[Photo courtesy of Josh Derr/GL Flickr Pool] This image from the Brooklyn Bridge, looking down on the Olafur Eliasson waterfall comes from Josh Derr.

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A number of new Judith Supine works have popped up around Williamsburg in recent weeks. This one is from Hope Street, east of the BQE, in a spot where one doesn’t usually find street art.

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory, we’re looking at a day that is strikingly similar to yesterday and the day before. The forecast calls for it to be “hot and humid with clouds and sun; an afternoon thunderstorm in one or two spots. The high will be 94 and it will feel like 103. Tonight will […]

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There is progress to report about the “Third World Dump” created by a development mess on long-suffering N. 11 Street and Roebling in Williamsburg. (In fact, there are so many construction sites in the area that some days several pile drivers are going at once at sites a few blocks apart creating a most interesting […]

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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’s Big Boy’s story: Big Boy is a one and a half year old Presa Canario. He is a real gentle giant, excellent with kids and […]

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There was a press conference yesterday held by Councilmember Bill de Blasio, the Legal Aid Society, and Russian community leaders to announce a new hotline providing legal assistance to victims of housing discrimination. Mr. de Blasio, who is a candidate for Brooklyn Borough President, sponsored anti-discrimination legislation (Intro 61a) that prohibits landlords from refusing to […]

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2008 Giglio Festival — Night Lift from rsguskind on Vimeo.

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We had word last Friday of the return of the Red Hook vendors, courtesy of an email from Cesar Fuentes who is their spokesperson, but today is the official day and even the Parks Department–which began the drama last year by placing them in a bidding process for the space at the Red Hook Ball […]

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No, not this pool. We’ll talking about the full list of Brooklyn pools and beaches that we published yesterday morning and that could come in handy if you want to get wet. (South Brooklyn choices include the Red Hook Pool, Sunset Park Pool and Douglas Pool in Gowanus.) In any case, the GL List has […]

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If you like the Hold Steady or you enjoy watching stuff on VBS, then you might enjoy a short segment featuring the band and some VBS people drinking at the Levee in Williamsburg (once known as a different bar), playing darts and shooting pool.

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It’s looking like the story about Real World setting up in a building on Pier 41 in Red Hook is most likely way more than a rumor. A tipster dropped the info on Curbed earlier this week and, now, there are strong indications that MTV is putting the cast in the building for filming.–Curbed

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[Photo courtesy of woodendesigner/GL Flickr Photo Pool] Anyone who knows the Gowanus Canal has seen this sort of thing before. In this case, we’ll let Woodendesigner, the photographer who contributed this to our GL Flickr Pool, explain: “So I was walking back home from Park Slope the other day and saw this stuff floating in […]

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“Other than the people who declared war on me because of this site. No one, who knew how, has ever attempted a Denial of Service attack(DoS). If you were on the site at all today you might of noticed that the site was either not working or it was very slow. This was the result […]

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[Photo courtesy of Rubys Host/GL Flickr Pool] This was the pretty scene at the Brian Wilson concert in Coney Island as the sun set on Thursday night. It comes courtesy of Rubys Host via our GL Flickr Pool.

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory this Saturday morning there is sun and some pretty thick air. Today’s forecast calls for it to be mostly sunny, hot and humid. It will be 93, but feel like 102. There might be some thunderstorms tonight and it will otherwise be hot and humid with a low of 72. […]

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Here’s our regular weekly post from the Center for the Urban Environment about the great tours they run: Jamaica Bay Fringe Bike Tour. Saturday, July 19 – 1-4 pm – with Adam Schwartz. More a “two wheeled historical tour” than a group bike ride, this is just the best way to reach this rarely accessed […]

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Herewith, a selection of shows in Brooklyn on Saturday and Sunday: Saturday 7/19/08 Barbes: Polka Freak Out (Polka/Gypsy)-$10, 10:00pm Siren Music festival: Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Broken Social Scene, Islands, Ra Ra Riot, The Helio Sequence, Beach House, Times New Viking, Jaguar Love, The Dodos (Indie/Alternative/Folk)-Free!!!, Sunday 7/20/08 McCarren Park Pool: Liars, F**K Buttons, […]

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It was shot at the Atlantic Avenue station and posted up to Flickr. Amusing.

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Tomorrow is the first day of Williamsburg Walks, the pedestrian-only Saturdays on a stretch of Bedford Avenue. The Days for Williamsburg Walks are July 19th, July 26th, August 2nd, and August 9th. It runs from Noon-7PM. The people-only zone goes from Metropolitan Avenue to N. 9 Street. A similar experiment on Montague Street in Brooklyn […]

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It’s going to be hot as hell. So, for what it’s worth, here’s a re-run of a guide to the location of city pools in Brooklyn that we put together during a heatwave a couple of years ago. While the Astoria Pool in Queens in probably the Gold Standard New York City pool, several of […]

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[Photo courtesy of nedward.org/GL Photo Pool Flickr] We’ve run a couple of items this week about the impending closure of the biggest entrance to the Carroll Street subway station in Carroll Gardens so that work can go ahead on the 360 Smith Street project (also known as Oliver House). This is a look at what […]

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Here’s the latest from Brooklyn Independent Television’s series featuring local bloggers. This vid features Sheepshead Bites talking about the local Sheepshead Bay fishing fleet.

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We went over to Havemeyer Street in Williamsburg last night to catch the Night Dance of the Giglio that’s part of the Giglio Festival at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church. There was a crush of people (the questionable estimate was 28,000), but far less than shows up for the Sunday lifts (the last of […]

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