Brooklyn Independent Television’s wonderful series “A Walk Around the Blog” features Brit in Brooklyn blogger (and GL Contributor) Adrian Kinloch and Tracy Collins of Not Another F*cking Blog, who is creating an invaluable historical record of Prospect Heights in the pre-Atlantic Yards days. They’re great photographers, great bloggers, nice people and it’s a great show. […]

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“Some would say that the recent rash of posting on the message board Brooklynian is an ominous sign for the once thriving Brooklyn periodical. A poster going by the handle AWP11201 has posted thirteen new threads in a single hour consisting of direct cut and pastes of the leading line and a link to the […]

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Urban Exploration with Forgotten-NY.com from Brian Lehrer Live on Vimeo. Here’s an appearance by Kevin Walsh of Forgotten New York and Richard Nickel Jr. of Kingston Lounge on Brian Lehrer’s TV show, Brian Lehrer Live. They talk about urban exploration and historic preservation and touch on some Brooklyn issues and places like Admiral’s Row.

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It’s hard to know exactly what conclusion to draw about New York Magazine’s cover story called “The Brooklyn Wars.” It deals with blogging and Brooklyn–specifically with Brooklyn’s biggest and most successful blog, Brownstoner. Yet, the article does so mainly by dealing with one of the site’s most persistent commenters, who identifies himself as “The What.” […]

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Here’s the latest from BCAT’s fun series, A Walk Around the Blog. It features one of our regular go-to blogs for linkage, A Year in the Park.

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There’s a new blog in Sheepshead Bay called Sheepshead Bites. It is billed as “Sheepshead Bay’s community meetings, development issues, local politics, interesting people, happenings and cool new places — these are just some of the beats the Bite will walk. Welcome to Sheepshead Bites. Real Brooklynites. Real teeth.”

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Here’s a brand new Fort Greene blog from an anonymous blogger called The Real Fort Greene. It’s all of about four or five days old and here’s what the blogger has to say about starting it: “After years of reading the various Brooklyn blogs I became frustrated with the lack of consistent coverage on Fort […]

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Here’s a segment of Brooklyn Independent Television’s Brooklyn Review that aired on Monday night that takes a look at how blogs are having an impact on development in Brooklyn. The full show will air again on Thursday (5/15) at 1pm & 9pm and on Friday at 3pm & 11pm. If you haven’t seen the show, […]

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Brooklyn Blogfest I started sort of as a “joke,” or at least, a casual effort to have a few people read from their blogs, but it ended up being a lot more than that. Here’s a reflection on Blogfests I, II & III, which is an event that became something a lot bigger than the […]

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[Image courtesy of Flatbush Gardener] The Third Annual Brooklyn Blogfest, or BBIII, took place at the Lyceum on Fourth Avenue in Park Slope last night. A very large crowd of nearly 200 bloggers and non-bloggers attended to hears a lineup of speakers and presentations. In our own remarks, we noted that the blogging world had […]

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The annual blogger get together known as the Brooklyn Blogfest is tonight at the Lyceum on Fourth Avenue. There’s a big program together for this year’s event, which is open to the public. It starts at 8PM and admission is $10. The Brooklyn Lyceum is located at 227 Fourth Avenue at President Street.

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The annual blogger get together known as the Brooklyn Blogfest is happening tomorrow night at the Lyceum on Fourth Avenue. There’s a big program together for this year’s event, which is, as always open to the public, and it’s taking place in a venue that can handle a good turnout, so it should be fun. […]

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Gowanus Lounge is entering its third year today and we’re celebrating with a new design and some other changes. In our first two years, we’ve posted more than 7,000 items and covered an awful lot of territory. When we put up our inaugural post on April 27, 2006, there was still very little development on […]

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New York Shitty turns two today. Huge congratulations to NYS and our friend and major contributor Miss Heather, who’s tossed us hundreds of photos for hundreds of GL posts. What began as a blog largely covering the byproduct of man’s best friend has, over the last two years, turned into an eclectic collection of photos […]

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The Third Annual Brooklyn Blogfest is approaching quickly. It will take place on May 8 at 8PM at the Brooklyn Lyceum, which is located at 270 Fourth Avenue (at President Street) in Park Slope. Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn’s Louise Crawford, who founded the event and has worked hard on it every year, is putting […]

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Another week, another tale of a photographer and/or blogger being told by someone on a public street not to take photos. (It happened to us on Friday on Beard Street in Red Hook via a private security guard who stopped his car and said, “You can’t take any pictures here. Don’t take any pictures.”) We […]

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“Here in Brooklyn it’s illegal to keep roosters because the crowing makes for poor relations between neighbors, but hearts are not illegal, and thanks to the blogosphere, we hear more and more hearts crowing without any restrictions. In Brooklyn so many blogs maintain vigilance for the sake of the public good, asking for nothing in […]

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We love new blogs that get us to stop skimming and actually read. The wonderful new Carroll Gardens Brooklyn History blog. It combines informative posts about neighborhood history with vintage photos and some more current issues. Check out an excerpt from this post about the Carroll Street Bridge, which is one of our top five […]

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“It’s official. We’re having the 3rd Annual Brooklyn Blogfest at the Brooklyn Lyceum (Fourth Avenue and President) on May 8th at 8 p.m. This year’s theme: Place Matters; Blogging My World. The Blogfest, an annual gathering of Brooklyn Bloggers, is for everyone. Bloggers and non-bloggers alike. What happens at the Blogfest? Lots of bloggers, non-bloggers, […]

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“Sunday while I was at the point, the parks department was summonsing some paintballers, and as I was taking pictures of them, this woman who never identified herself (pictured above) said “Excuse me you can’t take pictures of officers doing their jobs“. I responded by saying that Yes I can, that’s your misinformed opinion. Nothing […]

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The 3rd Annual Brooklyn Blogfest will be on May 8th, 2008 at 8 p.m. at the Brooklyn Lyceum on Fourth Avenue and Union Street right on top of the R train’s Union Street station. Cool venue for a cool event.–OTBKB

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The Fading Ad Blog, which fascinates us every day with its photos and words, has turned one. Among the things it features on its first anniversary is some auto-related signage from Clinton Hill and the Kingston Lounge in Crown Heights. Happy birthday, and here’s to a second year of cool stuff.

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We were sad to get an email overnight from the person behind the Right in Bay Ridge blog announcing that the blog is being suspended. The email said, “After much reflection and a shift in priorities, I have decided not to continue running the Right in Bay Ridge blog any longer…Should I be able to […]

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Blogger and flickr photographer Lorna Keuning, whose work we like very much, has launched a new photo blog, appropriately called lornaglrphotos. The first photos she has put up are killer cool. Lorna has been chronicling her own life at her lornagrl blog, which is also worth checking out if you’re interested in knowing something about […]

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The Carroll Gardens development battle over the building at 360 Smith Street has spawned many things, including a neighborhood group that has agitated for a downzoning and development moratorium and the wall we named “The Democracy Wall.” This is about the latter. Apparently the person who goes by “Art Dog” and has created many of […]

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