Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Outdoor Rec Space at Bedford Ave and Campus Road [Brooklyn Junction] Number Eight on the Greenpont Ten is in the Construction Business [New York Shitty] Major Food & Drink Developments on N. 6th Street [INSIJS] A Tour of Park Slope [The Cooperator via No Land […]

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Brooklyn Reading Works is holding one of its wonderful readings tonight at the Old Stone House. If you’ve never been, it’s totally worth checking out, as it’s one of the most fascinating literary series in Brooklyn. You can read more about it over at OTBKB. Here are a few details: Brooklyn Reading Works presents poets […]

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These excellent signs come from the construction site of the Argyle Park Slope on Fourth Avenue at Seventh Street in what the developers call “Park Slope” and we tend to call Gowanus.

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PortSide New York is looking for volunteers to help out in its very cool tanker the Mary A. Whalen (which was last noted around the city for hosting the Puccini opera Il Tabarro in September) this weekend. The basic info is above. What everyone also needs to know is that because the Whalen is docked […]

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We got an email yesterday from Frank Trezza, the author of Brooklyn Steel-Blood Tenacity, directing us to his website. He wrote that “I worked in the Yard from 1973 until 1980 for Seatrain Shipbuilding. We Built 4 Super Tankers, 1 Ice Breaker Barge, 8 Ocean Going Barges and started 2 Ro-Ro’s.” We’re fascinated by the […]

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N. 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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[Photo courtesy of Chris Curen] Call it another sign of the changing times. Red Hook resident Chris Curen, who has contributed a variety of of excellent photos and stories to GL, emailed us the photo and the information that Ramberg Marine Inc., which is located at 37 Dwight Street, is toast. The company, which is […]

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We have some burned car action in Boerum-Cobble Hill-ish Brooklyn. The report circulated via the Boerum Hill Group mailing list comes from Boerum Place and Dean Street: I was amazed yesterday morning to see a totally trashed and burned car parked on Boerum Place at the corner of Dean. Does anyone know the story on […]

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We caught this in front of a church on Montrose Avenue near Manhattan. It’s definitely big smile material.

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Carroll Gardens blogger Katia Kelly takes a ride in the time machine back to an art show that took place in 1982 at the site that it now called Public Place in Gowanus. It is the former site of a manufactured gas plant that left behind one of the most toxic parcels in Brooklyn. Bids […]

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We think the vision of Coney Island in the screencap from the video game Second Life with all those condo towers is more frightening than the zombie premise of the game and film, I Am Legend, that it promotes. This is from an online video game intended to promote the new Will Smith movie that […]

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We got an email yesterday noting that the alleged Brooklyn bar bandit had been caught. (Our friends at Eater also had this report.) The detail provided is as follows: In what can only be described as a scary display of stupidity, the guy that robbed the Bait and Tackle actually returned to the scene of […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: More City Inaction in Action: No Help with 143 Huron [New York Shitty] As Expected, an Atlantic Yards Rental Tenant Suit Dismissed [AYR] Next Generation of Fourth Avenue Condos [Brownstoner] How About a Ferry to Manhattan from Greenpoint? [11222] Downtown Subway Station Connection Project Underway […]

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Picture having this building as a next door neighbor or, even, on the block. It’s 146 Diamond Street and the photo comes courtesy of our Greenpoint correspondent, aka Miss Heather of New York Shitty, who writes that this “eyesore” has been “untouched for months.” The site appears destined to have a new four-story building with […]

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The “junction” in question in this interesting new blog is Flatbush and Nostrand Avenues, and Brooklyn Junction–which is all of ten posts old–bring development and other news from this area. Brooklyn College and its plans and/or actual projects are among the subjects of early posts. We can say that we learned some things we didn’t […]

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At least one more test well has been sunk to check for oil on N. 11th Street adjacent to the Roebling Oil Field and Roebling Oil Building in Williamsburg. It bring the total number of test well in the immediate area to about a dozen. The lastest well was so new when we came across […]

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Why let Williamsburg dogs get all the attention? Here’s something we found on the Park Slope Message Board about a urinating dog-related confrontation: So into a major argument this weekend because my dog pissed in front of someone’s house on the sidewalk. Here’s what happened: I was walking my (large) dog as I always do […]

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Williamsburg’s Finger Building, whose official address is 144 N. 8th Street, gets another turn before officialdom today. It is going before the Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA) for an extension of time to build a taller structure. The Community Board has voted against a taller building. The hearing takes place at 10AM at 40 […]

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Last week, it was Foghorn, the lovebird. This week, it was Sugar the cockatoo. After posting about her deep fears of being rendered homeless as the Giant Fart Cloud Building is brought down, blogger Bad Advice writes of the loss of Sugar: If you’ve ever gotten your haircut at the Brooklyn General Barber Emporium, you […]

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If you object to something more than 24 hours old, it’s okay to skip this item. We post it because on Sunday, the BARC Dog Parade and a more traditional Polish parade passed each other briefly on Bedford Avenue near Greenpoint. The dog paraders were already on their way into McCarren Park. The Poles, who […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Bay Ridge Tornado Victims Still Waiting to Return Home [NYT] Hillary Clinton Meets with Brooklyn Dem Organization [CityRoom] Atlantic Yards Street Closures and Ombudsperson [AYR] Atlantic Yards Street Closings to Start Soon [Sun] Still Waiting for an Atlantic Yards Watchdog [NYDN] Fiske Terrace-Midwood Park Landmarking […]

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We think we know what this sign says, but that’s only because we’ve seen less altered specimens. We believe it has something to do with clean up after one’s dog. The sign comes from Williamsburg. Of course.

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Anyone who got off the L Train at Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg this weekend may have seen this person. He danced and danced and danced and danced for hours. We posted a video of him yesterday and figured we’d toss up a couple of still photos too. We chatted briefly with a sixty something street […]

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Here at Gowanus Lounge, we’re always on the lookout for hot informational tips from our readers. Have you seen something? Do you know about something that’s going on in your neighborhood? Have you run across an email from one of the many interesting mailing lists in Brooklyn that says something about your neighborhood or about […]

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Click the embed to watch the BARC Williamsburg Dog Parade. We also have still shots of the event, available here.

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