If you’ve been to Coney Island, you know that it generally has baby waves–more New York Harbor than Atlantic Ocean. Not on Sunday during the nor’easter. There was both heavy surf and beach erosion. In any case, we just caught this on YouTube after our attention was pointed that way by someone on the Coney […]

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The Gowanus Canal did not disappoint yesterday. The pictures here show the Big G about one hour before high tide yesterday evening. The photos show the canal overflowing its banks at Second Street (above)and at Sackett Street. The other photo shows it within inches of doing the same elsewhere an hour before the high water […]

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As we spent yesterday looking out the window at the deluge–dismissing taking the camera down to Coney Island to shoot high water and wind or to search for a Gowanus Sewage Geyser (you have pics of either, email them to us and you will earn our undying gratitude)–our minds turned to the possibility of massive […]

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Ah, yes, it’s that time of year again. The Nor’easter and all the emails from the Office of Emergency Management got us to thinking about Go Bags. You know, the emergency bag you’re supposed to keep around in case you have to run for your life? (Brooklyn, take note, under the wrong circumstances, about one-third […]

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[Photo courtesy of luluinnyc/flickr] This is Mount Prospect Park on Eastern Parkway between the Brooklyn Public Library and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Woah.

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