This is 462 Keap Street which is rising next to a huge Karl Fischer going up on Union Avenue in Williamsburg. It comes from Thomas Gilman, who has gotten some attention recently for the glass tower he has designed that will rise near Prospect Park. The new Gilman will be a six-story building with 29 […]

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The new Williamsburger on Wythe Avenue in the Burg opened on Friday night and its menu says it’s “Beefing Up Hipsters.” There’s a straightforward burger menu with cheese choices including white cheddar, Maytag blue, gruyere Swiss and “government.” There was also a Yellow Fin Tuna special on the menu we saw. Some hot dogs and […]

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We came across this tidbit about how the MTA is now taking B61 service issues more seriously because of Ikea in the course of an entirely different email discussion on the Brooklyn Baby Hui (Williamsburg parent) group about petitioning the MTA to make buses more stroller friendly. Here’s the bit about the reviled B61 we […]

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There’s a public hearing on the appeal of the Board of Standards and Appeals decision allowing the Finger Building in Williamsburg to continue. (The Finger Building, on might recall, has been stalled at ten stories for nearly two years, with an ugly dispute taking place about whether it has been built illegally or might actually […]

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This Chinese character comes from a door on Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg where it appeared recently. If anyone knows what it is or means, let us (again, politely) know.

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This is a sunflower growing on N. 11 Street near Berry in Williamsburg, which is not a particularly verdant swath of Brooklyn. We particularly like the way the color of the sunflower blends with the construction equipment in the background.

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Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg is losing the Polska-Masarnia Czeslawa Quality Meat Market, the longstanding Polish butcher at 172 Bedford Avenue in the heart of Williamsburg. The gate is down and the place has been stripped. It does not look like it’s being renovated.–Lost City

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This is one of Williamsburg’s two well known hearses belonging to the heavy metal club Duff’s which is adjacent to 184 Kent. It’s not every day one catches a photo of someone getting under the hood of the Deathmobile and tinkering with it.

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“The new project at 324 Bedford Avenue epitomizes the stupidity of off-street parking requirements. The building sits at the corner of Bedford and South 2nd. It is designed by Bob Scarano, and is slowly inching its way toward completion (a stop-work order was issued in March, 2007 and the permits have all been revoked). Architecturally, […]

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Grand Ferry Park closed for a remake in October and, while the reopening was a few months later than promised, the redone park–which provides a bit of waterfront access in a part of Williamsburg where none currently exists–is open again and looking good. There is a lot of new landscaping and the park, overall, has […]

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[Renderings courtesy of Learned Evolution via Eater] A couple of weeks ago, Nicole Davis of Brooklyn Based posted details about the new bowling alley and venue on Wythe Avenue at N. 11 Street that will be called Brooklyn Bowl. Today, there’s more info about it, including the fact that Blue Ribbon will be doing the […]

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Here’s our last Giglio post of the season. It’s a short vid of the Giglio lift on Sunday on Sunday. Until next year…

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The “Fuck Condoburg” crew is back at it again in Williamsburg after a bit of a hiatus and 80 Metropolitan is once again a favorite canvas for the welcome, pro-gentrification message. While many sites have gotten the Condoburg treatment over time, the 80 Met site has been hit repeatedly with messages of love.

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“The management of N. 11th has been very responsive anytime we (as neighbors) have had a complaint. All you have to do is call them and talk to them (I know, a novel idea). When neighbors of ours complained about the tiny styrofoam the offered to come over and clean it up. When another person […]

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We call this shot we caught in Williamsburg over the weekend, “Chair, TV, Papa John’s.” We think it has that certain something that defines the ideal Burg street scene.

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This “We Live in Brooklyn” poster recently appeared on N. 6 Street near Kent Avenue, which is still a favorite spot for artists to show their work on the street.

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Here’s our second photo gallery of Giglio photos from Williamsburg yesterday. All we can say is, it was hot on Havemeyer Street yesterday afternoon. For our earlier post with some closer shots of the people lifting the three-ton statues, scroll down or click here.

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Here’s our first photo gallery from the Giglio Festival on Havemeyer Street in Williamsburg. The lift took place under a blazing sun at 2PM with a crowd that seemed smaller than usual, possibly because of the blistering heat. We decided to make the “faces” of the Giglio lift a separate photo gallery.

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[Image courtesy of i’mjustsayin/flickr] The Liars played McCarren Pool yesterday and here’s a shot of Angus Andrew from the stage courtesy of i’mjustsayin. See the full set here.

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[Photo courtesy of sabeth718/flickr] The first Williamsburg Walks event took place yesterday under blazing sun and opposite the Siren Festival in Coney Island. It looks like it was more lively than the efforts on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, but almost anything on Bedford is going to have an edge in that sense. We’ll be […]

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A number of new Judith Supine works have popped up around Williamsburg in recent weeks. This one is from Hope Street, east of the BQE, in a spot where one doesn’t usually find street art.

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There is progress to report about the “Third World Dump” created by a development mess on long-suffering N. 11 Street and Roebling in Williamsburg. (In fact, there are so many construction sites in the area that some days several pile drivers are going at once at sites a few blocks apart creating a most interesting […]

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2008 Giglio Festival — Night Lift from rsguskind on Vimeo.

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If you like the Hold Steady or you enjoy watching stuff on VBS, then you might enjoy a short segment featuring the band and some VBS people drinking at the Levee in Williamsburg (once known as a different bar), playing darts and shooting pool.

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