The photo above, which was posted over at Curbed today, offers a cool preview of what Brooklyn’s Eiffel Tower will look like when Boro Prez Marty Markowitz throws the switch at 9:00 PM next Friday, July 7. (It’s also pictured in the paper he mails out to Brooklynites, which hit mailboxes yesterday.) Plenty to do […]

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Call Gowanus green, at least, if the vision presented last night by the Gowanus Canal Community Development Corporation pulls any weight. The GCCDC’s updated plan for Gowanus, which was unveiled at a meeting at St. Agnes Parish Hall on Sackett Street, divides the neighborhood into South, North and Hinge zones. The South Zone would lean […]

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Brooklinks is a selection of Brooklyn-related blog items and news story that are worth checking out: We Love Brooklynites [Bklyn Record] Street Eats: Ali’s Roti Shop [Gothamist] Ali’s Gets Gothamized [Across the Park] Street Honors Bob Marley [NYDaily News] Clinton Hill Hooker Hotel? [NYDaily News] McCarren Pool Fight Continues [onNYTurf] Summer Fun in Red Hook […]

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Ah, urban wildlife. The other day, we turned to Brooklyn’s cool parrot colonies and to the wonderful blog dedicated to them at brooklynparrots that has been set up by Steve Baldwin, the man who runs Brooklyn Parrot Safaris (there’s one on Saturday, July 1…check the brooklynparrots site for info) and is the Parrot King of […]

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The 3rd Annual Billyburg Short Film Festival, which was rained out on Saturday is now happening tonight at our favorite spot–McCarren Pool in Williamsburg. Festivals showcasing their work include The Coney Island Film Festival, The Brooklyn International Film Festival, and the Billyburg Short Film Festival. The event starts at 6:30. Admission is $10. There will […]

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We’ve been following the tale of the building at the corner of Third Avenue and Third Street in Gowanus for some time and knew that it had been up before the Landmarks Preservation Commission a few weeks ago. The building is on the corner of the site of the planned Whole Foods and, yesterday, it […]

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There is a lot of new and fun information now available at the Office of Emergency Management‘s website about the updated city hurricane evacuation plan, including a brochure in 10 languages and a long primer on the Evacuation Plan (click here for the full PDF). The new $30 million hurricane plan that will triple the […]

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Brooklinks is a selective daily review of news stories and blog items related to Brooklyn: Beating the Heat in Fort Greene [Bklyn Record] Williamsburg Has its Own Sitcom [FREEWilliamsburg] Spumoni [A Brooklyn Life] Brooklyn Blogosphere: How Big? How Diverse? [Dope on the Slope] Brooklyn Blogfest 06 Podcast [Dope on the Slope] Congestion Pricing and East […]

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The Gowanus Canal Community Development Corporation is holding a get together tonight to showcase the comprehensive plan in its current iteration for the Big G and environs. The group has been developing a plan that emphasizes public access to the Gowanus and dreams of a “green” neighborhood with environmentally-friendly projects. The group’s chair says that […]

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From Brooklyn Ramblings and the in-depth research and extensive photography of Sonja Shield comes a priceless look at the era when New York (and Brooklyn) telephone exchanges started with letters rather than numbers, and 718, 917, et. al. were just a twinkle in Bell Telephone‘s eye. Check out excellent examples of Brooklyn signage that can […]

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Park Slope North? Has the Brooklyn property rush delivered us to the point where someone can refer to a community like Prospect Heights as an extension of its neighbor to the south? Apparently so. A listing for a $1.65 million, new three-family development on Underhill Avenue refers to its location in “trendy Park Slope North […]

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Attorneys for Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn and 15 co-plaintiffs have filed to appeal last month’s Appellate Division decision overturning a State Supreme Court decision. The “motion for relief” was filed with state Court of Appeals. (Translation: They’re asking the court to hear their appeal.) The case centers around an environmental lawyer who had represented Forest […]

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New York‘s guide to 25 outdoor dining spots happens to include six Brooklyn choices (and we know there are tons more). In any case, the ones that are showcased in the mag, followed by New York‘s description in quotes, are: Alma. 187 Columbia St., at Degraw St., Carroll Gardens/Red Hook, Brooklyn; 718-643-5400. “A restaurant in […]

