Oh, there were so many CL Missed Connection choices this week. Yesterday, we focused on the scumbags that pissed us off. (Vitriolic? About people with sphincters for souls? Us? Never!) But we digress. Here’s a fun one we passed up in favor of our bitterness about the lowlife scumbags laughing at a poor homeless dude […]

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There will be a meeting tomorrow Monday (12/8) at 7pm for Friends of the Bushwick Inlet Park at the Greenpoint Reformed Church (136 Milton St. b/w Manhattan & Franklin Aves) to discuss the (promised, maybe, someday) Bushwick Inlet Park. The 28-acre park will run between Kent Avenue and the East River, starting at N. 9th […]

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We came across this yesterday afternoon and immediately knew we had to run this as a Missed Connection Saturday Special. We think it’s a joke, but then we think a lot of the Missed Connections we come across are, so who knows?: Yr My American Apparel Dream! – 20 (7th & BEDFORD-ish) In real life […]

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On Kent Avenue in front of the closed Miss Williamsburg Diner. Note the googly eyes on the right.

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[Photo courtesy of New York Public Library] Here’s an aerial view of Greenpoint in 1929, looking south toward Williamsburg.

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This is a new six-story building with 12 units going up at 209 Ainslie Street near Union Avenue, a block made up mostly of two- and three-story wood framed homes. The permits for the building were issued in 2006, so it’s been underway for a while. It’s also apparently been quite popular with some of […]

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[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] Miss Heather, who found this chair on Ainslie Street near Keap Street east of the BQE calls this the Wolverine Chair because it looks like it has been set on by wolverines. We came across this chair a few days later and it was still sitting there looking just as […]

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Actually, this is very much about the new Burg rather than the old. It’s a photo shot around dusk on River Street. The white building directly ahead is 184 Kent. The fnished tower is Northside Piers. The two towers under construction are Northside Piers Tower Two and Edge. The green building on the right is […]

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Hipsters of McCarren Park (and rodents, pigeons, etc.), they are watching you like hawks. Literally. A GL reader and occasional contributor sent in a series of photos of one of the hawks that have taken up residence in everyone’s favorite Williamburg-Greenpoint Park. She writes: I would imagine it spooking our dear hipsters but thought it […]

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[Photo via Will Femia/Curbed] Late yesterday afternoon Curbed posted some photos of the exterior of the Metropolitan Cinema and Apartments at 136 Metropoitan Ave. in the Burg, which is something we’ve been focused on since news of the project emerged a couple of years ago. The scaffolding came down on Tuesday and, now, the zinc […]

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Tonight (12/4) from 7pm-8pm, the NAG (Neighbors Allied for Good Growth) Organizing Meeting will be held at the Holy Ghost Church Hall Basement, 160 North 5th Street (between Bedford and Driggs) in Williamsburg. Old and new residents in Williamsburg and Greenpoint have more in common than separates us. We all care about improving our quality […]

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It’s been a couple of months since we looked at one of the Slowest Building in Williamsburg, but the back of this building at N. 10 and Berry has revealed itself in all its brick and narrow window glory. Work on this thing has been underway for more than a year and a half. This […]

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Work continues at the “mystery lot” at the corner of N. 11 Street and Bedford Avenue. The bad news is that some of the soil and rubble being excavated is covered and some is not. The good news is that it’s been raining so much the site is a mud heap so any presumably toxic […]

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In these trying financial times in a city with exorbitant rent prices that rarely falter, we’re all looking for an easy way out of deciding if we’re going to pay that cell phone bill, rent or get another night of drinking in at the local watering hole. Some of us, however, don’t have the financial […]

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Back in May, we noted that the “mystery of what will end up in the big lot at Metropolitan and Marcy Avenues has been solved by a sign.” The sign announced it would be the future location of a Capital One Bank branch. Nothing has happened on the site since, other than that the weeds […]

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That kind of cheap looking thing rising at the corner of N. 11 St. & Roebling in Williamsburg that has now reached the imposing height of two stories? It’s the Giant Fart Cloud Building, so-called because it is a condo (actually, we hear it’s going to be a rental building) replacing an old cabbage processing […]

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You remember Brookyule? That’s the series of Christmas photos we’ll be running between now and the big today. Our first entry comes from the Burg, where there’s a similar scene every year. Have a submission for Brookyule (we especially love those decorations, email it to us at thegowanuslounge (at) gmail (dot) com.

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It’s all there in one place on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg. Several ATMS (which have appeared in the last several weeks), plus transportation. Happy and safe Thanksgiving travel to all.

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Over time, this construction site, which spans a good part of the block between N. 9 and N. 10 Streets and Roebling and Driggs in Wiliamsburg has proven itself to be one of the most vile in all of Brooklyn. The fence is constantly open somewhere. For a long time, there was a deep water […]

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There’s a “Transportation Town Hall” in Williamsburg that’s billed as a “discussion about the Greenway / Bike Lanes and other transportation issues hosted by City Council Member (OSA Board Member) David Yassky, Council Member Diana Reyna, State Senator Elect Daniel Squadron, the MTA, and DOT.” Per another email, “topics will include all transportation issues, from […]

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Yes, it’s Sunday, which brings us to our Missed Connection of the Week. We settled on this ironic little number from Williamsburg for today’s entertainment: You are the Prototype – m4w – 24 (7th & Bedford) Me: Skinny jeans with patterned slip-ons. Shaggy brown hair, crusty mustache, over-sized headphones, a black and white plaid cloth […]

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This week, Eat It: The Brooklyn Food Blog takes us to Diner in South Williamsburg: My Dad was visiting recently so I took him to Diner to have dinner. Not only did I know we were in for a fabulous meal, it would be guilt-free, as the people behind diner use only seasonal, well-raised food, […]

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This is the current appearance of the front door of our favorite building at 184 N. 8 Street in Williamsburg that serves as a spot for some excellent street art. It does make for one heck of a mail slot. The building is currently on the market for a commercial lease and we’re really hoping […]

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