We’ve been writing about this Robert Scarano building at 365 Union Avenue in Williamsburg so long that it seems like we started covering it in a past life. (Last week, on Curbed, we named it the Prince of Darkness Building.) That’s how long it’s taken to build. We did recently capture a shot of workers […]

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Yet another video of the NYPD getting ready to hurt and intimidate people at the Barack Obama celebration on Bedford Avenue on Tuesday night. It, uh, does not make us happy. The person who made the video writes: “This video was taken right before NYPD started breaking up the Obama Celebration going on in Bedford […]

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[Photo courtesy of itsnotthatfar/flickr] Here’s a shot of one of the catwalks at the old Domino Plant on the Williamsburg Waterfront, which is slated, of course, to become the “New Domino.”

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On N. 6 Street in Williamsburg near Kent Avenue.

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Here’s an interesting question about someone that many people familiar with Bedford Avenue may have encountered from time to time. It comes from Brooklynian, where our friend is described as “crazy” but “articulate”: “This guy’s hard to miss. He’s tall and has crazy hair, and he preaches about God and sin and so on. He’s […]

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There are things you can make up and some things you can’t even come close to fabricating. This falls into the latter category. A Williamsburg Council Member is calling for a ban on the sale of machetes in New York City. This is because of the infamous machete attacks in the South Burg by gang […]

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Here’s our weeky restaurant feature from Eat It: The Brooklyn Food Blog, a great local food blog. Today, the featured spot is Enid’s: Last weekend I went with a couple of friends to Enid’s (560 Manhattan Ave. at Driggs Ave., 718-349-3859) for dinner. I really like Enid’s; I’ve had some of the best brunches there, […]

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“We’ve often focused on Smart Cars as symbols of gentrification, but this vehicle that we found parked on a street we will decline to identify east of theWilliamsburg BQE dividing line, raises an interesting question. Is a skull and cross bones on one’s vehicle a symbol of hipster gentrification and irony or is it, at […]

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“To the woman playing hard-core iPod porn on the L train this morning, thank you for such an entertaining journey under the East River. Seriously folks, from approximately Lorimer St. to 3rd Avenue, this woman was playing some serious, butt-humping porn and yelling at her iPod, giving some twisted commentary that could be heard from […]

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“It’s storefront shuffle time in Williamsburg: Not only has light and girly gift-shop Brooklynski moved to Graham Avenue, but Digital Fix, which you could call Brooklynski’s more masculine brother in design, has relocated to the Bedford Avenue Mini-Mall. The store, which sells high-tech and high-design gadgets like Nooka watches, tree-branch shaped thumb drives, and a […]

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[Photo courtesy of Erin Melina/GL Flickr Pool] This is the photo of the Esquire Building in Williamsburg that once said Save Domino. It now says Vote Obama. The pic clearly appears to have been taken from the Williamsburg Bridge.

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[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] This comes from Meserole and Leonard in East Williamsburg and it definitely demands that someone who wants to rent this space “be creative.” Among the creative uses mentioned on another sign are spa and record store. Surely, someone can do better than that, we hope.

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This Sunday (10/26) is another big day for pumpkins and related festivities. Come join Friends of the East River State Park at, well, the East River State Park (located on the waterfront on Kent Avenue between North 7th and 9th Streets) from noon to 6pm for pumpkins til you puke, fun and games for the […]

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,/center> One word: whatever. This is from a couple of days ago in East River State Park in Williamsburg.

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This building project has been going on at the corner of Hope & Havemeyer Street in the Burg for a while. (For a long while, actually.) It’s formally known as 99 Havemeyer Street and it’s noteworthy for one reason in particular: it’s one of the dwindling number of Robert Scarano buildings under construction in Brooklyn. […]

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One sees many strange things when perusing real estate listings, particularly in the curious Craigslist wasteland. Yet, this listing for an 8×10 basement sublet that is a windowless basement bathroom with a mattress is a a prize winner. On the plus side, it’s centrally located at N. 7 & Bedford. If you have seen it, […]

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Here’s another sign of love for Barack Obama from Williamsburg. Maybe we’re just not looking in the right places, but we’re seeing a lot more signs of support for Sen. Obama in the Burg than we are in supposed Democratic strongholds like Park Slope. Interesting.

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An old liquor store on Lorimer Street near Grand, east of the BQE, is going vertical in a major way. The store had sat there quietly for years, selling booze and lottery tickets to the locals and the (increasingly) the newly-arrived hipster. Ah, but no longer. They’re still selling PBR’s and Vladimir Vodka, but they’re […]

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Need a place to take that special someone you just met at Union Pool when the bathroom or the creepy parking lot under the BQE just won’t do? Well, this is 218 N. 9 Street, a demolition site in the part of Williamsburg between Driggs and Union Avenue that we like to call the Triangle […]

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If you ain’t already dressing up like a monster or heading out to carve a pumpkin or you just want to be a do-gooder on Saturday (10/25), then head on out to to Williamsburg for It’s My Park Day at McCarren Park. There’s more info about the whole day over at United Friends of McCarren […]

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In recent weeks we’ve been impressed, but not surprised, at all the Barack Obama bake sales, posters and graffiti in Williamsburg. Yesterday, we came across this table set up on Bedford Avenue offering homemade Obama t-shirts with all proceeds going to the Obama campaign. This sort of enthusiasm could be one of the reasons that […]

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You get two guesses as to which neighborhood in which we found this newly-altered sign. If you guessed that it ends in …burg, you’re right! And, why not, it’s the Sex Capital of Brooklyn. Sadly, it wasn’t across the street from Union Pool, but it was within a couple of blocks, making it extra meaningful. […]

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These guys were out at Bedford Ave. and N. 6 Street on Saturday afternoon and we have to say that even if we didn’t capture them at their absolute finest moment, they were pretty f’ing good. Do ID ’em if you know.

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Our old friend, the former Roebling Oil Building on the cleaned up Roebling Oil Field, which is on the market as Warehouse 11 and is a Karl Fischer, is not only expanding on the Driggs Avenue side with more units, it’s getting a parking garage on the N. 10 Street side. At least, we sure […]

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Friends, if you’re walking around Williamsburg, odds are you will encounter this poster somewhere. We can verify that people are stopping to look at it and laughing. We saw it happen multiple times. Who knew that the Burg was so pro-Sarah Palin? Also, did you know it’s anti-Obama?

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