Well, it’s finally here… the end of 2008. Time to celebrate!!! If you didn’t get that big Christmas bonus (or you did, but you already spent it all), are cutting costs, don’t feel like going out to Time Square, the bars or the parties, but you don’t want to just stay in – don your […]

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There is no way to end what has been a very tumultuous year for us except to thank our hundreds of thousands of dedicated readers, our supporters and, especially, all of our contributors. Some of those who send us superb material prefer to remain anonymous, and we respect their wishes. You all know who you […]

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Brooklyn Bridge Walk into the New Year! Dr. Phil’s New York Talks and Walks is presenting guided tours of the City Hall area and across the Brooklyn Bridge. Multiple walks will start tonight between 10:15 PM and 11:15 PM and ending at midnight. NYC’s best tour guides will lead you around the City Hall area […]

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Last year, we went out on a limb and predicted the Gowanus Whole Foods project wouldn’t happen. It hasn’t. Yet. This year there are oh-so-many projects that one can predict will be scaled back or do the Dance of Death. Here are a few to chew on: 1. Atlantic Yards. We think there is a […]

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What a difference a couple of years makes. When we were wrapping up 2006, we were calling it the year Brooklyn changed forever. Atlantic Yards had been approved. The Williamsburg construction boom was underway. Industrial landmarks all over the borough were threatened. Those are not the kinds of things we expect to be talking about […]

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Here is our selection for the Top Ten Brooklyn Stories of 2008: 1) The Boom Goes Bust. Parts of Brooklyn–Downtown, Williamsburg and Greenpoint–to name a few, will turn out to be Ground Zero of the spectacular Development Crash of 2008. The city’s awful failure to plan for growth will be replaced by its failure to […]

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[Photo for GL courtesy of New York Shitty] We end our 2008 Street Couch Series with a grand finale worthy of New Year’s Eve. It has the couch. It has the church building built in 1953. And it has the graffiti that says “fuck.” Perfection for the final hours of what has been quite a […]

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Brook Vin, the new wine bar on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope near Tenth Street, is getting ready to open, as the window says “Soon.” It will be operated by the same people that own the wine shop across the street. There was some original concern by neighbors that outdoor seating would cause noise during […]

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[Photo for GL courtesy of Meg Groome] Appropriately spare, we think.

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Ouch. We hate when that happens. We planned to run this pic we shot the other day anyway, but then we found an AP story on Crain’s about how parking in Park Slope bites the big one, people smashing up your nothwithstanding. The gist of the story is the when alternate side parking was suspended […]

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You didn’t think that New Year’s Day 2009 would pass uneventfully in Coney Island? Of course, there’s the Polar Bear Club swim at 1PM. But word came down late yesterday afternoon that Ruby’s Bar & Grill (though covered with a FOR LEASE sign by Thor Equities) will be open for its Polar Bear Party from […]

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[Photo courtesy of nifty pete/GL Photo Pool] It’s an unidentified bodega somewhere in Brooklyn looking pretty cool at night.

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Are you a member of our GL Flickr Pool? Please add your new photos. We love them and we love to post them for our readers to see. And, if you haven’t joined, what are you waiting for? [Photo courtesy of jackszwergold/GL Flickr Pool] This is an old car that has appeared on Henderson Walk […]

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Here’s a free event, after you probably spent all your money on too much booze and/or other stuff this New Year’s Eve. This Thursday (New Years Day, 1/1/09!), as part of the 15th Annual Alternative day of Spoken Word Extravaganza, Mermaid Hawley and Bluesman have 6 minutes to “save Coney Island” sometime between 6-8pm (said […]

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Get thee to Fifth Avenue near Prospect Place. Bed bugs may or may not be included, but everybody could use a little blood sucking in their lives, right?

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Are you a member of our GL Flickr Pool? Please add your new photos. We love them and we love to post them for our readers to see. And, if you haven’t joined, what are you waiting for? [Photo courtesy of Pablo 57/GL Flickr Pool] There’s nothing we can say about this, except to note […]

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There’s now a modest reward being offered for the Astroland Memorial collage that was stolen the other night, most likely by a collector. Tricia Vita of the Coney Island History Project informs us this sign will be going up on the gate this evening. If you have it, email merci2009@ymail.com. No questions will be asked. […]

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We haven’t been paying much mind to the gems that come across the transom from our dear and thoughtful friends at Park Slope Parents, but a reader brought a discussion about how to avoid “cussing” in front of the little ones to our attention. How the fuck, exactly, does one avoid dropping the F Bomb […]

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[Photo for GL by a Special Williamsburg Correspondent] The Khim’s grocery empire in Williamsburg is very close to a major expansion at the corner of Driggs Avenue and N. 11 Street. A special GL correspondent reports: “This a new grocery store going in on Driggs and N 11th. It is the old warehouse space where […]

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This one kind of fell through the cracks before the holidays, as a reader wrote us about going to Hotel Le Bleu on Fourth Avenue seeking to imbibe at the lounge on the top floor. As readers may know, we’ve been calling it Tres, Tres, Tres Bleu because the whole freaking hotel is lit up […]

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That sound you hear is the people who used to spend their days at the old Tea Lounge on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope gazing at what is being done to the old hangout of stroller moms, their spawn and those that managed to fit in between them. We managed to stick our camera through […]

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We got an email very early this morning that a number of business owners in Coney Island have been trying to call the “FOR LEASE” phone number at Thor Equities and that they either get no answer or simply a voice mail with the name of Sam Sabin, who handles leasing for Thor in Coney. […]

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