[Photo courtesy of rkruckoff/flickr] Look: Gowanus Sheen (above) [rkruckoff/flickr] Desktop Day Double: Atlantic Yards, No [Brit in Brooklyn] Brooklyn’s Industrial Waterfront Photoset [Gowanus/flickr] Shopping Cart, Brighton Beach [seriously excited!] Eagle Clothes [Blue Jake] Vanderbilt Products Takedown [threecee/flickr] Williamsburg & Greenpoint Scenes [A Test of Will] Bond Between 1st and 2nd [seriously excited!] Look & Read: […]

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The Red Hook Harvest Festival is today at the Red Hook Community Farm. It runs from 10AM-5PM and is located at Columbia and Sigourney Streets. (Look for the looming, blue and yellow Ikea under construction.)

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When we saw this yesterday, we couldn’t get it out of our minds: A six-unit condo on Sixth Avenue with an awful history (including the death of a worker) is trying to market itself as being in “Sun Slope.” Dear God.–Brownstoner

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It’s amusing in its own way for those that don’t normally watch HGTV. There’s a second vid as well continuing the segment, which can be viewed here.

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“A building owned by one of the city’s best known tenants’ rights organization is riven with peeling paint, broken locks and apartments with no heat in winter…” What group? The Pratt Area Community Council.–Brooklyn Paper

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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There used to be an annual carnival called the Greenpoint International Festival on Manhattan Avenue between Clay Street and the waterfront. It was pretty rowdy, but it died in 2003 after they stopped serving liquor.–New York Shitty

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The fascinating issue of the major expansion of waterfront parkland the city proposes in Williamsburg and Greenpoint, stretching from the northern end of East River State Park to north of the Bushwick Inlet, has been a sleeper. The city recently acquired major parcels for the planned 28-acre park via eminent domain and is now negotiating […]

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The Carroll Gardens neighborhood group CORD that first organized behind the issue of 360 Smith Street is pressing forward with its petition for a moratorium on new buildings more than 50 feet tall while a neighborhood downzoning is being considered. (The idea has gotten mixed reviews, with many elected officials saying it would require a […]

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Our indefatigable Greenpoint correspondent sent us this photo of the Monitor Street Sandwich. This particular picture is absolutely worth a thousand words, so we will not go on at length. We will simply says that it reminds us of something we once saw in Houston or, possibly, Shanghai, and that it is not to be […]

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“There is a series of small parks in Windsor Terrace along the South side of the Prospect Expressway. Some don’t even have names, the chain usually being referred to as ‘the expressway parks’ or ‘those skinny parks.’ The tiny green spaces were clearly meant to ease neighborhood pain when blocks of homes were town down […]

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No, not the Roebling Oil Building, which is also a Karl Fischer, but the KF on Karl Fischer Corner, aka N. 8th and Roebling, where North Brooklyn’s major architectural presence has designed a building diagonally across from his Roebling Square building. The curious feature about 63 Roebling is that it there was barely any excavation […]

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Anyone that knows Seventh Avenue in Park Slope has seen the homeless men that often live on the steps of Old First Church on Seventh Avenue. Rev. Daniel Meeter produces the Old First blog. His latest blog entry, which we found via CityRoom and OTBKB, deals with these men. It is candid and compelling reading. […]

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In another sign the year is heading toward the finish line, the 2008 Greetings from Coney Island Calender is now on sale. It’s from Coney Island USA and features historic postcard images. Proceeds benefit Coney Island USA.–Kinetic Carnival

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The buildings at 208 N. 10th Street, which is part of a larger site that will encompass about 1/2 of the block between Roebling and Driggs and N. 10th and N. 9th Streets, are coming down. The fence is back up, so we had to peek inside to find a little bit of what’s been […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selections of Brooklyn-related information and images. Today, we are adding a new feature, slightly longer “Bklinks,” sprinkled in between our posts: Glassy Fourth Avenue Condo Site on Market for $10M [Brownstoner] Another Duffield St. Eminent Domain Hearing on Oct. 29 [Duffield St. Underground] Two Bicyclists Killed in Different Brooklyn Accidents [amNY] […]

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You can drop off your unwanted computers, monitors, printers, cell phones and other electronic equipment for recycling in Bay Ridge next weekend at an event being sponsored by Council Members Vincent Gentile and Bill de Blasio. It takes place at Poly Prep Country Day School, which is located on 7th Avenue at the baseball field […]

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That petition about the quality of life and development issues surround the Park Slope VUE at 162 16th Street was taken to Community Board 7 this week and the board is reported to hve voted unanimously to endorse the petition. Activist Aaron Brashear has sent out this email: Bo Samajopoulos, representing the Concerned Citizens of […]

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It’s time for AGAST, the Annual Gowanus Artist’s Studio Tour, during which dozens of artist’s studios in Gowanus throw open their doors to the public. The 11th annual tour takes place on Saturday (10/20) and Sunday (10/21) and more than 140 visual artists “working in one of the city’s most vibrant and creative art communities […]

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The Gowanus Harvest Festival on Sunday drew 1,000 people to the Yard on the Gowanus Canal. There were “pumpkin carvers, pony-riders, banjo pickers, organic juice drinkers, kiddies con strollers, etc.”–Green Brooklyn

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This recently altered (again) sign comes to us from a New York City Transit facility on N. 6th Street. We think it originally said something about No Parking.

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Anyone that reads GL probably has a sense that Greenpont is one of the frontier areas of development and construction in New York City, a sort of Wild Western Edge of Brooklyn where virtually anything goes and the Department of Buildings seemingly fears to tread. Anyone that wants to read up, can head over to […]

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It’s pile driving and drilling time again in the Burg as two buildings that have been moving toward construction look like they’re getting underway. The project on the right is at 187 N. 8th Street at N. 8th and Driggs, on the site of the Wonder Foods building that was demolished about year ago. It […]

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Anything that goes on at the “Minerva Building Site,” aka 614 7th Avenue, is of interest because of the development’s role in galvanizing citizen opposition to out-of-context development in Greenwood Heights and the South Slope. Not to mention the fact that the building was actually stopped because it would have blocked the historic view from […]

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Both the 7 and L Trains are going to be getting improvements in service before the end of the year. The 7 will see an overall 9 percent increase in service with more trains. As for the intensely overcrowded L Train, the frequency of service will increase to a train every 3.5 minutes rather than […]

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