[Photo courtesy of Incandenza/flickr] The headline that our friends at GerritsenBeach.net put up caught our attention: “Manhattan Beach and Their Bunker Mentality.” Why, you might ask? Because Dr. Ron Biondo, President of the Manhattan Beach Community Group, is holding a emergency meeting on Thursday, June 21 @ 8:00 PM, in response to “graffiti, litter and […]

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This isn’t so much a Brooklyn Missed Connection as a rant, but since this is the thing we saw this week that moved us the most on CL Missed Connections, we figured we’d go with it. It has that certain something that only a rant can have: Slobber King and Queen at Buttermilk.Ever thought about […]

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Here’s a selection of a few comments left by GL readers in the last seven days: What GL Said to BL About Blogging, Pete Hamill, Etc. “I’ve long been admirer of Pete Hamill. It depresses me to hear him saying something so—I’m sorry—stupid. It makes me think he’s become uninformed and out of touch, too […]

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Here’s a News 12 report from a couple of weeks back about oysters in the Gowanus Canal and the Gowanus Oyster Garden Stewards, which is how they are getting there.

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Greenpoint, Brooklyn

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For a beautiful June Sunday, we offer some YouTube vids taken in Prospect Park. Selections include the Neville Brothers and TV on the Radio at Celebrate Brooklyn, fireworks, drummers and more.

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We return to our Brooklyn Back in the Day feature of Brooklyn historical photos with another very nice Coney Island shots. We found this one posted over at the Coney Island Message Board, where we’ve found some wonderful historic Coney pics. There’s a whole conversation thread devoted to Coney Island History where all sorts of […]

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For those of you that haven’t seen it and might be interested, here’s a sampling of some our output over at Curbed this past week: J Condo Does Lunch in Dumbo or Something (above) Gowanus’ Hotel Le Bleu Ready to Ooze Brooklyn Waterfront Joins List of 11 ‘Most Endangered Places’ ‘Pink Blob’ at Atlantic Yards: […]

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The Astral Oil Works, which was founded by Charles Pratt (yes, the Pratt Institute Pratt) once sat, roughly, where the Bayside Oil facility near the Bushwick Inlet is today. It is said to have possibly spilled a lot of oil under Williamsburg. One theory holds that some of the oil being found today under the […]

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The Seventh Avenue Street Fair, better known as Seventh Heaven, is taking place in Park Slope today along Seventh Avenue. It’s a bit on the generic New York City Street Fair side for our taste, nonetheless, it’s a big neighborhood happening. It runs from 11AM-6PM. It is also one of the last street fairs about […]

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[Photo courtesy of Mirabelle Studios] Brooklinks is a selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Endangered Brooklyn Waterfront Follow Up [WPA] The Brooklyn Standard and Brooklyn Tomorrow [AYR] No Sleep ‘Til South Brooklyn [New York Shitty] Verizon’s Big Poles Aren’t Popular in Marine Park [NYT] Sonny Carson Ave. Official Because Councilman Charles Barron Says So [Gothamist] […]

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(We are reposting a version of this story from last night, since we don’t normally post in the evening and some readers might not otherwise see it.) Representatives of the Red Hook food vendors and City Council Member Sara Gonzalez met with Park Department officials yesterday about the future of the vendors whose plight has […]

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We were on the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC yesterday and had the chance to expound on blogging, journalism and column writing. The topic choice wasn’t ours. The invite came from BL’s staff of superb producers because of some remarks renowned columnist Pete Hamill made about blogging on the show earlier this week. What Mr. […]

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We were reading the new Time Magazine story about Coney Island, wondering if it contained anything new. “Uncertainty shrouds the original America’s Playground…” Blah, blah, blah. “..no one is quite sure what will become of it in the fall.” Blah, blah, blah. “Coney Island has fallen long and hard from its apex…” Blah, blah, blah. […]

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If you’re big on Celebrate Brooklyn and all the good shows running all summer long in Prospect Park, you might be interested in this widget for Mac desktops that a GL reader created and emailed us about it. The website for the Celebrate Brooklyn Widget says: One of the longest-running free outdoor performing arts festivals […]

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Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn

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We’re not sure what to make of all this, except that sidewalks with dog byproduct are bad enough, but coming outside to find, um, human waste, is even worse. Hey, it’s New York City and it’s Brooklyn and all that, but we still noticed this series of emails from residents in Boerum Hill. We’d seen […]

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Tonight (6/16) is the season’s first Rooftop Films event of the season in Gowanus. The screenings take place at the Old American Can Factory in Gowanus. It’s located at 232 Third Street at Third Avenue. The screening is Industriance Shorts: Disaster Management, The Space Age goes terribly wrong. They’re described as “Short, funny, bizarre films.” […]

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The Renegade Craft Fair is back in Brooklyn this weekend and it’s taking place at McCarren Pool this year. (In past years it’s been in McCarren Park itself.) In any case, the event includes more than 200 booths with vendors from all over the country. It takes place today (6/16) and tomorrow (6/17) from 11AM-6PM […]

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Of all the bigger buildings plopped into a block of smaller ones, the one at 308 Eckford in Greenpoint seems to stand out from its neighbors. This pic, sent along by our Greenpoint correspondent, shows an actual human neighbor looking decidedly unhappy in the lower right hand corner. The photo below shows the view from […]

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[Photo courtesy of lornagrl/flickr] Photos: Stoop Sale [Big Sky Brooklyn] Banksy Climbover Girl 2 [I’m Just Sayin’/flickr] Red Greenspan [A Test of Will] 63 Coney Island Photos [Lawrence L/flickr] Auto Service Ltd. [Bluejake] On the Water [Key Lime Steve/flickr] Brooklyn Storm Double Strike [Brit in Brooklyn] Dancers [annulla/flickr] Sackett Street, Third and Fourth [seriously excited!] […]

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Greenpoint, Brooklyn

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The New York Aquarium is celebrating 50 years in Coney Island (there’s a long story to the move) this weekend with a series of special activities. The program goes on both today (6/16) and tomorrow (6/17). The Aquarium website says: Sock hop, hula hoop contests, Elvis impersonators! Join us for a special ’50s-theme weekend event […]

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Representatives of the Red Hook food vendors and City Council Member Sara Gonzalez met with Park Department this afternoon about the future of the vendors whose plight has drawn citywide attention. Red Hook Vendors Committee head Cesar Fuentes told GL that although “there is still no answer to our plight, we have good hope that […]

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The Roebling Oil Field Building at Roebling and N. 11th Streets in Williamsburg may be one of the only condos in New York City to come with a pump that will have an oil separator. GL has learned that the building, which is on a site on which significant quantities of oil were found during […]

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