From the Green Dome garden in Williamsburg near McCarren Park.

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The city is looking to save some money by trimming Community Board budgets, a move that will save the city under $1 million but that could be devastating to the boards in the context of tiny budgets. Says CB6 District Manager Craig Hammerman, who is one of the candidates running to replace outgoing Council Member […]

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Per an email from the Prospect Park Alliance, our favorite Brooklyn park has a whole lot of events lined up for Earth Week from April 19-27. Here’s a sampling: The Prospect Park Youth Council Pre-Earth Day Celebration will take place on April 19 from 10AM-3PM at the Youth Resource Center at Bowling Green Cottage (Prospect […]

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Ah, Gerritsen Beach. “Situated on a peninsula in southeast Brooklyn is an enclave characterized by bungalows nesting on small lots, fishing boats and houses outfitted with American flags, wind chimes, lawn ornaments and holiday decorations. Only one road, Gerritsen Avenue, leads in and out of the neighborhood, which is often compared to a sleepy New […]

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There are two interesting things about these signs, which come from the border of Clinton Hill and Bed-Stuy. One of them is the dangling one way sign. The other is the fact that Miss Heather, who supplied us with the photo, notes that the street is “Sandford Street,” not “Sanford Street.”

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“Mother-and-daughter team Yeworkwoha Ephrem and Sosinna Degefu open a Park Slope spin-off of their Nolita Ethiopian restaurant this week. The menu will skew lighter than Manhattan’s, with grilled meats and fish replacing sautéed dishes…348 Douglass St at Fourth Ave.–Time Out New York

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Our old and dear friend the former Roebling Oil Building, now Warehouse 11, looks elegant and alive with spring starting to bloom, yes?

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We’re looking at another clear, cool-looking early morning here at the Brooklyn Weather Observatory with a current temperature of 35. Today will be sunny but there will be increasing clouds later. The high will be 53 and it will feel a couple of degrees warmer. Tonight’s outlook is for plenty of clouds with rain overspreading […]

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WNYC Radio’s The Brian Lehrer Show has been recognized with a George Foster Peabody Award for broadcast excellence in 2007. Although Mr. Lehrer’s show needs no introduction in New York here’s a bit from the WNYC announcement: “The Brian Lehrer Show is New York City’s popular daily news and talk call-in program. The show serves […]

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Opponents of the controversial rezoning of 125th Street in Harlem, which has been bitterly criticized by some community residents, have turned to an obscure provision of the City Charter to try to derail it. The Harlem rezoning would allow up to 2,500 new apartments in the dozens of blocks that it covers and for buildings […]

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The first quarter real estate reports that are starting to come out, show the beginning of some weakening in the Brooklyn real estate market. Data from Corcoran’s first quarter report shows that the average price of an apartment fell 10 percent from $686,000 in the fourth quarter of last year to $615,000, according to figures […]

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[Image courtesy of purple53.com] It’s been a while since we checked on artist Angel Hess and his Purple 53 truck. Mr. Hess, you might recall, spent nearly a year living at Bedford & N. 11 Street in Williamburg before heading south. A look at his blog reveals that he is in Mississippi and is heading […]

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Five swastikas were found in Williamsburg yesterday, on Bedford Avenue between Park and Flushing Avenue in a heavily Jewish part of the neighborhood. City Council Member Bill de Blasio issued a statement saying he is “disgusted that hate crimes such as these have become so prevalent throughout Brooklyn. It’s appalling that in 2008 we are […]

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This is a new condo tower designed by SOM called Toren that is currently going up on Flatbush Avenue at Myrtle (150 Myrtle) that will clock in at 38 stories. A very heavy-duty marketing campaign for it has just kicked off. It’s fair to say that it’s the most distinctive tower proposed for Brooklyn so […]

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There was a dramatically smoky fire at the Gristede’s in Brooklyn Heights last night. The blaze apparently started ivia an electrical malfunction near the deli section, perhaps in a unit that keeps bakery products warm. Excellent photos at Brooklyn Heights Blog, which wonders about the toll on “the vermin population” and at McBrooklyn.

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As it turns out, one of the latest casualties of Williamsburg development is Zipcar. A parking lot at N. 11 & Bedford is being turned into an eight-story Karl Fischer building and is closing on April 15 (a couple of weeks later than first mentioned). The Karl Fischer building (which is 95 Bedford Avenue) will […]

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The South Slope has gotten a new children’s store. In mid-March we reported that a children’s store was taking over the space of the quickly-shuttered Fashion Cafe. Well, the new store a branch of Boing Boing called “Boing!” has opened. It is on Seventh Avenue near 16th Street and includes nursing accouterments and space for […]

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We’re seriously behind the curve on this, but our friends at Racked posted an item earlier this week detailing an awful story of a woman who says she was falsely arrested for shoplifting at the Target at the Atlantic Terminal Mall. Racked writes that she was “hauled handcuffed out of the store, thrown in the […]

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Meet Kennedy Rivera, who knows the many details of tenant harassment as Bushwick gentrifies. “His work is to ensure that he and other tenants on modest incomes can stay living in the neighborhood. He is a housing specialist with Bushwick Housing Independence, a nonprofit group that by its own account takes on 30 clients a […]

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It looks like Park Slope’s Seventh Avenue made The Onion in a piece headlined “Nation’s Gentrified Neighborhoods Threatened By Aristocratization.” Here’s a sample: According to a report released Tuesday by the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think tank, the recent influx of exceedingly affluent powder-wigged aristocrats into the nation’s gentrified urban areas is pushing out young […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Mayhem: Baby Shot and Injured in Brownsville [Sun] Two People Stabbed to Death in Sheepshead Bay Apt. [NYT] Sheephead Bay Psycho Rampage [NYP] Not Mayhem: Latest BAM Addition Complete [Brownstoner] Digging Into the Atlantic Yards Supreme Court Appeal [AYR] Borough Hall Rats Thriving [PMFA] Sunset […]

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The New York Aquarium in Coney Island has lost one of its oldest residents, a 43-year-old sand tiger shark believed to be one of the oldest in any aquarium. Her name was Bertha and the aquarium staff is very sad about losing her. Bertha was euthanized Saturday after a month-long illness. The cause of death […]

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Delta has new service to Latin America and it is being advertised on the G Train. Among the destinations are San Jose, Guatemala, Panama and, uh, Liberia, which has apparently left Africa crossed the ocean. Hey, it’s the G Train.–New York Shitty

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This comfy-looking black leather piece of street furniture comes from Skillman Street in Clinton Hill. It was passed along by Miss Heather.

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“i just found a puppy – looks like a pitbull mix, black with brown stripes, approximately 2 months old. I found him near the church on the corner of 6th Ave and St. Johns. I rang a few doorbells nearby to see if the puppy had runaway but no one seemed to know anything. I […]

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