Here’s the second installment in this week’s Street Couch Series. This, too, comes from the sofa-filled sidewalks of Williamsburg. We call this one Sofa with Hanging Bicycle.

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Get your tackle out of the closet and head down to Ye Olde Bait Shoppe (find some of your Brooklyn locations here) because it’s time to fish in Prospect Park. Meaning that the 60th Annual Macy’s Fishing Contest will be upon us from July 18-22. The Prospect Park people say: A rite of passage for […]

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[Photo courtesy of seriously excited!/Dalton Rooney] Photo-Oriented: Fourth and Bond (above) [seriously excited!] Kentile at Dusk [Blue Jake] More Gowanus Canal Jellyfish [Lasadh/flickr] Coney Island Photo Sunday [michaelspornanimation] iPhone Pictures of Astroland [grahambrunk.com] Coney Infrared from Wonder Wheel [beckermanphoto.com] Hot Bird and Nunez [Dope on the Slope] Word-Oriented: Newtown Creek Cleanup Restart [Greenpoint Star via […]

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We return to our series on seriously compromised street signs with this example from, of course, Williamsburg. We’d tell you what it says, if we could.

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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This is simply a rumor on the Coney Island Message Board. Repeat, this is simply a rumor. Yet, it makes so much sense that it is a compelling one: I heard from a very good source while having a drink at Ruby’s Bar that Thor is negotiating with the landlord of the Wonder Wheel Park […]

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Since we’ve been reporting so much of the fun goings on in Boerum Hill recently, it only seem appropriate to pass on this latest tidbit from a tipster living in the approximate vicinity of Baltic and Bond Streets. It, uh, concerns the neighborhood sex industry and local sex care workers and a possible customer and/or […]

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We’ve had our fun with this construction site, which we’ve dubbed Urban Death because of the questionable way in which it has been secured. And, truth be told, even though it’s improved, we simply can’t understand why there’s still a big gap in the fence and why they refuse to close it completely. On the […]

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1) Red Bowl, a Chinese restaurant at 208 Bedford Avenue, (above) appears to be making serious progress toward an opening soon. How did we guess? Must be the prominent signage that has been put up. One hopes that it fares better than the last Chinese/Asian attempt a couple of doors down, which seemed to last […]

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We’ve had this on the GL hard drive for a couple of days, but didn’t want the week to end without showing this juxtaposition of Open House and Broken Window. We don’t know how the window was broken, as the frame showed a huge dent that made it look more like an accident than vandalism. […]

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We watched the July 4 fireworks from PortSide New York’s Mary Whalen, which is docked at the container port in Red Hook, although we did wonder how things went at the new East River State Park in Williamsburg. The answer is, apparently less than perfectly. Curbed’s Wire reported late yesterday afternoon: After all the hoopla […]

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We are fascinated by those scary maps that show how screwed Brooklyn will be when the Big One–or even the Little One–comes roaring up the East Coast and slams into us. We are toast and, generally speaking, totally unprepared for the destruction and a flooded borough and all of the disruptions that it will entail. […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. (We’re running a little late and linkage is a bit shorter than usual today as we’re operating in an environment with a nighmarish internet connection. Our apologies for leaving things out!) Barge Pool Open One Day and Breaks [Gothamist] Is Barge Pool Breakage Omen of […]

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We captured images of an unusually large number of street couches over the last week in Williamsburg, which is clearly one of the city’s sidewalk sofa centers. We like this one both because of the way the upholstery goes with the Marilyn Manson posters behind it. In any case, we’ll be running some of the […]

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We won’t be around tomorrow, or this would be on our must-see list for the weekend. The Japanese avante-rock band the Boredoms are leading 77 drummers in what is being described as a “once-in-a-lifetime performance” meant to be performed only once, on 07-07-07. The performance, which is sponsored by Jelly NYC and Vice Records, takes […]

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Remember that Ninth Street traffic calming project, including new bike lanes for Ninth Street in Park Slope? The Department of Transportation said it was going to go ahead with the project in July and, lo and behold, the work has started. The photo above shows the beginning of the bike lanes that will run down […]

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[Photo courtesy of TrekkerPanda/flickr]It has been there for 60 years, but no longer. A GL reader emails to say that the Italian Grocery at the corner of Third Avenue and President Street is no more: The Italian grocery on 3rd avenue and President, that has been family owned and run for 60 yrs, has closed […]

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PortSide New York invited people to watch the July 4 fireworks from its new headquarters, the wonderful Mary A. Whalen, a former tanker that is being renovated and given a new life. The last time we’d been aboard the Whalen, she was in a graving dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard for maintenance and repairs. […]

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[Photo courtesy of Dietrich/flickr] What would an event–any event–be without some protesters? The Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest attracted a few non-hot dog eaters yesterday, as you can see in some of these pics posted to flickr, above and below. [Photo courtesy of lazysundae/flickr] [Photo courtesy of valjean/flickr]

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Our colleagues at Curbed broke this story about “The New Domino” just before the July 4 break and we think it bears repeating. What you are looking at is a rendering that shows the relative height and density of buildings that would be built at the site of the old Domino Plant in Williamsburg next […]

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The drama of Boerum Hill continues. (For those of you joining the story in progress, you can check in window smashings & tire slashings, chalk marks on trees and, our favorite, the Mad Crapper.) In any case, here’s a bit of the latest, from emails: On Monday night I was getting a drink of water […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Fourth of July: Joey Chestnut Wins Nathan’s Contest, Live Blogged [Gothamist] Chestnut Wins [Kinetic Carnival] Chestnut Prevails with 66 Hot Dogs [NYT] False Alarm Drowning at Coney on the Fourth [lornagrl] …And Someone Shoots Himself in the Neck on the Boardwalk at W. 26th [Sun] […]

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That most beloved of North Brooklyn festivals, the Giglio Feast kicks off today. It’s the 120th Annual Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and San Paolino di Nola. It runs from today (7/5) through Monday, July 16, and its epicenter is at North 8th Street and Havemeyer Street. If you’ve never been, we highly […]

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[Photo courtesy of EKavet/flickr] Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest 2007 [Niel’s Eye/flickr] Nathan’s Hot Dog Contest 2007 [valjean615/flickr] Nathan’s Contest & Coney Island, July 4, 2007 [Gordon Gattsek/flickr] Nathan’s 2007 Contest [William Fleitch/flickr] Hot Dog Eating Contest July 4, 2007 [misscharo/flickr] 2007 Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest [shiny red tape/flickr] Fourth of July 2007 […]

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