Every Sunday, we like to take a look at a few comments that GL readers have left during the previous week. Here’s a selection from the last seven days: Burg’s Giant Fart Cloud Demolition is a Scary Mess. “A similar situation is going down on bedford ave. near reel life, on the same side of […]

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Once a week, we highlight a few comments left by GL readers during the previous week. Here’s this week’s selection: GL Analysis: What is a Fair Price for History?:“It always amazes me how short-sighted and uncreatively efficient these developers are. Why is “Old” always frowned upon? And why is there no character or trace of […]

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Once a week, we light to highlight a few comments left by GL readers during the past seven days. Here are some of this week’s choices: An Important Meeting for Admirals Row. “I work at Steiner Studios occasionally and there is nothing as thrilling as riding my bike past the guard and zooming past the […]

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Once a week, we post some reader comments we’ve gotten during the previous week. Here is this week’s selection, with an emphasis on an issue that generated a bit of discussion: Bklink: Do You Hear Boat Noises? “Most likely what you hear are the barges+tugs going up and down the Buttermilk Channel, which has heavy […]

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Once a week, we like to highlight comments that GL readers have left during the previous seven days. Here’s a selection from the last week: Ikea Using Ripped Out Beard Street Cobblestones in Parking Lot. “I think you are not very far off the mark about them using the cobbles to pave over the graving […]

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Every week we highlight some comments left by GL readers during the past seven days. Here’s a sampling from this week: GL Analysis: City Shows Its Hand in Coney, Now What? “another chapter in the continuing history of land grabs at Coney. we’ll be lucky if our grandkids get to ride the rides in the […]

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Once a week, we like to look at some comments that GL readers have left during the previous seven days. Here are few selections from this week: Atlantic Yards Hole Gets Bigger, Prospect Hghts Bldgs Smaller. “understand that this is not work on “atlantic yards.” this is excavation to build a new rail yard. work […]

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Once a week we highlight some comments left behind during the previous week by GL readers. Here are some selections from the last seven days: Williamsburg Loft Tenants Get $35,000 & $65,000 Con Ed Bills “another sensationalist story about injustice served up over in wburg by our good forthright friends at GL, who never fail […]

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Here is a sampling of some of the comments left by GL readers during the last week: Last Weekend for the Red Hook Vendors. “And what’s wrong with that? Get some furniture, get some great food. Park @ Ikea, walk to the ballfields. Move on. Stop whining.” [Anonymous] Last Weekend for the Red Hook Vendors. […]

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Once a week, we like to look at some comments left by GL readers. Here’s a selection from the last seven days: Saga of the “Park Slope Vue” Not Over. “The developer has made the quality of life HELL for the local residents and probably could lose his shirt and 6 stories off his buildings […]

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Once a week, we highlight a few comments left by GL readers during the previous week. Here are a few of this week’s selections: Bumps in Road to Park Slope Food Coop’s Time Shift to 1990. “I’m a tad disappointed at the condescending tone of the post. I think that any complaint about the Park […]

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Every week, we take highlight a few comments left behind by GL readers during the previous week. Here are this week’s choices: Subway “Potty Time” on the Way to the Park Slope Food Coop “Would she do the same with her incontinent grandmother? When my bundle of joy arrives, I do solemnly swear that the […]

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Here’s a sampling of some of the comments left by GL readers during the last week: Terrier Menaced by Skateboard & What’s Up With Bicyclists? “…something I’ve been really trying to do lately is follow the rules of the road; stopping at traffic lights, yielding to peds, riding with traffic etc. At the end of […]

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Here are a few comments left by GL readers during the past week: Noo! Park Slope Maggie Moo’s Closes. “Possibly, Maggie Moo’s closed there because their ice cream is terrible. Now if only someone could do something about the laundromat at 7th Ave and 1st St. that has seen new dryers sitting in the middle […]

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Every week, we highlight a few comments that have been left by readers during the previous week. Here are this week’s choices: Conflict Over Carroll Gardens “Town Hall” Meeting. “That is crap, as a cb6 member I heard about the town hall we before the last min meeting was schedule by CB6. I know because […]

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Every week, we like to highlight a few comments left by GL readers during the previous week. Here are a few from the last seven days: Circus Says It Love Coney Island. Really. Honest. “Maybe attendance was ‘down’ because nobody wanted to spend money going to a rinky dink no-name circus in the middle of […]

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Once a week, we like to highlight a couple of comments (pro and/or con) left behind by readers during the previous seven days. Here is this week’s selection: Are People Getting Cranky About the Floating Pool? “I think that the floating pool is really a great thing for Brooklyn. The unsightly walk over is a […]

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Every week, we highlight a few comments left by GL readers during the previous week in our “On the Sofa” feature. Here are some of this week’s featured thoughts: Meet the Sad Face of Brooklyn Gentrification’s Human Toll. “we’ve been down this road before & will keep on it for a long time to come, […]

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Every weekend, we survey the comments that GL readers have left in the past week. Here’s a look at a few of this week’s: 1) Got Time? Help Brian Lehrer Count SUVs on Your Block. “I know it is easy to pick on these oversized ego machines and feel all self-righteous about yourself. But also […]

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Here’s a selection of some of the comments left by GL readers over the last seven days: More Boerum Hill Fun: Hookers Beneath the Windows. “I’m not advocating crime here but Bond Street has ALWAYS had prostitutes! lots of dead end streets to take the johns to…it’s an urban enviroment, desolate and near the projects, […]

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Once a week, we highlight a few of the comments that readers have left on GL items. Here’s a small sample from the last seven days: Carroll Gardeners React to Smith Street Permits. “I think lack of action was by neighborhood. The building has been in works for years and on Scarano’s website. So why […]

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Here’s a selection of a few comments left by GL readers in the last seven days: What GL Said to BL About Blogging, Pete Hamill, Etc. “I’ve long been admirer of Pete Hamill. It depresses me to hear him saying something so—I’m sorry—stupid. It makes me think he’s become uninformed and out of touch, too […]

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Once a week we turn to some of the comments that readers have left. Here’s a sampling from the last seven days: The Absolute Last Straw: City Wants to Kick Out Red Hook Vendors. “My bet is that they’ll give the vending contracts to “Latino” food vendors so that they can make it seem like […]

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Here’s a sampling of some of the comments left by GL readers over the last week: Coney Island Looking Like Sitt for Memorial Day. “It is absolutely fantastic to see that the negotiations are not in the papers anymore and Coney development is being negotiated between the city and Thor. Its ridiculous for Thor to […]

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Here’s a small selection of some of the comments left by our GL readers this week: Park Slope’s Little Peeing Princes. “I’m anti-tree-peeing in theory but also anti my kids peeing in their pants, on the sidewalk or the floors of a store. With a few public bathrooms as there are — and, the childless […]

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