[Photo courtesy kadanwa/flickr] We found this little gem on Craigslist and thought we’d share. It’s about what someone did in 2008 vs. what they want to 2009. We believe that it has meaning, if not wisdom: 2008 confessions, accomplishments/2009 resoulutions Last NYE I was with a Jerk, now I’m alone. Which one is better? 2008: […]

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Well, it’s finally here… the end of 2008. Time to celebrate!!! If you didn’t get that big Christmas bonus (or you did, but you already spent it all), are cutting costs, don’t feel like going out to Time Square, the bars or the parties, but you don’t want to just stay in – don your […]

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What a difference a couple of years makes. When we were wrapping up 2006, we were calling it the year Brooklyn changed forever. Atlantic Yards had been approved. The Williamsburg construction boom was underway. Industrial landmarks all over the borough were threatened. Those are not the kinds of things we expect to be talking about […]

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Here’s a free event, after you probably spent all your money on too much booze and/or other stuff this New Year’s Eve. This Thursday (New Years Day, 1/1/09!), as part of the 15th Annual Alternative day of Spoken Word Extravaganza, Mermaid Hawley and Bluesman have 6 minutes to “save Coney Island” sometime between 6-8pm (said […]

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There’s now a modest reward being offered for the Astroland Memorial collage that was stolen the other night, most likely by a collector. Tricia Vita of the Coney Island History Project informs us this sign will be going up on the gate this evening. If you have it, email merci2009@ymail.com. No questions will be asked. […]

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This one kind of fell through the cracks before the holidays, as a reader wrote us about going to Hotel Le Bleu on Fourth Avenue seeking to imbibe at the lounge on the top floor. As readers may know, we’ve been calling it Tres, Tres, Tres Bleu because the whole freaking hotel is lit up […]

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[Photo courtesy of Meg Groome] Pretty darned spectacular during yesterday’s spring-like weather.

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Amy Haimerl, the co-director of the Red Hook Dog Association, gave up the good news that a petition many residents, dog lovers and supporters have signed succeeded at swaying Community Board 6 to extend the hours of Coffey Park from 10-11pm (for all park goers), and designate Coffey Park as the 89th off-leash park in […]

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The Stop BHOD coalition formed to end the New York government’s attempt to re-populate and expand the Brooklyn House of Detention (over on Atlantic b/w Smith & Boerhum Place) has relaunched its website and also added a blog. In addition, they will be holding a rally outside the State Supreme Court building in Cadman Plaza […]

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[Photo courtesy of Alivin’s Postcards/flickr]

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Our favorite Williamsburg eating spot, Kellogg’s Diner has been all done up for the holidays. And what a job they’ve done. We’re foregoing Brooklinks this morning so we can go out and run soggy Christmas Eve errands and letting the diner do the talking.

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We posted something a few days ago about joining CB 6 itself, but there’s also an opportunity to join the commmunity board’s committees. This email comes from Craig Hammerman: It’s that time of year again when Brooklyn Community Board 6 (CB6) reconstitutes the composition of its standing committees. Although CB6 committee membership must be composed […]

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There is so much happiness in so many workplaces that it sometimes warms the heart. For instance, here’s a rant we found on Craigslist that was post by someone working in an unnamed NYC public school: MY STUPID FUCKING G-DDAMN SACK OF SHIT BOSS (The toilet) Yep, I’m still pissed. So are my colleagues, but […]

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There was some unhappiness last week that the Department of Housing Preservation and Development scheduled a key hearing in the middle of holiday party season, but more importantly, failed to make sure that work got out in the community about the meeting. The department has extended the public comment period for the draft scope of […]

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A reader forwarded this listing to us from a Park Slope Parents Classified. It’s yet another opportunity to do some good this holiday season: The Child Life office at NYU, which provides toys and games to sick kids year round, is woefully underfunded and in need. If you haven’t already maxed out your holiday giving, […]

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This is from an email that came to us via the South Slope email list. We’re not sure we full understand it, but it is definitely interesting: “There are spaces of Prospect Park being used as a dump by a “friend” of our mayor, in clear violation of all aggrements.This is also happening on 3rd […]

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[Click to enlarge] Perhaps you remember the Meeker Avenue Plume. It even got some PR in the New York Times last week, leading Curbed to call it the “Toxic Death Cloud.” Well, there’s a meeting about it coming up for residents in January 14 at 6PM. It is a hazard to both long-term residents and […]

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A GL Reader sent us this pic of squatters leaving a boarded up building in the Greater Gowanus Metroplex. We not going to get into the address and have crop out identifying details as well as blurred the faces of the people leaving. We think the continued presence of squatters in the neighborhood is an […]

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[Photo courtesy of Deborah Matlack] Oh, Green-Wood Cemetery, you sadden us so, because you are a cemetery, but you’re also so beautiful. GL Contributor Deborah Matlack traveled there yesterday and filed this pretty picture.

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Remember, the Gowanus Canal Conservancy is having an art show and sale called “A Sense of Place” through tomorrow. They’ve added some items too. It takes place at 298 Bond Street between Sackett and Union Street, today and tomorrow from 11AM to 7PM. On Monday, remaining art will be 20 per cent off. Here’s some […]

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There is a report from Boerum Hill of tires being slashed in what either could have been random vandalism or something a little more ugly (read the second emai). It happened to a car owned by people with a McCain sign in their window. There are two emails from the Boerum Hill group. Here is […]

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Sunday, 1/4, a book reading by Daniel Walker Howe of his Pulitzer Prize–winning book What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, will be held at the Historic Chapel at Green-Wood Cemetery. Following, a trolley tour will move through the cemetery to the grave sites of notable writers who inspired the era, such as […]

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This weekend (12/20 & 12/21) is the start of the first opening of the Artisan Market down at the old Brooklyn Lyceum (on 4th Ave between Union and President) from 11am-7pm. Over 60 local artists and vendors will be selling a vast array of everything you don’t need but would probably love to have or […]

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We have to admit that although we are animal lovers, small, yappy, football sized dogs sometimes give us the urge to punt. But all joking aside, this story from a Park Slope Parents email is a sad one and despite our hatred for puppy mills (they’re basically commercial enterprises which breed dogs in sometimes dispicable […]

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