[Photo courtesy 66 Square Feet] This is a Golden Raintree. The blogger who does 66 Square Feet sent us this photo and this info: “On the corner of Congress and Court Steets, a Golden raintree (Koelreuteria paniculata) is beginning to bloom. In about a week it will be ablaze. Watch the 1957 MGM movie Raintree […]

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[Photo courtesy of a GL Correspondent] The real estate agency rapidnyc.com that put up a marketing banner on a wall over a Community Garden on Fifth Avenue at President Street is taking it down. We had the first report yesterday about anger about an “intrusive banner” that was subsequently picked up elsewhere later in the […]

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[Photo courtesy of Omphale44/flickr] The Metropolitan Opera offered a blockbuster performance in Prospect Park last night and reports are starting to roll in. Brooklynometry has some coverage and there is a story from NY1, which only describes the crowd as being in the “thousands.” More than a 100,000 were expected and a very, very large […]

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This is one of many photos that hit our inbox yesterday of a horrid mess at 40 Berry Street in Williamsburg, where construction activity seems to have ruptured some underground oil tanks that were being removed. By yesterday afternoon the state Department of Environmental Conservation had checked out the spill, whose exact parameters are unknown. […]

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Here’s a compelling Park Slope question about what one should pay a nanny that accompanies one on vacation that was forwarded to us by a member of our growing network of Park Slope Correspondents and Operatives that reached us from the Park Slope Parents Email List: We have a part-time nanny who normally works about […]

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In honor of today’s Mermaid Parade, one of our favorite annual events, here are some vids posted of past parades on the YouTube. By this time tomorrow, there should be thousands of pics and vids around.

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Here’s a fascinating opportunity for those that like to visit obscure, historic graveyards. If you’ve heard about the Quaker Cemetery in Prospect Park, there will be an opportunity to visit it on June 28 for a play about the people buried there. We will let the sponsors explain via an email they sent us (and […]

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[Photo courtesy of vaduzuvant/flickr] This pretty Brooklyn shot ended up in our Gowanus Lounge Photo Pool, which is now 70 members strong, from vaduzuvant. Do you belong to the GL Pool? Please add your newest photos and also tag them “gowanuslounge.” We’d love to post them.

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The Prospect Park Alliance’s Eugene Patron sends word of a fun Prospect Park Summer Program called Summer on the Green. Here’s a bit about it: The Prospect Park Youth Council’s FREE Summer on the Green Program will be bigger, better, more educational and even more fun! Prospect Park staff and Youth Council members will be […]

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory on this first Saturday of Summer, there is alternating sun and clouds. The forecast calls for it to be “warm with times of clouds and sun.” The high will be 86. Tonight will be “ostly cloudy and more humid; a shower or thunderstorm around late.”–Accuweather

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This story comes from Brooklynian and outlines a scary, random violent attack that apparently took place on Sixth Avenue at Lincoln Place. We haven’t verified the story, and the weapon may have been misidentified as a butcher knife, the general story appears credible: Subject: park slope attack A good friend’s girlfriend was attacked by a […]

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We conclude Williamsburg Door Friday with (of course) Door Number Three. This is the Faile brand name, which has gone up in a number of place, but without any new art. This comes from Berry Street.

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[Photo courtesy of Julie Wilson World/flickr] Some of the coolest photos we’ve seen in a long time are the ones that Julie Wilson World has been putting up on flickr of Coney Island in the late 80s and early 90s. The photo above is from a set of Mermaid Parade photos from 1991. Do take […]

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The Carroll Park Concert Series starts tomorrow, June 21 with a show by local performer AudraRox. Per an email, the show is free but donations of $5 per family “will be very helpful.” The concerts are in front of the monument in Carroll Park and the sprinklers will be on for colling purposes. The show […]

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Continuing with Williamsburg Door Friday, we have one of our all-time favorites on Wythe Avenue. This piece of street art has been there fror a while.

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“There’s neighborly, and then there’s neighborly. Apparently, someone’s assumption that ‘your hydrangea is my hydrangea’ was a little presumptuous. The note reads ‘To the ‘Neighborly-type’ person who came up my stoop and cut SIXTEEN STEMS off my Hydrangea: This plant is in memory of my deceased mother. I hope you sleep well at night.’”–Brooklynometry

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Here’s our regular weekly post from the Center for the Urban Environment about the great tours they run: Park Slope: Celebrating 35 Years as a Historic District. Saturday, June 21 – 11am – 1 pm – with Matt Postal. In July 1973, Park Slope became an historic district, preserving one of Brooklyn’s finest residential neighborhoods. […]

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Summer is here!!! We do love the Friday night fireworks in Coney Island, as there’s nothing quite like heading there on a Friday evening to sit on the beach and watch what is always a nice display. They kick off tonight after dark and are sponsored by Astroland. We’ve found the time they start can […]

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We love Williamsburg doors and it’s been a while since we posted photos of any, so today were going to do a few and call it Williamsburg Door Friday. Here’s one from Broadway.

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We posted earlier this week about the Coney Photos that were posted by Julie Wilson World on flickr. That set has been greatly expanded and is totally worth checking out on this Mermaid Parade Weekend.

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It’s not Brooklyn, but WNYC does the best radio coverage around of our borough, so we’ll note that today is the final Big Moving Day from the venerable studios high atop the Municipal Building where the station’s great staff has been toiling in amazingly, uh, modest surroundings forever. Here’s an audio slideshow of the move.–WNYC

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Goodbye Gowanus Condo. Hello, Elan Park Slope. Here style can, in fact, go hand in hand with a McDonald’s drive thru window. We’ve always had a sneaking suspicion that the condo on First Street between Fourth and Fifth Avenues wouldn’t survive a marketing rebranding, particularly given that developers would like to call everything between the […]

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“Do you know anything about a Verizon cell tower going up at the corner of Clinton and Huntington at 561 Clinton? I live in the building and workers have been on the roof putting it in since last week, and I was wondering if the community knew anything about it and was trying to fight […]

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The process of renting an apartment–and all of the marketing games that go with the rental business–have made more than one Brooklynite want to barf. Now, the keepers of the community garden at Fifth Avenue and President Street are angry about an “intrusive” banner for rental apartments that has sort of become part of their […]

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[Photo courtesy of Nate Kensinger] There was some chaos on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope yesterday when the Astoria Federal Saving at Tenth Street was robbed. This, in turn, resulted in what appeared to be an evacuation of MS 51 at Fifth Street next to JJ Byrne Park because many students were outside at the […]

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