The Fourth Annual Renegade Craft Fair is happening this weekend in Williamsburg. It’ll be taking place for the second year in a row at McCarren Pool rather than in McCarren Park proper. The dates are June 14 and 15 from 11AM-7PM. More than 200 artists are supposed to be showing their stuff. Also, per the […]

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Brit in Brooklyn blogger and GL Contributor Adrian Kinloch has been having a field day taking photos of lightning strikes during some of the nightly thunderstorms rolling through during the just-concluded heat wave. He sent us this photo from last night’s heat wave-ending storms and also posted some photos on BIB.

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory, it’s looking less like a potential oven this morning. The forecast says it’s still going to be hot, but not as brutal as it’s been. It’s calling for a day that will be “mostly sunny, very warm and less humid” with a high of 86. Tonight will be clear with […]

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There is very little that one can add to the photo of this chair, which we came across on Third Avenue in Gowanus. It is regal with its leopard print upholstery.

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The development at 110 Amity Street in Cobble Hill, which was rushed through Community Board 6 recently with no public notice so it could go back to the Landmarks Preservation Commission did so today. The result: the renovation of the Lamm Building was approved, but the new townhomes were rejected again. The LPC sent the […]

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With smokes at more than $8.00 a pack in most places, it’s no wonder that “loosies” are now being advertised at fifty cents a pop. This flier was taped up on Fifth Avenue in Sunset Park.

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From City Council Member Bill de Blasio, who has been a close associate and supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton: “I am proud to announce my enthusiastic support for Barack Obama for President of the United States. Senator Obama is one of the most inspiring figures in recent political history and it is an honor to […]

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Among the things that left Coney Island last week was the petting zoo that had been set up on property owned by developer Joe Sitt. It turns they are coming back and may be doing so rent-free. The person who posts on the Coney Island Message Board as Tricia emails to tell us that Thor […]

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This film, which is identified as DNA on the permit, is shooting in Williamsburg on Bedford Avenue and on N. 11 Street on Thursday and Friday. While we couldn’t find any detail on the film, it’s a big shoot, with several blocks showing signs

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There are two benefits for Lola Staar’s Dreamland Roller Rink coming up this week. One is on June 13 at Peggy O’Neil’s (which is part of KeySpan Park) and the other is on June 15 at Superfine in Dumbo. Here’s some info about both:<blockquote>This magical evening will transport you back to the fabulous Coney Island […]

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These are horseshoe crabs that we saw the other day in the Gowanus Canal near the Carroll Street Bridge. While this may look like horseshoe crabs possibly having sex, we’re not sure, as they tend to mate in sand and on shorelines. In any case, we’re always mesmerized whenever we see anything alive in the […]

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Every now and then, a storefront shows itself as a space is making a transition from one thing to another. This is one of them. The kind reader who sent this photo from Windsor Terrace writes: I came out of the subway today and saw this storefront on Prospect Park West between 16th and Windsor […]

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“It’s weddings and funerals over greenmarkets in Bay Ridge. A much-anticipated farmers’ market in a Third Ave. church parking lot has been canceled after fears the country goods would take away parking space from wedding and funeral services. ‘The market is not going to happen,’ said the Rev. James Devlin, pastor of Our Lady of […]

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The politics of development, especially when billiions of dollars and the stake of an entire community are at stake, are never a pretty thing to watch. This week, however, the saga of Coney Island redevelopment, which has had many ups and down took a turn toward the ugly and the personal. Someone–it is suggested that […]

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Yesterday, the Post ran a story that we dubbed “Sofagate,” saying that Coney Island USA’s Dick Zigun, who founded the Mermaid Parade, was living in the building that the city helped the organization buy last year. Sources tell us they suspect that the story was given to the Post by Thor Equities and noted that […]

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There was a press conference at Long Island College Hospital yesterday in which doctors and other suggested that its parent company is slowly squeezing the hospital to death, particularly be selling off valuable real estate in Cobble Hill. “The doctors contend that the parent company, Continuum Health Partners, has been downsizing the institution where they […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: · In a Hot City, Any Shade or Cool Will Work [NYT] · Swelter Skelter [NYP] · Smith Street Recovering from Loss of Power [McBrooklyn] · Sizzling [A Year in the Park] · Promised East New York Community Center May Not Open [NYT] · Dueling […]

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[Photo courtesy of GerritsenBeach.Net] It is something of a tradition for some local students to head to Manhattan Beach on “senior cut day.” This, in turn, has provided a great deal of local excitement in recent years, with some residents concerned about “thugs” and, even, proposing privatizing the beach and closing off access from neighboring […]

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A developer has bought up a major building on Third Street in Gowanus/Carroll Gardens. The Abigail Press building, which was said to be on the market sold for $12 million to a developer who plans an adaptive reuse of the building that will incorporate office space, art and production studios, and a hotel that overlooks […]

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[Photo courtesy of lornagrl/flickr] Here another cool shot of Coney Island contributed to our GL Photo Pool by lornagrl. It is of W. 12 Street at the Bowery and it is quite cool.

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Mr. and Mrs. Upper Zoner (a.k.a.: “The C.G. Flibbertgibbets”) How I love you And respect you, My historical CG neighborhood, Let me count the ways: Give me some FAR 2.43 And make it a double. Give me back my FAR, I am no: Flibbertigibbet! I want more FAR and I want you to Throw in […]

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[Photo courtesy of Mr. Heather] Here an interesting look at Sunset Park as seen from the water. The photo comes from Mr. Heather and is part of a much larger photoset from a waterfront tour on Sunday.

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It will be just as blazing hot today as it’s been the last two days. The forecast: “Very hot and humid with the temperature breaking the record of 95 last set in 1984 with hazy sun.” The high will be 96 and it will feel like 109. There could be some strong thunderstorms around this […]

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Hundreds of people in Boerum Hill are still without power a day after manhole fires knocked out service and took the F, G and other lines out for a while. Readers reported nasty service problems on the subway lines all day and one reader writes that he’s “still without power and living in a sweatbox,” […]

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