[Photo courtesy of Dalton Rooney/flickr] This gorgeous shot comes from Dalton Rooney via our GL Flickr Photo Pool. It is from Nevins Street and features the perfect combination of light, shadow and composition.

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There’s another great electronics recycling opportunity coming up in Carroll Gardens this weekend. Here’s the info about it: Recycle your old electronics! Bring your clunky TV, old fax machine or printer to our electronics recycling drive this weekend at Smith Street between Carroll and President Streets in Carroll Gardens in Brooklyn. Bill and the Lower […]

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[Photo courtesy of lostinbrooklyn] This is another shot from beautiful Green-Wood Cemetery, which is the final resting place of many, many people and would be one of the nicest parks in the city if it wasn’t, you know, a cemetery. As such, it’s still a very cool place. This came to us via our Gowanus […]

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory it is looking good right now. Today’s forecast calls for a day that will be “seasonably warm with sunshine mixing with some clouds.” The high will be 77 and it will feel like 82. Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a low of 60.–Accuweather

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This box just popped up on some ugly new construction on Union Avenue in Williamsburg, which itself, is quite boxy. The art is the most colorful thing about the puke-brick colored building.

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There was more than playing going in a little park/playground on Warren Street between Hoyt and Smith in Boerum Hill late yesterday afternoon. There have been many emails on both the Boerum Hill list and the BoCoCa Parents group about gunfire in or near the park (including one explanation to a late-arriving parent of the […]

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Here’s one of our weekly features from the Center for the Urban Environment (CUE). This week’s interview is with Get Fresh owner Caroll Lee. Get Fresh, which is located at 370 Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, is part of the local living economy stressing organic, local foods. Q: How did Get Fresh Get Started? A: […]

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We do enjoy a construction fence that has been busted down (and many in Williamsburg can be opened by a 12-year-old) to allow access to a deadly building demolition site. So it is with 261 N. 9 Street this week, which is one of the sites in Williamsburg being developed by an owner of the […]

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“Once the train finally pulled out of the station, the kid stood with his nose an inch from the door, faced away from the car full of people who’d just watched 3 kids try to beat him up…The boys kept hitting the other kid, so the man started yelling more and approaching them, other men […]

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Fifth Avenue in Park Slope now has a Park Slope 5th Avenue Business Improvement District (BID). The district will cover the area from Dean to 18th Streets. It was approved yesterday by the City Council. A statement from City Council Member Bill de Blasio said: “I commend the 5th Avenue Merchants Association for helping make […]

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Will the Gowanus hotel boom, which has been thoroughly chronicled and mapped out by Brownstoner, come to a premature end? It will if City Council Member Bill de Blasio has his way. Mr. de Blasio and commmunity members will be holding a press conference before the City Planning presentation on Gownanus rezoning this evening that […]

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The long awaited proposal for rezoning Gowanus should be revealed tonight in a community meeting in Carroll Gardens. It’s an “update and presentation” by the Department of City Planning on the next phase of the Gowanus Land Use Framework for the Community Board 6 Land Use Committee. The meeting will take place at PS 32, […]

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While Community Board 6 has already voted in favor of a liquor license for the Oyster Bar that restauranteur Jim Mamary is opening on Hoyt Street, residents attended a meeting at PS 32 in Carroll Gardens last night to talk about the plan. The session was sponsored by City Council Member Bill de Blasio and […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: · Big Chains Get Big Tax Incentives, But Don’t Create Jobs [NYT] · Coney Island Rescue Hero Wanted to Stay Anonymous [NYDN] · Atlantic Yards Timetable as the Subject of a Court Fight [AYR] · Meet the Neighbors, Part VI [Bed-Stuy Blog] · Bed-Stuy Pigeons […]

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The Fifth Annual Atlantic Avenue Artwalk is coming up on Saturday & Sunday, June 7 and 8, from 1PM-6PM both days. Per an email: ARTWALK08 is a tour of open studios, exhibits, public art projects, and special events on Atlantic Avenue featuring over 250 artists. A wide range of artists across media will open their […]

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There is some very tough chalk writing in the Hot Spot Tot playground in Flatbush. For instance, it says “You can play. No taking crap. No peeing. You can smack people with the swing…You can show your ass and your pennise and (? something)”–Flatbush Pigeon

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We posted about the Celebrate Brooklyn Widget last year and it’s almost that time again. Per the widget website: The Celebrate Brooklyn Widget will keep you informed by displaying the details of the next upcoming event as well as a list of all remaining events for the current season. Mac OS X 10.4.3 or above […]

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National Grid is drilling holes at Thomas Greene Park in Gowanus. The first round of holes is six feet deep. The next round will go to 60 feet. The utility is trying to figure out the extent of the toxic coal tar under the park, playground and swimming pool. It is said to be deep […]

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This is East River State Park in Williamsburg, an expanse that it not landscaped, but is heavily used by North Brooklyn residents and offers opportunities to sit by the East River and stare at Manhattan.

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Of all the Coney Island stories we’ve read and heard, the one about the person that fell through the floor of the toilet at Ruby’s on the Boardwalk is one of the most interesting. Per the FDNY: “One guy was taking a leak, the floor partially collapsed, and he fell 10 feet.” He fell into […]

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[Photo courtesy of Incandenza/flickr] This is a rail line running through Bushwick, photographed at Morgan Avenue. There’s a shot of the same spot in winter here.

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory we appear to have the makings of the perfect spring day. Today’s forecast is short and sweet: “sunny and beautiful.” The high will be 76. Tonight will be mainly clear with a low of 59. Enjoy.–Accuweather

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From Prospect Heights, via Brooklynian, comes a tale of noisy mockingbirds up at all hours of the night, apparently, in search of mates: I’m on Pacific btwn Vandy and Underhill…noticed in past 2 wks that the back of my bldg becomes the Amazon, with calls of the wild from about 4-5 different birds. They always […]

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This example of comfy bus stop seating comes from Tompkins Street in Bed-Stuy, where it is useful for awaiting the arrival of the B43. It was sent our way by Miss Heather.

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[Photo courtesy of arichman33/flickr] The Gowanus Goes Green event, which we have posted about before, is this Sunday, June 1, from 11AM-6PM. Our point here, though, is to show how the event is being promoted locally, as per this photo shot on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope. The sponsors are taking the green theme quite […]

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