Prospect Park is especially beautiful right now, particularly as the unusually late fall foliage is still in the trees. Odds are, it’s only got a week or so left, and it’s already past peak, but it’s still worth a peaceful walk through the park. Is it just us, or does anyone else remember a fall […]

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An assortment of random Brooklyn vids from the YouTube for your viewing pleasure.

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Ah, the joy that Greenpoint in general and Manhattan Avenue in particular are likely to bring through the holidays. Great store windows. Superb decorations. Interesting things tossed over the telephone wires.–New York Shitty

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This photo is from an unidentified warehouse in an unidentified part of the borough, quite possibly the place where the photographer worked. It was passed on to us from our Greenpoint correspondent from a group of photos that we suspect is going to continue to yield many nuggets.

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Once a week, we like to highlight comments that GL readers have left during the previous seven days. Here’s a selection from the last week: Ikea Using Ripped Out Beard Street Cobblestones in Parking Lot. “I think you are not very far off the mark about them using the cobbles to pave over the graving […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Times Critic Tougher on Hudson Yards Than Atlantic Yards Plan [AYR] The Road Starts at the Gowanus Asphalt Plant [NYT] The Most Interesting Pay Phone in Brooklyn [New York Shitty] Why I Appreciate Bed-Stuy [Bed-Stuy Banana] Jamaica Bay and Floyd Bennett Field on PBS [GerritsenBeach.Net] […]

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Yup, it’s Ricky’s on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights.

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Icky is pulling together a holiday guide that will feature Brooklyn artists and craftspeople–“Brooklyn weavers, painters, potters, photographers, artists, and craftsfolk of all discipline.” If you are one that wishes to have your fine work noted, then please be in touch so that he can be of service.–Icky in Brooklyn

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Sunset Park, Brooklyn

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From Spanky & Dino, it’s Christmastime in Brooklyn. Yes, it’s a bit early for this kind of thing, but the old footage of Brooklyn is fun.

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The “Report Card” for the G Train will launch a dozen snarky headlines and blog posts? How could it not if, as expected, the most maligned train in the entire subway system gets a bunch of F’s?–NYT

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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There’s good news and bad news to report regarding 143 Huron Street, a development that has been fairly blatant in doing a lot of noisy and disruptive after-hours and weekend work. Yesterday, New York Shitty reported that workers were on the job until 9:30PM on the night before Thanksgiving and back at work at 9AM […]

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Assemblyman Joe Lentol has jumped into the Giant Fart Cloud Building fray. You might recall that the Department of Buildings halted the demolition of 5 Roebling (aka the Giant Fart Cloud Building) last week for being unsafe. The demolition had threatened to destabilize at least one neighboring building. Today, New York Shitty posts a copy […]

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This is the way the Fourth Avenue Station will look after the MTA is finished renovating it sometime between 2010 and 2012. The renovation will include the replacement of opaque panels with glass, providing views up and down Fourth Avenue from the elevated bridge structure. The rendering is in the latest edition of the Brooklyn […]

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[Beautiful photo of Lull Water courtesy Frank Lynch/flickr] Photos: Prospect Park in Fall Photos [Frank Lynch/flickr] Prospect Park Fall Photos [Jackie Weisberg/flickr] Fall in Carroll Gardens on Black Friday [Pardon Me For Asking] JC in Park Slope [Brit in Brooklyn] Gowanus Cement [Blue Jake] Coney in the Rain [Park Slope Street Photography] South Garden [Seriously […]

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This is one of the Boerum Hill “No menus, circulars, advertisments” signs that we posted about a while back. A kind GL reader sent us the photo (as well as some other that have nothing to do with the distribution of menus) to us, noting “NO FLIERS sign in action.” It comes Cobble Hill and […]

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The Times ventures into Atlantic Yards land by looking at the issues of whether Brooklyn’s planned area will be vulnerable to terrorist truck bombs. It discovers the arena will be 20 feet from the street in places, the same distances as Newark’s new Prudential Center. In Newark, streets are now closed during events and it’s […]

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This upside down beauty is from the corner of N 7 Street and Berry in Williamsburg, across from the development known as 7 Berry, where the condos are pretty high in price. The photo comes courtesy of our Greenpoint Correspondent and the careful observer will note an awful lot of pigeons in the shot. This […]

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We totally dropped the ball when we got an email about this vid from Trace Crutchfield, but being so late out the starting gate that the race was over days ago, is no obstacle to posting it. (Gothamist featured it earlier this week, so many of you have likely encountered it already.) “This thought provoking […]

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This is an old Santa we found in a parking lot in Bushwick a few weeks ago. We don’t know if he had a final Christmas-related destination or if the lot is his permanent resting place. We do know that he could stand some fresher, brighter paint.

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We’d been checking the website for Hotel Le Jolie in Williamsburg waiting for it to open, but it turned out the low tech method was better. Passing by on the BQE yesterday, we saw a big “Now Open” banner draped across the top of the first hotel to open in Williamsburg/Greenpoint. Le Jolie is a […]

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Is Greenpoint’s 143 Huron Street the construction site that most blatantly thumbs its nose at neighbors, almost daring a Department of Buildings visit to find noisy, illegal construction work? (A DOB visit, we might add, that never seems to come.) There are many development sites in Brooklyn that ignore the law and shine a spotlight […]

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Last week, when we posted a video of workers bringing an era to an end in Red Hook by digging up the paving stones on Beard Street in advance of the opening of Ikea, we joked that they might make a reappearance in the sprawling parking lot or the waterfront “esplanade.” We had watched a […]

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A meeting dealing with the (possibly stalled) Brooklyn Bridge Park that was previously postponed has been rescheduled. The meeting is being held to get input on programming plans for the park, including whether there should be user fees and charges. The press release says in part: In addition to a general statement of goals and […]

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