Park Slope’s ‘SNice, at Fifth Avenue and Third Street, has established itself as a very popular place in the short time since it opened. We stopped in over the weekend for some excellent vegetarian food, including the excellent vegetarian meatball sub and a taste of the tofu wrap, plus some good vegan chocolate chip cookies. […]

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The Prospect Park Alliance sent some great photos of this weekend’s Little League Parade through Park Slope and into the park that are worth sharing. The event drew more than 1,000 Little League players and family members on the traditional park “opening day.” Play ball.

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A GL reader writes to say that the owner of Barrio, the much blogged about new Mexican restaurant on Seventh Avenue at Third Street in Park Slope (if the food lives up to volume of the blog coverage, it’ll be a winner), will be opening in about ten days, which would put D-Day around April […]

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[Photo courtesy of seventyoneplace/flickr] Brownstoner’s Brooklyn Flea debuted yesterday in Fort Greene on a less than ideal day. Turnout in the chilly weather was quite good and a GL Correspondent visited and sent back a number of photos, some of which are below. In the meantime, there are more than 100 photos of opening day […]

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There is more coverage of that Murakami swag story that broke online at Radar about how Borough President Marty Markowitz’s wife “hoarded” Murakami swag after the Bruce Ratner Gala on Thurdsay. Jotham Sederstrom follows up in today’s Daily News. Here’s a sample: Who knew the first lady of Brooklyn was also its biggest booster? Jamie […]

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We had some preliminary Celebrate Brooklyn bookings last week, and Brooklyn Vegan–the source for music news–is weighing in with more: Jun 12 – Isaac Hayes (first show of the season)Jun 19 – Medeski Martin and Wood, Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog (DEFINITELY FREE)Jun 22 – Salif KeitaJun 24 – Gilberto Gil (tix)Jun 26 – Carolina Chocolate […]

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Over the weekend, Atlantic Yards Report noted that the Landmarks Preservation Commission is going to present proposed boundaries for a Prospect Heights Historic District at a community forum on Wednesday, April, at 7:00 PM. (The map above shows an independent proposal for a district from the Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council and the Municipal Art […]

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1) Aperitivo, which is the new Fifth Avenue outpost of the Seventh Avenue Italian restaurant Sotto Voce, is now sporting a name on its glass. The bistro is supposed to open at the corner of First Street sometime this month, as noted by Brownstoner last month. Sotto Voce is also opening a new “family-style” restaurant […]

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What is that stuff? We came across it in front of Brooklyn Fish Camp over the weekend, giving off an indescribable scent mixed with some sort of cleaner. People saw it, stopped, sniffed and walked into the street to avoid walking through it. Some brave souls walked through the watered down megabarf-looking substance. It looked […]

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“The Vue really lives up to its name by providing me with an intimate view of the life going on INSIDE the building. As people have been moving in over the past week or two, I have seen way too much of the new residents, literally. Thankfully a lot of window shades have been put […]

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[Left photo courtesy of Captain Nemo/Coney Island Message Board] A Coney Island food stand that was shut down last year and surrounded with a fence by developer Joe Sitt has lost the fence. The poster known as Captain Nemo at the Coney Island Message Board took a photo of the de-fenced stand, which had offered […]

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[Photo courtesy of GL’s Carroll Gardens Correspondent] Brooklinks is a selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Forest City Ratner: “We Still Need More Subsidies” [AYR] Brooklyn Man Killed by Subway Train [NYDN] Redemption Center in Brownsville Returns Prisoners to Life [NYT] BAM Screens The Sargassa Manuscript [DITHOB] Artist Paints Tribute to Fallen Cop [NYDN] Greenpoint […]

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Here’s a new Faile work that went up in the last week on N. 10 Street in the Burg in a spot that has hosted many works over the years.

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“Years ago, along side the Brighton Line, was a spur for the Long Island Railroad that ended in Manhattan Beach. There are some remnants visible today, even though service ended in the late 1800’s. I took some photos at Neck Road station on the Brighton Line. Easy to see are two staircases on both sides […]

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From the traffic insanity known as Grand Army Plaza. Hope no one without a clue about finding Prospect Park actually has to do so.

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The inimitable Kevin Walsh, whose Forgotten New York site is one of our favorite things anywhere, is holding his 33rd Forgotten NY tour on Sunday, April 20, in Gravesend, the neighborhood between Bensonhurst and Coney Island. He writes that it is: one of the oldest populated areas on Long Island and in the nation itself. […]

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There is definitely early morning gloom outside at the Brooklyn Weather Observatory. Today’s forecase calls for “rather cloudy and breezy with a bit of drizzle.” The high will be 47, but it will feel like 36. Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a low of 40.–Accuweather

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We came across the response to a call in the building next to Willie’s Dawgs on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope this weekend. Fortunately, the FDNY quickly determined that there was no fire in the building.

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We were out and about yesterday on a glorious Spring day in Park Slope and at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, while our Correspondent Anna Lewis was at the Opening Day festivities in Propsect Park. We can report that Fifth Avenue is starting to bloom (above) and that the magnolias at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and […]

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Ah, Sunday, the day we turn to our Craigslist Brooklyn Missed Connection. Once again, the Missed Connections take us to the subway as they so often do, but this one is not like the other MC’s about passing glances traded from seats on the train or on the platform: Thurs your phone flew on to […]

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Ah, another weekend of insane service changes on the F line, from Park Slope to Jay Street-Borough Hall, and the Running of the Shuttle Buses. We caught the monthly Running of the Buses at Ninth Street and Seventh Avenue in Park Slope, where people were staring slack jawed at the mindboggling set of directions from […]

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Here’s another adoptable pet of the week from the Brooklyn Animal Rescource Coalition (BARC) shelter in Williamsburg. We got a photo of Sergio yesterday a little late to post, so we figured we’d present him today, as he’s in need of a home and some TLC from someone willing to offer some love to an […]

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Every week, we offer a fairly random selection of comments that GL readers have left during the previous seven days. Here are this week’s choices: Ratner Post-Gala: Did Marty’s Wife “Hoarde” Murakami Swag? “Actually, a great story… reflects perfectly the current zeitgeist in Brooklyn. Grab as much as you can as fast as you can, […]

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The move to rename J.J. Byrne Park as Washington Park is continuing to make progress. Mr. Byrne was a Brooklyn borough president elected in 1926 who died in office four years later. The park would be given the name it had in the 1880s “when it was home to the baseball team that would become […]

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