We’re a little late coming to this party, but we love statistics and a couple jumped out at us when we read the NY Times story on the impact of females on the real estate market. We have long wondered what would happen to the Brooklyn market when all of the condos under construction come […]

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So, about all that oil on the surface of the Gowanus, a reader leaves the following comment on yesterday’s post: That oil depot just north of Union St has applied under our New York State Brownfield Cleanup Program–a program that has us tax payers covering up to 25% of the cost of all the reconstruction […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. On Thursday, we focus on food. Food: Red Hook Smackdown: Good Fork vs. 360 (Good Fork Wins) [Chowhound] Gimme Coffee is ‘Damn Fine’ [Eating for Brooklyn] Wednesday Food and Drink Roundup [Brooklyn Record] Coffee & Pastry at Mona Lisa Apres the Dyker Heights Lights [Chowhound] […]

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Van Brunt Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn

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Sign of the Times, originally uploaded by KeylimeSteve. Things continue to move at the site of the Revere Sugar Plant in Red Hook owned by developer Joe Sitt and Thor Equities. This flickr photo, one of several posted this morning by Keylimesteve (of Steve’s Authentic Key Lime Pie fame) shows that legally required signage identifying […]

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We call the building pictured above, at Fifth Avenue and 13th Street, the “No Baby Gap Building.” That’s because it was originally rumored to be the home of a Baby Gap on the ground floor and the construction fencing still sports “No Baby Gap” graffiti. There doesn’t appear to be a Baby Gap going into […]

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There is news to report about the Child’s Restaurant Building, one of the gems of the Coney boardwalk, and a property that is not controlled by developer Joe Sitt and Thor Equities. Kinetic Carnival passed along word earlier this week from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (you can read the full text here at the Coney […]

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The Empire State Development Corporation sent out Atlantic Yards condemnation notifications on December 8 addressed to “Dear Interested Party.” The Ratnergram letter, which appears here in a form too small to read, basically notifies the “Interested Party” or parties that the ESDC has authorized the use of eminent domain to acquire land for the Atlantic […]

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So, now we know what it takes to get a traffic signal installed in Red Hook. The factors include a signficant increase in traffic, the death of pedestrian, community protests and a city traffic study. After all that, B61 Productions is reporting that a traffic light will be installed at Van Brunt and Sullivan Streets. […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news and images. Tunnel: Atlantic Yards Finance Update: Half Billion in Tax Revenue Vanishes [AYR] Atlantic Yards Foes Hope for Silver Christmas [Village Voice] Christmas Carol Adaptations Not Popular at Atlantic Terminal [Curbed] Did We Mention the 15-Story Atlantic Yards Signs are Animated? [No Land Grab] Time Running […]

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We first took note of a Red Hook Beach blog in September and have been watching it for more information ever since. Well, the blanks have now been filled in. The map outline above shows the area in Red Hook that would include Red Hook Beach, which would be built by New York Water Taxi, […]

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Ninth Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn

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Here is our Brookvid of the Dyker Heights Lights, the annual Christmas display in Dyker Heights. Music is Death Cab for Cutie’s version of Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home). It’s just like being there, except no SUV’s crawling up the street in Christmas light-related traffic blaring Frank Sinatra Christmas carols. Eh, you still need to […]

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What episodic collection of Brooklyn gift suggestions would be complete without a small journey down the road known as Atlantic Yards? Certainly, not ours. The thought was planted when we saw what the Lower East Side spot, Fuck Yoga, had done. So, we added a couple of thoughts, including some to try to balance out […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news and images. Protestors Urge Clock Stoppage on Atlantic Yards [AYR] Opponents Make Last Ditch Effort to Stall Atlantic Yards Plan [Sun] First Street Building Frenzy [Brownstoner] Real Answers on the Fulton Street Dig [Brooklyn Record] Prospect Heights Guide [NYMag] Dumbo’s J Condo Art Fence Now for Sale […]

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[Photo of Gowanus oil slick courtesy greenbrooklyn.com] About a month ago, we posted an item about oil bubbling to the surface of the Gowanus north of the Union Street Bridge opposite the Bayside Fuel facility. Small bits of fuel seemed to be coming to the surface and, then, greatly expanding and floating downstream. Since then, […]

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Some historic photos of Fourth Avenue under water because of Gowanus Canal flooding that we posted prompted a reader to send us a photo of the avenue under water this past summer. Yes, the picture is more than 48 hours old, but worth a look, as it’s striking proof of some of the, um, drainage […]

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18th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn

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We posted this over at Curbed yesterday, but wanted to put it up here too in case you’re interested in the fate of the Revere Sugar plant in Red Hook and didn’t see it. (Some are deeply upset to see this icon go; others, well, they seem to be cheering its demise.) We invite anyone […]

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Without question, you’ve gotta check out the Christmas Lights of Dyker Heights. We did on Saturday night. There was traffic and a lot of Brooklynite, New Yorkers and, even, tourists, checking them out. Click here for a slideshow of our flickr set, which has 46 photos. Or, just click over to the set. For the […]

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Thor Equities appears to be killing the Red Hook waterfront’s preeminent landmark slowly, at least for now. This weekend, workers were hacking at the skin of the former Revere Sugar plant. They were peeling out walls, exposing entire sections and poking holes in the building. It appears that Breeze, the demolition firm that Thor has […]

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Don’t look now, but Lord Norman Foster has a plan to build a major attraction under a huge tent in Kazakhstan. Don’t laugh–it could be just the thing for those looking to turn Coney Island into a “year-round” destination. We only mention this because “year-round” beach locations in the Northeast are hard to come by […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news and images. By way of explanation, the photo above is of a Christmas tree set up by the grip crew of an indie film called “Life in Flight” that is shooting in Red Hook, across from the doomed Revere Sugar plant. Revere Plant Coming Down [NYDN] Big […]

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Remember Brooklyn-style Pizza? Well, here’s Brooklyn clothing–the Brooklyn Clothing Co., to be exact. If you’re thinking that it’s in Brooklyn or Manhattan or the East Coast or, even, in the Lower 48, you’re wrong. It’s in Vancouver, Canada. Dumbo NYC, the excellent Dumbo blog, brings it to Brooklyn’s attention, noting that it’s in “trendy Yaletown.” […]

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Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn

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