[Photo courtesy of Best View in Brooklyn/GL Flickr Pool] This is how the big stuffed toys play in Sunset Park. Blogger Best View in Brooklyn, who contributed this pic via our GL Flickr Pool, calls it “Naughty, Naughty Monsters.”

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[Photo courtesy bestviewinbrooklyn/flickr] This view of kids playing in the sprinklers at the Sunset Park Pool that was put in our GL Photo Pool by bestviewinbrooklyn certainly fits the In the Pool theme. The photographer also produces the Best View in Brooklyn blog, which covers Sunset Park.

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Yesterday it was raccoons. Today, we have roosters, courtesy of a post on Brooklynian: So, this morning at 7:30 I’m walking towards the subway at 4th and 25th. At 24th and 5th there’s a gas station. I just walk onto the gas stations parking lot when ” cock a doodle doo!” is screeched RIGHT BEHIND […]

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Since we’ve been on the topic of playground conditions, the one in Sunset Park has some issues too. “…while broken equipment and putrid water is of concern, definitely, the trash [in the Cobble Hill LICH playground] doesn’t look as delicious as ours usually does. No adult diapers, or baby diapers, for instance. And nothing like […]

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With smokes at more than $8.00 a pack in most places, it’s no wonder that “loosies” are now being advertised at fifty cents a pop. This flier was taped up on Fifth Avenue in Sunset Park.

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[Photo courtesy of Mr. Heather] Here an interesting look at Sunset Park as seen from the water. The photo comes from Mr. Heather and is part of a much larger photoset from a waterfront tour on Sunday.

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It was a fun scene on Fifth Avenue in Sunset Park yesterday. Here are a few of the pics we shot during the celebration.

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Here are a few scenes from Fifth Avenue in Sunset Park yesterday, which had its own impromptu Puerto Rican Day celebration.

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The city is looking for someone “to operate excursions, educational boat services, and/or other waterborne vessels intended for public use” from the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park. The RFP has gone out from the New York Economic Development Corp.–The Real Estate

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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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If you go to your local park today, the odds are you will find something special going on. That’s because it’s “It’s My Park Day!” citywide. We can’t possibly highlight them all, but were’ going to pull a few from the inbox. (Check out Prospect Park’s activities, which we posted about earlier in the week, […]

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There’s no end in sight to the redevelopment of the Sunset Park Bush Terminal Piers into a new, multi-use 23-acre, $36 million public park. Two years after it was announced with great fanfare, the project has yet to enter remediation, the first phase of development that deals with the removal of pollutants or contamination from […]

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We’re not clear whether the balance of cleaners on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope is at an equilibrium point or not, but new one will be opening near Fourth Street. The interesting part is that it comes from Sunset Park, where local blogger Best View in Brooklyn shares the news that she’s losing her cleaner: […]

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The new ferry service from Rockaway to Manhattan via Sunset Park starts today (on a cold, rainy day). “I’m going to withhold judgment until I hear how the ferry actually works out with timing and logistics. I’m tempted to take my stroller-pushing self onto the early ferry just to check it out. Maybe on a […]

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“So, this morning, at about 9:40 AM, I left with my cherub to greet the pouring rain and dash to the safe haven of our car….my heart sank. The ONLY double-parked car was in front of my car. At first I thought that I could maneuver my way around it and get out. But no. […]

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The city is announcing a new subsidized ferry service today that will run from the Rockaways to Lower Manhattan with a revived stop in Sunset Park. It’s part of the a “5-Borough ferry service initiative of PlaNYC 2030.” This service will include a stop at the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, where the […]

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Ah, Sunday, the day we turn to our Craigslist Brooklyn Missed Connection. Once again, the Missed Connections take us to the subway as they so often do, but this one is not like the other MC’s about passing glances traded from seats on the train or on the platform: Thurs your phone flew on to […]

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[Photo courtesy of Anna Lewis] GL Correspondent Anna Lewis attended last nights CB7 Meeting and filed this report: Brooklyn Community Board 7 (Windsor Terrace and Sunset Park) rejected Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan at its monthly meeting Wednesday night. It objected primarily to the Mayor’s inclusion of a residential parking permit system within the congestion […]

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A new building on 39th street between 8th and 9th Avenues in Sunset Park is going to be a hotel. “Those were the rumors and buzz going around. One could also see that the architecture seemed to be more fitting for an office building or a hotel. Now we can confirm that it is a […]

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The GL reader that originally let us know that one-way signs had been put up on Fifth Avenue in Sunset Park, which led to more information about the big dig, found more info about the project. As it turns out it was supposed to start last summer and won’t be finished until sometime in 2010. […]

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Sunset Park is among the many, many Brooklyn neighborhoods up for a rezoning, and City Planning will be making a presentation of its Sunset Park rezoning study this month. The big day is Thursday, March 13, and the presentation is scheduled for 6:30 PM in the office of Community Board 7, which is located at […]

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Yesterday, we updated the story we first ran on Friday that a reader had sent about the appearance of one-way signs on Fifth Avenue in Sunset Park. As it turned out info was on the MTA/New York City Transit website in the context of the B63 bus being rerouted going northbound. A reader left another […]

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On Friday, we posted a reader’s photo and questions about one-way signs that had appeared on Fifth Avenue in Sunset Park. One reader left a comment that some type of construction might be taking place and that the street–which is in wretched condition–was going to be repaved. Yesterday, another reader answered the question with some […]

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Is Fifth Avenue going one-way in Sunset Park? We haven’t seen anything about this, but a reader sent us the photo above, which shows a new one-way sign waiting to be uncovered at Fifth Avenue and 34th Street that bears all the signs of some temporary changes. (That’s Green-Wood Cemetery in the background.) He writes: […]

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“A Brooklyn agency that’s supposed to help the disabled spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money on fancy cars, flat-panel TVs, business trips and a $100,000 no-show job for the director’s close friend, a report charges. Despite the scathing findings, the Sunset Park group’s longtime executive director, Seibert Phillips – who lied about […]

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