We noted during a Community Board 6 meeting we attended in late spring that one of the Red Hook Garden District’s recent arrivals, the Gowanus Nursery, was being threatened by new residential development. The nursery had been on Third Street and moved this year to Summit Street in Red Hook. Here’s the email from the […]

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Finally! The building we like to call The Bunker on Bond and Carroll Streets in Gowanus because of its stunning street-side lack of windows abundance of wall space, is getting a skin. The facade appears to be white. You will also note the exterior wood paneling, which is a trademark of architect Robert Scarano on […]

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Given that we featured a jaw-dropping Gowanus building designed by Karl Fischer earlier this week, we figure this is a good time to have another look at one of the architect’s buildings rising on Diamond Street in Greenpoint. (We last checked on it July.) The photo comes from our Greenpoint correspondent. Of the green facade […]

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We almost hesitate to post this photo because it’s so freaking foul. It and some others were sent to us by a GL reader who submitted it in order to share the situation on Ninth Street between Second and Third Avenue in Gowanus that it depicted. Call it Garbage Porn. Of the trash company whose […]

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Have you ever wanted to call a place succulent? Well, now you can. Perhaps you’ve read about the Green Wall in Williamsburg. It was covered not long after installation in Dwell. Well, we figured we’d post these photos of the exterior wall of the new Williamsburg bar called Oulu, which is on N. 4th Street […]

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We’re especially happy to run this item, because it concerns Pizza Plus, the little Seventh Avenue pizza place that was devastated by a bad fire in May that also displaced residents upstairs. As you can see in the photo above, Pizza Plus is almost back. It’s been a long haul, but the restaurant has gotten […]

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Brooklinks is a selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Have a Happy Labor Day Weekend. We’ll be here if you need us! And, we’ll have some exciting news to share on other side of the holiday. The Times Knows How to Do Better, But Not With Atlantic Yards [AYR] The Greenpoint 100 [11222] Dog Shit […]

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It’s time for the 40th Annual West Indian Day Parade on Monday, so here are some vids posted to the YouTube of the parade & carnival in past years. Enjoy.

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[Photo courtesy of dlemieux/flickr] Ever wonder what it would be like spending time in two possibly doomed bars at once? Tonight’s your chance. Via No Land Grab we find that the crew at Freddy’s Bar, which sits in the path of Forest City Ratner’s Atlantic Yards Project, is taking over Hank’s, the bar at Atlantic […]

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While there may be a lot of bulldozing and drilling going on in the vicintity of Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues, the future of the Atlantic Yards development hinges on the various legal battles against it, which include a still active lawsuit against the use of eminent domain and a suit about the environmental review process. […]

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No, we’re not talking about what goes on in the restrooms downstairs at the Park Slope Barnes & Noble on Seventh Avenue at the changing tables. (Though an incredible amount of it goes on.) We’re talking about a reading in the store next Wednesday at 7:30 by Dave Praeger, who is the author of Poop […]

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We will preface this by saying that we have not personally smelled the oil which is alleged in the following email that was passed along to us, nor have we personally seen evidence of it. However, given that the email comes from the office of a New York City Council Member, we think it is […]

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Don’t look now, but even some supporters are starting to suggest that the F Train Express idea, which has gotten much play in the media, may have died at the starting gate. That’s because the MTA is sticking to its guns and continuing to say that there’s no way they can do it until 2012. […]

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Today, we have a couple of Williamsburg food & drink items to bring up to date: 1) Red Bowl is open on Bedford Avenue. The new restaurant–which is the third addition to Bedford’s little Asian Row that includes Wild Ginger and Thai Thai–bills itself as new Asian, but the mix leans heavily toward refined Chinese. […]

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The long awaited Coney Island Development Corp. zoning recommendations, which had been expected as early as this week, have been delayed again until October. This latest development is reported by Neil deMause in the Village Voice. One could conclude that the zoning study is taking time, but it’s more likely on hold to give more […]

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That video produced by Thor Equities about the Mermaid Parade and then pulled down for some tweaks after a request by Mermaid Parade founder Dick Zigun is back. (You can read the back story here if you aren’t familiar.) The main change that we can see identify is that it now says “Thor Equities at […]

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The demolition equipment that has been hard at work on the former Revere Sugar site being cleared by Thor Equities was silent at the time we found this gentleman catching some rays and some z’s. He’s one of the group of people that spend serious summer quality time with their boats docked in Red Hook […]

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Given the amount of grief we’ve given the condo development on N. 6th Street called Urban Green (perhaps you might remember it as Urban Death?) for maintaining a construction site that we thought was so wide open that it was a peril to children and drunken hipsters, it’s only fair to note that they’ve got […]

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The special GL correspondent who sent us this photo she took on Eastern Parkway yesterday said it put her in the carnival spirit. We agree, and it compelled us to note that the 40th Anniversary edition of the parade is happening on Monday, Sept. 3. There will, of course, be events all weekend long. If […]

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Quite simply, we have nothing to add to this image that could possibly say more than the image itself. Related Post:Williamsburg Transportation Policy: It’s a Bike. No, It’s a Trash Can

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Yes, it comes from Williamsburg. No, it’s not the most tagged up sign we’ve ever seen, but we think it’s rather nicely stickered, hence our decision to include it here.

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Brooklinks is a selection of Brooklyn-related information and images with respect, today, for Hilly Kristal. Save Coney Island Looking for Troops [Kinetic Carnival] Atlantic Yards Office Space in the DC Context [AYR] Starrett City Owners Make Move to Market Rate Housing [NYT] Starrett in Bid to Nix Low-Rent Money [NYP] Brooklyn Development Roundup [Curbed] Spitzer […]

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The Waterfront Alliance of Greenpoint & Williamsburg reports in on the renovation and conversion of one of the more beautiful buildings on the south side of Williamsburg, the old Bedford Avenue Theatre at 109 S. 6th Street. They write: Located on South 6th, just west of Bedford Avenue, this building was graced with a peeling […]

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(RIP, CBGB founder Hilly Kristal, who has died at the age of 75 from cancer. Mr. Kristal ran CBGB’s for three decades, until it was forced to close last October.) You might have noted this morning that Gov. Eliot Spitzer vetoed a bill yesterday to require more inspections by the Department of Buildings of structures […]

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The rendering upon which you are gazing? It’s a building designed by the prolific Karl Fischer Architect. We came across it in the course of checking out yesterday’s Brownstoner post about Mr. Fischer’s design for a new hotel at 237 Duffield Street. While plans are currently in a state of rejection at the Department of […]

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