Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news and images. Words: Atlantic Yards, Meet Gazprom City [No Land Grab] Atlantic Yards Blogger Goes to Nets Game [AYR] Dark Days at Victory Hospital [NYT] Run to Floyd Bennett Field and Flatland [Runs Brooklyn] Five Years After Moving to Brooklyn [Brooklyn Streets] Photos: Flowers on Union Street […]

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Sackett Street, Brooklyn

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During the week, we post over at Curbed. Here’s some of this week’s output in that part of the blogosphere: Bayard Street Update: Slow on Karl Fischer Row (Above) Hipsters Realize They’re in Brooklyn, Return to Manhattan Bridge of Sighs & Smith-9th. Same Difference A Shot of Vinegar Hill The Rivierafication of South Brooklyn Marches […]

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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Here’s a GL Brookvid of Astroland that includes footage of our favorite sold and soon-to-close Coney amusement park both with, and without, people. Music is Death Cab for Cutie’s Coney Island, natch. Click on this link or on the embed below.

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Broolinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news and, especially on the weekend, images. Pictures of Note: My Story, Nevins Street [seriously excited!] Boy in Bus on Wythe [bluejake] Support in Gowanus [Lex’s Folly] Under the Bridge [Bay Ridge Blog] Coney Island [Stefan Falke Photography] Here Comes Santa [atomische] Heights Light Up [Brooklyn Heights Blog] […]

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We’ve often wondered why more Williamsburg and Greenpoint-based bloggers don’t chronicle the development and neighborhood scene around them, so we take some pleasure in noting a new blog called City Seen. In its first outings the blog covers the goings on at at 271 and 279 Driggs Avenue and at 55 Eckford Street in Greenpoint. […]

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The cheap headline is just an excuse to mention this item that caught our eye on Gridskipper about possible Nazi-looking Santas in Deutschland. The item is weird, if not spooky, and we’ve had in on our list for a couple of days, delaying because it’s “not a Brooklyn item.” Since Brooklyn and Berlin go nicely […]

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Climbing Santa, Park Slope, Brooklyn

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Here’s the second installment of GL’s Brooklyn Holiday Gift Guide. Part I focused on memberships in Brooklyn organizations and on Brooklyn groups one could support with a donation. Part II is, well, more traditionally materialistic, focusing on a very selective and random selection of books, products or interesting things made in Brooklyn. More will be […]

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Now that Thor Equities has purchased Astroland and added 3.1 acres to its Coney Island holdings, speculation is rampant among Coney Watchers about what will happen next. Here are the leading Coney Island conspiracy theories as we have distilled them from a detailed look at the Coney Island Message Board: 1) The Phoenix Theory. This […]

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The unspoken part to the Thor Equities plan for a “historic expansion of the Coney Island amusement area” is that (a). your definition of “amusement area” and Thor’s definition of it may be radically different and (b). even if they are the same, the developer is going to have to build condos–a lot of condos–to […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news and images. December: Ditmas Park Holiday Extravaganza [Living in Victorian Flatbush] Brooklyn and Beyond Gift Guide: CaryMo Fudge [Brooklyn Record] Christmas Time Again in Brooklyn [Brooklyn Graphic] Party with Your Community Board [Brooklyn Papers] Anytime: Atlantic Yards as a Synonym [No Land Grab] Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods […]

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Not to dwell excessively on the Roebling Oil Field atop which McCarren Park Mews will soon rise, but a stroll past the New Jersey Turnpike-smelling development site revealed that foundations for the building are now being poured. We are not soil cleanup and environmental remediation experts, but it would seem to us that you would […]

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Manhattan Avenue, Greenpoint, Brooklyn

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