The condo with the working name of The Gowanus, which is on First Street in Park Slope, has shown its face this week. It is the building we have sometimes called the Big Mac Building, because it adjoins a McDonald’s on the corner. The building in the photo below, meanwhile, is a neighbor that doesn’t […]

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Toren, the big condo rising on Flatbush Avenue, may have one of the most aggressive marketing campaigns for a Brooklyn property ever. A lot of Brooklyn residents have lent their to the effort and they’re showing up everywhere.–Curbed

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The Windsor Terrace Alliance posted pics of the aftermath of a hit-and-run accident (no injuries) on Prospect Park SW in Windsor Terrace yesterday around 12:30 in the morning. They write: Fortunately, no one was injured but residents have had many complaints about this street, from speeding cars and motorcycles to excessive truck noise. Something must […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Forest City Ratner Has Second-Largest Lobbying Contract in State [AYR] McCain & Bloomberg Go to Bay Ridge [NYDN] McCain in the Ridge [Left in Bay Ridge] Canarsie Day Care Center Doubles as Disgusting Mushroom Farm [NYDN] Details of Awful Bensonhurst Murder Recalled [NYP] Added Detail […]

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Few New York City schools have gotten the volume of bad press and controversy as the Khalil Gibran School. It has been booted from Park Slope, embroiled in an ugly principal controversy and not embraced in Fort Greene, where it will go next year. Now, it’s current location in Boerum Hill is being slammed, per […]

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[Photo courtesy of GL Correspondent Anna Lewis] Of course, yesterday was the first real day of spring. You know, the one where you could take off your coat while walking around. GL Correspondent Anna Lewis shot this photo in Gowanus, where we can verify that people had shed their coats and were out enjoying that […]

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The issue of turning the “wide streets” of Carroll Gardens back into narrow ones for zoning purposes will come before the Land Use and Landmarks Committee of Community Board 6 on Thursday, April 24. The meeting will take place at 6PM. Here a bit from CB6 about it: Presentation and review of proposed Zoning Resolution […]

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Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg

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We saw fliers for this a couple of weeks ago and didn’t get a photo. Here’s an email that’s gone out about the fence painting at Carroll Park in Carroll Gardens this weekend: Tom Sawyer Fence Painting Day At Carroll Park: This Saturday, April 12th, come out to show one of Brooklyn’s oldest parks some […]

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The other day, we posted a photo of a fallout shelter sign from Bergen Street in Park Slope. Today’s post-thermo nuclear conflict offering comes from Greenpoint.

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We’re definitely seeing gray skies early this morning at the Brooklyn Weather Observatory, possibly bearing out the accuracy of today’s forecast: Mostly cloudy and cooler with a shower. The high will be 61. Tonight will be overcast and mild with showers and thunderstorms. Meanwhile, Weatherunderground is showing the chance of showers or thunderstorms through Monday. […]

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We found this is Williamsburg, on N. 12 Street at Wythe. It’s clearly a cool stencil that was interrupted in the process of being created. Perhaps someone at Streetsy, which is the place to go to check out NYC street art, will have more detail.

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Several weeks ago, we carried the exclusive news that a new coalition of South Brooklyn neighborhood groups (particularly ones concentrated in the Carroll Gardens and Gowanus area) was forming to try to increase their clout on controversial community issues and to try to organize politically for the 2009 local elections. The neighborhoods are facing a […]

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[Photo, with added decorative element, courtesy of Property Shark] A long stalled building for the corner of Bedford Avenue and Broadway, south of the Williamsburg Bridge, appears to be getting underway. The first application for the building was filed in 20002 and the building on the lot was demolished several years ago. There is evidence […]

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It’s been a while since we heard news of the Giant Sinkhole of Pacific Street in Boerum Hill, but there are developments. First, the big hole has been filled, (never mind that the problem developed in December) but construction equipment has been left behind, and another sinkhole is opening where other work took place. Per […]

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This is rubble from the site where a Gene Kaufman-designed hotel & apartment complex will be going up between N. 11 & N. 12 Streets and Bedford and Berry in Williamsburg (131 N. 11 Street). We post it for two reasons: (A). We find demolition porn compelling and it’s always interesting to see things come […]

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Those who follow news of the Williamsburg waterfront will know that the big proposed TransGas power plant on the Bushwick Inlet was dealt a fairly decisive blow in Albany a couple of weeks ago. (TransGas will likely appeal, but has little chance of success, even though delays could interfere with plans to use the property […]

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Do check out the yacht clubs of Brooklyn. For instance: “Let’s say you don’t know anyone with a boat, there are still some low-cost options out there for you. One is the Sebago Canoe Club located on the Paerdegat Basin in Canarsie, Brooklyn. SCC has been around for 75 years and is easily accessible to […]

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This is a rendering of what the Parks Department calls Phase I of the 28-acre Bushwick Inlet Park that will (at some point) create a vast new area of open and recreational space on the Williamsburg and Greenpoint waterfronts. Work on the soccer field will start this fall. Phase 1 involves the southernmost portion of […]

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Brooklinks is a selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Brooklyn DA’s Office Busts Contraband Cigarettes [NYT] Paterson Doesn’t Mention Atlantic Yards in Development Speech [AYR] Breslin on Kerouac in Brooklyn [Runnin’ Scared] The Greening of Bed-Stuy [Bed-Stuy Banana] Get Ready for Spring, Brooklyn Heights [BHB] Segway on Montague Street [McBrooklyn] Smudges of Green in the […]

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With ongoing demolition and construction at the controversial 340 Court Street building site, the Union-Sackett Block Association is having its regular monthly meeting on Saturday (4/12) at 11:30 AM at the Carroll Gardens Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, which is at the corner of Clinton and Union Streets. Topics include further discussion of the […]

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[Photo courtesy of Lost City] This impressive street couch, which still might have many good years of service ahead of it were it not for the fact that it’s been tossed out on the street, comes from President Street in Carroll Gardens, a neighborhood from which we don’t often get street sofas. It was found […]

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To say that 143 Huron Street, a new condo in Greenpoint, makes an impression is an understatement. “I’m not too sure what ‘look’ this architect was trying achieve. If I had to take a guess I’d say Imperial Storm Trooper meets Jawa Sandcrawler with a dash of Mondrian thrown in for good measure.”–New York Shitty

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Every now and then, we like to post a photo of one of Brooklyn’s abandoned or deconstructed bicycles. Many of them come from Williamsburg, which seems to have more of them than most neighborhoods.

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Part of a wall of a vacant four-story building in Bed-Stuy collapsed yesterday. There were no injuries and the structure looked like it could come down if someone looked at it the wrong way.–Brownstoner

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