[Photo courtesy of jaymegordis/GL Flickr Pool] This is a waterside view of the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park, courtesy of jaymegordis in our GL Flickr Pool.

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A pretty nice day is on tap, with partly sunny skies and a high of 81. Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a shower or thunderstorm in spots and a low of 67.–Accuweather

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This discarded specimen comes to us from N. 8 Street in Williamsburg, where we found it loaded up with other tossed furniture. We call it, Sofa with Drawers.

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Looking for stuff to do? It’s Brooklyn Based Tip Sheet Time. In Clinton Hill, Thistle & Clover is holding its second round of Open Calls for new designers on Monday, Aug. 18. McCarren Pool has a very busy week with shows with Wilco, Regina Spektor and Aesop Rock. If you’re coop happy, then check out […]

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[Photo courtesy of wzrdreams/GL Flickr Pool] Here’s some “Coney Tarot” via our GL Flickr Pool. Also check out this cool Coney fireworks photo from the tables next to Nathan’s from the same photo contributor.

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Here’s an interesting vantage on Brooklyn from a helicopter, complete with some very shaky camera work.

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[Photo courtesy of Glasson/GL Flickr Pool] Remember the Greenpoint Terminal Market? We do. It was one of our favorite places to shoot pics in Greenpoint and could have been quite something had it been landmarked and restored. It was not to be, however. A couple of weeks after we started GL, it went up in […]

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This is 439 Metropolitan Avenue, which has been slowly going up across the street from Meeker Avenue and the entrance to the BQE. The building will have a mix of apartments and office space from Helder Design. It’s NYC’s first LEED Platinum rating for a mixed-use buildings and one of several green buildings going up […]

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It looks like there’s going to be a Park Slope Seventh Avenue “Food and Restaurant Tour” coming up in September. It’ll be happening on September 18 from 7PM-10PM. Per an email we got about it: “Please join your fellow Slopers for a stroll along 7th Avenue where your favorite restaurants (and maybe a few you […]

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[Photo courtesy of Glasson/GL Flickr Pool] It was only a few years ago that McCarren Pool was a kind of a scary spot, covered with graffiti and overgrown with weeds. All that’s changed now, but GL Flickr Pool contributor Glasson laid some nice pics on us to recall the good, old pre-hipster, pre-concert days at […]

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[Photo courtesy of Adrian Kinloch/Brit in Brooklyn] This is the (temporary) new look Fulton Mall, with ongoing demolition work and buildings rising in the background. This space will eventually be filled by the huge mixed use complex called Citypoint with condo tower is due to rise there including 525,000 square feet of retail, 360,000 square […]

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There hasn’t been much food news on 3rd Avenue in Gowanus since Bar Tano opened on the corner of 9th Street back in February, but there’s some action brewing on the block between President and Union streets. On the corner of Union, an establishment called The Dog Shack opened a few days ago. Per its […]

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Here’s a newly-posted video from the Prospect Park Alliance made by Tom Illich about Brooklyn’s favorite park. We found it via A Year in the Park, which offers up some thoughts about it as well. Check it out.

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Last night’s rainbow was spectacular, and while there are many shots of it in Queens, there is some Brooklyn action too, over the Brooklyn Bridge and captured from the F Train traveling over Gowanus. Check it out.–Gothamist

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: · Moms Defend Bay Ridge Playground Against Drunks, Unruly Teens [NYDN] · So, Perhaps Barclays Center 2012? [AYR] · Toren Showing a Lot of Skin [Brownstoner] · Homelessness in Sheepshead Bay [Sheepshead Bites] · Summer Streets 2008 Video [Streets Blog] · Williamsburg is an Asian […]

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So, the slowing real estate market is now making rezoning property–say, from manufacturing to residential–more attractive to developers. “In the height of the market, a lot of developers just wanted to buy it, develop it and get out,” on real estate lawyer says. “A rezoning can take two to three years. Now is a good […]

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[Photo courtesy of This Week in New York: twi-ny.com/flickr] Bob Dylan played the Bandshell in Prospect Park last night, the fourth date on a tour that runs through September. There’s a full, good photoset from the show here. Here is last night’s set list: Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35, Lay, Lady, Lay, Lonesome […]

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[Photo courtesy of Eater] Our friends at Eater have all the riveting details about the prep work on Brooklyn Bowl on Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg. There is a full photogallery of the ongoing interior construction work as well as details on what is to come. A short sample of some of the rich detail: The […]

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On Monday, we noted some events commemorating the Battle of Brooklyn at Green-Wood Cemetery. Today, we’ll note, per an email we got from the folks at the Old Stone House, that they have a full schedule of events. For instance, on Saturday (8/16) there will be a Battle Days Opening Reception at the Old Stone […]

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The owner of a fruit cart who drew the ire of the Brooklyn Heights Association has won. “It looks like the fruit and vegetable cart on the historic Brooklyn Heights streetcorner is here to stay, even after the Brooklyn Heights Association filed a complaint with the city. ‘I’m going to be here forever,’ one of […]

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[Photo courtesy of Josh Derr/GL Flickr Pool] Per the photographer: “Sunset reflecting off the glass skin of the J Condo building in DUMBO. Midtown Manhattan is visible just beyond.”

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We have the makings of a very nice day with a forecast calling for partly sunny skies and a high of 84. Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a low of 68.–Accuweather

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This message is part of a wall mural in Greenpoint. Don’t Get Gentrified, indeed.

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The Fourth Annual Fort Greene Park Literary Festival takes place on August 23 and will feature poet Amiri Baraka. Here’s a bit from the email we got: The 4th annual Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival will present a free outdoor reading on August 23rd at 3:00 PM featuring young writers aged seven to eighteen […]

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[Photo courtesy of Adrian Kinloch/Brit in Brooklyn] Here’s the Williamsburg waterfront from the promenade at Schaefer Landing as captured by Brit in Brooklyn photoblogger and GL contributor Adrian Kinloch.

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