Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: School Project Causes Panic on B Train [NYDN] Gravesend School Has Gun Panic Lockdown [NYP] Historian Very Confused by This Whole Internet & Blogging Thing [AYR] Will Ratner Turn Atlantic Yards Into a Humongous Parking Lot? [Metro] Obama Behind Congestion Pricing [NYP] Massive Bridge Street […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Sports Stores Still Selling Gang Gear [NYDN] Fine Print on Atlantic Yards Affordable Housing is Vague [AYR] Brooklyn Heights Car Garage Plan is Back [Brownstoner] More Detail on That Unloved Heights Car Garage [NYDN] Some Neighborhood Improvements [Bed-Stuy Blog] New Aquarium Director [Kinetic Carnival] Connecticut […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Killings in Two Brooklyn Neigbhborhoods [NYT] Mr. Ratner’s Brooklyn Tech Pledge [AYR] Doctoroff Cleared to Work on Big City Projects [NYT] 150 Myrtle Revealed [Brownstoner] Street Trees Now Mandatory for New Development [110 Livingston News] Street Trees No Longer an Optional Accessory [CityRoom] Details About […]

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[Photo courtesy of a roving GL Corresspondent]Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Ouroussoff’s Gehry Defense Was Hero Worship [AYR] Rush Hour Shooting in Crown Heights Subway Station [NYP] New Gilman Building Coming to Atlantic Avenue Near Smith [Brownstoner] Is There a Polite Way to Tow Cars? [New York Shitty] A Wheelchair […]

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Brooklinks is a selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Ratner Has Six+ Years to Build Arena [AYR] Nets Suites to Cost Up to $540K (Assuming Arena is Built) [NYDN] Mayor Markowitz? [Sun] Three Babies Found Dead in Different Brooklyn Homes [NYDN] Running of the Eggs at Brooklyn Bridge Park [McBrooklyn] Country in the City at […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Heads Up: “Monster Cranes” in Every Borough [NYDN] Happy Easter from Greenpoint [New York Shitty] Palm Cross on Green Door [Brooklynometry] Eastertide [A Year in the Park] Peek-a-Boo Cornice [Lost City] Talking Trash & Signs of Spring [Bed-Stuy Banana] Elvis Left the Building [OTBKB] Dumbo […]

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[Photo courtesy of f.trainer/flickr / Food of the Future] How serious is the “stall” of Atlantic Yards? Does it mean that most of the project is dead? That Frank Gehry’s creation has been mangled? That what it will amount to is a nearly $1 billion basketball arena? Or is the developer looking for more public […]

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Brooklinks is a selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Slow Economy Likely to Stall Atlantic Yards [NYT] Building Inspector Arrested in Crane Collapse Case [NYDN] Court Rejects Former Arabic School Principal’s Claims [Sun] Fourth Avenue Stairway to Nowhere [Brownstoner] Another Rape in Brownsville Project [NYT] Patriotism in Air Conditioning [Bed-Stuy Banana] Going to Urban Outfitters […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. We wish everyone a Happy Spring and note that the photo above is for celebratory purposes only, as it comes from Prospect Park last spring. Soon, though. End Nears for Koscuiszko Bridge [NYDN] Planner Amanda Burden Speaks [AYR] No Parking at Brooklyn College Dorm [Brooklyn […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Dentist Pleads Guilty in Ghoulish Body Parts Scheme [NYT] Brownsville Rapist Being Sought [NYDN] Net’s Mascot Pitches Healthy Food & McDonald’s [AYR] Burg’s 53 Broadway Will Be Rental [Brownstoner] New Community Group Forms in Divided Manhattan Beach [GerristenBeach.Net] Sundance at BAM [General Greene] If Burg’s […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Three More Victims Pulled from Crane Collapse Rubble [NYT] Crane Collapse Investigation Points to Nylon Strap [NYT] Why Paterson Should Appoint Commission on Eminent Domain [AYR] Bullet Pierces Door of Jewish Girl’s School in Williamsburg [NYP] Schermerhorn House Gets Its Skin [Brownstoner] Queens Councilman Accused […]

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[Photo courtesy of susiejulie/flickr] Broolinks are a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Paterson Will Continue Support for Atlantic Yards [AYR] Man Struck & Killed by Police Car on Coney Island Ave. [NYP] Dianna Carlin Talks About Her New Coney Roller Rink [Metro] Suspect in Hideous Bronx Rape Arrested in Brooklyn [amNY] Happy St. […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Crane Collapse Kills at Least Four [NYT] With Demolitions, Pacific Street Getting Very Lonely [AYR] Updating the F Train Rehab [Kensington Brooklyn] Economic Wisdom from a Crown Heights Supermarket [NYT] Church Row on Lafayette? [General Greene] Help Needed with Kitty’s Lymphosarcoma [Erica’s Blog] Jacko Piping […]

