There goes the neighborhood, originally uploaded by TrespassersWill. There is no way to understate our horror at finding this photo of a graffiti removal van in Williamsburg. We are so shocked, we’re putting it up as a late afternoon posting. We came across it while scouting for photos for tomorrow’s links on A Test of […]

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Sure, hurricane season officially runs through Nov. 30, but we’re more likely to get hit by snow than a hurricane between now and then. All of which makes the dire warnings about how New York City was ripe to get slammed by a hurricane and submerged seem like alarmism. Or not. The fact that there […]

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There was much attention paid yesterday to the impending clean out of Coney Island by developer Thor Equities, with a Daily News story and a Post story hitting the same day. Gothamist covered the story. As did Real Deal and others. One of our favorite summaries came from Metadish, which wrote: Don’t be surprised next […]

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This fourth week of October in Brooklyn was dominated by stories about things that are ending or about to come to an end, many of them via demolition. The evictions at Coney Island made everyone stand up and take notice that an era appears to be coming to an end. The Henderson’s Building, one of […]

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[Photo courtesy threecee/flickr] It’s on. What will be the decisive lawsuit over the Atlantic Yards proposal was filed in Federal court yesterday by eleven property owners and tenants within the big footprint of the proposed Forest City Ratner Atlantic Yards project. The suit was filed in the Eastern District and seeks to stop New York […]

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The Lawsuit Has Arrived: Yards Controversy Goes to Court [AYR] Legal Shot Fired in Atlantic Yards Fight [Curbed] Suit Alleges Abuse of Eminent Domain [Sun] Suit Seeks to Dunk Arena [NYPost] Ratner Plan Hit with Suit [NYDN] DDDB Makes a Federal Case of It [The Real Estate] Full Text of Lawsuit Announcement Release [No Land […]

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So, it’s Halloween weekend and that means that there are, like, dozens of Halloween-related things to do in Brooklyn alone. (Let alone all the parties.) Excellent lists of official events are available through About Brooklyn and Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn. If you’ve got kids, the Number One activities are in Prospect Park on Saturday […]

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Thor Equities is continuing to evict tenants from the property it owns in Coney Island, well ahead of any approved plans to redevelop the property. On Tuesday, we noted that the bedraggled, but historic Henderson’s Building on Surf Avenue was being cleared of tenants and will likely get wrecking ball treatment. Today’s Daily News has […]

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The first shot in the decisive battle over Atlantic Yards will be fired today, not in Brooklyn, but on the steps of City Hall. There will be a 1:00PM news conference to announce that Brooklyn property owners and tenants are filing a lawsuit against the use of eminent domain and the taking of their properties […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog items and images. On Thursday, we focus on food. Food: Tempo Presto on Seventh: First Impressions [OTBKB] Stone Park Cafe’s Fried Goat Cheese Balls: Best. Thing. Ever. [eefers] Fourth Avenue’s Sheep Station [Eating for Brooklyn] Sheep Station (Yet Again) [Project Me!] Wednsday Food and Drink […]

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We don’t know what this will amount to, but there is a meeting today between the city, the owner of Broken Angel and an architect who says he is “partnering with neighborhood artist Arthur Wood, 75, to save the unique building known as Broken Angel in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn.” The name of […]

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Attention Park Slopers: You are living in “the bowels of Brooklyn.” At this point, we’re tempted to say, no shit. Or to ask: If Park Slope is “the bowels” what in God’s name is Mill Basin? But we won’t. Instead, we’ll say that we’re always amused to see how non-Brooklynites treat a trip to Brooklyn […]

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In looking around for information about the Coney Island businesses that apparently are being evicted by Thor Equities well in advance of any Coney makeover, we came across a couple of related posts on the Coney Island Bulletin Board over at coneyisland.com. The most interesting bit of news, as we understand it, is that Coney […]

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Looks like the days of the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s historic Admirals Row are numbered. There was an event yesterday to announce new developments on the Navy Yard property that will total 401,900 square feet of industrial space. Plus, a 60,000-square-foot supermarket. Today, Melissa Grace writes in the Daily News that officials–including Mayor Bloomberg, those from […]

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We are not going to devote a lot of verbiage to this–because the visuals speak for themselves. These images are screencaps from the Northside Piers website, which has just been expanded. (Northside Piers is the Toll Brothers development going up on Kent Avenue in Williamsburg adjacent to 184 Kent at N. 5th Street.) There’s an […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog items and images. Holy Crap, We Are Not Making This Up: Almost Busted for “Suspicion of Littering” on the G Train [Fast Hugs via Gothamist] Regular Stuff: Ratner Expects Final Atlantic Yards Approval in a Matter of Weeks [AYR] Will Prospect Heights Become a Parking […]

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The photo above, and the one below, are two shots from the last few days in Williamsburg, where the demolition activity is going on faster than you can keep track of it. The picture above is the site of the former zipper factory at N. 10th and Berry that came down over the last few […]

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If you read Gowanus Lounge regularly (and huge thanks if you do), you might remember a website called outside.in that we posted about a month or so ago. We had found it after noticing some readers coming our way through it. We put up a post about it, then took it down after creator Stephen […]

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Our favorite Coney Island news source, Kinetic Carnival, is reporting that developer Thor Equities, which owns a huge block of property that it plans to turn into a Times Squarish retail and entertainment complex by the sea, may have started kicking out existing tenants. Kinetic writes: First structure to possibly go to make way for […]

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So, the Clean Plate Club, which we track as part of our effort to keep up with Brooklyn food news, ran a hysterical post about the new Tea Lounge on Court Street. While we realize that “Tea Lounge” itself is enough to set the hands of some people shaking, we had found it somewhat less […]

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One of the things we appreciate about stories like the one about the Broken Angel eviction and demolition threat in Clinton Hill is that it puts in perspective so many of the other idiocies that go virtually unchecked in New York. In a sense, this is a given. New York is such a sprawling enterprise […]

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The Brooklyn march to becoming a bona fide tourist destination continues. Dumbo NYC–which is on point on so many things, not the least of which is their Travel + Leisure reading–brings our attention to T+L’s November story, Brooklyn Bound. A small taste: I admit the borough’s new cachet comes as some vindication. (Taste it, 212!) […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog items and images. Gowanus Art: Art [My Brooklyn Year] Seeing Artists Work in Brooklyn [Art NYC] Inside the Gowanus Studios [Brooklyn Record] The Rest of the Borough: Broken Angel: My Opinion [Clinton Hill Blog] Getting Ready for the Big Boo in Clinton Hill [Brooklyn Record] […]

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It would appear that the city is ready to compound the despicable forced removal in handcuffs of the owner and creater of Clinton Hill’s Broken Angel with its demolition. That is the disturbing news conveyed over the weekend by Gothamist, which got an email from Chris Wood, the son of the owner. It seems that […]

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Last week, we featured a slideshow of photos posted on flickr of the former MTA Power Plant in Gowanus. (Sorry, the photos have subequently been de-posted.) It’s that looming, red brick building that sits on the property that might someday become “Gowanus Village.” Well, today, Jotham Sederstrom over at the Daily News hits us up […]

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