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Entries from October 2007

Bklink: Soviet Nostalgia at Smith St. Rite-Aid

October 30th, 2007 · Comments Off on Bklink: Soviet Nostalgia at Smith St. Rite-Aid

Check out all the empty shelves at the Smith Street Rite-Aid. You would have thought the reviled chain drug store would improve after switch over from being an Eckerd, but this?–Pardon Me for Asking

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Tags: Shortlink

Tis the Season, Part I: Happy in Straw

October 30th, 2007 · Comments Off on Tis the Season, Part I: Happy in Straw

Park Slope, Brooklyn

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Tags: Halloween

Bklink: Blowing Chunks on Bedford

October 30th, 2007 · Comments Off on Bklink: Blowing Chunks on Bedford

Fun with Miss Heather (and Mr. Heather) on a weekend. It begins with hunger and ends (sort of) with Mr. H doing the old heave on Bedford Ave.–New York Shitty

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Tags: Shortlink

Monday Construction Awards #2: Patricia Lancaster Award for Open Door Excellence

October 29th, 2007 · Comments Off on Monday Construction Awards #2: Patricia Lancaster Award for Open Door Excellence

Rarely has a construction site been so open and so dangerous so many times as 199-211 N. 9th Street, 208 N. 10th Street and 489 Driggs. For this reason we are giving it a Patricia Lancaster Award for Open Door Excellence. (This is not to be confused with the Bedford Avenue Door of Death, which […]

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Tags: Construction Issues · Williamsburg

Monday Construction Awards #1: Patricia Lancaster Award for Lifetime Achievement in Sunday Work

October 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment

…And the winner is…525 Union Avenue in Williamsburg. We are rolling out a new feature today called the Patricia Lancaster Award, aka The Patty. It is named after the Commissioner of the Department of Buildings. We won’t be handing out a lot of Patties, but will be saving them for sites that have truly impressed […]

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Tags: Construction Issues · Williamsburg

Williamsburg Bank Building Set Free of Sheathing

October 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment

The priapic Williamsburgh Savings Bank tower has finally been set free of the scaffolding and netting that have surrounded it for a year. As of yesterday morning, however, the clock wasn’t telling time properly.

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Tags: Fort Greene

Another Big Week for Brooklyn Landmarking: Dumbo & Eberhard Faber District

October 29th, 2007 · 2 Comments

The Landmarks Preservation Commission meeting tomorrow (10/30) is going to feature a long agenda of designations and discussion. Among the two significant topics are the proposed Dumbo Historic District and the Eberhard Faber Historic District in Greenpoint. The Dumbo subject matter is an initial hearing. Eberhard Faber, however, is expected to be designated. The “Eberhard […]

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Tags: Dumbo · Greenpoint · Historic Preservation

Bill de Blasio Running for Brooklyn Borough President

October 29th, 2007 · 2 Comments

City Council Member Bill de Blasio made it official on Sunday: He is running for Brooklyn Borough President. Mr. de Blasio was widely expected to run. He joins Council Member Charles Barron in the race. Others, including Council Member Dominic Recchia are also expected to enter the race to replace Marty Markowitz. Mr. Markowitz, in […]

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Tags: Politics

Bklink: Is There Rush Hour Crowding on the G?

October 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Do you experience a crowded G Train? When? What station? Is it toward Court Square or Smith-9th? How crowded is it? Take our survey. We want to know.–Save the G

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Hotel Le Jolie by the BQE Looking Ready

October 29th, 2007 · Comments Off on Hotel Le Jolie by the BQE Looking Ready

Hotel Le Bleu’s sister hotel, Le Jolie, on Meeker Avenue in an almost under the BQE location that on the fringes Williamsburg, is almost ready for action. There’s no solid word on when the hotel will be open and it doesn’t even have a website yet. But, the curtains are in the windows. A big […]

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Tags: Hotels · Williamsburg

New Downtown Brooklyn Eminent Domain Hearing on Monday

October 29th, 2007 · Comments Off on New Downtown Brooklyn Eminent Domain Hearing on Monday

There’s another hearing today on the use of eminent domain in Downtown Brooklyn, including the taking of the Underground Railroad House on Duffield Street that advocates believe should be preserved. The hearings were announced very quietly, in a small ad in the New York Post on October 17, and Duffield Street Underground blog says that […]

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Tags: Duffield Street · Eminent Domain

Bklink: How About a Bus from Smith-9th to Manhattan?

