[Click to enlarge] CL Erotic Services Users: Yesterday was your Black Thursday. (Well, maybe, the screencap above is from 5:40 Thursday night.) The end of the world as you know it. Here’s the bad news as passed along by the New York Times: The online classifieds company Craigslist said Thursday that it had reached an […]

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The Brooklyn Public Library has been making the email rounds to promote a new blog it’s doing called Brooklynology. They’ve widely circulated email says: I’d like to introduce you to a new blog on the block – Brooklynology. Created by the Brooklyn Collection, the local history department of the Brooklyn Public Library, this blog explores […]

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More on Curbed.

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Ever been out to Canarsie? Yeah, it’s way the hell out there. And it’s one of those neighborhoods that people don’t really go out to just spend the day as a local tourist. It’s changed immensely over the years, with many saying not for the better with its fast pace growth in crime over the […]

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From our dear friends at Park Slope Parents comes an email about what to do when the little one tosses the cell phone in toilet: My daughter threw my motorola cell phone into the toilet, and it was at least a minute before we noticed and saved it. My husband took the battery out and […]

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[Photo courtesy of apsies/flickr] We were wrong about Barack Obama. So wrong. And, we’ve never been happier in our increasingly long life to have been so incorrect about something so important. Last night, we saw history and a moment of true transformation. One would have had to have had a heart of cold steel not […]

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Bedford Obama Party 1, originally uploaded by Phil Langer. We believe there was also happiness on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg last night.

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[Photo courtesy Tracy Collins/GL Flickr Pool] And this is the way it was done all over the land. This vote was cast in Prospect Heights.

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Ohhhhh boy! We can’t express the excitement and craving that we now have knowing that finally Brooklyn has its very own Atomic Wings. We’ve envied Manhattanites for the longest time… hell, even Jersey City had one! But now, we can saunter down onto 9th St between 5th and 6th Avenues and get ourselves a bucket […]

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[Photo courtesy Threecee/GL Flickr Pool]

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On N. 6 Street in Williamsburg near Kent Avenue.

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Here on this history-making day is another scene from Carroll Gardens, early this morning where polling places were very busy very early but things seemed to be going smoothly.

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Photo courtesy of w4yward/Flickr · Some Tell Bloomberg, ‘To Hell With Your Agenda’ [NYT] · Bklyn a Sea of Blue With a Few Streaks of Red [NYDN] · Here Come the Voting Machines [Lost City] · Greenpoint on Election Day [NY Shitty] · Bay Ridgers Weigh in on the Election [Bay Ridge Rover] · Sunset […]

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[Photo courtesy of lornagrl/flickr] Another gorgeous shot of the Brighton Beach/Coney Island waterfront scene from one of our faves, Lornagrl.

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Oh, the joy of a Robert Scarano building. This is the big one on Fourth Avenue (right next to the big KFC for the expensive condo fried chicken lovers out there) and it’s definitely more and more on view. Brownstoner had checked it last week when there was just a little peeky-boo showing. We had […]

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No, the borough’s not for sale (well, except to certain developers), but there are hundreds of locally owned and operated business that provide just about any and every kind of service and product you can think to want or need. The BEDC, the Brooklyn Chamber, and the Brooklyn Borough President’s Office are currently designing a […]

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As part of our ongoing Adoptable Brooklyn Cutie of the Week we are bringing you a two-part edition today brought to you by Chris, who has 4 wonderful fosters in need of a ‘forever home.’ This week we have Annabelle and Augie. Annabelle Age: +/- 2 Years Sex: Female Type: DSH, brown tabby Spayed: Yes […]

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Been to the Drummer’s Circle in Prospect Park? We do suggest going, but in the meantime, check out the vid.

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Here’s this weekend’s tour from our friends at the Center for the Urban Environment: Sheepshead Bay & Manhattan Beach. Saturday, November 1 – 10:30 am -12:30 pm – with Ron Schweiger, Brooklyn Borough Historian. Take a walk along the water through these historic and colorful neighborhoods which were part of the largest and most popular […]

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Marathon Day is a tough one. What to do after the running passes you by? Well, here’s one idea: Go to Miro’s Run Annual Howl-o-ween Fundraiser. It takes place on Sunday, November 2nd from 12:00 noon to 3:00 p.m. Per their email: Join us at the dog run for cider and donuts, a dog costume […]

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Well, we’re pretty sure it ain’t Superman (though he would seem to prefer you to think differently), but what are those freaking loud noises that some people in Prospect Heights are hearing? The first indication on the Brooklynian’s Prospect Heights Forum in a thread called “Big Booming Noises” was this: “i keep hearing big booms […]

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Kevin Walsh of Forgotten NY ran a tour of Prospect Park this weekend. Scoker3 posted a big photoset on flickr that shows our favorite Brooklyn Park in all its glory, including a number of spots we’ve never seen. If you’re not partial to the slideshow we’ve embedded, you can find the full photoset here.

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[Photo courtesy of Deborah Matlack] As far as we’re concerned you can never get too many shots of Nathan’s in Coney Island, especially when they’re gorgeous evening fall ones like this one from GL Contributing Photographer Deborah Matlack. What we’re saying, basically, is that this is some very cool stuff.

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On October 24, we had a photo of flyer that a trusted GL Correspondent found in Park Slope recruiting phone bank workers for Barack Obama at different locations around the Slope including Al di La and the Lyceum. Word about these has been spreading here is some detail about some of them, including the Lyceum […]

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We believe in good dental hygiene as much as anybody, but we have to say that today’s Missed Connection takes love and hygiene to another level. It’s so impressive, in fact, that it cause us to leave Brooklyn for an unheard of venture into…gasp…Manhattan. Check it out: you told me about bigfoot – m4w You […]

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