The reverberations of the Anarchy in the Pre-K situation continue, with a protest at City Hall this morning and calls for more protests and email campaign by disgruntled parents. One parent writing via the Park Slope Parents email list offers an interesting look at how a private contractor in Pennsylvania contributed to the mess: I […]

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You may have noticed that GL was down for about 18 hours on Friday into Saturday morning and that when we came back online some of our posts were missing, comments were gone and some photos had disappeared. This is because our (reprehensible, incompetent, and just-plain-crappy webhost, lunarpages) deleted our database before a switch to […]

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This street seating comes to us via the proprietress of Erica’s Blog, who writes that it’s outside of a car service near Coney Island Avenue and Cortelyou Road: The inside, you should know, is unlike any car service place i’ve ever been in…you gotta walk deep, deep, deep inside the place before you get to […]

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Do you take photos of Brooklyn and post them on flickr? Please join our Gowanus Lounge Flickr Pool and tag pics you’d like us to see “gowanuslounge.” We love posting them. [Photo courtesy of Tracy Collins/flickr] This is a family stroll through the Atlantic Yards site, also known as Pacific Street, as captured on film […]

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Given that we’ve been following the Anarchy in the Pre-K situation in which children all over Brooklyn and the city has been randomly rejected from pre-school due to snafus which appear to rest with a contractor hired by the city, we will note that a rally sponsored by the City Council is taking place at […]

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Here’s a selection of Brooklyn-related vids posted to YouTube in the last week or so.

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[Image courtesy of Dalton Rooney/flickr] This draped fire hydrant on Fifth Street comes to us via Dalton Rooney.

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory we have the makings of a scorcher. The forecast calls for a day that will be “mostly sunny and humid with the temperature near the record of 95.” Meanwhile, the National Weather Service has issued a Heat Advisory from 1PM-6PM and says “hot and humid conditions will be in place […]

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As many of you have noticed, GL has been down since about noon yesterday, and we’re currently showing posts only through Tuesday. (This will change as we rebuild things.) This is because our illustrious webshosting service, lunarpages, deleted our database as we were in the processing of transferring to another lunarpages server. We will be […]

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It’s from Coney Island, where we imagine the beach will be popular on this very summer-like June Saturday.

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Many of us pass the imposing, rather ornate, buff-brick Romanesque structure on the northwest corner of Ninth Street and Seventh Avenue in Park Slope without much thought to its past—perhaps stopping to shop at Brooklyn Industries or Urban Optical on our way to the F train. But the building has an interesting history. Built by […]

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Ten Japanese Cuisine opened recently in the space that was once occupied by Laila in the South Slope. The space is unrecognizable from the basic premises that used to house the Middle Eastern restaurant. When we passed by, quite early in the evening or late afternoon, there were already a few people dining.

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This photo from Green Street in Greenpoint shows the perfect combination of bicycle and comfy chair. Transportation and sidewalk seating! It comes to us from Miss Heather.

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Urban Exploration with Forgotten-NY.com from Brian Lehrer Live on Vimeo. Here’s an appearance by Kevin Walsh of Forgotten New York and Richard Nickel Jr. of Kingston Lounge on Brian Lehrer’s TV show, Brian Lehrer Live. They talk about urban exploration and historic preservation and touch on some Brooklyn issues and places like Admiral’s Row.

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There has been an early bump in the road to lattes on the Gowanus side of the Park Slope-Gowanus DMZ. The construction site at 4th Avenue and 3rd Street that’s the rumored future location of a Starbucks isn’t off to the best start with the Department of Buildings. As of yesterday, there was a partial […]

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The Department of Transportation appears to be making quick work of changing Alternate Side Parking signs around Park Slope, and many Slopers are finding that their alternate side days are being changed, in some cases from Thursday and Friday to Monday and Tuesday. Many of the new signs block out 9AM-10:30AM as the new “no […]

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The Anarchy in the Pre-K situation (aka a lot of parents, especially in Park Slope, upset because their children haven’t been accepted into city pre-K classes) has now spawned an information gathering effort via Survey Monkey. Per an email making the rounds via Park Slope Parents, which is a fulcrum of unhappiness about the situation […]

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It has been a long time since we checked in on the infamous South Slope Crack Building (officially known as 406 15th Street). It got that name because construction work so destabilized a neighboring building two years ago that people had to be evacuated. For a long time, buildings had “crack monitors” to see if […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: · Two Men Climb NYT Building, One Was From Brooklyn! [NYT] · Two Teens Charged in Crown Heights Beating [NYP] · 14th Annual Native American Celebration Will Draw Crowd [NYDN] · Parents Frustrated with School Admission Mess [NYT] · Markowitz Gives Award to Man He […]

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“One parent’s casual idea to bring a toy rocket launcher to Greenwood Playground this afternoon turned into a ‘happening’ with children patiently lined up to wait for their turn,” writes Lauren Collins of the Windsor Terrace Alliance, who sent photos of the neighborhood excitement. “Ahhh, summer is almost here.”

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[Photo courtesy of Tracy Collins/flickr] That big pro-Atlantic Yards rally sponsored by Forest City Ratner took place at Borough Hall yesterday. There were speeches by Borough President Marty Markowitz, Curtis Sliwa, ACORN’s Bertha Louis and others, although top-billed speaker Rev. Al Sharpton didn’t make it because of travel problems. The organizers said that 3,500 people […]

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This beauty comes from N. 11 Street in Williamsburg via the camera of Miss Heather who is our prime supplier of images of the Brooklyn Street Couch.

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<p align=”left”><a title=”link-asterisk.jpg” href=”http://www.bobguskind.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/link-asterisk.jpg”><img src=”http://www.bobguskind.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/link-asterisk.jpg” alt=”link-asterisk.jpg” align=”left” /></a>The website for NV 101 N5 in the Burg is up and running. It’s a Karl Fischer building at N5 & Berry and has apartments starting in the $500s for 1BRs. The copy about the Burg itself says it is full of “epicurean delights, shopping and green spaces,” […]

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[Photo courtesy of rembklyn/flickr] Here’s a view of a recent sunset from a rooftop overlooking the mighty Gowanus Expressway and, beyond it, Red Hook. It comes to us via our GL Flickr Pool.

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The Coney Island Development Corporation has launched a new website with a “Coney Island Fun Guide.” The site highlights Coney attractions and events and includes an event calendar. It’s part of the CIDC’s broader PR work for Coney Island beyond its, uh, somewhat more controversial rezoning efforts. The Fun Guide can be found here. We […]

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