The Neville Brothers to the stage in Prospect Park last night to open another season of Celebrate Brooklyn. They put on an excellent show and offered a set list that ran down all of their classics and songs they are known for covering. Last night’s show was the gala opening, which meant a dinner and […]

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Sometimes one finds stories at the most unexpected times. Like leaving Celebrate Brooklyn last night, for instance. That’s when we scored the Whole Foods Brooklyn tote bag pictured above. Note that it says “Opening 2008.” The Whole Foods bag promoting the store that is going to be built on the environmentally-questionable lot at Third Street […]

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No, this isn’t about design issues or about density concerning that controversial proposed building at 360 Smith Street in Carroll Gardens. Nope. It’s about signs allegedly being painted over by the NYPD and, then, quickly replaced by residents. If you’ve walked out of the Second Place exit of the Carroll Street station in recent week, […]

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The name Robert Scarano has appeared here so many times in the last several weeks and the Brooklyn architect has had a rally called held in opposition to his work. City Council Member Bill de Blasio is singling him out as a “bad actor” and has called for him to be relieved of his professional […]

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Frankly, we can’t get enough Hotel Le Bleu, probably because it’s a hotel in Gowanus and it’s the first one that isn’t a Holiday Inn or a Comfort Inn. It actually aspires to be, like, a cool boutique hotel. Now, if you know Fourth Avenue, you know that it’s sandwiched between a big taxi depot […]

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In case you’re interested, GL will be on the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC this morning around 11:20 AM. We’re going to be talking about some comments that the brilliant writer and columnist Pete Hamill made about blogging versus column writing on Brian’s show earlier this week. We agree with some of what Mr. Hamill […]

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So, that image above is…from N. 6th Street in Williamsburg? Someplace in Chelsea? Uh, no. If you said Gowanus, you’re right. This is The Vue. It will be the new restaurant on the eighth and ninth floors of Hotel Le Bleu on Fourth Avenue. It is described as “The new haunt of New York’s chic […]

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Yesterday, the Municipal Art Society launched a new website called Save Brooklyn’s Industrial Heritage. The site went live to coincide with the Brooklyn waterfront’s naming to the National Trust for Historic Preservation‘s list of the 11 Most Endangered Places in America. The site has wonderful detail on a number of Brooklyn landmarks as well as […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. The Synergy and Puffery of Brooklyn Tomorrow [AYR] New Atlantic Yards Photo Book [I’m Seeing Green] It Came from the Blogosphere [No Land Grab] A New Banksy on N. 6th Street? [INSIJS] BAM Cultural District Alive, if Not Kicking [Brownstoner] Almost 1,000 Signature on F […]

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We have some Park Slope retail news to pass along. Sterling Place, the home decor retailer that has a store on Atlantic Avenue between Hoyt and Bond is making progress on opening a new storefront on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope. The store will be located on Seventh Avenue and Tenth Street. It is between […]

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Brooklinks is a selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Here, we focus on yesterday’s announcement that the Brooklyn waterfront is now on the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s list of the 11 Most Endangered Place in America: Brooklyn Waterfront Deemed Endangered [amNY] Brooklyn’s Waterfront ‘Endangered’ [Metro] National Trust Calls Brooklyn Waterfront Endangered [Gothamist] Brooklyn Waterfront […]

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Just when you thought it was safe to go outside, along comes the Treats Truck. OTBKB conveys word of this innovation–a truck packed full of things that will break your diet and cause you to expand–that will be trawling the street of New York City with goodies for you. What’s the Brooklyn angle you say? […]

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Well, thank God for that. (Not really. Just a point of interest about big chain being gobbled up by bigger chain.) Now, if we could maybe get some of the old neighborhood pharmacies and stores that have been driven out of business back? Or protect the handful that are struggling to hang on?

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This announcement caught our attention with its headline: How Safe is Your Garden, Really? There are actually many issues that could threaten its safety, which is why there’s a “Community Gardeners Forum” at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Auditorium tomorrow (6/16) from 10AM-1:30PM. Numerous community gardens across the city are threatened, most of them by development. […]

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If you’ve got children and you need something to do with them tomorrow, think about doing up the Dumbo Family Picnic. It takes place tomorrow (6/16) from 3PM to 7PM and it’s sponsored by the DUMBO Parents Organization. The location is Main Street, between Water and Plymouth Streets. The email we got said: At 3 […]

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After reporting so much distressing news over the last year–including the demolition of the Old Dutch Mustard Building, the Greenpoint Terminal Market conflagration, the de-landmarking of the Austin Nichols Warehouse in Williamsburg, the disappearance of almost every old structure on the Beard Street waterfront in Red Hook and the filling of the Red Hook Graving […]

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So, what’s it like to be next door to a construction site, say, on a Sunday when people are trying to go to church? Ask the parishioners of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, the church on Havemeyer Street that is known to many people for the Giglio Feast that it sponsors every July. (For those […]

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Community Board 6 held its first meeting since the Atlantic Yards/Gowanus Massacre by Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and City Council Member David Yassky that ended the service of nine longstanding members. The Board voted down a resolution criticizing the dismissals and suggesting that the “independence and, indeed, the fundamental value of Community Boards are […]

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An interesting new Seventh Avenue restaurant development on which to report: Scalino is open and serving up Italian food in a cozy little space with big windows at the corner of 10th Street and Seventh Avenue. The menus includes appetizers like Peperonata (red and gold pepper stew)and Sauteed Baby Artichokes. There are pastas like Spinach […]

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In the end, after nearly two months of wrangling and angry debate, the plan to install bike lanes and other traffic calming measures on Ninth Street in Park Slope was narrowly endorsed by Community Board 6 last night. The vote was 17-14 with two abstentions. In April, CB6 had referred a motion endorsing the plan […]

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The online petition to create an express F Train and extend the V Train to Brooklyn as a local got more than 750 signatures in little more than a day, which would seem to indicate the idea being pushed by the blog Brooklyn Streets has some support among residents that use the line. In the […]

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There’s more detail on the possible transfer of Coney Island land controlled by the Parks Department to Taconic Investment Partners, and the possible deal is not being embraced with unanimity in the community. Taconic, which is acquiring land around the historic Childs Building for a major development, is looking to add city-owned land to its […]

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We came across this on the Coney Island Message Board and are posting it because we sure as hell didn’t know this, as per the person that posts as newbeacher: As most people know, there’s a reason for the boards in the boardwalk being laid out in two directions: vertical and diagonal. The reason that […]

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Seventh Heaven is likely to be the last street fair about which we write (other than with annoyance) until the Atlantic Antic in late summer. The Seventh Avenue street fair takes place in Park Slope on Sunday (6/17). We lament the fact that it’s one of the city’s big and more generic ones (plenty of […]

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