Everybody that’s ever had an experience with a ginkgo tree knows they smell like crap, although some people think they smell like puke. So we’ve been amused by the ongoing discussion on the BoCoCa Parents group about the stanky sandbox in lovely Cobble Hill Park. It started with this: Smelly Sandbox at Cobble Hill Park: […]

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Given the verbal disembowelment that we directed at Council Member David Yassky last week for what we saw as a revolting betrayal of the public trust by calling for a public referendum on extending terms limits, but ultimately voting with the Mayor, we found it fascinating that the Council Member has been sending out email […]

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It seems like everywhere you turn, someone’s digging a hole somewhere to just go right back and build a big building in its place. Most of the time, it happens so fast and the view is blocked by plywood fences that we never get a good glimpse at what once was there. Well, here’s one […]

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[Photo for GL Courtesy of E.C. Stephens] GL Correspondent E.C. Stephens headed down to Red Hook to catch the last pupusas and huaraches being served up at the ballfields until next spring. The scene this year, of course, was very different than it’s been in the past. The old set up with the tents and […]

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It’s always nice to say thank you, and today is as good a day as any to acknowledge our wonderful contributors. Huge thanks for your wonderful posts, assistance and moral support to: Dan Bennis, Miss Heather, E.C. Stephens, Max Casey, Marie Viljoen, Jean Kahler, Lauren Fairbanks, JP Pagán, F. Jasmin Adams, Vaduz Uvunt, Vanessa Raymond, […]

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This comes from the BoCoCa Parent Group. The Food Network is going to be around shooting today: if anyone is interested in talking to Bruce Seidel of The FN Dish about their holiday plans please pass this info along. They’ll be in Brooklyn around noon, wrapping by 3 pm… doing a quick shoot on Montague […]

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If you missed it, you suck… at least that’s what the status quo of the revelers of this years Bike Kill would certainly say. The best description of what exactly you missed would probably come directly from the Bike Kill myspace page: “We’ve always understood the event as not just a celebration of bikes, but […]

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The restaurant row of Smith Street in Carroll Gardens has a new partner near the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. Joining in the retail boom of its partners to the North, Olga’s restaurant on 407 Smith Street has a banner up announcing that it will soon be opening and serving vegan, vegetarian, and pescitarian food. A look […]

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Many people have been arguing that no matter what the outcome of the city’s rezoning effort for Coney Island and whether efforts to dislodge developer Joe Sitt from the heart of the amusement district are successful, that the city lacks an interim plan to keep Coney Island from turning into a desolate wasteland of Thor […]

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[Photos for GL courtesy of E.C. Stephens] To those who live in Carroll Gardens or who travel Third Street, none of this will probably come as news. Yet’s it’s still interesting. Perhaps you’ve noticed the Magic Touch sign at Third and Hoyt Streets? If you’ve looked closely, you understand that it was “cocktail lounge” and […]

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The energy scam reports keep on coming and, in some ways, keep getting stranger. Here’s one from Sheepshead Bay, via the email list from our good friends at Park Slope Parents, who are always performing a community service in getting the work out: Im in Sheepshead Bay was at the nail salon. Two well dressed […]

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It sounds as if Precinct 68 is getting back into the swing of what their thing is – protecting and serving the residents of Bay Ridge. After many unfortunate crimes and a town hall evening of complaints, the cops are now getting it that just because it’s better than what it was this time last […]

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Our friends at Park Slope Parents may be censoring political emails, but a couple have made it through The Committee and it involves the little ones (excited by Obama) and the election. We’re not certain if it would have made it past The Committee if the little ones got giddy when seeing Sen. McCain and […]

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Eponymy, a women’s boutique, opened on Bergen Street a few weeks ago. Aside from frocks, the store also sells local art (see pic on jump). The person who runs the shop, in fact, told a GL Correspondent that everything in the space is for sale, “including the fixtures, though I doubt anyone would want to […]

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The City Council has just voted 29-22 to repeal term limits so that Mayor Bloomberg and others can run for another term.–CityRoom

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And now, a selection of upcoming music events courtesy of our faithful contributor Dan Bennis: Thursday 10/23/08 Freddy’s Bar & Backroom: The Rich Get Richer (Indie) –Free!!, 10:00pm Southpaw: Daptone Family Fundraiser For Barak Obama. Featuring–The Budos Band & Naomi Shelton and The Gospel Queens + a variety of guests from the Daptone family sure […]

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Our dear friends at Park Slope Parents provide us with more material to add to this weeks Brooklyn Scam Fest. This one, though, is a more old-fashioned one than the energy scam running wild. Per an email on the PSP list that came our way: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably […]

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Après moi, le déluge. Today, come Mayor Michael Bloomberg and, to a lesser extent, by Borough President Marty Markowitz saying the same thing. Without them and their superb leadership we will all be lost. And so, it is imperative that one of most grotesque subversions of democracy that any of us will ever witness short […]

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There are many things going on this Halloween season, and Correspondent E.C. Stephens has put together a list of some of them. There’s some pretty darned cool stuff here, so do have a look through the full list. It was compiled by E.C. Stephens. You are welcome to link to the list. Do not copy […]

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Are McCain Boosters Allowed to Live in the Slope? Apparently. [NYT] Marty Grows a Set [NY Shitty] Asian Bridal Parties Posing in Prospect Park [A Year in the Park] Nader Also Gets His Moment in the Burg Sun [Gothamist] In a Brooklyn Courtroom, “hunde kala e saa’i mun” [City Room] Brooklyn Industries Mannequins Sporting Barack […]

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Yesterday, the IRS issued critical new rules that ban the use of tax-free financing for arenas among other facilities. Among those impacted are Bruce Ratner’s planned Atlantic Yards facility. Norman Oder of Atlantic Yards report read the ruling and determined that it allows a “loophole” that allows such financing for the Atlantic Yards project as […]

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A GL reader wrote in to say that she found a small, black wallet near the northern end of Prospect Park’s Long Meadow. The wallet, which was found at around 8:45 this morning, contained a few dollars, a library card, MetroCards, and a couple of bank cards. Our reader turned it in to the 78th […]

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[Word Cloud courtesy of Wordle] This is GL’s “Word Cloud” based on our RSS feed from yesterday. The Wordle tool, which can be found here, was brought to our attention by Sonja Shield, who had produced the Brooklyn Ramblings blog, which we sure wish we’d hear more from. In any case, the dude who produces […]

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Ongoing complaints regarding the Cobble Hill Super Service has neighbors in an uproar over the fact that AAA is still referring members to their mechanics. It seems that despite many complaints to the DMV, and to Triple A, drivers allege they are still getting ripped off. As recently as October this tale of woe was […]

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Before Halloween actually gets here, we’re gunna be up to our eyeballs with pumpkins! But that’s ok – we love pumpkin pie! The 2nd Annual Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket Pumpkin Party is almost upon us. So get that Halloween costume on you and your family, and head on down Saturday (10/25) to the NW entrance […]

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