October 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment

What if they ran a bus to Manhattan through the Battery Tunnel while the Smith-9th Street Station is closed? Plus, some other off-the-wall ideas.–Cap’n Transit Rides Again

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Tags: Shortlink

Brooklinks: Monday New Week Edition

October 29th, 2007 · Comments Off on Brooklinks: Monday New Week Edition

Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Marine Park Golf Course May Be Shut Down Over…Uh…Problems [NYDN] Four Teens Shot, One Fatally, in Brownsville [NYP] Greenpoint Health Issues Not as Bad as You Think [Brooklyn Paper] Old Sign Sighted on Atlantic Avenue [Lost City] How to Float a Canoe on Prospect Park […]

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Brooklyn Bridge Park Meeting Kicked to Late November

October 29th, 2007 · Comments Off on Brooklyn Bridge Park Meeting Kicked to Late November

A public meeting that was supposed to be held tomorrow (10/30) to discuss programming plans for a future Brooklyn Bridge Park has been canceled. It is being rescheduled for November 26. The meeting is part of an effort to develop a strategic plan for the controversial park, which has been plagued by objections to the […]

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Tags: Brooklyn Heights · Parks

Bklink: Huge Prospect Heights Film Shoot Was DeNiro & Pacino

October 29th, 2007 · Comments Off on Bklink: Huge Prospect Heights Film Shoot Was DeNiro & Pacino

That big film shoot in Prospect Heights at the end of last week? Here’s a photo of Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino outside the 78th Precinct on Sixth Avenue.–People

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Tags: Shortlink

Support the Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment with "Eco-Shopping"

October 29th, 2007 · Comments Off on Support the Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment with "Eco-Shopping"

We love the work that the Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment does with education activities and tours for both adults and children about New York’s natural and built environment. We found about shopbcue.org through Sustainable Flatbush. The BCUE site provides links for businesses–most of them very eco-friendly–that will donate up to 25 percent of […]

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Tags: Environment

Tis the Season: Monday Before Halloween Edition

October 29th, 2007 · Comments Off on Tis the Season: Monday Before Halloween Edition

Park Slope, Brooklyn

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Tags: Halloween · Park Slope

Bklink: A Park Slope Ghost Story

October 29th, 2007 · Comments Off on Bklink: A Park Slope Ghost Story

“Footsteps. Nothing but footsteps, loud and clear, walking the length of the brownstone apartment above. A constant pacing that started near the front door, walked to the opposite end of the house, turned and walked back to the door.”–Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn

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Tags: Shortlink

Carroll Gardeners Not Giving Up at 360 Smith Site

October 28th, 2007 · Comments Off on Carroll Gardeners Not Giving Up at 360 Smith Site

Since May, a wall at the Caroll Street subway stop that would be part of the controversial 360 Smith Street development has become the venue for all sorts of posting by building opponents. This is the latest protest poster that has gone up, basically putting out the message that the opposition still has questions and […]

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Tags: Carroll Gardens · Smith Street

Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: What’s Up at Jury Duty?

October 28th, 2007 · Comments Off on Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: What’s Up at Jury Duty?

For this week’s Brooklyn Craigslist Missed Connection, we turn to jury duty. We don’t know what’s going on at the courthouse downtown, but we found not one, but two, ads posted within a couple of hours of each other. There was this one: jury duty brooklyn bumblefuck – w4m – 26you had to move over […]

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Tags: Missed Connections

Bklink: Slope’s Community Book Store Friends

October 28th, 2007 · Comments Off on Bklink: Slope’s Community Book Store Friends

Park Slope’s Community Book Store on Seventh Avenue has many friends, including six people that have invested $10,000 each to help keep the store open. one of the investors is actor John Turturro.–NYT

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Tags: Shortlink

On the Sofa: GL Reader Comments

October 28th, 2007 · Comments Off on On the Sofa: GL Reader Comments

Once a week we highlight some comments left behind during the previous week by GL readers. Here are some selections from the last seven days: Williamsburg Loft Tenants Get $35,000 & $65,000 Con Ed Bills “another sensationalist story about injustice served up over in wburg by our good forthright friends at GL, who never fail […]

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Tags: On the Sofa

Brooklinks: Sunday Lite Edition

October 28th, 2007 · Comments Off on Brooklinks: Sunday Lite Edition

Ask a Greenpointer: The Homeless Question, Part I [New York Shitty] Many Burg Openings All at Once [A Test of Will] Grandma Beauty Pageant in Brighton Beach [NYT] Bay Ridge Bakery Bakes Final Loaf [Bay Ridge Rover] Dumbo Weekly Links [Dumbo NYC] Residents Welcome on Brooklyn College Campus [Brooklyn Junction] New Brooklyn Insult: Go Back […]

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Tags: Brooklinks

GL Sunday TV: Halloween

October 28th, 2007 · Comments Off on GL Sunday TV: Halloween

Given the season, a few YouTube Brooklyn Halloween-related vids seem appropriate today.

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Tags: Halloween · Sunday TV

No Rain Today: Some Sunday Halloween Stuff

October 28th, 2007 · Comments Off on No Rain Today: Some Sunday Halloween Stuff

Here are some Sunday Halloween events, which are especially compelling because the weather is much nicer today. For a really good list of events in Brooklyn, see A Child Grows in Brooklyn. Brooklyn Botanic Garden Ghouls and Gourds. Noon-6PM. They’ll have children’s bands, thai pumpkin carving, costume making contests and more. There will even be […]

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Tags: Events · Halloween