We love Williamsburg doors and it’s been a while since we posted photos of any, so today were going to do a few and call it Williamsburg Door Friday. Here’s one from Broadway.

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Do people in Williamsburg care about their food? “Absolutely. The majority are NYU-student dipshits who are buying their clothes at Urban Outfitters and are living here because it’s cool.” (Do not click if butchers holding pig heads upset you.)–Grub Street

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This Obey poster, which has been decorated with the always popular pink cloud and lightning bolt, is on Dunham Place near Broadway in South Williamsburg.

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These two buildings are 146 and 150 Broadway in Williamsburg, near Bedford Avenue. The rat poison signs went up on them a while ago, which is always a sign of impending change. Building plans were approved four years ago for a seven-story building at 150 Broadway, but the property was later sold. In any case, […]

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It was a taste of December on Bedford Avenue a couple of days ago as part of a sidewalk sales display that also included a beach umbrella and a raised car hood. Good thing Frosty didn’t literally melt in the heat.

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The new building going up at 5 Roebling, which is the site of the former Giant Fart Cloud building, is now in the pile driving phase. Yesterday, blogger Bad Advice first said it wasn’t so bad, but she is having second thoughts: Remember how yesterday I said that the piledriver wasn’t so bad? Yeah, well, […]

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Neighbors Allied for Good Growth (NAG) in Williamsburg is holding what they’re calling “Tenant Rights Happy Hours” on Tuesdays. They take place at the NAG office, which is located at 101 Kent Avenue (at N. 8 Street) on Mondays from 4PM-8PM and Tuesdays from 2PM-8PM. Per an email: NAG is happy to announce that our […]

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No, this sign isn’t from Park Slope, site of this summer’s Alternate Side Parking Follies (where some people say the temporary suspension of alternate side parking has made parking harder and some say it’s made no difference whatsoever). It’s from Williamsburg, where a bunch of signs on the South Side have been altered, perhaps to […]

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Every now and then we put a couple of Craigslist Missed Brooklyn Missed Connections in reserve for a weekday because they move us. So it is with the very short tale of tears and dropped ice cream on Bedford Avenue: clumsy girl at penny licks – m4w – 25 outside penny licks on thursday, about […]

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This building with monster tagging, done by spraying it from a fire extinguisher, comes from Broadway in the Burg.

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[Photo courtesy of Bad Advice] The building site at 5 Roebling Street in the Burg, which we like to call the Giant Fart Cloud Building site, as it is the former site of a fragrant former cabbage processing plant, has acquired a pile driver. The site itself has been eventful thus far, producing both a […]

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Last week, we noted that piles of excavated soil and rubble at the Urban Legend Toxic Lot at the corner of N. 11 Street and Bedford Avenue were not covered by tarps. Such precautions are standards when things are being dug up at properties that have toxic issues. Well, another look this week shows that […]

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The art on top went up recently on Berry Street near N. 11 Street. The puppy on the bottom has been there for well over a year.

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The political version of pork is always interesting to watch. “The Department of Housing Preservation and Development put aside $2 million to counsel and protect tenants, and said it would hire local groups to do the work. A coalition of seven nonprofits from the neighborhood applied as one in a bid to handle the whole […]

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“Brooklyn music venue Luna Lounge has been closed since April, and it doesn’t look like they’ll ever open again. Not as Luna Lounge anyway. As you can see by the sign that is posted on the door of 361 Metropolitan Avenue (AKA LUNA LOUNGE), ‘Knitting Factory Entertainment plans to open a bar w/ live music’ […]

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The demolition of what we’re calling the Roebling Oil Field West, aka the expansion of Warehouse 11, the building perched atop our beloved and cleaned up Roebling Oil Field, is coming along nicely. The photo above is from earlier in the week when the Church of the Transfiguration a block away was being framed nicely […]

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We are fans of the “No Shitass Parking” sign on N. 10 Street in Williamsburg and thought for sure it was toast with a new development going up. Yet, the sign we nicknamed “No Shitass Parking” because someone a long time ago wrote “shitass” between “no” and “parking” has proven to be a plucky survivor. […]

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Williamsburg was among the neighborhoods where crime was reported to have spiked in the last quarter, and we’ve periodically seen reports of problem, particularly in South Williamsburg. Late last night we got an email with the subject line “Subject: Danger in the Neighborhood, please watch out. this is serious.” Whether one believes every incident outlined […]

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The former vacant lot between N. 11 & N. 12 Streets in Williamsburg that was most recently a parking lot and was, for a time in its history, a paint factory, is now a construction site where a large Karl Fischer building (eight stories, 180 units) will be rising. The construction fencing went up last […]

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The Fourth Annual Renegade Craft Fair is happening this weekend in Williamsburg. It’ll be taking place for the second year in a row at McCarren Pool rather than in McCarren Park proper. The dates are June 14 and 15 from 11AM-7PM. More than 200 artists are supposed to be showing their stuff. Also, per the […]

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This film, which is identified as DNA on the permit, is shooting in Williamsburg on Bedford Avenue and on N. 11 Street on Thursday and Friday. While we couldn’t find any detail on the film, it’s a big shoot, with several blocks showing signs

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Last week, we posted photos of a scary situation at 40 Berry Street in Williamsburg, where a luxury rental building partly bankrolled by Lehman Brothers and the California State Teachers Retirement System is going up. A shoddy wooden fence opening to a two story drop into a mud pit was ajar, dirt was crumbling into […]

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So, here’s a bicycling-related Sunday Missed Connection that doesn’t have to do with near misses or being run down, but with drunk biking (and seeming confusion of the Williamsburg Bridge with the Brooklyn Bridge). Here we go: Glad you wear a helmet, but you should really get blinky lights! – m4w – 27 (Kent under […]

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Here’s a fun vid shot on Kent Avenue across the street from the Edge showing a gorgeous time lapse of sunset.

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This beauty comes from N. 11 Street in Williamsburg via the camera of Miss Heather who is our prime supplier of images of the Brooklyn Street Couch.

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