One of our favorite Brooklyn photobloggers, who’s always doing creative things, has a show from July 19 to August 14 at Design Within Reach in Brooklyn Heights, which is at 76 Montague Street. The show will feature more than a dozen photos, many of them shot in Gowanus, from Dalton Rooney, who runs the blog […]

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We’ve been reading and linking to the new City Room blog from the New York Times, and have been reading the Brooklyn stories it’s picking up with interest. Yesterday, Patrick LaForge revisited remarks made on the Brian Lehrer show by Pete Hamill, in which the columnist and writer called blogs “useful therapy,” but not journalism. […]

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There’s a new blog in Ditmas Park called–surprise–the Ditmas Park Blog. It’s the work of Ben Smith and his wife Liena, and looks to be a very valuable addition to the information flow about Ditmas Park. Mr. Smith an NYC blogging veteran. He’s a staff writer for The Politico and a co-founder of Room Eight. […]

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The Brooklyn blogger networking and face-to-face time that began with the wonderful efforts of Louise Crawford of Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn–who created and organized the first two Brooklyn blogfests and who keeps up contact with so many local bloggers–continues on Sunday with a monthly meeting in Flatbush. The event is being organized by Flatbush […]

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We were on the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC yesterday and had the chance to expound on blogging, journalism and column writing. The topic choice wasn’t ours. The invite came from BL’s staff of superb producers because of some remarks renowned columnist Pete Hamill made about blogging on the show earlier this week. What Mr. […]

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The Park Slope Civic Council honored blogger and journalist Norman Oder last night with a Lovgren Volunteer Award. Mr. Oder is the founder and writer of Atlantic Yards Report, which he has developed as New York City’s most authoritative source of Atlantic Yards reporting, information and analysis. Just this week, Mr. Oder combed through documents […]

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We say goodbye today to the Brooklyn Record. This morning Brownstoner publisher Jonathan Butler announced in a post that he was closing the Record, which was about a year old, and folding some of its content into Brownstoner. We’re sorry that Brooklyn is losing the Record, as we can use all the voices getting out […]

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If you don’t want to see the pics this way, you can always click over to the flickr photoset here or go directly to the GIF above by clicking here.

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(Clockwise from the top left are Kinetic Carnival, The Food of the Future, Eefers and Big Sky Brooklyn) Needless to say, there has been a decent amount of coverage of last night’s Second Annual Brooklyn Blogfest, along with some great photos posted on flickr. In particular, Sewell Chan offered a pretty comprehensive rundown over at […]

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Much will be written over the next day or two about the Brooklyn Blogfest, which took place last night at the Old Stone House in Park Slope, and attracted 100 people. (100 was the capacity limit of the building). It was organized by Louise Crawford of OTBKB (above) who opened the festivities that she had […]

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The Second Annual Brooklyn Blogfest is next week, on May 10th at 8 p.m. at the Old Stone House in JJ Byrne Park. OTBKB, which is organizing the event, has posted this cool poster, which should be appearing in some different spots around Brooklyn. The poster was created by blogger, Lisa Di Liberto of Urban […]

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[Photo courtesy of Walksbklyn] A GL reader who got in touch some time ago as he was moving to Gowanus, emailed to let us know that he’s started a new blog. It’s called Walkbklyn and the blogger respectfuly acknowledges that the name “was delicately lifted and then modified from Runs Brooklyn…I just don’t have the […]

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