Toren, one of the new buildings going up in the Flatbush Avenue corridor is really taking shape, although the base, which will really define the look of the building has yet to be installed. The building was designed by SOM and is definitey one of the most distinctive new towers to go up in Brookyn […]

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The Avalon Fort Greene, across Myrtle Avenue from Toren is going up like gangbusters. For those of you who like construction porn, we’ve got a small gallery to get the juices flowing. The building–a rental–will ultimately be a 42-story, 650-unit rental development at 159 Myrtle Avenue. Will it rent, given the other units going up […]

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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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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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Bruce Ratner may (or may not) curse the day he ever became involved in Atlantic Yards, but most of his other Brooklyn real estate ventures have face much smoother sailing and gotten much taxpayer support. The building rising in the distance (next to the nearly vacant Forte condo tower) is Ratner’s 80 Dekalb Avenue, just […]

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Walk by the Brooklyn Academy of Music recently after a snowstorm and notice barricades and police tape? This is because the canopy that was added (which we like) collects snow and ice and is angled in such a way that said frozen precipitation can then fall on pedestrians walking by. Well, a little snow slide […]

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[Photo courtesy of Steve Soblick/GL Flickr Pool] Yet another gorgeous snow shot.

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Toren had a head start and is winning the race, but Avalon Fort Greene, which is across the street is going up at an amazing pace or as a tipster put it “Both of these buildings are going up quick!” Avalon is going up at about two stories per week. Toren, meanwhile, is almost completely […]

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Alright all you folks out there that got your new flat screen tvs and iPhones and iPod Touches for the holidays – time to toss that old archaic stuff and make some room! But don’t just toss it anywhere, head on down to Lower East Side Ecology Center first electronics recycling of the year this […]

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Green Grape in Fort Green is offering some champagne tasting tomorrow. Here’s the email they sent us: As in champagne (and, this year, 5 sparkling wines under $30). We are having our sixth annual pre-New Year’s champagne tasting on Monday, December 29 from 5-7pm at the Brooklyn wine store at 765 Fulton between South Portland […]

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There are new developments with the nightmarishly long process of building the LIRR station at Atlantic and Flatbush Avenue. First, the scaffolds are back on the building as God Only Knows what is being done, but secondly the sidewalk in front is now open to pedestrians who no longer have to risk their lives walking […]

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If you’re awake and not too hungover after your night of relief from a horrendous week, today (12/6) from noon-5pm, Myrtle Ave is a host of the beginning creation of seventeen window displays created by local artists in celebration of the first annual Myrtle Holiday Windows Contest.Whether your a resident or in need of shopping […]

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In addition to the very successful Brooklyn Flea, our friends at Brownstoner will also be running an indoor holiday market in December across the street at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple. Here are the details direct from Brownstoner: For the four Sundays starting November 30, we’ll be running an indoor holiday market at the Masonic Temple […]

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A few minutes ago we posted about the Magic, Where’s Our Health Care? website. Here’s a vid they made of a worker going to one of his book signings saying “Please, Magic, give us some family health care.” It would appear to end when he is ejected.

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We’ve covered the issue of the hiring on non-union workers at the luxury One Hanson tower in which Magic Johnson is an investor. We’ve also offered our opinion of the situation. Now, there’s a website on the entire One Hanson-Magic Johnson Issue called nomagichealthcare.org. We got a press release about it, but Crain’s beat us […]

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Remember the ongoing fight over the non-union employees hired by the Dermott Group at One Hanson and the fact that many of them can’t afford health insurance for their families. The most prominent investor in One Hanson, of course, is former basketball start Magic Johnson. This is the same Mr. Johnson who face beams from […]

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[Photo for GL by Nathan Kensinger] The Prison Ship Martyrs Monument in Fort Greene Park is being rededicated on Saturday (11/15), with the eternal flame on top being re-lit and, most important, the eagles that had been taken by the Parks Department finally returned to their rightful place. GL Contributor Nate Kensinger passes along a […]

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This was the scene outside One Hanson Place last night between about 5PM and 6PM as angry workers and union members protested outside as residents of very expensive apartments were (presumably) returning home. The workers are outraged because the employees providing services to the (rather wealthy) residents are not unionized. They are being denied critical […]

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“Work at Avalon Fort Greene marches on, economy be damned! As you can see from this photo (click to expand) the first-floor structural form work is in place, a marked advance from the way it looked in early September. How psyched are the developers right now that this has always been slated to be a […]

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This is the new entrance to the LIRR station at the Atlantic Center. It’s a replacement for the facility that was destroyed in the late 1980s for the development that ultimately became Bruce Ratner’s megaplex that includes Target. That mall was built in 2004. The station’s been under construction for a looooong time and one […]

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One of our GL readers hit us off with an alarming email this morning about one of those late night urban experiences that gets the juices flowing: Hey…so i was walking home tonight and i had to be escorted by police because there was a corpse found in a cardboard box!!! Outside roughly the entrance […]

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A GL reader writes of a raccoon in Fort Greene: please help! …I saw a raccoon on Clermont Avenue (Brooklyn). He/she looked stuck at the window seal of a parlor floor… by all mean I thought he wasn’t doing well and done everything possible and impossible to get a rescuer come help… nothing! I got […]

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Infant mortality fell dramatically in two borough neighborhoods where rates have been historically high for years, says new city Health Department statistics. In Fort Greene, infant mortality fell from 7.3 deaths per 1000 births in 2006 to 0.8 deaths in 2007. In Crown Heights North, the rate fell from 9.8 to 4.6. In both neighborhoods, […]

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Here’s a short documentary just posted to the YouTube about a women’s shelter in Fort Greene. (Warning: it starts with a test pattern and a loud tone of about four seconds.)

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It seems like a statement of incredible optimism these days that a neighborhood would be working to get an indie bookstore–given the attrition rate of existing ones all over NYC–yet that’s exactly what Fort Greene is doing. There’s even a kickoff event for the Fort Greene Indie Bookstore Initiative on September 16. Per an email […]

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