This is one of Williamsburg’s two well known hearses belonging to the heavy metal club Duff’s which is adjacent to 184 Kent. It’s not every day one catches a photo of someone getting under the hood of the Deathmobile and tinkering with it.

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Counsel for the Developer In the future You need partners Not suppliers Not customers Not acquisition Targets but Partners And partnerships Should not Be based Solely on Long Legal Agreements But rather On reciprocally Fair deals Oriented towards Mutual interests And maintained In an atmosphere of Good Will (Bad news for lawyers). c. 2008 Graziella […]

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory, it’s looking nicer than it has been. Today’s forecast calls for it to be mostly sunny with a high of 86. Tonight will be clear with a low of 70.–Accuweather

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It’s Coney Island 2008, so nothing surprises us, but we just got a press release about a boxing match between NYPD officers that’s going to happen at Beer Island tonight that’s referred to as a “Beach Brawl” and is part of Thor Equities “Summer of Hope.” (Actually, the boxing matches have been held for some […]

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Inspired by the Red Velvet Cake map created and posted by meganlibrarian on Brooklynian that we borrowed for a post, blogger Gumby Fresh has created a guide to Brooklyn chains. Not big national chains with a Brooklyn presence, but local businesses with one or more branches–what we might call chain-lets. He writes that “A stroll […]

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“A new source for your local news covering the greater Coney Island area is coming soon. Ben Nadler who has written for Kinetic Carnival is part of this news outlet. This new news source is not affiliated or produced by Kinetic Carnival. And the logo above is not part of this news outlet. Stay tuned […]

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[Photo courtesy of Adrian Kinloch/Brit in Brooklyn] This gorgeous image from the Brooklyn Promenade comes from Brit in Brooklyn blogger and GL Contributor Adrian Kinloch. We love the way the light on one of the remain structures on the land that will be Brooklyn Bridge Park looks compared to the Financial District beyond.

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And now, a selection of concert happening from today, 7/24, through Sunday, 7/27, compiled for GL by Dan Bennis: Thursday 7/24/08 BAM Rhythm & Blues Festival at Metrotech: Alice Smith (Soul) – Free!!, 12:00pm Friday 7/25/08 Celebrate Brooklyn: The Philip Glass Ensemble perform the score to POWAQQATSI, w/ The Brooklyn Youth Chorus and Marta Topferova […]

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[Photo courtesy of heartonastick/flickr] Yes, we already had a list of Siren Festival-related Missed Connections, but a reader (who we believe to be the person that posted this item say that it’s a “true story”) pointed it out and we found it both compelling and romantic in a Coney Island kind of way. Here it […]

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“The new project at 324 Bedford Avenue epitomizes the stupidity of off-street parking requirements. The building sits at the corner of Bedford and South 2nd. It is designed by Bob Scarano, and is slowly inching its way toward completion (a stop-work order was issued in March, 2007 and the permits have all been revoked). Architecturally, […]

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We came across this amusing time lapse of a bike ride from Fort Tilden in Queens to Coney Island. (It was originally a Flickr vid from nickjohnson, but was truncated because it’s too long.) It’s definitely worth a viewing.

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Here’s an email that originated with the Park Slope Parents group that we think is thoughtful enough and interesting enough to present to readers. It deals with the issue of how to live in Brooklyn without a car, which is a topic which many readers, no doubt, have opinions about. Here are some excerpts: We’ve […]

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“A passer-by sends in this picture of a confrontation on Stratford off Cortelyou, where the developers of the Cortelyou Condos at 1103 Cortelyou Road are putting the finishing touches on the new condo building by paving their neighbors’ curb cut. There’s a dispute over the property line — not something that can be litigated here […]

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Some neighborhood unhappiness with the successful Brooklyn Flea operated by our friends at Brownstoner has become very public this week. Much of the opposition stems from Queen of All Saints, a church across the street from the large space where the Flea takes place every Sunday in Fort Greene. The church feels the Flea has […]

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Grand Ferry Park closed for a remake in October and, while the reopening was a few months later than promised, the redone park–which provides a bit of waterfront access in a part of Williamsburg where none currently exists–is open again and looking good. There is a lot of new landscaping and the park, overall, has […]

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Warehouse 11, which was once known as the Roebling Oil Building for conditions that have since been cleaned up, is getting a friend. It’s a diminutive one, compared to the big Warehouse 11 megaplex, which is currently in an expansion phase. The new building, plans for which have been in place for a long time, […]

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Does the “Narrow Streets” Zoning Text Amendment mean trouble for the controversial 360 Smith Street building (the former Heavy Metal Building) known as Oliver House? It could be. The amendment takes effect right away and the building’s foundation does not appear to be complete enough to be vested under the old zoning. One resident we […]

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An effort to officially define a number of very narrow streets in Carroll Gardens as actually being narrow for zoning purposes received unanimous support from the City Council yesterday afternoon. The “Narrow Streets” Zoning Text Amendment had won wide political and community support. It changes obscure, yet critical, zoning language that had considered very narrow […]

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[Photo courtesy of arimoore/flickr] Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: · Franklin Avenue Shuttle is Most Punctual Train in System [NYT] · Tourists in Panic: Grimaldi’s Temporarily Shut Over Taxes [amNY] · Fire Victim Died Trying to Save Son [NYDN] · Uh, Williamsburg is Not Just for Hipsters [amNY] · 109 […]

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[Photo courtesy of Rubys Host/flickr] Here’s a gorgeous shot of the sun setting behind some clouds in Coney Island the other night, with the lights of KeySpan Park in the foreground.

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“The very idea that Marty Markowitz supports historical preservation in any shape or form is downright laughable. If it was up to him, the whole borough would be razed to the ground and replaced with high rise towers and box stores.”–Markowitz Calls for Demolition of Admiral’s Row & “Food Justice”

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If this is not the most bizarre real estate marketing video we’ve ever seen, we don’t know what is. It’s so weird and bad that it’s wet yourself funny. Seriously, if you didn’t catch it on the Curbed post yesterday we heartily recommend that you watch it now. This is some of the writing that […]

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[Photo courtesy of caaaah S/flickr] We love this photo, which comes to us via our Gowanus Lounge Flickr Pool. It’s an interesting angle from the Wonder Wheel in Coney Island.

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory it is very, very wet. The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch: “Heavy rain and flash flooding likely through late today…a cold front very slowly approaching from the west will continue to trigger very heavy rainfall through the day…and into the evening hours. A moist tropical air mass […]

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A lot of work by Dain has been wheatpasted up around Williamsburg in recent months. This is an installation (on a constantly changing board) outside a gallery on Berry Street.

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