We’ve posted some links recently to items on the Fading Ad Blog by Frank H. Jump, which has been around for nearly a year, but every time we look at it we’re captivated by some of the Brooklyn posts. (We wish we’d found it and put in our RSS feed a looong time ago.) The […]

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The first thing we’ll say about the brand new Fort Greene blog called General Greene is that we’re looking forward to big things from it. It’s the work of two Fort Greene residents, Jim Colgan and Scott Lamb, and features an excellent mix of neighborhood posts including some excellent items about the neighborhood’s long history. […]

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Brooklyn bloggers had one of their semi-regular meet ups yesterday at the Frank White Cafe + Gallery in Clinton Hill. The meeting was hosted by the Clinton Hill Blog. Check out an excellent photo set of the meeting posted by Flatbush Gardener on his flckr page.–Flatbush Gardener/flickr

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Let’s say you spend a lot of time on the train and you’re also an artist and illustrator. What are you going to do? Simple: do sketches on the train, scan them and start a blog to post them. That’s what Ami Undeground, a new blog from a Brooklyn resident is all about. The image […]

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The saddest post we saw yesterday was from Icky in Brooklyn, who announced that, being occupied with other projects, he was not going to be Icky anymore. Having started one of the best neighborhood blogs that appeared in Brooklyn in the last year, we certainly hope we haven’t seen the last of his wonderfully researched […]

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Of all the Brooklyn blogs that have debuted in the last six months or so, none has had us looking forward to more from the start than Prospect: A Year in the Park. (OTBKB featured it yesterday.) It’s from the blogger behind Crazy Stable and is devoted to daily posts on Prospect Park. From the […]

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The Brooklyn Optimist, whose name we enjoy, is a brand new Brooklyn blog that intends to carve out a niche for itself covering borough politics and community activism and offering up a local perspective on national issue. Its early coverage has been promising and good natured. Take this proposal for solving the nasty rat problem […]

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We’re looking forward to interesting things from The Real Flatbush, a new blog that bills itself as being for “non-pretentious people who live in Flatbush.” There’s this post, for intance, on hook up spots in the neighborhood: This being a neighborhood blog, I’ve decided to chronicle the best pick up spots on Flatbush. My favorites […]

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We’re happy to note two new Brooklyn blogs, including one in Sunset Park, where we’ve been hoping to see some renewed neighborhood blogging activity: The Sunset Park entry is The Sunset Park Blog, which is tied to a website called sunset-park.com that also includes a message board that could turn out to be both interesting […]

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If you read GL, you know that we have major respect for the good people at Kinetic Carnival. In addition to being a nice person, Omar Robau has done a first-rate job covering Coney Island stories. He’s broken his fair share of news too since he started Kinetic Carnival and always manages to find interesting […]

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The “junction” in question in this interesting new blog is Flatbush and Nostrand Avenues, and Brooklyn Junction–which is all of ten posts old–bring development and other news from this area. Brooklyn College and its plans and/or actual projects are among the subjects of early posts. We can say that we learned some things we didn’t […]

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We were pleased to do a segment on the Brian Lehrer Show yesterday on WNYC. You can check out the segment here if you wish or simply click on the embed below. The entire segment runs about 17 minutes. We were on wearing our hat as an Editor of Curbed, and dealt with some questions […]

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Just like it says, the Clinton Hill Blog–one of our daily reads–is throwing a First Anniversary Bash with local retailer RePop on Friday. You go, Lesterhead.

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We were super happy to find Mural vs. Condo, a new blog being produced out of Sunset Park, which is a Brooklyn community with a lot of important issues and news, but that has not had a great deal of blogging voices. A quick glance at Mural vs. Condo’s latest post told us about an […]

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The first thing we need to say about the excellent blog Found in Brooklyn is that it comes from Gowanus. Among other things, it provides some very good coverage of development issues in Gowanus and Carroll Gardens, but also gets around a lot more widely. Take, for instance, yesterday’s post, which is about a show […]

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If you’re interested in Williamsburg & Greenpoint, Brooklyn 11211 is definite RSS feed material. Started earlier this year, 11211’s staple is development in the zip code from which it takes its name (although it covers other things too). Its coverage of development issues is excellent and we particularly value it because you can never have […]

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Self-Absorbed Boomer comes from Claude Scales. Its name is a reference to the noted self-absorbtion of some members of the Baby Boom Generation. Mr. Scales is actually an attorney, although you wouldn’t guess it from his blog, except for the occasional reference to Lawrence Tribe. One recent post compares an Austin-Healy 3000 to a Triumph […]

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What can you say about a blog that dishes out relationship advice and observations and also covers development in Williamsburg? Hands down, Bad Advice is one of our favorite Brooklyn blogs, especially because it makes us laugh in that sardonic way we particularly enjoy. Often. Also, it generally beats us to some of the most […]

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Of all the blogs that have been started recently, one of our favorites is 11222. Coming out of Greenpoint, it’s a great mix of neighborhood info, observations and photos. Here’s a recent post about a cell phone conversation overhead at Nassau and Banker Streets: Earnest young wanna-be-yuppie type with phone glued to ear:“Yeah, so I […]

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Brit in Brooklyn is one of our favorite Brooklyn blogs. It’s heavy on great photos and focuses extensively on Prospect Heights, Coney Island and the so-called Atlantic Yards footprint. Produced by Adrian Kinloch, Brit in Brooklyn generally features one to three posts a day. Its producer has a very keen eye and we love both […]

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Green Brooklyn, which covers environmental issues from a Brooklyn perspective, is one of the blogs that we track every day. Coverage ranges from the Exxon-Mobil Oil Spill in Greenpoint to composting drop off spots and the voice is one of concern and constructive suggestion about public policy. With environmental issues looming large all over Brooklyn–not […]

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We’re going to start a new feature for the next few weeks highlighting some of the great Brooklyn blogs that we like and read. We’re going to mix things up, by topic and by neighborhood. Given that there are so many good blogs in our borough, even if we do one a day for the […]

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[Photo courtesy of Icky in Brooklyn] We got an email from the creator of the new Windsor Terrace blog, Icky in Brooklyn, (aka Cranky in Windsor Terrace) the other day. Besides being a Windsor Terrace blog, which we applaud, its early entries show tremendous promise. Here’s a sample from a post this week called Hail […]

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There’s a new Greenpoint blog called Greenpointers, which may be one of the first Brooklyn neighborhood blogs produced by two actual sisters. (Or may not be. We can’t see we’ve tracked the phenomenon.) In any case, the two are natives or Greenpoint, so we’re sure the blog will be offering an interesting perspective one of […]

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There’ a new Coney Island blog dedicated to chronicling Coney’s “last year” called, well, Last Year at Coney Island. We find the topic somewhat depressing, but certainly welcome additional blog coverage. We take no credit for finding the new blog, which is produced by Neil J. Murphy. We came across it thanks to the always […]

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