The rendering of the Heavy Metal Building in Carroll Gardens, aka 360 Smith Street, which is among the things that agitated neighbors and provoked a variety of reactions, is back online. Not long after there were bad reactions to the rendering (which had been posted for a long time), it was pulled from the Scarano […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Cop Shooting Leaves Two Seriously Wounded [NYT] State Knew Atlantic Yards Land Costs Would Rise, but Didn’t Tell Public [AYR] Atlantic Yards Déjà Vu in West Harlem [No Land Grab] Buyers Second Attempt to Purchase Starrett City Rejected [NYT] Upcoming Events for Childs Restaurant in […]

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[Photo courtesy of michaelsphotoz/flickr] We’d post the panoramas of the Floating Pool and beach posted on flickr by michaelsphotoz, but they’d make no sense at the width at which we can reproduce them. Instead, go here and here to check them out at full 4000 pixel width.

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From Street Films, via a post on Streets Blog, comes this short video on some of the improvements to the streetscape and to transportation that we’ve been seeing lately. Check out the 9th Street Bike Lanes, Pearl Street Plaza in Dumbo, the new bike parking on Bedford Avenue and more.

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Those of you with courage who enjoy being out on the water can always take a trip down the Gowanus Canal in a canoe. Or, if that doesn’t move you, you can look at the pictures and read the words at Big Sky Brooklyn and enjoy the Big G from afar. A sample: Paddling through […]

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Coney Island, Brooklyn

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We’re not sure how we feel about “mysterious nocturnal fauna” in Prospect Park, as we enjoy predictable and known fauna. But if you want to check it out, you can participate in some Thursday Night Twilight Tours of Prospect Park in coming weeks. In the words of the park’s press office: Enjoy an evening of […]

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Remember Williamsburg’s Old Dutch Mustard Building? We can hardly pass by Metropolitan Avenue and Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg without seeing it and grumbling about its demolition. Well, Old Dutch will be morphing into 80 Met, which is your standard off-the-shelf Williamsburg luxe condo building. It’s not an especially offensive structure–it’s simply pedestrian and uninspired–unless you […]

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[Photo courtesy of Catasterist/flickr] The first lift and dance of the Giglio in Williamsburg took place yesterday. Here are some links to photos and coverage: Giglio 2007 Photoset (above) [Kevin C. Downs/flickr]Getting Giglio With It [Lost City]Giglio Tagged Photos [flickr]Giglio Festival Kicks Off in Brooklyn [NY1] Giglio, Williamsburg Brooklyn, New York, 2007, originally uploaded by […]

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Ah, Greenpoint. We’ve seen windows being blocked by new construction and, now, we bring you air conditioners being rendered useless by new construction. This latest twist on quality of life augmentation, Greenpoint-style, comes to us courtesy of our very, very attentive Greenpoint correspondent. The building doing the covering is 112 Greenpoint Avenue. The overheated victims […]

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What you are looking at is 224 Wythe Avenue It’s part of a group of properties that includes 157 and 173 Kent Avenue, making up about 2/3 of a Williamsburg block. The building has had two gaping holes punched in it and the entire property has been serving as a locale for photo shoots. The […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Errol Lewis Louis on Eminent Domain Redux [AYR] Cobble Hill Cinemas [McBrooklyn] Would a Park Slope Charter School Provoke Stroller Frenzy? [Sun] Park Slope Breastfeeding, Continued [OTBKB] 77 BoaDrum Reviewed [NYT] Many Rocked to the Beat of the Drummers [Metro] New Bike Racks at Bed-Stuy […]

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Here’s a story on Coney Island’s trip and fall boardwalk from WCBS 2 News. There was also a piece on NY 1, which you can check out here.

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One of our favorite Brooklyn photobloggers, who’s always doing creative things, has a show from July 19 to August 14 at Design Within Reach in Brooklyn Heights, which is at 76 Montague Street. The show will feature more than a dozen photos, many of them shot in Gowanus, from Dalton Rooney, who runs the blog […]

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We extend our run of Williamsburg street couches with this beauty, which is actually a Sidewalk Sofa Bed. Note the added decoration. We assume it’s turned to face the fence for the purpose of privacy. Best to catch your z’s gazing at the fence rather than at passersby.

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[Photo courtesy of Rob Hoey/flickr] It’s Sunday, so we naturally turn our attention to the Brooklyn Missed Connections on Craigslist. We knew today’s choice would come out on top the moment we saw the headline about the horse near Prospect Park. You simply don’t get that many horse-related missed connections in Brooklyn or in NYC. […]

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In honor of today’s Giglio lift and dance in Williamsburg, we bring you some YouTube vids featuring the Williamsburg festival and other Giglios around the world. And, remember, if you go, give the Giglio a wide berth.

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Our Street Couch series continues with this wonderful, and comfortable, specimen from that center of hip, N. 6th Street in Williamsburg. Note the way that it juxtaposes living room comfort and urban streetscape. Comfy, yet gritty.

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Here’s a selection of some of the comments left by GL readers over the last seven days: More Boerum Hill Fun: Hookers Beneath the Windows. “I’m not advocating crime here but Bond Street has ALWAYS had prostitutes! lots of dead end streets to take the johns to…it’s an urban enviroment, desolate and near the projects, […]

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[Photo courtesy of TomVu/flickr]Brooklinks is a selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Drumming: 77BOADRUM Flickr Set (above) [TomVu/flickr] 77BOADRUM Photoset [The Other Lisa/flickr] 77 Drums from Brooklyn Bridge [McBrooklyn] Hipsters Really Line Up for 77 Drums [McBrooklyn] 304 Boredoms & 77BOADRUM Pics [flickr] Not Drumming: Bloggers Blogging Brooklyn News [NYT] Brooklyn Blogging Boom Story Has […]

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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As we said below, we’re looking at one building going up slooooowly and one going up so fast you look at it and say, woah. We remember how, not that long ago, the site of Northside Piers on the Williamsburg waterfront was little more than some pile drivers and excavation. Now, the building is almost […]

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What you are seeing are some plastic and/or ceramic frogs placed and photographed on the Carroll Street Bridge by the creators of the NYC Frog Project blog. They, uh, take frogs of all different shapes, sizes and colors, place them in interesting spots and take photos. The latest entry, of course, is the Big G. […]

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We thought we’d take a look at two opposite ends of the construction speed spectrum on this summer Saturday (skipping the far, far, end, which is completely stalled buildings) and bring you the super fast and the super slow. Compared to the breakneck pace of construction of some projects, like Northside Piers, which you will […]

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