Oh that crazy election night (11/5) a lot of people were excited. So excited, in fact, that a now notorious and somewhat violent scene happed in Williamsburg (Bedford Avenue and North 7th St in Williamsburg to be exact). The police became nasty, roughed up some people and arrested others. Were you there? Did you whip […]

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This one didn’t take long to hit the market. There are permits in place for a five-story building designed by Burg architect Philip Toscano, but we’re guessing that in this market that plans for 105 Metropolitan Avenue, which is behind the garden at the popular eatery Relish didn’t work out. It’s on the market via […]

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We stopped by the new Khims Millennium Market at Driggs and N. 11 in the Burg over the weekend, which now occupies the site of the old second-hand junk shop. The look in the eyes of shoppers was something between people sightseeing on Mars on those that had been temporarily blinded by a brilliant flash […]

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This is 218 N. 9 Street in Williamsburg, where demolition started months ago and then stopped abruptly. Since then, the fence has been more open than closed, allowing for all sorts of sordid activity not to mention being a threat to public safety. That shredded thing above is a city violation and we’re running this […]

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We finally managed to wander past the Metropolitan Cinema and Condos at 136 Metropolitan Avenue between Berry & Wythe this weekend and got some nice shots of the new facade. The building was designed by Caliper Studio and that’s a zinc exterior with glass discs that will be illuminated from behind at night by LED […]

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East River State Park may be closed for the winter unless things change before April 1, but the long delayed N. 5 Street Pier is now open to the public. These were some of the pics we were shooting yesterday before we were accosted by a twentysomething woman who thought she could tell people not […]

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Given the number of people about who we’d like to write this using a different variant and appending the word “painfully.” We almost pissed ourselves yesterday when we found this on N. 6 Street in Williamsburg. Eat Fruit & Die, indeed.

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After months of blog coverage (and a couple of newspaper articles) about the controversies over bike lanes in Williamsburg, the newspaper of record has taken note: “The city’s Department of Transportation painted 1.75 miles of bike lanes on Kent Avenue in Williamsburg last fall, the first step of an ambitious plan to create a 14-mile […]

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[Photo for GL by a Special Williamsburg Correspondent] The Khim’s grocery empire in Williamsburg is very close to a major expansion at the corner of Driggs Avenue and N. 11 Street. A special GL correspondent reports: “This a new grocery store going in on Driggs and N 11th. It is the old warehouse space where […]

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We have got to say that in watching hundreds of poorly built condos go up over the last five or six years in Brooklyn, we’ve rarely seen a piece of crap as flimsy looking as the gem we call the Giant Fart Cloud Building, because it replaces a cabagge processing factory that used to give […]

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A collection of reliquaries created by 5th-graders called Kids Collect! is on view at the City Reliquary from 12/17 to 1/13. The City Reliquary and PS 132 in Williamsburg, got together to teach and help the kids make their own reliquary: Each child turned a cardboard box into a “reliquary” and gathered small personal objects […]

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There is some drama and/or intrigue to report from Community Board 1, the always interesting body that covers Williamsburg and Greenpoint and deals with some very contentious issues. One of the most contentious recent ones is the status of bike lanes in the neighborhood and, in particular, those on Kent Avenue running through the Hasidic […]

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Yes, it’s Sunday, which means it’s time for our absolute favorite GL Feature, CL Missed Connections. Correspondent E.C. Stephens tracked this down for us and we’ve been sitting on it for days. Read it and you’ll know why we love it: you tried to run me and my suitcase over with your bike – m4w […]

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It’s long and it’s sort of this newly-posted hipster Williamsburg holiday thing, but hey, it’s the Friday after Christmas and perhaps you have the time to devote to the bitter irony of it.

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[Click to enlarge] Perhaps you remember the Meeker Avenue Plume. It even got some PR in the New York Times last week, leading Curbed to call it the “Toxic Death Cloud.” Well, there’s a meeting about it coming up for residents in January 14 at 6PM. It is a hazard to both long-term residents and […]

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[Photo courtesy of New York Public Library] This is the Williamsburg Bridge under consruction in the early 1900s as seen from Kent Avenue in Williamsburg.

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There’s nothing like a little Snow Job to get your holidays started and Public Assembly (the former Galapagos on N. 6 Street in the Burg) is doing it up right with free chicken & waffles from 8 – 9pm and an open bar of Red Bull and Vodka from 9 – 10pm. Spinning the tunes […]

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What can we say about this building at 365 Union Avenue designed by the King of Brooklyn Architects Robert Scarano except that it fills our hearts with light to see such a fucking black building. Especially during the holidays. Of course, next year, if anyone buys a condo in the Prince of Darkness or rents […]

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[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] Nothing says Happy Holidays quite like a street couch, does it?

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As long as you can read the reg upside down and a little curved, you’ll be fine. This comes from Williamsburg, naturally.

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We found this on Bayard Street, the row of buildings that we personally named Karl Fischer Row way back in 2006.

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Yesterday, we posted two big photo galleries on Curbed of the work underway at McCarren Pool. One was of the new skatepark that is being built on the Bayard Street side of the property. The other was of the renovation work underway on the arch. The later is pictured above. The former is pictured below. […]

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A Message from the Brooklyn Tourism Board from jeff on Vimeo. Curbed had this earlier. It is quite something.

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“Williamsburg is slowly turning into Cobble Hill. Consider the evidence: Grown-up kitchen store Whisk appears on Bedford Avenue. BoCoCa mainstay Bird opens a pop-up shop around the corner on Grand Street. And on the same block, new design store Abode offers stair runners—essential for cozy brownstone living, not so useful for 22-year-olds in crumbling studio […]

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Bedford Avenue near N. 9 Street yesterday around 4:20 with winter clouds that early late autumn sunset glow. Let’s just say it was cold as hell in the Burg yesterday.

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