Last week, Brownstoner offered a look at actual progress inside the Trader Joe’s site at Court Street and Atlantic Avenue. (We stuck our camera through the same hole for a shot.) Now, there’s a rumor on Brooklynian that TJ’s will be opening on September 28. Here’s the rumor: For all those Trader Joe’s Junkies out […]

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Call it the spot where the Old Williamsburg meets the New Williamsburg. Every July, for nearly two weeks, Havemeyer Street hosts the Giglio Feast, officially known as the Feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. They’ve been doing it for 121 years, although these days, a fair part of the crowd is made up of […]

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Here from the Park Slope Parents email list forwarded to us by a community-minded PSP member who keeps us supplied, is a riveting question about getting a ticket for drinking wine in Prospect Park and coop board approval: My friend got a ticket today in Prospect Park for being at a small 8-person picnic gathering […]

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· Many People Shaken by Tragedy of Brooklyn Gospel Star & Pastor [NYT] · Woman Who Died After Neglect at Kings County Hospital Mourned [NYDN] · Cops Looking for Suspects in Deadly Bed-Stuy Gun Battle [Sun] · Kosciuszko Bridge Replacement Project Delayed Again [NYDN] · Ugly Betty Filming in Dumbo [Dumbo NYC] · Sunday Morning […]

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Park Slope residents have been increasingly upset about the LaGuardia landing pattern that takes planes over Prospect Park. They say the noise has been getting worse and there was a report that a new landing beacon would alter the flight path. Not so. The FAA says there’s no plan to change the landing pattern.–NYT

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Have you joined our Gowanus Lounge Flickr Pool yet? If not, we’d love to see and post your photos. Please join and/or tag your flickr photos “gowanuslounge.” [Photo courtesy of rembrooklyn/flickr] Here’s a very cool shot of the Olafur Eliasson waterfall beneath the Brooklyn Promenade that was placed in our Gowanus Lounge Flickr Pool by […]

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[Photo courtesy of Petanque America] Bastille Day is approaching on Smith Street, a week from today, in fact. Here’s an email we got from the people at Bar Tabac: Bar Tabac (128 Smith Street, Brooklyn 718-923-0918) and Ricard celebrate Bastille Day on Sunday July 13 with the annual street festival and Petanque tournament. This very […]

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[Photo courtesy of Josh Derr/flickr] This is Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights courtesy of a photo dropped into the GL Flickr Pool by Josh Derr. It’s an HDR shot, which for those who don’t know Photoshop, is a technique that combines photos to create effects like this one.

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory this morning, it’s brighter than it’s been, but that means it will be a warm day and more humid. There will also be, you guessed it, showers and thunderstorms around in the afternoon and evening. The high will be 87. Tonight’s low will be 72.–Accuweather

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If we ever see that anyone has anything nice to say about the Pavilion Theater on the Park Slope / Windsor Terrace border, we’ll post it in lights. Mostly, we sometimes see just complaints about what a crap hole the place is (plus the occasional unfounded rumor its being closed and will be redone as […]

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It’s Sunday which, of course, brings us to Brooklyn Missed Connections. Today, we turn to the F train and two different MC’s. One involves a “sex bomb” and the other a hottie. First, the hottie: F Train Hottie This Morning 8:30ish – Brooklyn to Manhattan – w4m – 29 (7th Avenue ) Hi…I don’t do […]

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This series of photos in video format comes from Variable Resistance and was included in our GL Flickr Pool. The images were made on a camera mounted on the front of a bike on a ride to work.

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: · Boat rescue off Seagate on July 4 [NYP] · More Detail on Crest Hardware (and Art) in Williamsburg [NYT] · Brooklyn’s “Godfather of Gospel” in Horrendous Car Accident [NYDN] · Soldier Shot Dead at July 4 Barbecue in Fight Over Woman [NYP] · Atlantic […]

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We return to our regular feature “On the Sofa,” which has been on hiatus for a couple of weeks. (We have, however, added a new feature in which we’ll be featuring individual comments on some days during the week as well.) In any case, heree is a random selection of comments left by GL readers […]

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[Photo courtesy of Karyn Bosnak/GL Flickr Pool] This cool photo from July 4 comes to us via our GL Flickr Pool from Karyn Bosnak. She writes: “While trying to find a good place to take pictures of the fireworks, I stumbled across a police and fireman party right on the river at the piers. They […]

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We often feature animals up for adoption at the wonderful Sean Casey Animal Rescue Shelter in Kensington. Their volunteers sometimes send us pics of pit bulls that are up for adoption or of pit bull mixes. Needless to say, they are hard to place. Here’s a report that News 12 did that features Sean talking […]

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[Photo courtesy of Shooting Brookyn/flickr] Here are the July 4 fireworks as seen from the J Train, courtesy of Shooting Brooklyn who contributed this image to our GL Photo Pool on flickr.

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Fans of Coney’s Beer Island and BBQ may know of the BBQ truck there. “…this fellow loves BBQ like a Kansas City native (which he is) and loves Brooklyn like a New Yorker (which they are now—Bed-Stuy, actually, where he ponders parking the cue-mobile for business in winter). Beer Island, for all its improvised roughness, […]

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This is a vid just posted to the YouTube of firefighters working to put out a small blaze in Canarsie. The person who shot and posted the vid writes, “Ladder 170 (and several other firefighters & trucks)fighting fire at commercial building on East 99th Street in Canarsie, Brooklyn.”

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[Photo courtesy of 66 Square Feet] The blogger who does 66 Square Feet sent us this photo and writes: “Here’s a beautiful example of Magnolia grandiflora for you, from the NW corner Henry and State Streets. It smells divine…” Looks nice too.

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory it looks the same as it has the last several days: overcast. Today’s forecast, in fact, is a repeast of yesterday’s: “patch morning fog; mostly cloudy and humid with a shower or thunderstorm around.” The high will be 81. Tonight will offer showers and thunderstorms here and there, “otherwise, mostly […]

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There is good news to report about the LICH playground on Henry Street in Cobble Hill about whose cruddy condition many people have complained. In a nutshell, the hospital is working to fix drainage problems, doing some clean up and has ordered parts to fix broken equipment. Here’s an update that appeared on the BoCoCa […]

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Here’s a very small photoset of last night’s Macy’s fireworks. It seemed to us that there were a lot of new, and very cool, shells and combinations that were set of. We’re not sure about the decision to move the barges further south than usual, but it certainly made for more dramatic viewing than usual […]

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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 some info Curious, who is a our super cutie of the week: Curious is a 3 year old Beagle/German Shepherd mix. He is extremely affectionate […]

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Here are some of the first vids posted of last night’s fireworks:

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