Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory it is cloudy and breezy. Today’s forecast calls for “a couple of strong afternoon thunderstorms; otherwise, mostly cloudy, breezy and more humid.” The high will be 84. Tonight will be cloudy with some showers or storms around and a low of 59.–Accuweather

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“An archway underneath the Manhattan Bridge in DUMBO will be reopened today, adding additional public space to the changing face of the Brooklyn waterfront. The Department of Transportation, which has jurisdiction over the area, will open the archway where Water Street bisects the bridge, adding a new passageway connecting the northern and southern sections of […]

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“A hotheaded chef at China City restaurant in Brooklyn has been charged with dousing two women with scalding cooking oil after they complained about bad take-out food. The melee started when Sylvia Grice, 44, and Dorranne Leggett, 42, stormed into the Myrtle Avenue eatery Thursday night to confront the chef, Luien Jhing, 28. The disgruntled […]

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory, the wind and rain are gone and the sun is back as Hannah is nothing but a damp memory. Today’s forecast calls for sunny to party cloudy skies with breezy conditions and (thank you) less humidity. The high will be 88. Tonight will be clear with a low of 64. […]

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The Quaker Cemetery in the Prospect Park is surrounded by a tall fence topped by barbed wire. “I suppose one has to protect one’s self from our stupid fucking local teen pseudo-thugs. Barbed wire though? Zowee. Don’t be like that, baby. I thought we were Friends. Actually, I’m kidding. I really do have respect for […]

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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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A Brooklyn school-bus driver “got lost” for hours on the way home from school and disappeared with several first-graders and kindergarten kids while frantic parents tried to find out what happened. Joseph Gray, 53, was arrested and suspended after he returned to the Achievement First charter school in Brownsville at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, authorities said. […]

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“My family is planning to move out of Park Slope, and like so many others, we are looking in Montclair and Maplewood. We have seen a few houses in Maplewood that are in our price range, but we are really not familiar with the neighborhoods there. Some of the places we’ve seen are near Maplecrest […]

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It will be both hot and sunny today, with the temperature approaching the record of 95 set in 1973. Tonight will be clear with a low of 70. As for the weekend, there are three words: Tropical Storm Hanna. It will be coming close, although the exact track isn’t yet clear.–Accuweather

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“Ricky’s just announced that its 23rd location will be 191-193 Bedford between North Sixth and North Seventh streets. We knew the discount beauty supply store was coming to the ‘Burg, but we didn’t know it would manage to grab such a front-and-central location—it’s going to sit nearly on top of the Bedford Avenue L stop, […]

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory the sun has broken through some early morning clouds. Today’s forecast calls for it to be mostly sunny and very warm with a high of 88. Tonight will be clear with a low of 67. Looking ahead, possible inland tracks of Tropical Storm Hanna bring it right over the city […]

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“It’s Sunday nite, around 8pm and I just got back from a walk along Prospect Park West, near Grand Army Plaza, and I found 3 bags of jewelry sitting on a park bench. Some costume, watches, rings, earrings, bracelets, necklaces, some gold, some that I would imagine has sentimental value to someone. Please PM me […]

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“The boardwalk is getting a lot less crowded on Coney Island. Beachgoers snubbed the iconic Brooklyn spot for the second summer in a row, Parks Department statistics show. Only 4.5 million people enjoyed Coney Island’s sand and surf this summer – a little more than half the 8.6 million visitors who came in 2007. And […]

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One of the more interesting things to do in Brighton Beach, if you’re up to it, is to go food shopping. My favorite store is M & I International Food, right on the main drag and across the street from the elevated train…It is fun just to walk around and see all of the food. […]

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There are a lot of opportunities to watch Barack Obama’s historic speech accepting the Democratic Nomination tonight. We won’t steal the thunder of someone else’s hard work compiling a list of bars that will be showing the speech. We’ll simply steer you over there to check out the list.–Breukland

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“The Argyle condo on Fourth Avenue in Gowanus is finally starting to look like building. After a slow start, Argyle has added floors in both the front and back and has reached eight floors. In recent weeks, has actually become visible above the lower buildings around it….It bills itself as being in Park Slope, and […]

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A long time ago, when developer Joe Sitt bought the Revere Sugar Plant property in Red Hook, it was said that the plan was to build a BJ’s Wholesale Club there. It could be coming to pass. Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz says the developer and the big box retailer are very close to an […]

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If you answered “a Robert Scarano-designed condo” you win the prize, even though, to us, it sounds like the name of a scary bug. Alvora is in Prospect Park South and one of the buyers there has started a new blog called 34 Crooke Avenue to write about the building, neighborhood and other subjects.–Curbed

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory the sun is shining, but there could be a lot of clouds around today at points. The forecast calls for variably cloudy skies and a high of 77. Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a low of 64.–Accuweather

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“Stealing a scene from a hit movie, two Brooklyn cops used their patrol car to ‘do doughnuts’ in a Bay Ridge park, a woman who witnessed the crazy stunt said Monday. The cigar-chomping officers tore through a baseball field at Shore Road Park in Bay Ridge, spinning the car wildly in circles and almost hitting […]

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“…apparently there is a new kid working in the Shoot the Freak pit called the ‘zone’ dodging paint balls. At one point when a customer had finished playing and put his gun down – the customer’s child grabbed the gun and shot the unsuspecting kid working as the ‘freak’ and nailed him in the eye […]

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“What is it about the inexorable approach of the end of summer. Even though I love the fall, and even the winter, when it is not too intense, the approach of the week before labor day brings a little bit of ennui, a rootlessness and sense of endings, of movings on..For most households that include […]

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“Long before the “humpbacked” street signs showing cross streets were installed on cast-iron lamps in the 1910s…long before porcelain, enamel and aluminum embossed signs appeared in the 1950s…and long before color-coded vinyl and aluminum signs appeared around 1964 (the green and white successors of which still dominate around town) … there were street signs chieseled […]

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Here we go again. “Astroland’s co-owner says she won’t put the storied Coney Island amusement park’s rides up for sale just yet, despite issuing an ultimatum that she would do so if she was not offered a lease for 2009 by Friday. ‘I’m just kind of in this holding pattern,’ Carol Hill Albert told amNewYork […]

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“I mean, really. So David Byrne made some bike racks. Nine of them. And one of them is in Williamsburg. They’re not even particularly creative, edgy, or interesting in any way–in fact, they look like something the lowest level NYC department of transit employee could’ve come up with on his lunch break. Guitar shaped rack […]

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