[Photo courtesy of missapril1956/flickr] Farm on Adderly Celebrates One-Year Anniversary (above) [Living in Victorian Flatbush] Introducing DeCoursy’s Sidecar in the South Slope [Clinton Hill Gastronome] Grimaldi’s, Thy Name is Mediocre [Chowhound] Clemen’s Burrito Bar in Windsor Terrace is “Worth Checking Out” [Brooklyn Streets] Cafe on Clinton Update [BK 11201] Jill’s Brings Raw Food to Court […]

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It’s been quite the week for bikes. Progress has been swift on the Ninth Street Bike Lane in Park Slope. The new bike parking at the Bedford L stop in Williamsburg (NYC’s first loss of parking spaces for the benefit of bikes) is finished. And, we have a chartreuse bike lane on Henry Street, which […]

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We figure it’s worth reminding you about all the Brooklyn concert happenings this summer. You can go to Brooklyn Concerts to get to a couple of the sites or directly to the pages for the Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series or for the Seaside Summer Concert Series, which kicked off last night with Tommy […]

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[Photo courtesy of Chris Curen] While we take no pleasure in burned out cars, we have to say there is something especially interesting about this shot sent our way by Chris Curen that shows a toasted car and the Ikea being built on Beard Street in Red Hook. Mr. Curen writes: The summer Beard Street […]

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[Photo courtesy bondidwhat/flickr] So, our post yesterday about the “hooliganism” in Carroll Park reported by a neighborhood mom attracted a large number of comments. (33 as of early this morning, which is a significantly large reaction for GL.) And, we also came across another email of a “disturbing incident” in the park and another ho-hum […]

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GL has learned that City Council Member Bill de Blasio is planning another rally against architect Robert Scarano for Tuesday, July 17. How did we learn this? An email from Mr. de Blasio’s office is making the rounds among Carroll Gardens residents. It says in part: We are looking to do our next event calling […]

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That Carroll Gardens petition calling for a moratorium on buildings taller than 50 feet while rezoning is considered has gotten 1,500 signatures. The first petitions have been submitted to a long list of public officials, including the Mayor, Borough President and the MTA, which is involved in the project at 360 Smith Street that sparked […]

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Earlier this week, Brownstoner had an update on the progress of the Karl Fischer building at 305 McGuinness Boulevard near the Pulaski Bridge. Today, we bring you an update on the progress of his five-story building on Diamond Street, which is not beloved by our Greenpoint correspondent. She describes it as “a masterpiece,” but not […]

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Oh, how the Williamsburg waterfront is going to change. Not only would the New Domino development be the single largest project on the waterfront as it’s currently proposed, big changes are coming south of the Williamsburg Bridge too. The rendering above shows the possible future of the northeast corner of Broadway and Kent Avenue. The […]

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Listen around 10:40 this morning and the sound you will hear is that of Brooklynites cheering the announcement that Trader Joe’s will be moving into the old bank building at Court Street and Atlantic Avenue. The news was broken by our friends at Racked yesterday and spread quickly. Racked reported: Trader Joe’s Brooklyn is actually, […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Landlords & Tenants: Landlord Drama Continues [Esthetic/Aesthetic] Helpful Tool for Suing Your Landlord [City Room] About That Village Voice Bushwick Landlord Smear Piece [Bushwick BK] Not Landlords & Tenants: Number One Fun: Park Slope User’s Guide Video [Gawker] It’s Belvedere XX!!! [newyorkshitty] Some PLG Properties […]

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Yesterday’s Washington Post had a front page story about Coney Island that is one of the first we’ve seen by an out-of-town writer that actually managed to capture the debate over its future without falling into the pit of hyperbole over a glitzy $2 billion makeover. The story, headlined “A Sea Change at Coney Island? […]

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[Photo courtesy of gkjarvis/flickr] Brooklyn’s jogging blogger, Gary Jarvis, is officially calling it quits. While we’re disappointed and will especially miss the thousands more photos that Gary would have shot and posted in his runs around the borough, but we understand the injuries that led to the decision. He writes: This shouldn’t come as a […]

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Here’s an interesting story from Carroll Park between Smith and Court Streets that is making the rounds in the form of an email from a local mom about “an increasingly unruly element” making the park “unsafe for families” even during the day. It’s a very long post, and if you don’t have attention span for […]

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We put together some photos we’ve taken of Smith Street near Atlantic Avenue, mostly this year, that show a little bit of the surviving old Smith and some of the new. This is the last part of Smith Street to be hit by the wave of gentrification that has turned corner gift stores into Starbucks, […]

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We find this during and after photo of the Smith Street building that used to house Tirado Income Tax interesting in that we got it with dumpster out front and, then, just recently. Of course, it’s not much without a photo from earlier, but it still shows a tiny slice of change on Smith Street […]

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We had no idea you could go online to get the, uh, water quality data for local beaches like Coney Island until the excellent blog GerritsenBeach.net posted it. (In recent weeks, the blog has broken both that weird story about the idea in Manhattan Beach to privatize the beach and about the vandalism of those […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Arrest Made in Brooklyn Police Shooting [NYT] Flatbush Wildlife Report: Opossums and Raccoons [Flatbush Gardener] Vote for the Best Kensington T-Shirt Logo [Kensington Brooklyn] Starrett City Residents Fear Another Buyer Will Come [NYT] Overdevelopment Complaints Continue in Sunset Park, Park Slope [Brooklyn Daily Eagle] Empty […]

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We love oddly posted building permits, like these, which we found at 53 Hope Street in Williamsburg. The permits in question are posted about nine or ten feet (give or take) off the ground. We had to use our telephoto lens to zoom in on them to figure out what they said. You can find […]

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We’re happy to note that Red Hook Movies in the Park are back for their second year. Every Thursday evening from July 12-August 16 there will be free films in one of three Red Hook Parks. Here’s the schedule, as per the email that went out from the sponsors: July 12: Rize[at Valentino Pier] July […]

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We continue our series of photos of compromised signage with this example of an Alternate Side Parking sign at its finest, which comes to us from Williamsburg, east of the BQE.

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We got an email from Friends of Sunset Park about a series of Wednesday morning events that start today (7/11) and continue for the next four Wednesdays. They’re CityParks Kids performances and they start at 10:30 AM. Here’s what the email says: Are you 1, are you 2, ….? or, are you 101? Whatever your […]

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If you paid attention to the surprisingly contentious Park Slope debate about installing bike lanes and other traffic calming measures on Ninth Street, then you’ll recall that one of the key points of concern was that the bike lanes would put a crimp in double parking. Well, all appears to be well. We post these […]

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Take the Red Hook Quiz. Match the Red Hook bar, restaurant or business to the answers below. The quiz–both concept, questions and answers– come to us from our special Red Hook correspondent Chris Curen. Don’t look down there first, but we’ve got the correct answers at the bottom. 1) Red Hook Bait and Tackle2) Liberty […]

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and we’re willing to consider the fact that we’re simply the wrong beholder in the case of this buiding at 126 Fourth Avenue (at Baltic). In fact, we kind of liked it better when it was hidden behind scaffolding and netting. The building sits where an Exxon […]

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