The Prospect Park Zoo now has a rare red panda, who is an immigrant from a zoo in Michigan. Mao Mi move to Brooklyn as part of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s breeding program. “Red pandas are endangered, and Mao Mi is part of a Wildlife Conservation Society breeding program that’s trying to ensure the survival […]

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Sunny today with a high of 41. It will feel like 43. Clear with a low of 30 tonight. Sunset is 5:41PM. Tomorrow will be sunny to partly cloudy with a high of 48. Rain and snow late on Monday night, with rain on Tuesday and temperature in the 40s.–Accuweather

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A bunch of cool Coney photos, many of which look like they were shot from a cherry picker on the boardwalk on a foggy day, are finally online along with a short essay on Coney Island. A sample: “Like most oceanfront real estate, Coney Island has forever attracted self-anointed improvers with all manner of motives. […]

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Support for saving the Brooklyn Heights lobster sign is growing. A candidate for the State Senate even suppors preserving it, telling “BHB exclusively that the sign for Armando’s Restaurant, a fixture on the block since 1936, should be saved. Squadron tells BHB exclusively via Facebook, “I urge the next tenant or a neighboring establishment to […]

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“Does this sweet pup look familiar? She was found in Greenpoint and has a collar. If you know who owns her, please email this guy and let him know so she can go home.”–Bad Advice

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Some people are up in arms about honey mustard colored awning added to the Park Slope McDonalds on Ninth Street. The interesting question is, is it any worse than the Avon 9th Street, “a small neighborhood movie house which stood on 9th Street between 4th and 5th Avenues in Park Slope. It ran double features […]

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A wintry mix likely this morning. An upper level disturbance will impact the area through this morning. Acting upon abundant low level moisture already in place. This result will be a mixture of light snow and sleet showers and patchy freezing drizzle across the tri-state through the morning hours until surface temperatures finally rise above […]

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“…Winter storm warning remains in effect until 1AM EST Saturday. Moderate to occasionally heavy now will continue through the morning. Snow accumulations of 5 to 7 inches are expected..with the highest amounts to the north and west of NYC. The snow will then change over to a mixture of freezing rain…snow and sleet during the […]

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“The previously desolate concrete streets—Berry, Wythe, Kent—that I often traversed to catch the L train at Bedford Avenue are now packed with giggling outer-borough and outer-island 20- and 30-somethings on a night out, excited that they can enjoy Manhattan-esque nightlife and park their cars for free. Hip local teenagers roughhoused on a corner. Now the […]

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Is the Terrapin Playground behind developer Shaya Boymelgreen’s Novo Park Slope–a space about which there has been much consternation–going to be ready in May? That is what the word is, although it’s hard to say that immense progress has occurred in the last couple of months.–Brownstoner

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It is with a heavy heart that we note another local landmark is threatened. This time it’s the lobster sign outside Armando’s Restaurant on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights. The restaurant is said to be closing. “Is it time for the BHB community to stand up and say SAVE THE LOBSTER! The sign has been […]

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There are any number of tickets one could score to watch or do things this weekend. How about watching the Miss Brooklyn Pageant? Or dropping $200 for the Oscar Party at Steiner Studios? (There’s a less expensive event at Monkey Town in Williamsburg if one is motivated). Coming up, there’s also the Speak Up! benefit […]

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One of the boardwalk gazebos in Coney Island (one of the most popular gathering spots, in fact) is now in a battered state. Actually, it’s been flattened, looking like it was hit by a car or truck, unless gravity and the wind conspired with rot to take it down. Will it be rebuilt in time […]

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It could be the ebb and flow of retail and restaurants, but there are five businesses on Fifth Avenue that are either closing or have just closed: Biscuit BBQ, Nancy Nancy, Cocotte and Hollywood Video. Much elaboration in the comments section.–Brownstoner

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“…Out of the corner of my eye I could see her beginning to slouch, rest her head on her extended left arm. The sighs were what really tipped me off. As we approached East Broadway, only one thought crossed my mind: What would I do if this girl suddenly began to puke. And just then….she […]

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Call them the perfect plants for parts of Brooklyn apartments that get no light and for people that want a very low maintenance house plant. Their name is Tillandsia “and are known in general as an epiphyte — something that gets all of its moisture and nutrients from the air (and rain, if it lives […]

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What sort of park is built with a twelve-foot wall on the East River that could block views of Manhattan? Well, it’s a possibility at the weird temporary park that is going in at the foot of India Street in Greenpoint. “They are going to pave over with colored concrete, remove the chain link fence […]

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Community Supported Agriculture, or CSA, is coming to Flatbush. “Shayna Lewis, last year’s market manager at the Cortelyou Rd. farmers’ market, is working with one of the farmers from that market, Jorge Carmona from Amantai Farm, to start a CSA in the neighborhood. They’ve already got 20 members signed up and their goal is 40. […]

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Yes, there’s hope on Coney Island Avenue. Also, there are ads from Orange Outdoor Advertising Inc., known for some ads on Atlantic and Nevins years back.–Fading Ad Blog

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Has the Fashion Cafe on Seventh Avenue at 16th Street sold its last shirt and cappucino? It appears so. Someone who’s clothes were being sold at the Slope spot writes: “The Fashion Cafe on 7th Avenue 17th street was carrying a bunch of my clothing on consignment. Unfortunately they closed without having the courtesy to […]

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The Coney story and photos that were published in print last week is finally online. “Kitsch nixes nostalgia. A pleasure strand designated for adolescent amusement, did it experience an adolescence of its own? Perhaps a century and a half ago, when it was still a hunting ground for the ubiquitous rabbits that gave it its […]

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Another day, another tale of a Prospect Heights mugging. “i heard shouting (thought it was just the regular shouting that comes from washington ave side of things) but realized it was a guy saying ‘fuck you! give me my bag back’ or something to that effect. he said he got punched in the face…a few […]

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As of 7:30 this morning, the petition calling on the Mayor to allow the 200 residents of 475 Kent Avenue to return to their home had attracted 3,732 signatures. The reports yesterday describing a matzo factory fire early Monday morning as being “close” to 475 Kent were off by more than a mile. The fire […]

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On Nov. 8, 1909, a celluloid comb factory at 150-152 Columbia Street was hit by a devastating fire that took ten lives. There were no fire escapes and workers couldn’t get out because of iron bars on the second floor windows. The owner committed suicide ten days later.–Fading Ad Blog

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“A Brooklyn agency that’s supposed to help the disabled spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money on fancy cars, flat-panel TVs, business trips and a $100,000 no-show job for the director’s close friend, a report charges. Despite the scathing findings, the Sunset Park group’s longtime executive director, Seibert Phillips – who lied about […]

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