The busy Memorial Day weekend found good news, and bad, on the trash and developer blight front in Coney Island. First, the good news: It appears the city has learned how to pick up trash on the Coney Island boardwalk. Overflowing trash cans were not in evidence yesterday and the boardwalk was not particularly strewn […]

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The Daily News is looking into the dark side of the development boom in Brooklyn and elsewhere around the city that has been chronicled by many bloggers, but which has gotten only fleeting attention in the mainstream press. What the paper finds comes as no surprise to residents whose quality of life has been violated […]

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We have reported a couple of times about the potentially toxic threat under the Thomas Greene Playground in Gowanus. Located at Third Avenue and Douglass Streets, the park sits atop the former site of a Manufactured Gas Plant (MGPs) of the Fulton Municipal Gas Company. The plant operated from 1879 to 1943. MGPs are notorious […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Memorial Day-Related: Memorial Day Weekend in Brooklyn Heights [McBrooklyn] Supporters Rename Brooklyn Park for Activist Sonny Carson [Sun] Bloomberg Calls Sonny Carson Park “the worst idea” He’s Ever Heard [NYP] Decoration Day [Self-Absorbed Boomer] Memorial Day Parade in Sheepshead Bay [Erica’s Blog] Coney Coverage: Sun […]

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The Municipal Art Society is sponsoring a “Coney Island on the Cusp of Change” panel on Wednesday, June 6. It looks like they’ve put together an interesting lineup for the panel including: Coney Island Development Corp. President Lynn Kelly, Coney Island History Project President Dan Pisark, Aaron Beebe of Coney Island USA and Ari Shalam […]

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Purges aside, Community Board 6 will be continuing its important work in the community. Here are some upcomings CB6 meetings and hearings. (You can always check out the full calendar of events here.): May 31 Landmarks/Land Use Gowanus Hearing–Continued discussion with representatives of the Department of City Planning on topical issues for the future planning […]

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What can one say about this sort of palatial look, which was photographed for us by our Greenpoint correspondent, and all that Fedders action on Leonard Street in Greenpoint? The pink brick with the serious maroon decorative element? The ground-level garages with the metal doors? The only thing we can say is: What were they […]

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If you head down to Coney Island today or any other day this summer, be careful where you walk. The dangerously deteriorated boardwalk is still nasty, with sagging and teetering boards, protruding bolts, holes in the wood, splintered edges and more. (A small stretch in front of Astroland and Deno’s Wonder Wheel Park was replaced […]

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Workers have been toiling at installing these tree guards in Park Slope this spring, particularly along Prospect Park West, Eighth Avenue and, recently, Fifth and Sixth Streets. We don’t know how many have been installed, or will be, but you’ll know they’re coming to a tree near you by the square boxes painted on the […]

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[Photo courtesy GerritsenBeach.net] The Kiddie Beach in Gerritsen Beach had its opening day yesterday and some great photos like the one above were posted by GerritsenBeach.Net, a blog we totally enjoy that brings news from that corner of Brooklyn. We love the photo above, so we figured we post it and direct your attention to […]

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As a Brooklyn blogger, you don’t often get the chance to toss up an image of Dick Nixon or to even write about Old Tricky. (For the record, we did a post about Nixon’s old boat in December.) So, we want to make it perfectly clear that we’re jumping on the opportunity this Memorial Day […]

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In April, Community Board 6 voted to ask the Department of Buildings to withhold the Certificate of Occupancy for Boymelgreen Developers’ Novo Park Slope building because the developer hadn’t followed through on making, or paying for, nearly $1.6 million in repairs to J.J. Byrne Park on Fifth Avenue. The repairs were needed because the developer […]

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Here’s a sampling of some of the comments left by GL readers over the last week: Coney Island Looking Like Sitt for Memorial Day. “It is absolutely fantastic to see that the negotiations are not in the papers anymore and Coney development is being negotiated between the city and Thor. Its ridiculous for Thor to […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Enjoy your Memorial Day! Photos/Comix: Memorial Day Graffiti [Brooklyn Ramblings] Pirate Marty Makes CB6 Walk the Plank [No Land Grab] Sunset on Pacific Street [Brit in Brooklyn] Bicycle [Chicapoquita/flickr] Ball Playin [Atomische] Delicatessen, Clinton Street [seriously excited!] Sideshow School Photos–Breathing Fire [Coney Island Reporter] Coney […]

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This short film won “Best Made in Coney Island” Film at the Coney Island Film Festival 2006. It stars Amanda Jencsik, Karlee Gabrielle Hoffer and Chris DePierro. Check it out.

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Coney Island, Brooklyn

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Are you ready for the third annual Transportation Alternatives Tour de Brooklyn? The bike tour of Brooklyn neighborhoods, parks and the waterfront takes place on Sunday, June 3 and starts and finishes at Grand Army Plaza. It’s an 8AM start and the event takes place rain or shine. You need to register online, which you […]

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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The new state park in Williamsburg opened yesterday. We stopped in yesterday evening, about fifteen minutes before the staff closed the gates a little after 7:30, and we’ve got to say that although it’s a bit rustic as parks go, it is absolutely wonderful to finally have that kind of legitimate waterfront access in Williamsburg. […]

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Of all the Brooklyn Craigslist Missed Connections we have seen, this is one of the longest. But, it is ooooooh sooooooo worth the read: You Gave Me Your Cart at Target – w4m – 27 I was having a really bad day, I hate my job, I have to live with my mother right now, […]

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Here’s a selection of Coney Island vids on the YouTube–including a number of vintage films–in honor of Memorial Day Weekend and the official start of the Summer Season.

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Those long promised WiFi hotspots spots are all active (more or less) in city parks, although it’s always a good idea to check on status before you take your laptop out in the hope of sending some emails or doing some live blogging. City park WiFi comes in two forms: that which the city has […]

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Here’s a chance to eat and support students at P.S. 9 in Prospect Heights. The event is “A Taste of Prospect Heights” and it will be held on Saturday, June 2, on St. Marks Ave between Vanderbilt and Underhill, and in the P.S. 9 school yard. More than a dozen local restaurants–including Christie’s Jamaican Patties, […]

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Yesterday, we ran the YouTube vid of the South Slope dust storm from construction at 15th Street and 8th Avenue. This morning we found this email about the 406-408 15th Street project. It gets at the utter ineffectiveness of Department of Buildings’ orders and points out how they are routinely ignored by developers: They have […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Markowitz & Ratner Try to Make Things Disappear, but They Don’t [AYR] If You Wish to Ratner’s Document Labeling WTC Site as Atlantic Yards [No Land Grab] Another N. 6th Street Building to Bite Dust? [INSIJS] The Debut of a (No Longer Secret) Williamsburg Park […]

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