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Brooklinks is a somewhat random and somewhat premeditated daily selection of Brooklyn-related news articles and blog items. Smile Brooklyn [Bklyn Record] Brooklyn’s Best Outdoor Eats [Bklyn Record] Spidey Eats Here [423 Smith] Fourth Avenue Carnival [Sunset Parker] Ain’t No Cure for the Summertime Blues. Or is There? [Gothamist] Dining with a Side of Sky (Outdoor […]

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Gowanus Lounge is the first to admit that we’ve had a devil of a time keeping the Williamsburg waterfront developments straight, even though we pay close attention to what is going on at each site. So, spurred by yesterday’s story about the “groundbreaking” at the site of the Palmer’s Dock development at 164 Kent, we […]

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The Municipal Arts Society held a session last night billed as a “eulogy” for the East River’s lost industrial heritage. Included among the “deaths” are the iconic Long Island City Power House, whose smokestacks were castrated last year as part of a redevelopment plan that will push a highrise through the building, the burned-down Greenpoint […]

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There’s some bird hating going on over at the Prospect Heights Discussion Board about a loud songbird around Sterling and Flatbush. The discussion is too funny not to pass along. First, people were wondering what the tuneful bird was. Some suggested our friends, the Brooklyn Parrots. Popular opinion, however, settled on Mockingbirds, which are known […]

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Four cool Brooklyn blogs have come to Gowanus Lounge’s attention in the last few days, so we thought we’d help spread the good news. First among equals is Coney Island Shortcakes, which is being brought to you by the people that have set up a Strawberry Shortcake stand on the boardwalk near Cha Cha’s. We’re […]

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Heard about the Brooklyn Parrots? No, the Cyclones haven’t been renamed. Gowanus Lounge is talking about the parrot colonies around Brooklyn, with two of the biggest being at Green-Wood Cemetery and the Brooklyn College campus. A Brooklyn Life wrote about them a while back and a visit to Green-Wood in search of them. There is […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news articles and blog items. Sunset Park Hosts a Latin American Rainbow [Sunset Parker] Bklyn Bridge Park Public Meeting, 6-28 [Brownstone Bklyn Politics] When I’m Sixty-Four [Callalillie] Spidey on Dennet Place [423 Smith] G Train Entering Carroll Street [Joe’s NYC] Bio Warfare at BAM? [JeepBastard] I Love Brooklyn […]

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The peeling Coney Island boardwalk mural on one of the New York Aquarium‘s block-long walls is no more. Over the weekend, painters were hard at work creating a new mural, the outlines of which had gone up the week before. The new mural–which is bright, but about whose overall merit we will hold off until […]

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We were going to add these links to yesterday’s Mermaid Parade roundup, but have come across so many other photos, that we’re going to add them here today, and use the excuse to post a couple more of our photos, which exist in large numbers in our Mermaid Parade 2006 flickr photoset: Mermaids on Parade […]

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Gowanus Lounge is thrilled to report that we are now in possession of “The Rounder,” a super-cool stool (with storage space inside) that we won for taking Second Place in the Design Sponge Brooklyn photo contest a while back. Not only does the Gowanus Lounge home base now have a wonderful new piece of furniture […]

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Invite Only Atlantic Yards Meet and Greets [Atlantic Yrds Report] Bohemians in Brooklyn [Brooklyn Ramblings] Sinister Squirrels [Dope on the Slope] Behold the New Christie’s [Daily Heights] Pk Slope Zone Busting! [Pk Slope Courier] Paying Any Price to Live Here [NYTimes] Flatbush Speaks, Again [Dope on the Slope] Where Every Day is a Holiday [NYTimes] […]

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So, Gowanus Lounge was strolling down 11th Street in Park Slope on Sunday afternoon on our way to the meeting of our Brooklyn Writer’s Group at Bar Toto, when we spotted this big stuffed pig in a black leather jacket with big rainbow-colored beads. We pulled out our camera and were shooting away when two […]

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