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[Way cool Gowanus photo courtesy of neonsplash/flickr] Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Images: Gowanus Managers Office [Blue Jake] Outreach [Atomische] Litchfield Villa [Dalton Rooney] Construction Site [DavidGardinerGarcia/flickr] Wallabout Door [Clinton Hill Blog] Third Avenue [Park Slope Street Photography] Gowanus Rocks [neonsplash/flickr] Not Images: Brooklyn Schoolgirl Hit by Stray Bullet [NYDN] […]

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[Photo courtesy of GL’s Carroll Gardens Correspondent] Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Brooklyn Assemblywoman’s Bribery Trial Start [Sun] Residential Permit Plan Advances [AYR] Brooklyn Boy Accidentally Shot in Head [NYDN] New Law Lets Tenants Sue Over Harassment [NYT] Former ESDC Chair Charles Gargano Won’t Be Ambassador to Austria [Sun] Spring […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Mayor Offers Permit Parking [NYT] Incoming Gov. Paterson Protested Eminent Domain in 2005 [AYR] Construction Worker Crushed to Death in East New York [NYDN] Construction Worker Killed in Wall Collapse [NYT] Urban Green Finally Gets Green Light [Brownstoner] An Interview with Coney Island’s Dick Zigun […]

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NYS Politics: A Brand New Day [DITHOB] On Spitzer [Brooklyn Junction] What Will Be Spitzer’s Second Act? [OTBKB] It’s Not Unusual: NY Screwing You [Duffield St. Underground] “They Tell Me This Spitzer Guy Resigned” [Brooklyn Streets] Two Missed Morsels in the Feeding Frenzy [Brooklyn Optimist] Real Estate “Angst” About Paterson to Extend to Atlantic Yards […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Atlantic Yards and PlaNYC 2030 [AYR] Brooklyn Bridge Park Needs Bus Routes, Bikes [NYDN] Strong Opinion on Smith [PMFA] In Praise of Booty [New York Shitty] Haunted in Bed-Stuy [Bed-Stuy Banana] Broadway & Hart 70 Years Ago [Bed-Stuy Blog] Drug Dealer Attacks 2 in Brooklyn […]

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Some reactions from Brooklyn bloggers to the Eliot Spitzer scandal: Eliot Spitzer Inspires New Song: “Love Client No. 9” [Bay Ridge Blog] Client 9 [Sustainable Flatbush] Even Governors Get Lonely [White in Bay Ridge] Another Moralist Bites the Dust [Brooklyn Optimist] Jackass #10 [Bad Advice] Whither Spitzer? [Self-Absorbed Boomer] On Spitzer [Brooklyn Junction] Prostitutes and […]

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[Image courtesy of Deborah Matlack/Matlack Photography] Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brookyn-related information and images: Brooklyn Legislator’s Corruption Trial Starts [NYT] Spitzer Scandal Fallout for Atlantic Yards? [AYR] City Says No Drugs in Water, but They Don’t Test for Them [NYDN] 35 PPW Whopper Chopper [Brownstoner] Park Slope Food Coop Considers Bottled Water Ban […]

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Here’s a random sampling of some reaction and posts by Brooklyn bloggers on the Spitzer/Client 9 prostitution scandal: The Spitzer Spritzer [New York Shitty] Holy Crap: Spitzer and Prostitutes? [Brooklyn Streets] The Spitzer Scandal: Any Fallout for Atlantic Yards? [AYR] Gov. Spitzer to Resign? [DITHOB] What Happens After Spitzer? [Brooklyn Heights Blog] Jackass #9 [Bad […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: The Miss Brooklyn Switch: Less Density & More Public Revenue? [AYR] Some People Missed the Daylight Savings Thing Yesterday [NYDN] “A Published Report” Says Group Bidding to Buy Starrett City [NYP] “Weasley Response” on Red Hook Vendors from Parks Dept. [Lost City] At the Brooklyn […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Car Plunges on Subway Tracks in Brooklyn [NYT] Ditmas Park as Viewed in 1998 [Ditmas Park Blog] Stroller and Bike Parking at New ‘sNice? [OTBKB] Dumbo Weekly Links [Dumbo NYC] More Brooklyn Found Toys [New York Shitty] Bay Ridge Preservationists Conceding Defeat on Church? [Left […]

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[Photo courtesy of Gary Mirabelle/Mirabelle Studios] Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Spring: Spring Comes to Smith Street [McBrooklyn] Catching a Glimpse of Spring on Court [PMFA] Crocuses on Cortelyou [Flatbush Gardener] Buds in the Park [A Year in the Park] Not Spring: Waiting for the Atlantic Yards Community Advisory Committee […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Atlantic Yards Financing Documents Signed [AYR] Debit Card Scam Guy Arrested in Sheepshead Bay [NYP] Get Your 160 Schermerhorn Lottery Ticket [Brownstoner] With the Brooklyn Freelancers [Metro] Crown Heights Real Estate [amNY] All Quiet Again at 333 Carroll Street [PMFA] Woman Gets Face Full of […]

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