[Photo courtesy of megunski/GL Flickr Pool] Call them Prospect Park Chess Tables in Fall.

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We have no idea, but it was on Bedford Avenue and we found it oddly compelling enough to photograph and post.

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From the Boerum Hill Group comes a report of (more) gunfire in the neighborhood. Here’s how the story goes: Well, we definitely heard 6 or 7 shots Sunday night around 8:30, I was hoping someone had more information about it. Apparently it all happened at Nevins and Warren, which is pretty much in our back […]

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[Photo courtesy of F. Jasmin Adams] It is clearly prime Ginkgo Tree Menace (or soup ingredient) season in Carroll Gardens. Enjoy the smell and/or the soup.

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Damn the man and his desire to take away the little bits given to others. Turns out rather than provide the security and grounds keeping during the cold months, the city would prefer to lock everyone out of the East River State Park.–Curbed

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In a few years, the neighborhood around 184 Kent Avenue will be quite crowded and very unlike the unpopulated wasteland that it once was. This is 175 Kent Avenue, which is now rising out of the ground across the street. It is being developed by the Chetrit Group and will be six stories tall with […]

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Tonight (11/12) is an important night for anyone who rides a bike, lives/visits in Williamsburg and/or partakes of the use of the greenway off Kent Ave. Please head over to the Brooklyn Community Board 1 meeting at 6:30pm at 211 Ainslie Street to help rally to bring more improvements to the Kent Ave bike lanes, […]

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[Photos for GL courtesy of 66squarefeet] These fallen leaves come to us from Amity Street in Cobble Hill courtesy of the camera of Marie Viljoen, who is a GL Contributor.

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[Photo courtesy of cathyerway/flickr] A GL Reader writes in with the tantalizing tip that there will be some kick ass food available outside shows at the Bell House in Gowanus: “As you know, the [Red Hook] vendors were at the Bell House election party and apparently did bang-up business. Just heard from an employee that […]

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Now, despite the fact that this surely will be posted on the many other blogs it’s been sent to, this truly is worthy of publicity. Heart of Brooklyn (aka HOB) has put together free shuttles to more diversified and cultural destinations throughout Brooklyn than the shuttles to that big blue Swedish box in Red Hook. […]

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The headline is only party in jest. We found these fliers for the Brooklyn Indie Designers Market, whcih is held on Smith Street in Carroll Gardens all over the place in Wiliamsburg this weekend. Trying to get some Artists and Fleas customers as the holidays approach? Hmmm?

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· Slain Meals on Wheels Man Immigrated to U.S. to Flee War [NYP] · ‘Club Med for Rats’ at One Burg School [NYDN] · Brooklyn Biotech Lab Sets Up at Army Terminal [NYT] · 16-Story Building Plan Filed for Albee Sq. Site [Brownstoner] · New Coney Report: Avoid AY Scenario [AY Report] · 4th Avenue […]

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“I received a tip about Reginella, our new Atlantic Ave neighbors. It seems that the same owners and chefs from Saana, the Yemeni restaurant that formerly occupied this space, are behind this new Italian venture. While I’m hoping for interesting ‘fusion’ food – I’m sure it will fall into the same category as Bread for […]

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These are photos of Thor Equities property in Coney Island posted to the Coney Island Message Board by Captain Nemo. Our friends at Kinetic Carnival also had a post about it yesterday. We’re not suggesting that developer Joe Sitt is dumping garbage on his property, only that it is so poorly secured and maintained that […]

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To say that NYC School Chancellor Joel Klein has enemies in Brooklyn and elsewhere in the city is an understatement. He has been mentioned as a possibility for Secretary of Education in an Obama Administration, and Brooklyn groups are busy trying to direct people to an online petition against a Klein nomination directed at President-Elect […]

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We have posted about community anger about the elite Berkeley Carroll School in Park Slope closing their child care center and some particular bitterness about the way it is being done. We found this email via our dear friends at Park Slope Parents trying to organize the community to prevent the center’s closure and to […]

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Free Kittens! from bmcds24 on Vimeo. A GL reader who knows our soft spot for helpless creatures wrote: “Please help us find homes for these sweet kittens that were found in a bucket outside Key Food (on Fifth Avenue & Baltic Street) on Sunday morning. Unfortunately we are not in a position to keep them. […]

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This is the winner of the Red Hook Bicycle Design Master Plan Competition sponsored by the Forum for Urban Design. It comes from Jonathan Rule. The goals was to come up with ideas to make Red Hook “the most bicycle friendly neighborhood in all of New York.” All of the finalists and honorable mentions can […]

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GL Contributor Marie Viljoen writes about a fundraiser taking place for PS 29 in Cobble Hill: “November 18th will see a wine-lubricated raffle to raise funds for PS29 at Bocca Lupo, corner of Henry and Warren Streets. Jeff Lederman, the proprietor, is generously donating the space, great food and wine. All proceeds benefit the school. […]

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“Maybe it’s a sign of the times that this prime piece of real estate, on the corner of 9th Street and 5th Avenue, is going to be a discount shop. DII is now the name of the discount department stores known as Dee & Dee. The space was formerly occupied by Eckerd, but the company […]

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[Photo courtesy of Rubys Host/GL Flickr Pool] It’s fall kite surfing in Coney Island, friends, courtesy of Ruby’s Host.

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GL Contributor Deborah Matlack spent part of Veteran’s Day in Prospect Park, where the foliage is still lovely. This photo is one of the results of the visit.

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It’s time to talk turkey. On Saturday (11/15) from 11am to 4pm, head on down the PS 15 in Red Hook (on Van Brunt between Sullivan and Wilcott) to join the Urban Divers Estuary Conservancy and associates for a fall day of learning and fun before the big Thanksgiving holiday. Dear God, did we just […]

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Friends, you are free to decide which os thse two bicycles on N. 7 Street in Williamsburg has done better that the other, at least for now.

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Remember the ongoing fight over the non-union employees hired by the Dermott Group at One Hanson and the fact that many of them can’t afford health insurance for their families. The most prominent investor in One Hanson, of course, is former basketball start Magic Johnson. This is the same Mr. Johnson who face beams from […]

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