The photo above is one we took of paint chips all over the ground in the aftermath of some of Thor’s demolition work in Coney Island. As things would have it, we found the following post over at the Coney Island Message Board last night, posted by the person who goes by the name of […]

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Given that it’s Sunday, it’s time for another Craigslist Brooklyn Missed Connection. We opted for today’s item because it’s, well, touching in its own way: girl in green, hooded coat on G-train from Lorimer to Carroll – m4w – 37 this is pathetic. i was wearing a backpack. you looked beautiful… well, d’uh, if i […]

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Green Brooklyn has a great item on the NYC Department of Education’s New Green School Guide and Rating System, which also brought to our attention the Green School in Williamsburg. (WCBS has also reported on the story.) The school describes itself as “a progressive alternative high school in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York that focuses on […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Was New York’s First Amusement Park in Williamsburg? [INSIJS] How Green is Demolition? [Brooklyn Views] Rescuing the Feral Cat Colony from Bruce Ratner’s Property [NYT] People Hocking Them Up on Sidewalks [Bed-Stuy Blog] When Sails Were Made on Atlantic Avenue [Sail Brooklyn] Driving to Brooklyn […]

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This is a trailer recently posted on YouTube for a film about the Giglio Festival in Williamsburg. It was produced in 1995, and if you go over to the folkstreams.net site, you can download it in MPEG-4 or Real Media formats to watch in its entirety. It’s an interesting look at an original Brooklyn tradition. […]

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As you may know, we also post over at Curbed from Monday through Friday. Here’s some of this week’s output over there: The Finger of Richardson is Standing Tall (above) Walk on the Rundown Side in Flushing Meadows Park How They Fight Dog Crap in Bushwick Their Work is Done: Toll Brothers Leaving Bedford Avenue […]

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The Save Coney Island protest has been scheduled. It will take place on the steps of City Hall on Friday March 30. There will be a parade to City Hall at 11AM, Performers at 11:30, Speakers at Noon, Performers at 12:30 and a parade up Broadway at 1:00PM. The announcement says: We will be protesting […]

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The Coney Island demolition and eviction strategy being pursued by Thor Equities long in advance of any development work has officially claimed its most prominent victim so far. Diana Carlin, whose Lola Staar Boutique was a unique boardwalk treasure, has moved out. (We have made no secret of our belief that the loss of a […]

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We note with bitter irony, the inclusion of the Old Dutch Mustard Plant, which was demolished last fall, on a preservation “wish list” reported in Flatbush Life. We don’t know if the Four Borough Neighborhood Preservation Alliance, which is said to have produced the list–also containing landmark district suggestions–is at fault or if it was […]

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We think that it’s worth mentioning that our fellow blogger and friend Lumi Rolley is being honored by Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes as one of “Brooklyn’s Extraordinary Women” and that tomorrow (3/25) is “Lumi Rolley Day” on the calendar. Mr. Hynes is honoring 31 women in Brooklyn for their contributions to the community and each […]

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Here’s a late 1950s vintage photo of the Coney Boardwalk showing, in the words of the person that posted it on the Coney Island Message Board, “the Parachute Jump, the Lido Building with its Coca Cola neon sign, and all the way to the right…Jerry’s Knishes!”

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Broolinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Images: St. Agnes Hoyt Street [seriously excited!] Lexington Near Grand [Clinton Hill Blog] Boots in the Air [Velvet Sea] Ward Bakery Desktop [Brit in Brooklyn] Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn [Joe’s NYC] New York Avenue, Midwood [seriously excited!] Two Towers [Lex’s Folly] Not Images: Park Slope One-Way […]

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Greenpoint, Brooklyn

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We’ve had this Coney video on our list of things to post forever. Weekends are made for items like this, so click on the embed to watch.

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As we noted yesterday, there are concerns about more oil under Williamsburg than the stuff that has been showing itself since the Roebling Oil Field site (McCarren Park Mews) was excavated. (The Roebling and N. 11th oil has its origin in a ruptured oil tank at N. 11th and Roebling.) But, is there a larger […]

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Perhaps you saw the post about the YouTube vid of the man going insane at the Kensington Post Office. It either speaks to the gentleman’s tenuous grip on reality and need for anger management or gets at what some post offices can do to people. Chris Curen, who sent the following dispatch from the front […]

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The jokes we could crack about this next item and how it will present boundless opportunities to listen to some Miles Davis while reflecting on the Ektorp you just scored are endless. So, instead of taking the low road (for a change) we’ll take the high road and point out that renovation has started on […]

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We’ve chosen 43 Maujer Street in Williamsburg as our Construction Site Du Jour, not so much because the fence is a mess–we’ve seen much worse–but because it conveys the right attitude. Nothing like a little bit of a desire to be helpful mixed with a serious Screw You attitude. Go to the gas station, indeed. […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Development Consulting Firm Is Interim Atlantic Yards Environmental Monitor [AYR] Forest City Embraces Historic Preservation, But Not in Brooklyn [AYR] Weird Brooklyn Bridge Park “Cat Walk” Design [Brownstoner] That’s One-Way to Do It [Brooklyn Downtown Star] View from the J Condo’s 32nd Floor [Dumbo NYC] […]

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Just when we thought the Atlantic Yards Well of Irony had run dry, along comes the attempt to spin the impending demolition of the old Ward’s Bakery in Prospect Heights that preservationists have been trying to spare from the wrecking ball. The building sits in the Atlantic Yards footprint. Yesterday, Forest City announced that it […]

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Given that demolition is an Olympic Sport in Brooklyn, how do you try to help promote the preservation of a historic Williamsburg industrial landmark? If you’re the Waterfront Preservation Alliance of Greenpoint and Williamsburg, you team up with the City Reliquary to co-sponsor a “Don’’t Demo Domino Bake Sale and Q & A.” The baked […]

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[Photo courtesy of Chris and Youn/flickr]We were a little unfocused yesterday and didn’t get to our Thursday Focus on Food, so we’re presenting it now as a small special linkage edition. Sorry about all the bad news about DiFara’s. New Mouse Pizza: The DiFara Health Dept. Report [Gawker] DiFara’s Issues with DOH, Mouse Droppings, Mice, […]

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One of the politicians to take an interest in the state of things at the development site at N. 11th Street and Roebling in Williamsburg that we call the Roebling Oil Field (above, seen on four different dates) is Queens City Council Member Tony Avella. You can wonder why more Brooklyn officials aren’t asking why […]

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More developments to report on the food, drink and retail front in Greenpoint and Williamsburg: 1) There’s a new restaurant opening at 43 Franklin (pictured above). No details available. The only record we found was a new restaurant-wine license that was granted to Isabella Beach LLC. There’s an Isabella Beach in Puerto Rico, but we […]

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So, first the relatively new blog, Found in Brooklyn wrote this at the end of a post on development on Bond Street, which is home to the building we call The Bunker and is where the Toll Brothers would build their big Gowanus development: I’d rather live with the famous Bond Street wild dog packs […]

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