[Photo courtesy of weenieart/GL Flickr Pool] This is the A&S Pork Store as contributed to the GL Flickr Pool by weenieart, with apologies to the vegetarians out there.

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Skyscrapers in Your Backyard Everything is education, Parents. The way you brush your teeth Up and down, Or side to side is Seen and emulated by your little ones. The way you sit in traffic Fuming, Is it polite to curse The suffocation of skyscrapers Growing, In your backyard?

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[Photo courtesy bestviewinbrooklyn/flickr] This view of kids playing in the sprinklers at the Sunset Park Pool that was put in our GL Photo Pool by bestviewinbrooklyn certainly fits the In the Pool theme. The photographer also produces the Best View in Brooklyn blog, which covers Sunset Park.

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory a nice July summer day is on its way. Today’s forecast calls for it to be sunny (note the lack of high humidity and threat of thunderstorms) with a high of 85. Tonight will be clear with a low of 70.–Accuweather

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We found this interesting specimen on N. 9 Street on a construction fence that we’ve featured more than once because it’s often wide open and constitutes a public safety hazard. We do like it.

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This is the former site of the International Longshoreman’s Association Building (aka 340 Court) at Court and Union that has been the subject of much contention and bitterness in the neighborhood. There’s nothing left of the old structure but a lot of rubble and a hole where the building’s basement used to be. A couple […]

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Here’s a fascinating post about a new Williamsburg venue courtesy of Nicole Davis, who produces the superb Brooklyn Based: There was talk of Brooklyn Bowl coming — the 20,000-square-foot music venue and bowling alley owned by Peter Shapiro (right) and Charley Ryan (left), former owner and general manager, respectively, of the legendary music club Wetlands. […]

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The Crown Heightser, which stop posting last year, is back in business. Or, at least, it appears to be with a few new posts this month. We’ve always advocated for more neighborhood-based blogs in “underblogged” parts of the borough. One of the neighborhoods we always include on the list is Crown Heights. Here’s hoping they […]

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We found this bike parked in a small community garden/park in Red Hook off Columbia Street. It’s got that perfect combination of “no bike” message plus bike that always makes for the perfect photo. In defense of the bike, it was parked inside the fence and we believe the sign applied to chaining bike on […]

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[Photo courtesy of vaduzuvunt/GL Flick Pool] It looks like the Red Hook Ikea Annex, (aka the sign painted on the vacant building a block from the Ikea on Van Dyke Street), has gained an added element. About a year and a half ago, the same art appeared in a bunch of places on the fence […]

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The Carroll Gardens group called CORD, which formed around the contentious issue of the design of 360 Smith Street (now known as the Oliver House Condos) and went on to push for a broader downzoning of the neighborhood, must be in a good mood. Late yesterday, the group started circulating a “thank you” email for […]

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[Photo courtesy of Scott/Coney Island Message Board] It’s looking like that July 19 opening date for the Dreamland Roller Rink in the Childs Building on the Boardwalk in Coney Island is a pretty sure thing. It was first reported by Kinetic Carnival on Tuesday.

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One of the areas that will be part of a new city test of increasing parking meter rates at peak times is Midwood. “The program’s goal is to increase turnover in curbside parking spaces in the test areas — a section of Greenwich Village in Manhattan and a stretch of Kings Highway and adjacent streets […]

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There’s a Neighborhood Solar Forum for single family homes coming up on July 16 that’s sponsored by Sustainable Flatbush. Per an email: Wondering if you can convert your house to solar? Come to the…Neighborhood Solar Forum for single family homes sponsored by Sustainable Flatbush…Peter Landy will speak about his experience converting his house to solar […]

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The new TKTS Booth in Downtown Brooklyn is opening today at 11AM and will have the requisite ribbon cutting ceremony beforehand. It’s located at 1 Metrotech Center at the corner of Jay Street and Myrtle Avenue. Per the email we received: TKTS Downtown Brooklyn will offer Broadway, Off Broadway, music, dance and Brooklyn performing arts […]

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“Rep. Ed Towns has shuttered his Bedford-Stuyvesant district office in the midst of a hotly contested congressional race – because of a rodent problem…The 13-term congressman, who represents Canarsie, Brownsville and Cypress Hills, among other areas, was forced to consolidate his staff into district offices in East New York and downtown Brooklyn. ‘Yes, there was […]

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If the details in this post on the Park Slope Forum of Brooklynian are accurate, the incident related from Second Street is utterly vile. The key part is where some people tell a woman of Caribbean heritage who lives on Second Street in the Slope to “go back to your own neighborhood.” It doesn’t involve […]

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Housing sales are falling in Brooklyn, per the new Prudential Douglas Elliman Brooklyn Market Overview, but prices haven’t taken a beating yet. Overall, median sale prices fell 1.9% to $525,000, but the average sale price increased 2.4%. The number of sales, however, took a nose dive of 43.6% in this quarter compared to the same […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: · Nets Say “Brooklyn is Happening” for 2010-2011 Season [AYR] · Dave Chappelle is No Show at Brooklyn Political Fundraiser [NYDN] · Here’s a Possible Identity Thief at Work in Brookyn Heights [BHB] · Wednesday Food & Drink Roundup [Brownstoner] · Musical, Magical Mayhem is […]

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The most likely seriously accurate rumor broke yesterday that the Top Chef contestants in the new episodes will be living in Williamsburg. On Karl Fischer Row, no less, at 20 Bayard Street.–Eater

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There’s a “Town Hall Meeting on School Governance” coming up next week on Wednesday, July 16. An email we received says: Please Join Councilmember Bill de Blasio, elected Officials and Education Advocates for an informational town hall session on Mayoral Control. Come share your opinions and learn how to continue to have your voice heard […]

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[Photo courtesy of GerritsenBeach.Net/Flickr] This comes from Gerritsen Beach in Southern Brooklyn where there is much water to be found and was put in our GL Photo Pool by GerritsenBeach.Net who produces the GerritesenBeach.Net blog.

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“I was a kid in the neighborhood in the late 30’s and shined shoes in front of Diamonds with my Friend who would become my Brother in law after the war. I remember a Packard touring car pulling up to the curb and several men in long coats got out and went into the bar […]

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[Photo courtesy of Josh Derr/GL Photo Pool] The message in this photo contributed to our GL Photo Pool by Josh Derr couldn’t be more clear or more poignant in its own peculiar way.

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory, the sky is a little more blue than it has been. Today’s forecast, for the first time in a while, does not include thunderstorms. It calls for it to be hot and mostly sunny, but less humid, with a high of 86. Tonight will be clear with a low of […]

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