What you’re looking at is one of the buildings of the Greenpoint Terminal Market that was left standing but partly collapsed after last year’s humongous fire. It has served as the focus of many photos that showed the area looking more like Berlin in 1947 than Greenpoint in 2007. Well, land clearance on the Greenpoint […]

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Was it only last week that we watched people hoisting the Giglio and carrying it down the street? Well, the Giglio is now only a skeleton of its former self, which we found interesting in both a before-and-after and how-things-are-made kind of way.

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After months of looking ratty, the Coney Island land with rides demolished by Thor Equities has been totally cleared. The reason: the Cole Bros. Circus is coming to Coney starting July 30. The circus will occupy the cleared land where the Go-Kart tracks, bumper boats and batting cages once stood. After that, consider the big […]

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Here are nearly two-dozen vids (of widely varying quality) shot at the Siren Festival in Coney Island on Saturday and posted to you tube. Click the ones that interest you on the embed below or go over to the playlist.

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Huge Hole in Atlantic Yards Financing [AYR] Different Kind of Hole on Pineapple Street [Brooklyn Heights Blog] Feel the Brooklyn Critical Mass Video [Streets Blog] Charles Barron Open Brooklyn Borough President Campaign [Sun] Man at Work on Gowanus Expressway [Big Sky Brooklyn] Kensington via Blog […]

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Sure, it’s only a Stop Sign, but we’ve been following its trials and tribulations thanks to our Greenpoint correspondent and today we can report that it’s on the move (again). She writes: Friday it was located on the sidewalk at 159 Green Street. Yesterday it had managed to cross the street (148 Green Street). Today […]

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Greenpoint, Brooklyn

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Lou Reed performed two songs and did a spoken word performance as part of the Doc Pomus Project at Celebrate Brooklyn organized by Hal Willner. In addition to the legendary Mr. Reed, performers included Laurie Anderson, Robin Holcomb, Ben E. King, Eric Mingus, Shannon McNally, Jenni Muldaur, Howard Tate and others. Mr. Reed performed Youngblood. […]

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Something–we’re not sure what–tells us this is a very lost cause. But here goes: My C train friend — I do have a crush, but I’m not a stalker! – w4mI started seeing you months ago on the way to work. At first it was a coincidence, then I started to look forward to it. […]

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Here’s a slideshow of the excellent Doc Pomus Project show at Celebrate Brooklyn last night (7/21). You can click right over to our flickr set if this doesn’t do it for you.

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[Black Lips photo courtesy of jonkeegan/flickr] Here are some of the very results on flickr. Many, many more to come. Sirenfestival Tagged Flickr Photos [flickr] Village Voice Siren Festival 2007 [jonkeegan/flickr] Siren Festival ’07 [extrawack/flickr] Siren Festival [La Mariposa/flickr] Siren Music Festival 2007 [wesleyrosenblum/flickr]

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GL hit the fireworks in Coney Island on Friday night. Here’s a short vid for those of you that are interested.

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Here is playlist of vids of our favorite Brooklyn neighborhood. Enjoy.

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As those of you that read GL often know, we post at Curbed from Monday through Friday. Here’s a sampling of our postings there this week: Greenpoint’s Tahoe Triangle Looking Very Gray (above) Actually, 80 Metropolitan is a ‘Wet Dream’ Williamsburg Two-Pack: Chetrit’s East & West Coasts Not Everyone is Feeling the North8 Billyburg Vibe […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. In the Times [AYR] Parishioners Clash at East New York Church [NYT] Love Lane Garage [Velvet Sea] Sunset Over Brooklyn [McBrooklyn] Brooklyn Battery Tunnel [Joe’s NYC] Saturday Afternoon in Dumbo [Englishman in New York] Press Criticism of Public Authorities & AKRF [Duffield St. Underground] Exxon […]

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Red Hook, Brooklyn

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The development known as “The Modern” on N. 7th Street in Williamsburg between Driggs and Roebling continues to be a source of joy to its neighbors. There are serious concerns that it is destabilizing adjoining buildings and that no shoring has been put in place. On Sunday, we took another photo of the way the […]

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Remember that stop sign that was cut down by a traffic accident at the intersection of Green Street and Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint, which has been rendered dangerous by construction? Well, it was put back up after it was cut down. And, our Greenpoint correspondent, who sent in the above image, notes that it didn’t […]

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You don’t need GL to tell you any of this, but in case you’re wondering when which band goes on, here’s the schedule for today’s Siren Festival in Coney Island.

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If you read GL or our work over at Curbed, you know we’ve paid a lot of attention to the Toll Brothers developments on Kent Avenue. (We also have noted their efforts in Gowanus, but those are still in the planning and lobbying stage.) Why the Toll Brothers? Partly because we’re fascinated by the urban […]

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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[Photo courtesy of the Adrian Kinloch and the superb Brit in Brooklyn] Brooklinks is a selection of Brooklyn-related information and, especially on the weekend, images. Images: Brooklyn 11211 (above) [Brit in Brooklyn] A Tree Drives in Brooklyn [A Test of Will] Friday Photo [Clinton Hill Blog] Brooklyn Bumblebee [Brooklyn Bachelor] Office [Lex’s Folly] Dead Tech […]

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If you’re fascinated by Coney Island, you’ll love this YouTube vid, which came to our attention thanks to a post on the Coney Island Message Board by New York Dave.

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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From one of our readers comes a story of some theft issues in the Gowanus and Park Slope area. We’ll let him explain: I moved into Park Slope/Gowanus (Degraw between 4th and 5th) in the middle of May and since that time I have had my bike stolen from in front of my Apt (learned […]

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