We return today to our favorite feature, the GL Adoptable Cutie of the Week, courtesy of Super Correspondent E.C. Stephens. As always, we ask you to open your heart and your home to a beautiful creature in need. Senor Don Gato was found a couple weeks ago trying to find food by a dumpster. When […]

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We often pick up emails from the Park Slope Parents list (sometimes to the extreme chagrin of the people that run the group). We have noticed this particular post twice that discusses a policy of not posting any politically-related emails. (The first time it came up was during our brief hiatus in September.) Clearly the […]

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Tomorrow is day when those who oppose the idea of repealing term limits in general or who specifically don’t want to see Michael Bloomberg become Putin on the Hudson or Marty Markowitz become Borough President for Life can have some time to hoot and holler. The forum takes place tomorrow, Sunday, October 19th, at Lafayette […]

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[Photo courtesy of woodendesigner/fGL Flickr Pool] Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images: Brooklyn Housing Prices Down 30,000 from Last Year [Daily News] Race, Class, and Gentrification in Ditmas Park [Brownstoner] Hook’s 160 Imlay Finally Gets OK After Five Years [Curbed] Crane collapses in Bushwick [News 12 BK] H&M coming to the […]

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Here’s one of our regular posts from the Center for the Urban Environment about the great tours they run: Last Exit to Brooklyn: Red Hook. Saturday, October 18 – 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm – with Dan Wiley. Red Hook’s tough reputation has been depicted in literature, plays and movies. This isolated neighborhood of low-rise […]

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Forget the city’s new CEMUSA bus shelters and street furniture. GL Correspondent JP Pagan was waiting for the B71 in Cobble Hill and found that seating had gone way upscale. He writes, “It was a nice place to sit and wait for the B71. Sadly, as I write this, someone is carrying it away…” Easy […]

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Oh, Word: There’s a Facebook Group for People Who Grew Up in the Slope [NYT] Broooklyn Home Prices are Getting a Little Cheaper [NYDN] The Prospect Hill Water Tower, Circa 1893 [Ephemeral NY] Will the MTA Deliver on its Big Projects? Don’t Hold Your Breath. [2nd Ave Sagas] Check Out the Waterfront by Domino this […]

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Here’s a fairly scuzzy interesting story that came to us via Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights about a scam-like situation going on to get people to unwittingly transfer the electrical supplier from Con Edison to a company called IDT Energy. What’s at issue is what appears to be very slimy, if not unethical and possibly […]

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Let’s just say this has not been the best week or so for the Berkley Carroll School in Park Slope. Let’s, in fact, say that unless its administration, staff and the privileged families sending their children there are impervious to public relations nightmares, scorn and charges of hypocrisy and mistreatment of employees, that it’s been […]

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Rudy Giuliani may have cleaned the subway cars of the monumental graffiti years ago, but he sure didn’t put a stop to the international street art wave that grew from it. The Train Car Project is presently showing at Papa B Studios in Bushwick (or are we now calling it East Williamsburg these days?) until […]

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A GL reader writes with a scream of pain about an awful ruckus caused by the city or Con Ed at Hicks and Kane Street in the middle of the night. We have no idea what it was about (other than the fact that it would seem to obscene barring some sort of absolute emergency), […]

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The bombshell dropped late yesterday morning in a press release from the New York City Economic Development Corporation: the city had bought a key parcel of land held by the Ward Family Trust for $11 million. The property is the front part of Deno’s Wonder Wheel Park and it brings the total of city owned […]

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Huge news today from Coney Island. The city has purchased an acre of Wonder Wheel Park for $11 million that Thor Equities was said last year to be “in contract” to buy for the same price. The news came from the New York City Economic Development Corporation that it had a deal with Ward Realty […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brookyn-related information and images. New Campaign to Lure N.J., Manhattan Biz to Downtown Bklyn [NYP] Is it Too Soon to Call Atlantic Yards Doomed? [AY Report] Opposition to LICH Downsizing Appears to be Growing [Eagle] Check Out Prospect Park’s Boathouse, Back in the Day [A Year In the Park] […]

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[Photos for GL courtesy of Jodi Call] (This morning it bring us great pleasure to welcome a new contributor, Jodi Call, who produces the superb blog Pistols & Popcorn. Jodi wrote this post for GL. It’s a beautiful feature about some people that have lived their entire lives in Carroll Gardens. It is a heartwarming […]

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Here is a short email we picked up in the BoCoCa parents group that is certain to raise the blood pressure of many people, both parents and non-parents: This morning me and my 3 year old son was playing in the bed and he flicked me in my face with his fingers. When asked where […]

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We were asleep at the switch on this issue as the news arrived as we were coming off our unplanned break. There was a meeting yesterday about the issue of allowing off-leash dogs in Coffey Park. The issue at hand is extending park hours from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. for all users and designating […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brookyn-related information and images. Berkeley Carroll School Wants to Evict Longtime Resident [Daily News] Marty’s Gotten at Least $2.7M in Public Dough Since ’03 [NYP] Family of Girl Who Died at Coney This Summer is Suing City for $10M [NYP] Waterfalls, Concert Have Made Heights Folks Cranky [Eagle] Get […]

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[Photo courtesy of Adrian Kinloch/Brit in Brooklyn] Taken at an undisclosed location and given to us by Adrian Kinloch.

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Yes, it is October and in some cases it means Oktoberfest(s). Here are the details: Sycamore, the new (and only) bar on Ditmas Park’s Cortelyou Road is having an Oktober Fest Celebration for twelve full hours on Saturday, October 18 from noon til midnight. Come on out and enjoy $3 beers, $2 grilled sausages, and […]

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We’ve long had faithful contributors like Miss Heather and F. Jasmin Adams, but we’d like to particularly thank some new ones whose names many of you have been seeing for the first time here on GL in recent days. We put out a call for help and they answered: E.C. Stevens (who’s provided so much […]

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The creator of this vid, which is a couple of years old, pointed us to it for Columbus Day. Unfortunately, given current events…well, one can foresee a time when it’s not just Columbus Day. He wrote of the making of the vid: “With the plethora of banks along Manhattan Ave, Greenpoint seemed like a good […]

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We’re not clear what neighborhood this story originates from (it appears to be Kensington), but we found it on the Boerum Hill email list with the subject line “scams have resulted in a death.” Here’s the weird and sad story: On Tuesday, I found my dear friend and neighbor in her apartment, the phone off […]

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If Halloween is approaching, it means many things and one of them is the return of Creepshow at the Freakshow via Coney Island USA. This year’s edition is called Phantom of the Presidential Wax Museum. Per the email from CIUSA: PHANTOM OF THE PRESIDENTIAL WAX MUSEUM is an interactive show (allow 45 minutes for the […]

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Bummed that you won’t be at the sold-out Beck/MGMT concert tonight? Shed not a tear, because Luke Temple is here to ease your sorrows. Luke Temple’s simple melodies ease a person’s sorrows, truth be told, whether or not they’re missing a kickass concert. With bittersweet earnestness, Luke stares straight into the crowd, telling tales of […]

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