Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Future of Atlantic Yards Project Hinges on Sheldon Silver [NYT] Steve Buscemi Interview: Brooklyn is Changing Too Much [Daily Graboid via No Land Grab] We’ve Got (Unanswered) Questions About Atlantic Yards [No Land Grab] Still No Word on Ratner’s Profit [AYR] Bensonhurst Trash Transfer Station […]

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With a final vote by the Public Authorities Control Board on Atlantic Yard possible on Wednesday, more groups are calling for a delay in the decision. There will be an event at City Hall today at 1PM at which a group of “citywide and national civic groups — joined by new voices and elected officials” […]

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Smith Street, Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn

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The Revere Sugar Plant in Red Hook is being taken apart piece by piece, packed into huge dumpsters and driven away, as a prelude to a much more dramatic tear down. The iconic dome that defined Red Hook’s waterfront for generations, has already had a half-dozen square holes cut in it. We will have more […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related stories and, especially on weekend, images. Photos: Brooklyn Skies [Brit in Brooklyn] World of Sugar and Dirt [atomische] Third Avenue [Joe’s NYC] Red Hook Sparks [Lex’s Folly] Lovely Lovely GoWANus [Crappy Camera Phone] Man Approaches Girl [bluejake] Fifth Avenue Lotto [Park Slope Street Photography] Words: Shifting Ground on […]

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It’s Sunday and, so, time for the pathos, comedy, sadness and longing of Missed Connections on Craigslist. Today, we don’t have a specific loction, just, well…you’ll see: How am I suuposed to talk to you? You terrify me. – w4m I noticed you after I moved to Brooklyn a few months ago, and I have […]

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Some of you may know that we post over at Curbed from Monday through Friday. Here are links to some of this week’s Brooklyn postings over in Curbedland: Holiday Gift Idea: Big Brooklyn Rock for Sale (Above) Trouble at Williamsburg’s Rocket Factory? Red Hook: Looking Super Fine The “Construction/Deconstruction” of Williamsburg Brooklyn Greenway Wins a […]

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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So, let’s say you can’t get enough of the train. We’ve got just the thing for you: an oddly riveting series of videos now being posted on youtube shot out the front window of trains on various subway lines. It’s the new Railtrip NY Series posted by tripgas and they’re a must-see if you’re a […]

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[Photo courtesy of seriously excited! We linked this last Sunday, but it’s one of our favorite Coney Island photos. Ever.]Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn news and, especially on weekends, images. Photos: Gowanus Clown [Lex’s Folly] Morgan Oil [jUSTINYC/flickr] Cell Phone on Third [Park Slope Street Photography] You Are Beautiful [A Test of Will] […]

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Fort Greene may have big rocks and some might even be on sale, but Williamsburg has got them too. We’ve been watching large numbers of them unearthed at the big construction site between N. 6th and N. 7th Street, between Bedford and Berry. Now the big pile of rocks is fascinating, but even more so […]

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Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn

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Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn

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Van Brunt Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn

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For some time, we’ve been saying that the fight over the future of the Red Hook Container Port–and the plan to redevelop 1.1 miles of waterfront–would be one of the big Brooklyn development fights of 2007. Yesterday, the first serious blows were landed in a major political context. (As opposed to the smaller community meetings […]

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Thor Equities spokesperson Lee Silberstein apparently filled in a number of blanks when he spoke to Community Board 13 about developer Joe Sitt‘s plans for a massive Coney Island redevelopment. Five key points emerge from the Brooklyn Graphic coverage by Stephen Witt: 1) Thor is hiring a firm called Thinkwell Design and Production to assist […]

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Coney Island developer Joe Sitt of Thor Equities has hired Thinkwell Design & Production to work on the Brooklyn mega-project. Thinkwell is the company that staged the interesting and well-covered M&M store opening in Times Square that featured people being spraypainted like M&Ms. The company plans, develops and manages theme parks, museums, sports franchises, casinos […]

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The profusion of stories about Red Hook in the last week or so, and the impending loss of the Revere Sugar Plant got us to thinking about Red Hook-related holiday gifts. So, here are a few (very selective and subjective) ideas: Operation Christmas Cheer. For the third year in a row PortSide New York (more […]

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We’ve had our share of fun with the Gowanus Whole Foods, especially when dwelling on the irony of the environmental condition of the site on which the store will rise. But, how about a green roof for it? Seriously. It’s a great idea and there’s a new Green Roof Whole Foods Market blog pushing the […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news and information. Happy End of the Week: Red Hook Port Protest [Politicker] Spitzer May Have to Referee Red Hook Port Redevelopment Fight [Sun] Shifting Red Hook Port Would Cost Jobs [NYDN] ‘Rabid Brooklyn Breeding’ Leads to Pre-Schooler Glut [NYMag] Neil of Boerum Hill and Lisa of Park […]

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If you answered “Gowanus Canal at low tide,” you’re wrong. Actually, we captured the image of this bit of environmental goodness in Williamsburg and the site of the luxury condos going up called McCarren Park Mews. Although, after what we’ve seen and smelled of the site, we’d call it something more like Exxon Mews or […]

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Sunset Park, Brooklyn

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The fight over the future of the Red Hook Waterfront and plans to redevelop 1.1 miles of land that could displace the Brooklyn Container Port will heat up today with a rally at City Hall to “Protest a Proposed City Scheme Critics Say Will eliminate Port Jobs and Threaten Economic Security.” Whenever opponents call something […]

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We’ve been in Holland plenty of times, but we’d never heard of Zaanstadt until the super-superb blog Pruned brought it to our attention. We instantly noted the similarity between the landscape lemon that Robert Moses handed to Brooklyn in the form of the neighborhood slicing BQE and and the lemonade that similarly chanllenged Dutch planners […]

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If you’re a very early morning reader, we apologize that a few posts lacked complete links early on. This was because our superb–excellent, wonderful, best of the best–Time Warner Road Runner service was on the blink again. Whether it was just us or the neighborhood, we don’t know. We updated everything once we were outside […]

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