That didn’t take long. Crest Cafe on Union Avenue in Williamsburg near Metropolitan, which died a little while ago, has come back to life as the L Train Cafe. We haven’t been inside, but hope there are some good selections. The real allure of Crest was the garden out back, which was one of that […]

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[Photo courtesy of New York Public Library] This is Metropolitan and Graham Avenues in Williamsburg as they looked in 1937. A little different than now, no?

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It says so, right at the center of the known Williamsburg universe, the exit of the Bedford Avenue L Stop at N. 7 Street and Bedford Ave. Brooklyn Bowl in 2009.

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The second part of the Roebling Oil Field development, well Warehouse 11, which is on the cleaned up former Roebling Oil property, is underway and the good old Empire pile driver is banging away on the property. The interesting thing is that it looks like they’re not digging down too far below grade for part […]

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Imagine the conversation that led up to this lightening bolt of genius. So, we’re going to put another Asian restaurant on Bedford Avenue. We’ve got Wild Ginger on the left. We’ve got Rice Bowl on the right. What can we call it? Oh. Wait. I know! Zen Tango. While we were taking the picture the […]

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You knew this was only a matter of time. It’s going to be on Bedford Avenue right next to Northside Car Service near the Subway. FroYo from Yogurtberry while you wait for your ride? The wisdom of opening in November or December? Eh. Not so good.

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[Photo courtesy New York Public Library] We return to our long dormant Brooklyn Back in the Day series of pics of our borough way back when with this 1909 shot of the Williamsburg Bridge Plaza. There are one or two recognizable landmarks.

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This is 246 Bedford Avenue, a development that we’ve featured many times, and never for a good reason. We poked our camera inside to take a look at progress, and there has been some since this time last year when the front door open to a two-story deep pit we dubbed “The Door of Death.” […]

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We never knew that closing sidewalks in Wiliamsburg was Republican propaganda until we came across this sign on Union Avenue. Now we know.

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We’ve been watching this development at N. 10 and Berry for nearly two years when the building that originally stood there was demolished. In a neighborhood that has many contenders for the title of Slowest Building in Brooklyn, this project is definitely a in the Top Ten. This is 70 Berry, designed by Armand Quadrini […]

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The Edge, the huge project on Kent Avenue was topped out, on schedule yesterday. What fascinates us is the comment of Douglaston Development’s Jeffrey Levine: “For those who think the world’s gonna end – fugedaboutit!…We’ll be living, eating, breathing, and shitting long into the future.” Well put.–Curbed

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We have no idea, but it was on Bedford Avenue and we found it oddly compelling enough to photograph and post.

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Damn the man and his desire to take away the little bits given to others. Turns out rather than provide the security and grounds keeping during the cold months, the city would prefer to lock everyone out of the East River State Park.–Curbed

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In a few years, the neighborhood around 184 Kent Avenue will be quite crowded and very unlike the unpopulated wasteland that it once was. This is 175 Kent Avenue, which is now rising out of the ground across the street. It is being developed by the Chetrit Group and will be six stories tall with […]

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Tonight (11/12) is an important night for anyone who rides a bike, lives/visits in Williamsburg and/or partakes of the use of the greenway off Kent Ave. Please head over to the Brooklyn Community Board 1 meeting at 6:30pm at 211 Ainslie Street to help rally to bring more improvements to the Kent Ave bike lanes, […]

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The headline is only party in jest. We found these fliers for the Brooklyn Indie Designers Market, whcih is held on Smith Street in Carroll Gardens all over the place in Wiliamsburg this weekend. Trying to get some Artists and Fleas customers as the holidays approach? Hmmm?

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This is another left over Missed Connection from last week. It concerns the late-night post-Obama victory mayhem in Williamsburg. Here it is: You Got Arrested. I Took Your Bike. (Williamsburg) You got arrested when the cops showed up on election night. I took your bike when the cop with it had no idea what to […]

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Looks like the Surf Bar on N. 7 Street in Williamsburg between Bedford Ave. and Berry is about to get a new friend. It’s not exactly clear what that friend is going to be, athough a document filed in 2004 read: PROPOSE TO EXTEND & CONVERT THE EXISTING ONE STORY COMMERCIAL BUILDING INTO A MIXED […]

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The new St. Alp’s Teahouse on Bedford Ave. in Williamsburg has been open for a couple of weeks. It occupies the site of a former laundromat–one of the useful businesses that are quickly disappearing in the neighborhood, although we do have to say that the toast and the deep fried shrimp balls were pretty good. […]

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This week’s Craiglist Missed Connection section was a goldmine. So, we’ve got a couple of leftovers, starting with this one: Missed Connection w/ Hipster D-Bag – Beacon’s Closet yesterday – w4m – 28 (williamsburg) I was trying on shoes yesterday in Beacon’s Closet in Williamsburg when you approached me. Tall and lanky, wearing a too-short […]

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This is the Santorini Grill a brand new, grandly opened restaurant on Grand Street a few storefronts from Bedford Avenue. Greek food with a fascinating looking menu.

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[Click to enlarge] Here’s one that a lot of people that don’t know this part of Greenpoint don’t know about. The toxic threat from “the Meeker Avenue Plumes.” The issue is complicated. At its most basic there is crap down there that has nothing to do with the Greenpoint Oil Spill that can kill you […]

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We always find articles in foreign publications about Brooklyn particularly amusing. So it is with this article in the Irish Times: I AM IN Brooklyn two days before I notice it. The sky. It’s 7pm in Park Slope and I’m sure it was bright 10 minutes ago when I went into the supermarket, but now […]

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Well, there is a hotel coming to Union Avenue at the site of what is now a Getty Station and in the middle of one of the hottest development strips in all of Williamsburg. There are many buildings going up there on Union Avenue, including a huge and steamy Hot Karl. Now, a new hotel […]

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