Beach Volleyball season starts today in Coney Island in terms of competitive tournaments. There’s action today and tomorrow through 6PM. This weekend is the Parks Department’s Citywide Beach Volleyball Tournament. (More info by clicking here.) Next weekend is the AVP Crocs Tour on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. More info about the latter, including tickets, here.

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Yesterday morning, we first reported, based on a Brooklynian post (which deserves full credit for spreading the news), that Mediterra had closed and that a place called Corner Burger is opening. Several readers updated the info to note that the new place is owned by the same people that ran Mediterra and that they’re just […]

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These kitties, who have been named the Flatbush Five come with a sweet story and there’s a full photoset of them here. Apparently, they were rescued from a dangerous spot. Lisacat, who does heartwarming and beautiful work find homes for hundreds of creatures, writes: Celia is a nursing stray cat from Flatbush. Her 5 kittens […]

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“A pair of kayakers who paddled too close to the New York City Waterfalls installation under the Brooklyn Bridge nearly drowned when swift currents and the falls’ suction mechanism capsized their boat, police said. ‘I wanted to get a closer look at the waterfalls, and then it sucked us in,’ said Vladimer Spector, 37, one […]

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Yes, Fourth of July is just a memory, but here a fun vid just posted to the YouTube of a little celebration on Coney Island Avenue.

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[Photo courtesy of Rubys Host/GL Flickr Pool] Where, you might ask, is this gorgeous sunset view from? Coney Island, of course, from a bit of an elevation. The pic comes from the superb selection of photos submitted to our Gowanus Lounge Flickr Pool by Rubys Host.

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“The issue is not with lack of interest in buying condos, but in the increasingly more difficult ability to get credit in the wake of the subprime mortgage mess. The days of handing out credit to every Tom, Dick or Harry are over, and people are going to need to shore up their finances if […]

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[Photo courtesy of jplpagan/flickr] Here’s one from jplpagan, who’s one of our favorite GL Flickr Pool contributors, of Golden Chocolate on Smith Street. He says he couldn’t bring himself to complete the name on the sign, so we did. Sort of.

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What would happen if one of the more out there Karl Fischer buildings in Williamsburg (say, 20 Bayard) got the Frank Gehry treatment. Well, it certainly would look different.–Restless

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[Photo courtesy of Gary Mirabelle/Mirabelle Studios] This gorgeous black and white shot comes from local sculptor and photographer Gary Mirabelle who is a frequent GL Contributor.

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory, it’s already hot. Today’s forecast calls for it to be sunny and hot with a high of 87. Tonight will be humid with some clouds and a low of 69.–Accuweather

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[Photo courtesy of Adrian Kinloch/Brit in Brooklyn] This bit of gorgeous flora comes from Red Hook courtesy of Brit in Brooklyn blogger and GL Contributor Adrian Kinloch.

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Herewith, a selection of some musical events from today through Sunday brought to you, as always, by GL contributor Dan Bennis: Friday 7/11/08 Barbes: Smokey’s Roundup (Western Swing) $10, 10:00pm Celebrate Brooklyn: Brazilian Girls, Chicha Libre, Ticklah (Electronic, Surf Rock, Reggae)- Free!!, 7:00pm Saturday 7/12/08 Celebrate Brooklyn: Beth Orton, Matt Munister (Folk/Trip-Hop, Rock/Jazz)- Free!!, 7:30pm […]

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[Photo courtesy of vaduzuvunt/GL Flickr Pool] No, it’s not a sofa. But, it’s from Red Hook and it’s certainly loung(ing)-worthy. Also, we like the collection of crap on it.

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Ridgewood Reservoir is on the Brooklyn-Queens border and its fate is up in the air, so it definitely is of interest to GL. Check out this vid.

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This is Sheepshead Bay Station Plaza as designed by Greenberg Farrow. Local blogger Sheepshead Bites found the renderings of the big retail site and posted them, noting:<blockquote>Someone pointed me to the artistic renderings for Sheepshead Bay Station Plaza, the enormous shopping center being built by Acadia Realty and PA Associates practically right next door to […]

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It’s official: the building on the corner of Sixth Street and Fifth Avenue is one of the Slope’s Restaurant Corners of Death. (There are others that we wish would be similarly cursed, but that escape, year in and year out.) The corner in question most recently housed Mediterra, although some might recall it as another […]

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One thing leads to another around here. Thanks to parks spokesguy Eugene Patron, the true identity of yesterday’s found-art installation has been revealed: “Turns out it’s an old dredger, used to clean the watercourse of weeds and invasive plants like phragmites along the lakeshore. We have another one, nicknamed the Lake Mess Monster, that our […]

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So, here’s a quick looking at growing potatoes in one’s Brooklyn backyard. Assuming, of course, that one has a backyard to begin with. On the other hand, it looks like some of these methods are transferable to a window box too.

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This could be one of the saddest sights we’ve seen on the Park Slope side of Fourth Avenue that isn’t related to hideous architecture of a violation of the streetscape that we’ve seen in a long, long time. This is the current state of the old SEPTA trolley car that has sat on a property […]

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Manhattan is not the only place there are iLines. We’ve got them in Brooklyn too. Check out the scene at the ATT Store in Downtown Brooklyn.–Brownstoner

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[Image courtesy of The Real Estate] One of the most interesting tidbits in yesterday’s Brooklyn Market Report wasn’t that prices are still holding steady, but that sales in Brooklyn fell by nearly 44 percent over the previous years. There were declines in all areas. In Williamsburg and Greenpoint, for instance, the annual drop was close […]

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The Red Hook Ballfield Vendors are almost back. Seriously. We got an email from Cesar Fuentes, who is the group’s spokesperson, that they’ve finally cleared up the mess with the Department of Health and will be back next Saturday, July 19, with a “raindate” of July 26 if all the vendors aren’t ready. Here’s his […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: · Ebbetts Field Houses Tenants Want to Reclaim Plaza [NYDN] · Brooklyn ‘Slay Wife’ is Innocent, Cop Husband Says [NYP] · Atlantic Yards is All About Basketball? BS Meter Time [AYR] · $100,000 in a Box at Borough Hall [McBrooklyn] · The Return of Fedders […]

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“According to a reader, and the image sent in…the 11,000 square foot Morton’s Steakhouse in Brooklyn’s Marriott is scheduled to open this November. Get ready Luger’s.”–Eater

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