway lines Sunday evening and cut power to up to 1,500 residents in Boerum Hill. “Around 5:45 p.m., a manhole fire at Dean and Smith streets disabled power to signals on F and G lines, while nearby, at Bergen Street and Fourth Avenue, problems on the […]

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There’s another year of Stores in the Garden coming up at the Hoyt Street Garden (corner of Atlantic Avenue). Per an email: We have a microphone and an amp, several benches and some mats to sit on. It is a very popular event, especially for families with young children. This year, besides the story reading, […]

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There was more than playing going in a little park/playground on Warren Street between Hoyt and Smith in Boerum Hill late yesterday afternoon. There have been many emails on both the Boerum Hill list and the BoCoCa Parents group about gunfire in or near the park (including one explanation to a late-arriving parent of the […]

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The Fifth Annual Atlantic Avenue Artwalk is coming up on Saturday & Sunday, June 7 and 8, from 1PM-6PM both days. Per an email: ARTWALK08 is a tour of open studios, exhibits, public art projects, and special events on Atlantic Avenue featuring over 250 artists. A wide range of artists across media will open their […]

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There will be a “Community Forum on the Future of the Brooklyn House of Detention” on Thursday, May 29 at 7PM at St. Cyril’s Belarusian Cathedral (Atlantic Avenue at Bond Street.) Followers of the saga might recall that the city wants to reopen the facility and double its capacity. Here’s the email we got from […]

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[Photo courtesy of 66 Square Feet] This is an actual Clematis, as found on Dean Street in Boerum Hill.

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[Photo courtesy of 66 Square Feet] This is a fountain on Dean Street in Boeurm Hill near Bond. We understand that it makes a lot of sound.

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[Photo courtesy of arichman33/flickr] This is Atlantic Avenue. Those are three Porsches in a row. There may be a back story here or it may be an odd coincidence. In either case, props to arichman33 for getting the pic and putting it in the GL Photo Pool on flickr.

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Our wonderful Carroll Gardens Correspondent supplied us with these photos of, uh, changes at the corner of Smith Street and Warren Street at one of the exits to the Bergen Street Station, writing: “First, nice Spring trees and sunny yellow clapboard. Today, brick-red construction fence. Bye Bye clapboard history and fantastic dogwood trees.” The abrupt […]

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