[Photo courtesy of Jack Szwergold/GL Flickr Pool] Sometimes we’re guilty of seeing buidings and not thinking about once took place in them. How people were worked to the bone. Abused. Underpaid. Denied unions. Or exposed to things that cut short their lives. This is the remains of a sweatshop in Gowanus on a street that […]

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Recorded at the Manchester Apollo in October 1977. Does Iggy looked blissfully f’d up or is it just us seeing something that’s not there?

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[Photo courtesy of Ron Harrell/GL Flickr Pool] Ah, the decrepitude of our beloved Smith-9th Station. Looks even better in black and white.

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[Photo courtesy of Jack Szwergold/GL Flickr Pool] We haven’t checked in on the Carroll Street Corner of Nightmares in Park Slope because it loosens our bowels somewhat just to be in the vicintity of the bad architecture and fugyly vibes, but frequent GL Contributor Jack Szwergold was brave enough to visit the buiding we call […]

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We were wondering how many Brookynites stick to the borough other than to visit the Big Island for job purposes (those who still have jobs). Herewith is our GL Poll inspired by our friend Carmen:  Go to Manhattan Except to Work? ( polls)

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Well, here’s proof that Smart Cars are in fact smart. This one is after natural foods. On the other hand, given that the Slope Natural on Fifth sucks big ones (seriously, it’s bad), shouldn’t the Smar Car be at the Food Coop. On the other hand, the driver could have been returning a vid across […]

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The story of the Damnwells is not unfamiliar: around eight years ago Alex Dezen (lead vocals, guitar, piano), David Chernis (lead guitar), Ted Hudson (bass), and Steven Terry (drums) form the band and base it in Brooklyn. They release two CDs, Bastards of the Beat and Air Stereo. They get some good press, but the sales aren’t […]

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GrowInStyle is a company founded by a mom in Sheepshead Bay Mom who’s got business to tend to while mommin’ the kid. To do so, she’s got herself an amazing website that not only provides all the urban babies the chance to have the oh so popular French giraffe teether we all know as Sophie […]

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To those who think we only dig negative stories, please follow our coverage of the Park House School House, which we think is a model of creative people in a community coming together to create something wonderful from what could have been a disaster. Yesterday, we bemoaned the lack of a logo for the new […]

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This afternooon the City Council is having a hearing on the topic of bedbug infestation and several proposed bills. The hearing starts at 1PM. It will deal with some of the ignorance surrounding the issue. A bit from the email we got: The New York City Council’s committees on Consumer Affairs, Sanitation, and Health have […]

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· More proof we’re screwed: subway ridership down in January [CityRoom] · A Question of Process at Atantic Yards Hearing [TRE] · So, How’s Things on Cleremont Greene? [Brownstoner] · Exclusive (Attn. NYP): Armando’s May Return to Montague Street! [BHB] · Satori!!!!!! [PMFA] · Old Burg Polish Butcher Going Bánh Mì? Holy shit cakes. [Grub […]

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You may or may not have patience to sit through the long audio with black screen at the end, but the pics here are quite impressive. The person that posted the vid writes: “I had an ongoing leak that management lied to me about fixing. Someone eventually admitted to me after 4 months that the […]

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Things seem to be going okay at 349 Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg, but we can see the kiddies in the Burg are having some fun tagging up the fugly as hell “elegant facade of Jerusalem Gold Stone” that looks like painted stucco from across the street. We think the building looks like cheap dookie, but […]

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[All photos for GL courtesy of Brenda From Flatbush] Last Friday, we posted a big gallery of photos of the now completely vacant blocks of Willoughby and Bridge Streets where Avalon Bay West may (or may not) build a gi-normous commercial and residential tower. If they don’t they will leave behind abandonment, blight and danger […]

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Well, new unemployment claims are at record levels and we’re heading toward something that resembles more of a Depression that a little ‘ole recession. Well, at least something that will make the Reagan Recession of the Early 80s, which was pretty brutal, for those who only wish to remember the Gipper’s posthumus sainthood, look like […]

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Borough President Marty Markowitz has expressed little interest in funding a fix for the deplorably deteriorated Coney boardwalk in the past and is planning to spend $64 million on an increasingly controversial concert venue that many say is ego-driven waste of money that will actually violate the quality of life of thousands of residents, but […]

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Who knew the Sisters ever had a budget to do shit produced on location like this? Maybe that’s why Andrew Eldritch can’t get along with record companies. “Dominion – Some say prayers/Some say prayers/Now I say mine.”

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[Photo courtesy of Donkey Attack/Gl Flickr Pool] From Nevins and President Streets. We don’t even want to know what led to this.

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Calling all you baby parents! For eight weeks starting Monday, 3/16, Prospect Park will be hosting “Nature Babies” at Prospect Park Audubon Center. This program gives parents and caregivers the opportunity to build up their babies’ smarts and culture thru storytelling and craft activities for babies 18-months to 3-years. Children are introduced to the living […]

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Meet 113 Monroe Street in Bed-Stuy. We run this to show the ongoing fuglyfication of Bed-Stuy and how architects have gone wild tossing up mediocre structures that don’t fit in with the gorgeous brick and brownstone environment. The only saving grace here is that it’s at the corner of Monroe and Bedford and does less […]

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[Photo for GL courtesy of Gary Mirabelle] To the extent that it’s not being marred by out-of-context, fugly new development, Bed-Stuy is one of Brooklyn’s most beautiful neighborhoods as displayed in this shot from our own Gary Mirabelle.

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There was a long time when we wondered if 99 Havemeyer in Williamsburg, which is at the corner of Hope Street, would ever exist because progress on the site was so slow it made one of developer Shaya Boymelgreen’s projects look like it was progressing at the speed of light. Yet, here it is. It […]

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There’s more info on the Park Slope School House, which is replacing the Berkeley Carroll Child Care Center, which was closed down by the elite Park Slope School, with especially shoddy treatment of its employees. The new non-profit formed to run the new child care center is giving all those employees a chance to keep […]

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Here’s the Ridgewood as the M train enters Forest Ave.

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Another old Fifth Avenue landmark in Park Slope is about to change. It was a bodega in its most recent incarnation, but before that it was Berkley Clothing and its fascinating retro sign and part of the original facade had survived. No longer. A good friend of GL emails to say: “I noticed today that […]

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