Outside the weather observatory we are looking at one of the nicest Memorial Days we can ever remember. (Well, at least, it will be competitive with them.) Today’s forecast is “Partly sunny and beautiful” with a high of 80°F. Tonight there will be some clouds, but it will be breezy and mild with a low […]

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“Over the five months I’ve spent living in Prospect Heights, the neighborhood (including its border area with Crown Heights) has slowly revealed itself to me. Young professionals populate the areas closest to Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Museum. Further in, neo-hippie and hipster types might sell marijuana to get by on rent. During the day […]

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There is one word for what we are seeing at the Brooklyn Weather Observatory: spectacular. Today’s forecast calls for it to be sunny to partly cloudy and breezy with a high of 71. Tonight will be clear with a low of 52. All in all, brace for one of the nicest Memorial Day Weekends weather-wise […]

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How about some organic skin care products from a Boerum Hill art historian? If that’s not your thing, perhaps you’ll be interested in the green storage facility in Clinton Hill? It’s not only cheaper than other storage facilities, it uses renewable energy. Now, back to the organic skin care…–Brooklyn Based

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory a beautiful Memorial Day Weekend is starting. It will be partly sunny today with a high of 70. Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low of 52.–Accuweather

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A geographer has found that New York City is 304.8 square miles, which 17 square miles smaller than previously thought. Brooklyn “lost” the most area, going from 82 to 72 miles, meaning that it’s largely responsible for the city’s shrinkage issue. The differences are attributed to better measuring techniques.–NY1

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Here’s one reaction to the rumor that super model Agyness Deyn has bought a loft in Williamsburg: “Is this a rumour? Like how every two years I hear the Salvation Army on Bedford is turning into a McDonalds? Or the one about Gwyneth Paltrow moving into the Edge? Or any of the countless other unfounded […]

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The food and diet issues that predominate in Williamsburg and Bushwick, of course, are not hipster ones. “Kids growing up in Williamsburg and neighboring Bushwick have the highest chance in the city that one of their parents is obese. About 30% of adults are unhealthily overweight, according to data released yesterday by the Citizens’ Committee […]

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Tensions are mounting in Crown Heights, but is there a genuine threat of repeat of the riots of the 1990s or are some leaders overreacting? In the words of the Times, “The streets of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, resembled an armed camp on Wednesday…Crown Heights is flaring up again, as it has every so often since […]

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“Built in 1889, the Alhambra—on Nostrand Avenue between Halsey and Macon—is a Romanesque Revival beauty: five stories, several turrets, a pointed roof, and 30 apartments (eight room each!). It was designed by Brooklyn’s own Montrose Morris, a starchitect in his day.”–Ephemeral New York via Brownstoner

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It’s going to be another cool-ish day today, before a glorious Memorial Day weekend. Today’s forecast calls for cooler with periods of sunshine and a shower in the afternoon. The low will ber 61. Tonight will be partly cloudy and cool wth a low of 48. Right now, Saturday-Monday is looking magnificent.–Accuweather

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The Center for the Urban Environment is having a kind of happy hour and recycling opportunity today from 7PM-9PM. They’ll be accepting a bunch of things for recycling, including: alkaline batteries, Inkjet/laser cartridges, Compact Florescent Lightbulbs (CFLs), hard drives, printer cartridges including toner, pagers, PDAS, cords, cables, boards and chips removed from computers. It’s at […]

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Most Coney Island hands are happy with the thirty temporary rides going up on property owned by developer Joe Sitt (that will shrink to 13 in mid-June) and not particularly concerned about the competition with Astroland and Deno’s Wonder Wheel Park. What they’re still worried about, though, is that “they’re still planning a shopping mall […]

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“Brooklyn pigeons have got it good these days. On Kane Street, they’ve found a cozy home under the scaffolding at the Rat-Squirrel House, with no one to kick them them to the curb. Meanwhile, on the corner of Richards and Coffey in Red Hook, some happy birds have made themselves at home in the very […]

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory, there are signs of a day that could be worse (completely cloudy and gloomy) and could be better (totally sunny). Instead, we are somewhere in between. The forecast calls for it to be a cool day with times of sun and clouds and a possible afternoon shower. The high will […]

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For most of the 19th Century, Stewart Avenue–which is named for a landowner along its route–was Bay Ridge’s main drag. It “once ran straight up the spine of what was then the western edge of the town of New Utrecht….Today, you can more or less make out Stewart Avenue’s old route on the map by […]

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It is not going to be a good year for Community Boards, most of which can’t get the projects they want funded by the city and are also in line for budget cuts. “Eighteen Brooklyn community boards recently submitted their wish lists for the preliminary 2009 budget – and judging by the city agencies’ responses, […]

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One of the people interviewed for the Hating Park Slope article in the Sunday Times didn’t care much for the outcome. “That’s the last time I give an interview. I spoke to writer Lynn Harris months ago for an article she was doing on Park Slope. ‘Where Is the Love’ appeared in yesterday’s NY Time’s […]

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We reported on Rose Plaza in South Williamsburg last week, but here are the details of what is being planned: “A three-building, 801-unit (20% affordable) project with 29,000-square-feet of commercial space fronting Kent and Division avenues, rounded out by a waterfront esplanade. Rose Plaza on the River’s buildings would all have six-story bases and reach […]

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory this morning, we are not seeing the makings of a mid-May spring day. The forecast calls for it to be breezy with periods of rain and a high of 61. Tonight will be cool with patchy clouds and a low of 48.–Accuweather

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The Flatbush Food Co-op is now open in a new space that is triple the size of its original retail store across the street on Cortelyou Road. The ribbon was cut on the new space at 1415 Cortelyou Road yesterday on a day during which many celebrations were planned.–Green Brooklyn

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Black and Jewish community leaders in Crown Heights called Sunday for calm – and more help from police and City Hall – in the wake of racially charged violence in the Brooklyn neighborhood. Geoffrey Davis, brother of slain City Councilman James Davis, organized the gathering at Albany Ave. and Empire Blvd., where black attackers pummeled […]

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Sunset Park’s Chinatown has gotten some serious press in the last week with a Village Voice article by Robert Sietsema, who says it’s less crowded, less tourist and, well, better than those in the other boroughs. We’ll take that.–Best View in Brooklyn

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We almost never get to use the the little wind icon that appears here. Right now, it’s calm outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory, but today’s forecast is calling for winds gusting past 45 MPH later on and cooler temps with clouds and sun and a shower here and there in the afternoon. The high will […]

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We don’t normally veer entirely off-topic, but in this case, the subject matter is riveting and worth reading. It’s a series of blog posts from an American that lived through the horrific cyclone that hit Myanmar, from which 100,000 died directly and several million are now imperiled. We found it through the Englishman in New […]

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