While we haven’t gotten any reports of sewage geysers erupting in the streets in Gowanus as happened last year during an especially bad rainstorm, we did get these photos from Mirabelle Studios of flooding on Ninth Street between Second Avenue and the Canal. While the flooding has nothing to do with the Canal itself nor […]

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Here’s a bit of totally gratuitous neighborhood gossip sent to us by a reader. It’s of interest because the building in question is 125 2nd Place in Carroll Gardens. So what, you say? Well, it is the building next door to 360 Smith, the controversial building that would be built by developer Billy Stein and […]

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The Brooklyn hotel boomlet gets another dose of publicity with a NY1 story surveying the scene and taking note of the expanded Brooklyn Marriott, the Gowanus Holiday Inn Express, the Gowanus Comfort Inn and the Hotel Le Bleu as evidence of a developing “haven” for “Outer Borough tourists.” (Translation: your mother-in-law from Chicago visiting you […]

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We figured that this summer Friday is as good a day as any to bring an updated view of Karl Fischer Row (aka Bayard Street) from a different angle. That would be Ikon in the foreground, with the Thing on Top (of which we are not admirers) making slow progress. (Is it just us or […]

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140 Scholes Street is going through a heavy duty rehab, presumably to emerge as luxe condos or apartments. Our Greenpoint correspondent caught this moment of sleeping on an angle sufficient enough to combat a serious acid reflux problem. She also caught some of other conditions on Scholes should you be inclined to check in on […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Happy summer weekend. Still No Oversight for Atlantic Yards [NYDN] Atlantic Yards Pix [No Land Grab] Why Not Try Berlin’s Recycling Approach Here? [Brownstoner] Which Color Bike Lane Do You Like? [McBrooklyn] City Inquires About Greenpoint Club Noise [11222] Brokers Already Using Trader Joe’s as […]

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We received an email that the tenants of 202 Franklin Street in Greenpoint are planning a “Vigil Against Harassment and Displacement!” on Tuesday (7/24) from 6PM to 7:30PM. The rent-stabilized tenants were displaced three years ago by a fire and have been frustrated in their efforts to return. The email says: The landlords, Franklin Global […]

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[Photo courtesy of staceyjoy/flickr] Sugar in Prospect Heights: Old Brooklyn Parlor [Eater/Racked Photo Pool] Schnack Goes BYOB; Is It in a “Death Spiral”? [Chowhound] Eating Coney Island [TONY] Check Out the Treats Truck at the Pearl Street Triangle on Saturday [Dumbo NYC] Black Mountain Wine Bar Open at Union & Hoyt [Eater] Brooklyn Menu Updates […]

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There’ a new Coney Island blog dedicated to chronicling Coney’s “last year” called, well, Last Year at Coney Island. We find the topic somewhat depressing, but certainly welcome additional blog coverage. We take no credit for finding the new blog, which is produced by Neil J. Murphy. We came across it thanks to the always […]

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It seems like it was only yesterday that we were sticking our nose through gaps in the fence around the Williamsburg development site we named the Roebling Oil Field to shoot photos of the oily ooze coming out of the ground. It provided us with so much joy–not to mention a collapsing sidewalk that almost […]

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What you’re looking at is the future of 253 N. 7th Street on top, and the existing building in its current state of deconstruction. The new 253 N. 7th, which also sports an address of 245 N. 8th, is the work of Michael Muroff Architect. The firm describes the new building as follows: In industrial […]

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The Carroll Gardens group called CORD, which has been running a petition drive to call for a moratorium on building in the neighborhood until expansion of its historic district and rezoning are considered, will be part of a “Town Hall Meeting” with Council Member Bill de Blasio next week. The time and place are yet […]

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There is nothing particularly brand new about this juxtaposition. It’s just that we happened to pay more attention to it the other day and noticed the 1876 atop 333 Warren Street, which is next door to 335 Warren Street. We also noted that the flowers in the windows of the empty building are a nice […]

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Perhaps you recall the supportive housing development the Fifth Avenue Committee has been trying to build at Fifth Avenue. Well, many months after the public discussion about the building at 575 Fifth Avenue started, the City Council has voted unanimously to approve it, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reports. The building, which will have 49 units […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images, except, of course, for linking one of today’s stories about that scary steam explosion in Manhattan yesterday: Atlantic Yards Environmental Review Case to Take More Time [No Land Grab] Reports Says Stop Playing Politics with ESDC [AYR] Dutch Mustard Replacement 80 Met Now Has Website […]

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1) It looks like Jessie’s Brooklyn Kitchen, whose blue-and-yellow storefront has been in place for some time at 220 Smith Street (uh, since at least January), is closing in on an opening. We know this due to our powerful talent for observation, like the fact that there was painting going on outside that had something […]

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Our Greenpoint correspondent sent this image of the signage at Green Street and Manhattan Avenue, noting that a truck had mowed down on of the local stop signs at an intersection that construction has rendered treacherous for both motor vehicle, pedestrian and bicyclist. In any case, you’ll note one sign is way up there. The […]

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As we noted yesterday, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development–which is overseeing development of the parcel on the Gowanus Canal known as Public Place published detailed guideines for the project yesterday. Developers have until October to submit proposals, although getting the project going will be a very long and complicated procress with at least […]

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The Public Place site presents some sobering environmental issues and the extent to which you will be comfortable with the cleanup will be determined by the extent to which you are comfortable with the state’s willingness to be aggressive in enforcing cleanup standards on KeySpan, which is responsible for the heavy lifting, and on the […]

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No one will ever accuse New York State of acting precipitously in going after Exxon Mobil for the awful oil spill into Newtown Creek and under Greenpoint. A lawsuit to force a faster cleanup and to impose fines was finally filed yesterday. The spill is one of the worst ever in the United States, an […]

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A “Report Card” on New York City Beaches produced by New Yorkers for Parks gave the Coney Island and Brighton Beach beaches one of two “unsatisfactory” grades in the city. The good news–well, not so good, really–is that only one beach in Staten Island was rated “satisfactory.” All the other beaches were rated as “challenged.” […]

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You may know the site next to the Ikea under construction in Red Hook that’s a former industrial area been partly reclaimed by wetlands vegetation. Harriet Zucker, who saved the Revere Sugar dogs, sent along these photos of an egret there, noting that the area “has become an urban sanctuary.” She wonders if anything can […]

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Nets Tickets to Go Up in Price with Brooklyn Move [AYR] Study Calls for “Major Administrative Overhaul” at ESDC [Sun] Dumbo Triangle Goes Bike Lane Green [Brownstoner] Frank Gluska of Ruby’s in Coney Island Speaks [Grub Street] Eckerd, Rite Aid–Who Cares? [Lost City] Detail on Bad Beach Grade in Report Card [NYT] Shelly Silver to […]

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Controversial Brooklyn architect Robert Scarano recently recieved two awards from the New York Society of American Registered Architects. The late June awards were reported by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle yesterday. He recieved the Housing Award of Merit for the Manhattan Park Condos in Greenpoint (above). The other awards was for a residential tower in the […]

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