We haven’t done a Coney Island Death Watch item in a long time because the active demolition and evictions by Thor Equities took a hiatus for a bit. We take no pleasure in bringing it back. However, now that plywood has gone up on the Henderson’s Building, we got word that plywood is also going […]

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Something tells us the city may not be following its own rules when it comes to repair work on a sewer line in Park Slope. A GL reader emailed at a very late hour to say: For the last three weeks, the city has been working on a sewer repair project in Park Slope, almost […]

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From nyc.gov comes news that the north bikeway of the Manhattan Bridge will reopen on Monday, August 6. The north bikeway has been closed since last October because of “various construction tasks in association with the rehabilitation of the lower roadway of the bridge as well as to ensure and maintain public safety during the […]

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[Photo courtesy of Icky in Brooklyn] We got an email from the creator of the new Windsor Terrace blog, Icky in Brooklyn, (aka Cranky in Windsor Terrace) the other day. Besides being a Windsor Terrace blog, which we applaud, its early entries show tremendous promise. Here’s a sample from a post this week called Hail […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: A Look at the Condition of NYC Bridges [Gothamist] Brooklyn Bridge is One of Three with Poor Rating [City Room] Could the Gowanus Expressway Collapse? [BDE] Last Day to Oppose The Anti-Photography Regs. Do It. [Blather from Brooklyn] Spurned Starrett City Buyer Throws Hail Mary […]

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We’re posting this because (a). the graphics for this performance amused us in an odd way and (b). it amused us even more because the venue is “The Yard,” the performance space on the Gowanus that until recently housed the Issue Project Room and now is home to show being put on by Mean Red […]

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If you want to increase your knowledge of Park Slope history, then try a walking tour coming up tomorrow (8/4) called Park Slope: Beyond Brownstone. It’s described by its sponsors, the Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment, as follows: Most of Park Slope developed after “Brownstone Brooklyn” and was built for the borough’s elite at […]

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[Photo of view from Clemente’s courtesy of Project Me!] Clemente’s in Sheepshead Bay Makes You Want a Houseboat [Project Me!] Schnitzel on Coney [Ditmas Park Blog] Rocky Sullivan’s in Red Hook [423 Smith] Korean Barbecue at Dokebi [Brooklyn Nester] No Longer a Tontonno’s Virgin [Clinton Hill Gastronome] Brook’s Valley in Bed-Stuy Turns One [Bed-Stuy Blog] […]

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We received an email along with a group of photos of the original feral dogs of Red Hook & Gowanus from Regina Massaro of the Spay Neuter Intervention Project (SNIP). Ms. Massaro and SNIP helped rescue the dogs. (Several were even pulled from the Gowanus when they were drowning.) We’ve never seen photos of them, […]

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Remember that “crowdsourcing” experiment that the Brian Lehrer Show was doing, recruiting people to count the number of SUVs on their block? Well, the results are in. There were more than 450 submissions. On average, SUVs made up nearly 1/3 of the vehicles parked on an average block. Interestingly, Brooklyn blocks had slightly less SUVs […]

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Merde! After an original expected opening in early July, we’ve sat by helplessly as Hotel Le Bleu, the Fourth Avenue boutique hotel sandwiched between the taxi depot and the dialysis clinic, right near the Pep Boys and the Staples, has punted on repeated opening days. And so, the flagship hotel of the Gowanus hotel boom […]

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The coming of a McDonald’s isn’t normally headline material, but when the McDonald’s in question is on Smith Street and the rumor has been floating around for a while, it is. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle reports (we found it via McBrooklyn) that the McDonald’s is coming–to a location that has been previously dismissed: And guess […]

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We’re not sure what advantage one gains by boarding up windows in a building at the major intersection in Coney Island, other than to create an air of abandonment and urban rot. Yet, plywood has gone up in the windows of the historic Henderson’s Building at Stillwell and Surf Avenues, across the street from the […]

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If you’ve been to Coney Island, or if you’ve read GL since January, you probably know about the huge fences thrown up by Thor Equities around its property in Coney Island. The one around the land where the go-kart tracks, batting cage and bumper boat ride were demolished, which is the equivalent of an entire […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn related information and images. Vito Lopez Invokes Jane Jacobs to Call for Smaller New Domino [AYR] Class Conflict at Domino Hearing [Brownstoner] Tenants Protests at Starrett City Office [NYDN] New Beginning Coming for McCarren Pool [NYPress] What Are the Borders of Kensington? [Kensington Brooklyn] The Circles of Apartment […]

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From time to time we’ve touched on the topic of oysters in the Gowanus. We think they, and the Gowanus Oyster Stewards, are fascinating. Our oyster friends get some space in the New York Press this week, so we though we’d share a bit: “Oysters are native to the Gowanus,” explains Katie Mosher-Smith, a young […]

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[Photo courtesy of paulpablopawel/flickr] Starting today, and every Thursday in August, kids under the age of 12 can ride the cool Prospect Park Carousel for free. The Carousel dates to 1912 and was restored in 1990 by the Prospect Park Alliance. It has 51 hand carved horses, as well as a giraffe, lion, deer and […]

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What you’re looking at is Astronaut photograph ISS015-E-548 from the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. We found it courtesy of Flatbush Gardener, whose great blog covers more than backyard flora and fauna. You can find the original photo page here. It may have been up for a long time, but […]

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GL headed down to Coney Island yesterday evening to check out the presence of the Cole Brothers Circus, which is playing through August 5. The yellow and red striped tent–which, quite frankly, looks as though it needs a serious power wash–can be seen from blocks away as the F Train and others travel to the […]

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Don’t look now, but our old friend The Modern on N. 7th Street in Williamsburg, to which we’ve devoted much space (for instance, here, here and here), has been hit with another Stop Work Order. You’ll note the image above about workers apparently drilling into, or coming close to drilling into, the L Train subway […]

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Here’s a mystery about two Prospect Park ducklings. We found it yesterday on OTBKB, which had posted a link to a long item about two ducklings that went missing in Prospect Park mid-July. We fear that, by now, their fate is a moot point, yet a bunch of photos of the cute duo were posted […]

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The Parkside Auto Repair property at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Third Street has been sold. Well, at least, there’s a big sticker on the “for sale” sign saying that it’s in contract. We don’t know if it fetched the asking price of $3.75 million, but that will become known soon enough. The lot […]

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The announcement that car-free hours in Central Park are being expanded has led some Brooklyn groups to say that Prospect Park is being left out. Park Slope Neighbors sent out a press release yesterday saying that “City Hall overlooked several clear and easy options to make Prospect Park safer, healthier and more enjoyable for Brooklynites.” […]

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1) Brooklyn Pita on Seventh Avenue, which has been in the works for many months, is finally open on Seventh Avenue between Seventh Street and Eighth Street. Falafel and gyros for everybody. 2)We don’t know about the wisdom of calling a tanning salon “Alaskan.” (Truth be told, we don’t know about tanning salons in general.) […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. State Sending Out Eminent Domain-Related Letters in Atlantic Yards Footprint [Sun] It Came from the Blogosphere [No Land Grab] Trying to Flip Greene Avenue Atrocity [Brownstoner] Scantily Clad Floating Pool Swimmers Scandalize Brooklyn Heights [BDE] To All the Landlords I’ve Loathed [newyorkshitty] Boymelgreen’s Faux Townhouse […]

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