It’s looking like the story about Real World setting up in a building on Pier 41 in Red Hook is most likely way more than a rumor. A tipster dropped the info on Curbed earlier this week and, now, there are strong indications that MTV is putting the cast in the building for filming.–Curbed

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“Other than the people who declared war on me because of this site. No one, who knew how, has ever attempted a Denial of Service attack(DoS). If you were on the site at all today you might of noticed that the site was either not working or it was very slow. This was the result […]

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory this Saturday morning there is sun and some pretty thick air. Today’s forecast calls for it to be mostly sunny, hot and humid. It will be 93, but feel like 102. There might be some thunderstorms tonight and it will otherwise be hot and humid with a low of 72. […]

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It’ll be so damned hot this weekend the city is opening cooling centers and the Office of Emergency Management is sending out press releases telling people how not to drop dead in the heat. (Should make for an extra-fun Siren Festival Tomorrow.) OEM and the Dept. of Health advise “that extremely hot weather is forecast […]

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Is it bad news for development projects when the developer gets into a nasty dispute with the people providing the financing? Well, projects in Gerritsen Beach and Sheepshead Bay being developed by Stephen Jamal as part of the Brooklyn Riviera should provide some insight. $5.5 million is at issue.–GerritsenBeach.Net

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory, it still looks nice, but there’s some heat on its way over the next few days. Today’s forecast calls for it to be mostly sunny, hot and more humid with a high of 92. It’s going to feel like 100. It will be muggy tonight with a low of 75.–Accuweather

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Gowanus is becoming club and venue land. “Workers have been clearing out the ground-floor space of a warehouse on DeGraw Street between 3rd and 4th avenues for the past few weeks, and DOB filings for the spot say it’s going to be a ‘drinking and dancing establishment.’ According to a couple of sources, some of […]

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Check out the wild parrots of Brooklyn on a Sunday morning, just sort of hanging out in their nests in Flatbush. Sunday is the day of rest, after all.–Flatbush Pigeon

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“Around 11 a.m. Monday, a bucket of wet cement fell from a scaffolding at 66 Court St. and crushed a Department of Environmental Protection vehicle. The roof was destroyed and the windows were shattered on the Toyota Prius. A pedestrian was taken away in an ambulance with an eye injury sustained from flying debris…In a […]

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory, the sky is very blue and the sun is very bright. Today’s forecast calls for it to be mostly sunny and warm with a high of 88. Tonight will be clear with a low of 70.–Accuweather

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“Around 1 PM on Sunday, the plywood and metal fencing surrounding the construction of the new Amalgamated Bank on 5th Avenue and 45th Street fell to the sidewalk. No one was willing to say if any pedestrians or workers had been hurt; everyone was very grumpy and sullen. For good reason, I’d say.”–Best View in […]

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The bitter feud between the two brothers fighting for spiritual control of Brooklyn’s Satmar community has spilled into the corridors of City Hall. Their battle centers on the fiscal-year 2009 budget. Through City Council Speaker Christine Quinn’s discretionary fund, Brooklyn Councilmen David Yassky, Simcha Felder and Bill de Blasio dished out an unusually large sum […]

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory early this morning we have clouds and showers. The forecast calls for “clouds yielding to some sun with a couple of showers and a thunderstorm; warm and humid.” The high will be 84. Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low of 70.–Accuweather

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“Newtown Creek, the polluted estuary that separates Queens and Brooklyn, should be named a federal Superfund site, a move that could hasten long-stuttering cleanup efforts, a pair of New York lawmakers say. Representatives Anthony D. Weiner and Nydia M. Velázquez, whose Congressional districts include the contaminated area, are urging the Environmental Protection Agency to test […]

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One of our favorite blogs, which we link to nearly every day, gets a long article in the Times today. It’s A Year in the Park, produced by Brenda Becker, which has been doing entertaining and informative coverage of Prospect Park since the beginning of the year. “More than 150 witty, engaging and informative postings […]

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“A pair of kayakers who paddled too close to the New York City Waterfalls installation under the Brooklyn Bridge nearly drowned when swift currents and the falls’ suction mechanism capsized their boat, police said. ‘I wanted to get a closer look at the waterfalls, and then it sucked us in,’ said Vladimer Spector, 37, one […]

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What would happen if one of the more out there Karl Fischer buildings in Williamsburg (say, 20 Bayard) got the Frank Gehry treatment. Well, it certainly would look different.–Restless

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One thing leads to another around here. Thanks to parks spokesguy Eugene Patron, the true identity of yesterday’s found-art installation has been revealed: “Turns out it’s an old dredger, used to clean the watercourse of weeds and invasive plants like phragmites along the lakeshore. We have another one, nicknamed the Lake Mess Monster, that our […]

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Manhattan is not the only place there are iLines. We’ve got them in Brooklyn too. Check out the scene at the ATT Store in Downtown Brooklyn.–Brownstoner

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“According to a reader, and the image sent in…the 11,000 square foot Morton’s Steakhouse in Brooklyn’s Marriott is scheduled to open this November. Get ready Luger’s.”–Eater

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One of the areas that will be part of a new city test of increasing parking meter rates at peak times is Midwood. “The program’s goal is to increase turnover in curbside parking spaces in the test areas — a section of Greenwich Village in Manhattan and a stretch of Kings Highway and adjacent streets […]

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“Rep. Ed Towns has shuttered his Bedford-Stuyvesant district office in the midst of a hotly contested congressional race – because of a rodent problem…The 13-term congressman, who represents Canarsie, Brownsville and Cypress Hills, among other areas, was forced to consolidate his staff into district offices in East New York and downtown Brooklyn. ‘Yes, there was […]

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The most likely seriously accurate rumor broke yesterday that the Top Chef contestants in the new episodes will be living in Williamsburg. On Karl Fischer Row, no less, at 20 Bayard Street.–Eater

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory, the sky is a little more blue than it has been. Today’s forecast, for the first time in a while, does not include thunderstorms. It calls for it to be hot and mostly sunny, but less humid, with a high of 86. Tonight will be clear with a low of […]

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“In October 1902, the owners of this grand new structure in recently developed Crown Heights took out several ads in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, informing the public that ‘the word ‘hotel’ has a new meaning.’ The copy seems very sincere. ‘Perhaps you have not associated the two ideas of ‘hotel’ and ‘home.’ In the St. […]

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