Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory this morning, it’s quite nice. Today’s forecast calls for it to be cool with clouds and sun. There is a good chance of afternoon showers and thunderstorms coming through. The high will be 73. There will also be some showers and thunderstorms around tonight with a low of 60.–Accuweather

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Every now and then we put a couple of Craigslist Missed Brooklyn Missed Connections in reserve for a weekday because they move us. So it is with the very short tale of tears and dropped ice cream on Bedford Avenue: clumsy girl at penny licks – m4w – 25 outside penny licks on thursday, about […]

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“It’s been well documented that Ikea — with its endless living rooms and curtain solutions — has been known to spark screaming matches between normally mild-mannered couples.” So, here are some tips from a clinical psychologist about how to avoid a divorce when looking at the Billy bookcases.–Brooklyn Based

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[Photo courtesy of julie wilson world/flickr] This is the Mermaid Parade in 1991 from super cool set of flickr photos posted by julie wilson world. The pics are from the 1990s and show a place that’s a changed quite a bit in even that short period of time. We found them via Kinetic Carnival.

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This building with monster tagging, done by spraying it from a fire extinguisher, comes from Broadway in the Burg.

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There’s a new online petition that we found via Kensington Brooklyn, calling for the city to restore 5PM-9PM off-lease hours at the Nethermead in Prospect Park. Here the text: We urge a return to off-leash hours in Prospect Park’s Neathermead from 5pm to 9pm, Monday through Fiday, excluding holidays. This long-standing privilege was lost during […]

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[Photo courtesy of Bad Advice] The building site at 5 Roebling Street in the Burg, which we like to call the Giant Fart Cloud Building site, as it is the former site of a fragrant former cabbage processing plant, has acquired a pile driver. The site itself has been eventful thus far, producing both a […]

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Do take a few minutes to watch this if you want to chuckle as the “protesters” against the Red Hook Ikea are picked off one by one.

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Last week, we noted that piles of excavated soil and rubble at the Urban Legend Toxic Lot at the corner of N. 11 Street and Bedford Avenue were not covered by tarps. Such precautions are standards when things are being dug up at properties that have toxic issues. Well, another look this week shows that […]

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Oh no. We were led to understand that the “log sawing” that will replace a ribbon cutting at the Red Hook Ikea tomorrow is a Swedish tradition. Now, we learn that it’s not so, per Raquel Ortigueira, who handles cultural and public affairs for the Swedish Consulate General. “This isn’t a Swedish thing, it’s an […]

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The city’s Brooklyn House of Detention expansion proposal is having a hard time winning friend in the community. There is already a Stakeholders Group opposed to the facility and, now, a group called Stop BHOD has organized and launched a website. The new groiup, which “strongly” believes “that the City’s plan to expand and open […]

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[Photo courtesy of Adrian Kinlock] Our friends at Racked have someone on scene in the line outside the Red hook Ikea, where things remind us of what would have preceded an anticipated mega-shipment of oranges in East Berlin in 1983. Actually, that’s not entirely accurate. The Ikea Brooklyn line is way more orderly and smaller […]

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“A cook at Brooklyn’s famed Junior’s Restaurant was charged with larceny yesterday after co-workers caught him with 15 frozen lobster tails stuffed down his pants and into bandages around his legs, cops said. Prep cook Raymundo Flores, 40, was spotted in a walk-in freezer by colleague Adam Marks, allegedly taking lobster tails and stuffing them […]

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In honor of all the media hype and hoopla surrounding the second coming opening of Ikea in Red Hook, we’re offering up a few views of the store from the lot next door. The property, which has a colorful history, including residents living there and being one of the last homes of Red Hook’s wild […]

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Given that there has been no official news forthcoming from Whole Foods about its planned Gowanus store, we turn to some promotional items for hints of what might, or might not, be coming. Yesterday, we had a photo that showed just how abandoned quiet the Whole Foods site at Third Street and Third Avenue is. […]

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There are many ways to convey one’s displeasure with an annoying car alarm from leaving notes to smashing windows. Leaving a collection of dog turds on the hood, plus a bunch of notes explaining why all the shit is on the car is another way of communicating.–ABL

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There was a press conference at City Hall yesterday under the auspices of BrooklynSpeaks to call for a new Atlantic Yards Development Trust and a community stakeholders group to oversee the project’s development. The change would be an interesting one as the planning and approval process has taken place at the state level. The group, […]

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Herewith, a selection of shows coming up in Brooklyn today and tomorrow. Tuesday 6/17/08 Union Hall: Retribution Gospel Choir, IDA $12, 7:30pm Barbes: Slavic Soul Party $10, 9:00pm Wednesday 6/18/08 Barbes: Hilmar Jensson (Solo Guitar) followed by Skuli Sverrisson (Solo Bass) $10 per set, 8:00pm —Dan Bennis

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[Photo courtesy of stellag/flickr] This image from the New York Aquarium in Coney Island comes via our Gowanus Lounge flickr pool courtesy of staellag.

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory today, we’re off to a nice start. The forecast calls for it to be less humid with partial sunshine and a high of 78. Tonight will be “clear and moonlit” with a low of 62.–Accuweather

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Beard Street was already buzzing more than usual this weekend as some sort of pre-opening shopping event was going on at the Red Hook Ikea. The Ikea Shuttle was already running and a steady stream of cars was coming down Beard Street and going to the parking lot. Beard Street, at times, still had that […]

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The art on top went up recently on Berry Street near N. 11 Street. The puppy on the bottom has been there for well over a year.

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Our Carroll Gardens Correspondent filed this updated photo of the street sofa that has graced Coffey Street in Red Hook for some time. It’s, uh, getting a little bit trashy down there.

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