[All photos courtesy of Adrian Kinloch/Brit in Brooklyn]The Brooklyn Museum’s sold-out Gala honoring developer Bruce Ratner drew a crowd both inside and out last night. The photos here were shot by Brit in Brooklyn blogger Adrian Kinloch, who has his own post on the event here. Atlantic Yards Report gives this description of the “angry” […]

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The Clarett Group’s Daniel Hollander visited Carroll Gardens last night along with architect Robert Rogers of Rogers Marvel and members of their construction team to present their plans for a building at 340 Court Street that has been the subject of much discussion. We will have much coverage today. Here we will say that it […]

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There is something about this juxtaposition of images–the “available” sign and the art painted on the wall–of this building on Hope Street in Williamsburg just east of the BQE that makes the sale offering more compelling than the $9 million asking price. The 20,000 square foot lot could support a 54,000 square foot building. It’s […]

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Cafe 11, a relatively new cafe on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope between 11th and 12th Street has bitten the dust. The establishment closed its doors sometime this week. It was located in a fairly (for Seventh Avenue) cafe-heavy area, given the presence of the Tea Lounge and Naidres nearby, never seemed to do very […]

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[Photo courtesy of Adrian Kinloch/Brit in Brooklyn] These two photos of ongoing development on the Park Slope side of Fourth Avenue come to us from Brit in Brooklyn blogger Adrian Kinloch. The photo above is the tall, thin building at Fourth and Carroll that we called the Monolith because during the early part of its […]

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If you depend on the F train to get places and you normally catch the train between Jay Street-Borough Hall and Seventh Avenue in Park Slope, be prepared to take shuttle buses this weekend or walk. The same set of disruptions that occurred a few weeks ago are happening again and the instructions are so […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Crime-Related: Brooklynite Creates Rape T-Shirt [NYT] “Tears for Rap Bash Bullet Ma” [NYP] SUV Kills Teen in Sunset Park [NYDN] Not Crime-Related: 14 Commercial Townhouses in Red Hook [Brownstoner] Educators Accuse Mayor of Forcing Out Arabic School Principal [Sun] Epic Bed-Stuy Murals [Bed-Stuy Banana] Greetings […]

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It’s the “Go Greenpoint” Earth Day Festival in McCarren Park on April 19!

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Again, we’ve posted about this previously, but the Coney Island “Boardwalk Barrels of Fun” painting event is on Saturday (4/5). It starts at 10AM and runs through 2PM with judging at 1PM. (This is another event for which the forecast, assuming it holds, is less than promising.) It takes place between West 10th St. and […]

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Developer Joe Sitt flip his Albee Square property because he wanted to make a killing or because he failed to find a way to develop it? “Sitt paid $25 million for the mall in 2001, floating plans to build a roughly 1 million-square-foot tower, but instead sold it last year to Acadia Realty Trust for […]

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Nothing says spring quite like twisted metal from a building being demolished and the bright early blossoms of a yellow forsythia. The scene is from Carroll Gardens. Superb!

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We noted this a couple of weeks ago, but it’s worth a reminder: Tomorrow (4/5) is “Opening Day” at Prospect Park. The day includes the annual Little League Parade through Park Slope, which starts at 10AM. (Right now, the weather forecast is very iffy for tomorrow morning.) It starts at Seventh Ave. & Carroll St. […]

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This isn’t so much an altered or battered street sign as it is an arty street sign, but we like those too. It comes from Union Street near Third Avenue in Gowanus, mere steps from the Holiday Inn Express.

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Here’s a look into the new Rialto condo on N. 5 Street in Williamsburg, which is another one of those places that one will like or dislike based on personal taste and inclinations. Regardless, the unit was photographed from a cherry picker and is sandwiched between unfinished floors. Cool pic.–Curbed

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This very compelling piece of street furniture comes from Green Street in Greenpoint and it reaches us via the digicam of Miss Heather. Nice.

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There is gloom and heavy rain at the Brooklyn Weather Observatory early this morning with a current temperature of 42. The forecast simply says, “Colder with rain.” The high will be 46. Tonight will be rainy with a low of 45. The rain is supposed to end tomorrow, perhaps by late morning.–Accuweather

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Of all the events happening in Brooklyn tonight, one that will generate the most feeling among some people is the Brooklyn Museum Gala honoring developer Bruce Ratner. A protest has been organized and there have been angry letters circulating about the event, including an “open letter” to the Museum, which would seem to indicate that […]

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Tonight is the fourth of four recent reveals of big and potentially neighborhood-changing projects in Carroll Gardens and Gowanus since the beginning of the year. The Clarett Group will be showing plans for a seven-story condo designed by Rogers Marvel for 340 Court Street. While demolition prep work has been underway at the former International […]

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Anyone who’s been in Dumbo recently has no doubt noted the presence of the NYPD’s “skywatch,” a thing we like to call the Tower of Fun, under the Manhattan Bridge and elsewhere. It’s a patrol tower that is used to establish a police presence and, ostensibly, reduce crime. The tower goes up two stories and […]

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A couple of weeks ago, INSIJS exclusively reported that Con Ed may be preparing a power plant on Kent Avenue for demolition, but what about turning it over to the Brooklyn Navy Yard for preservation? “The hulking Renaissance Revival structure borders the anticipated Navy Yard annex on two sides, and fits perfectly within the wide […]

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This is a building on Avenue P in Gravesend (near Ocean Parkway) that was featured yesterday on Curbed in both its rendering and under construction state It is being developed by Sitt Asset Management (no relationship to Joe Sitt and/or Thor Equities). It is called The Venetian and condos start at $1 million and go […]

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Want to see which City Council Districts had members that voted for congestion pricing and which ones voted against? Look no further than this map, which is coded in green for “yes” and purple for “no,” along with the one now very well known “not present,” which is gray.–Streets Blog

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The Village Voice’s Tom Robbins wades into the morass this week that is one of our favorite topics: the mess that is the construction and regulation (or lack thereof). The story focuses at length on Assem. Jim Brennan and a proposal that would have toughened enforcement by the Department of Buildings that was passed by […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Resigned Director of Troubled Sunset Park Agency Still There [NYDN] Forest City Ratner’s “Shadowy Foundation” Dispenses $1.7M [AYR] Three Firefighters Hurt in Brownsville [NYT] Father of the Year: Gives Two-Year-Old a Gun, She Shoots Herself [NYDN] Lawmaker Seeks Help for Sick Brooklyn Girl [Sun] Post-Fire […]

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Council Members Bill de Blasio and David Yassky are cutting the ribbon on a new Computer Lab at MS 447 on Dean Street today. Per an email: “grants were awarded to the school upon learning that the school would be moving from one location to another. The total cost of the technology lab which includes […]

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