[Photo courtesy of view-askew/flickr]Local filmmaker and photographer Nathan Kensinger is premiering his latest work–a project with longtime filmmaking partner Meghan O’Hara–in Red Hook on Saturday along with a retrospective of other films they have created. The screening is from 2PM-4:30PM on Saturday (8/11) and will take place at 499 Van Brunt Street, which is the […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Unstable at 255 Fourth Avenue? [Brownstoner] Atlantic Yards Carve Out Shrinks [AYR] Ratner Clause is Coming to Town [No Land Grab] The Consulting Firm Everyone Calls [NYO] Bed-Stuy Block is Greenest [Bed-Stuy Blog] Controversial Brooklyn Ghibran Academy’s Plans [NYP] Daily News Trolls Blogs [Brooklyn 11211] […]

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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Dumbo, Brooklyn

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[Photo courtesy of AngryCitizen.org/flickr] A number of photos of damage produced by that early morning storm that slammed the city and produced its heaviest damage in Brooklyn and, particularly, in Sunset Park, Flatbush and Bay Ridge, are being posted on flickr. There are 93 pics up so far and far more to come. You can […]

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Are the Red Hook vendors newly threatened by yet another situation? Could be. Porkchop Express reports on a new “situation” at the Red Hook Ball Fields involving the Health Department. Here’s the detail: Last Friday at approximately 4:30 pm, Food Committee Executive Director Cesar Fuentes discovered that the Department of Health was going to institute […]

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The reason we ended up shooting some video of Sunday work at 525 Union Avenue the other day was the tagging you see above. We noticed it while whizzing past on the BQE (which offers a dramatic and complete view of the art work that you can’t get from street level) and stopped on Union […]

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It would be hard to overstate the weirdness that has characterized the Coney Island redevelopment discussion thus far, and particularly hard to overemphasize its bizarre nature during the last week. As for the latest developments, yesterday, Bloomberg reported that most of the Astroland rides that had been put up for auction by former owner Carol […]

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We’re going to be featuring posts from some guest bloggers that have been kind enough to submit some cool material over the next couple of weeks. GL is very excited to do so and securing contributions from other Brooklyn bloggers is something we’ve wanted to do for a long time. We’re honored to have The […]

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Ikea’s big blue exterior wall has rounded the bend and is in the home stretch. The familiar blue wall, which was on the east side of the building is now on the north side along Beard Street, which is the one that most people going to Red Hook see. The big blue presence should make […]

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This sign was attacked and altered a long, long time ago. It resides on a fence in front of some New York City Transit property on N. 6th Street in Williamsburg. It’s got a certain something having to do with the many layers of destruction represented.

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn related information and images. Brooklyn Blogs, Atlantic Yards and Class [AYR] Deal Reached on 421-a Developer Tax Break [NYT] Much Bacteria at Some NYC Beaches [City Room] Coney Circus Attendance Lower Than Anticipated [Kinetic Carnival] Now, Manhattan Beach Wants to Ban Barbecues [GerritsenBeach.Net] Pearl Street Triangle Unveiling Press […]

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Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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If you’re looking for something to do tomorrow night, you can check out the “Dear Pin-Up Girls” fundraiser at the Laila Lounge in Williamsburg. It’s the the second annual fundraiser for the New York Foundation for the Arts to benefit s.u.n.Arts shows and help support the emerging artists community in New York City. The verbiage […]

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If you’ve checked recently, you might have noticed that Williamsburg now has a skyline. It’s not much yet–just very tall building north of the Williamsburg Bridge so far (plus one building south of the bridge)–but there will be more soon enough. In any case, Northside Piers, the Toll Brothers building that’s in the forefront is […]

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Williamsburg resident and community activist Phil DePaolo has keeps an eye on development around Williamsburg. So, after a story in yesterday’s NY Post about a “condo crackdown” in Williamsburg that says the Department of Buildings has been issuing more Stop Work Orders–and our own post showing unauthorized Sunday construction work going on at a site […]

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New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has signed a measure that will help Community Boards to do planning under the state’s brownfield program. The measure, introduced by Sen. Velmanette Montgomery and Assemblywoman Joan Millman allows Community Boards to apply for certain planning grants from the Brownfield Opportunity Areas program. The measure had previously been vetoed by […]

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[Photo entitled “Hellish Queue” courtesy of yanger/flickr] We’ve seen a number of things over the last week or so, including a blog post yesterday, that indicate people might be getting a little tired of schleping to the Floating Pool in Brooklyn Heights and about waiting in long lines to get in under blazing summer sun. […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: A Few Thoughts About Brooklyn Blogging [newyorkshitty] Kent Avenue is Now Good for Drag Racing Again!!! [Brooklyn 11211] Attacks on Women in Williamsburg [Gothamist] Smaller One Hanson Units Selling Best [Brownstoner] Yassky Opposes New Walentas Dumbo Building [Dumbo NYC] Save Dumbo [Brooklyn Enthusiast] Red Hook […]

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Green Brooklyn, which covers environmental issues from a Brooklyn perspective, is one of the blogs that we track every day. Coverage ranges from the Exxon-Mobil Oil Spill in Greenpoint to composting drop off spots and the voice is one of concern and constructive suggestion about public policy. With environmental issues looming large all over Brooklyn–not […]

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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One of the more interesting Brooklyn traditions is the annual celebration of the Battle of Brooklyn, the Revolutionary War fight that took place in what is now Gowanus, Park Slope, Prospect Park and Greenwood Cemetery. So, for instance, if your shopping at the Staples on Fourth Avenue at Third Street around mid-August, keep in mind […]

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Coney Island, Brooklyn

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Remember that building at 525 Union Avenue, whose Sunday work has been tormenting parishioners at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Williamsburg? (That’s the church that runs the Giglio Feast every year.) There are active complaints against the building for Sunday work, but nothing has been done to stop the noisy construction work that parishioners […]

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Talk about sending messages through the press. Yesterday, Jotham Sederstrom scored the Brooklyn scoop of the month so far, writing a story in the Daily News quoting “a high-ranking city official” saying that developer Joe Sitt’s ambitious Coney Island redevelopment is “dead in the water,” among other things. It would seem that such a “high-ranking […]

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