On Friday, we posted a photo of the A&S Pork Store on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope. We put it up because it was a GL Flickr Pool picture and just thought it was a cool image. What we’ve learned since then is that the A&S Park Store, which is the last surviving butcher shop […]

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The Gold Era of No Alternate side Parking in Park has drawn to a close as alternate side regs are being imposed again as of today. Most stret have not only had the time needs for street cleaning cut from three hours to 90 minutes, but most familiar street cleaning times have been change. Check […]

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City Council Member Bill de Blasio picked up two important endorsements yesterday, from Reps. Nydia M. Velázquez and Yvette Clarke of his candidacy for Brooklyn Borough President. “Bill de Blasio has been a friend and ally for twenty years, and I am very proud to endorse him for Brooklyn Borough President today,” Rep. Velazquez said. […]

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The bitter feud between the two brothers fighting for spiritual control of Brooklyn’s Satmar community has spilled into the corridors of City Hall. Their battle centers on the fiscal-year 2009 budget. Through City Council Speaker Christine Quinn’s discretionary fund, Brooklyn Councilmen David Yassky, Simcha Felder and Bill de Blasio dished out an unusually large sum […]

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We posted about the SEPTA car on Fourth Avenue next to the Lyceum in Park Slope on Friday. It’s an odd landmark that is currently being hacked up, but it could have been saved according to GL readers. On Friday, we had a sad photo of the car being ripped apart in preparation for a […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: · Guy Breaks Into Apartment, Leaves Wallet and Comes Back for It [NYP] · Teen Dead, Two Wounded in Brownsville Shooting [amNY] · Nets Making Roster Moves in Case Team is Sold? [AYR] · Still Pretty “Mellow” at the Montague Street Pedestrian Piazza [McBrooklyn] · […]

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[Photo courtesy of jplpagan/GL Flickr Pool] Here’s a shot of yesterday’s Bastille Day activities (yes, a day early) on Smith Street, which included a Petanque-athon. McBrooklyn also has a post up about the event with nice pics.

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Things on Williamsburg’s Southside continue to be interesting. Over the weekend, “a machete-wielding mob marching down a gritty Brooklyn street stabbed a pair of teenagers Saturday.” We’ll allow the Daily News to do the honors: About 15 suspected gang members, wearing T-shirts over their faces, stormed down S. Third St. in Williamsburg around 2 a.m. […]

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[Image courtesy of Sail Brooklyn/GL Flickr Pool] Here’s a shot of a sumer Saturday in Gowanus, with a concert at the Yard and some people watching from the Carroll Street Bridge. The image comes from Sail Brooklyn via our GL Photo Pool.

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory early this morning we have clouds and showers. The forecast calls for “clouds yielding to some sun with a couple of showers and a thunderstorm; warm and humid.” The high will be 84. Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low of 70.–Accuweather

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It’s over. As previously announced, alternate side parking regulations will return to Park Slope tomorrow, including a myriad of changes that are likely to drive many residents even more insane than not having have the regulations since May. (The DOT page on the changes is here.) As for the reaction from residents (some of whom […]

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We haven’t had a Sunday Brooklyn Missed Connection related to flatulence in a long time. Today’s concerns that always interesting event one might call Fartus G Trainus. Here it is, short, uh, sweet and to the fragrant point: you smelt it and RAN… – m4w – 23 (Gtrain 8am) i sat across from you this […]

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“Newtown Creek, the polluted estuary that separates Queens and Brooklyn, should be named a federal Superfund site, a move that could hasten long-stuttering cleanup efforts, a pair of New York lawmakers say. Representatives Anthony D. Weiner and Nydia M. Velázquez, whose Congressional districts include the contaminated area, are urging the Environmental Protection Agency to test […]

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This news about Lonelyville, the cool cafe on Prospect Park Southwest comes from Brooklynometry, a blog we like a lot. The Windsor Terrace cafe, it turns out, is being sold (which may or may not mean the space will have another cafe). Here’s Brooklynometry’s report, in part: …It’s a gem adored by the neighborhood for […]

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One of our favorite blogs, which we link to nearly every day, gets a long article in the Times today. It’s A Year in the Park, produced by Brenda Becker, which has been doing entertaining and informative coverage of Prospect Park since the beginning of the year. “More than 150 witty, engaging and informative postings […]

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[Photo courtesy of Deborah Matlack] We do love our Brooklyn flora and this flat rose from the Cranford Rose Garden captured on a rainy day by GL Contributor Deborah Matlack is gorgeous, just like the rose garden itself.

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There are two folk dance workshops on Dances from the Arab World coming up this month, with the first taking place today from 2-6PM at the Bay Ridge Arab American Bazaar, at Shore Road Park, (79th and Shore Road). The second will happen on Sunday, July 20th from 2PM-6PM at the Arab American Heritage Park […]

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[Photo courtesy of jplpagan/GL Flickr Pool] Here is some Brooklyn flora from Red Hook courtesy of frequent GL Flickr Pool contributor jplpagan. For a previous Red Hook scene, click here.

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Here are a few vids of the Feist show a Celebrate Brooklyn the other day and of Cold War Kids recently.

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[Photo courtesy of Best View in Brooklyn/GL Flickr Pool] This is how the big stuffed toys play in Sunset Park. Blogger Best View in Brooklyn, who contributed this pic via our GL Flickr Pool, calls it “Naughty, Naughty Monsters.”

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[Photo courtesy of Gary Mirabelle/Mirabelle Studios] Here’s an evocative shot of a gnarled old tree that has been around long enough to be able to tell some stories if it could. The pic comes from local artist and GL Contributor Gary Mirabelle.

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory you can sense the return of some serious humidity. Today’s forecast calls for it to be sunny to partly cloudy and humid. The high will be 85. Tonight will be “mainly cloudy and humid; a shower or heavy thunderstorm in the area late.” The low will be 69.–Accuweather

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The creation of a Prospect Heights Historic District is making progress. The Landmarks Preservation Commission will “calendar” the district this Tuesday (7/15), which is the first step in formally creating it. This would lead to a public hearing and a vote on the District on October 28. Per a release from the Municipal Art Soceity, […]

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Here’s a complaint about the Siege of the Kohl’s Fliers in Park Slope from our well supplied Park Slope Parents email bag: Every week, walking around in this neighborhood, I pass hundreds of bundles of fliers in the Kohl’s bag. It’s pretty appalling to me that as many of us are trying to cut down […]

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This week’s pet is from the wonderful Sean Casey Animal Rescue shelter in Kensington. They do wonderful work and have an abundance of great animals that need loving homes: Here is Butta Bean’s story: Butta Bean is a five year old American Bulldog mix. She survived in the City Pound for 51 days because the […]

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