[Photo courtesy of jlawsoul17/flickr] We saw the smoke from the big fire at 57 Lincoln Road in Prospect Lefferts Gardens last night in Williamsburg and knew without even seeing the news that there was very big somewhere. Here’s 7Online’s report, in part: Nineteen people were injured in a multi-alarm fire in Brooklyn on Friday night. […]

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We originally ran this video, which we found quite compelling on Friday, before lunarpages–the web hosting company from hell–decided to delete GL before a server switch was complete, taking us down for nearly a day and wiping out several days of posts…but we digress. We’re reposting this vid here because we think the situation it […]

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We all know intersections in Brooklyn where one risks one’s life challenging people who might be very nice individuals if encountered on foot, but who would just as soon make you one with the pavement as let you walk in front of them once they’re behind the wheel. One such spots is Parkside and Ocean […]

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Here’s a cool event coming up on Sunday, May 18, from PLG Arts and The Maple Street School. It’s called “ABIYOYOPALOOZA: African Music & Magic” and it’s a free music and storytelling event for pre-school and young school-age children that will take place at the Audobon Center in Prospect Park. Here’s a bit from the […]

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The results are in and people that responded would most like to see…a grocery in the new 20-story glass tower proposed for Prospect-Lefferts Gardens. A grocery was the choice of 67 percent of those that filled out the survey for the ground floor, while 12 percent said bank and 10 percent said gym. Nearly 92 […]

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This survey isn’t intended to determine whether people want a 20-story glass tower in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens but what they’d like to see there if it’s built. “The ground floor of the building will most likely be a major retailer or a bank. (This is a premium space that will price out most restaurants and smaller […]

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[Image courtesy of A Year in the Park] That 20-story glass structure that would rise in Prospect Lefferts-Gardens that we revealed last week, would be visible from parts of Prospect Park. This is a quick approximation that blogger A Year in the Park, who does wonderful items on Prospect Park every day, threw together. We’re […]

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That is a rendering of a new 20-story building that is planned for Lincoln Road in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens near Ocean Avenue. The building would have 210,000 square feet of space and come from Gilman Architects. Yesterday, we talked with architect Tom Gilman who said it’s “a tall building, but in a way that it’s pulled […]

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When some people talk about the changing demographics of Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, they don’t talk about in terms of race. Some use terms like “pure poor people” and “gentrification people.” Take, for instance, someone working at City Jerk and this description: “Since he started working at City Jerk in November, the food prices have gone up […]

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We’re happy to note two new Brooklyn blogs, including one in Sunset Park, where we’ve been hoping to see some renewed neighborhood blogging activity: The Sunset Park entry is The Sunset Park Blog, which is tied to a website called sunset-park.com that also includes a message board that could turn out to be both interesting […]

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“A construction fence went up around 185 Ocean Ave. last week, indicating that the house is slowly moving towards its demise. Still, we have received very few details about what will be built in its place – as we’ve said before, it had better not be some ugly piece of shit.”–Across the Park

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We’re not sure we’re ready for the “get a jump start on the holidays” pitch in the press release we got from the sponsors of ArtMart 11225, a community arts and crafts market in Prospect Lefferts Gardens taking place on October 13. Nonetheless, we’ll happily note that it will happen on Lincoln Road between Ocean […]

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