Here are a few vids of Wilco performing at McCarren Pool last night.

Local photographer, filmmaker and GL contributor Nate Kensinger is working on the Second Annual Red Hook Film Fest and sense the following email:

I am helping to organize the 2nd annual Red Hook Film Festival, which will take place this October 11th and 12th in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The festival will be a venue for short films, with an emphasis on local filmmakers and films about Brooklyn and New York. We are now accepting submissions in all categories – documentary, experimental, narrative – so if you know some good new local films and filmmakers, please feel free to pass along this email or to put them in contact with me!

Email kensingerfilms (at) yahoo (dot) com.

There’s a new shop called Urban Alchemist that’s open at 343 5th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It’s described as “part store, part gallery and part artisan salon, Urban Alchemist has an eclectic mix of emerging designers as well as carefully selected vintage and modern home goods, accessories and furniture.” Members of the “design collective” are Eswera Jewelry, Rebecca Shepherd, Jewelry Designs, T.Kahres, Via Nativa and Re-Surface Design. The website is located here.

We’ve gotten several emails about the closure of Cafe Carciofo on Court Street at Kane, which has been a popular neighborhood spot for years. One tipster writes: “Great old restaurant on Kane & Court. Signs in the window say: ‘We will not be reopening. Family business shut down by DOH. Inspectors laughed and told us to ‘Enjoy’ after they put these stickers up. Been here 18 years and we’ve never failed an inspection… We won’t be back.’ Too bad…” Another local readers writes: “It’s a sad note to have to post. It seemed a popular, well-filled spot any time I walked by.”

Forget people doing it in the Park, the real new threat in Park Slope is pipe theft. As in, people breaking into buildings to steal copper pipes. Per a post on Brooklynian:

Got home from work today and my landlady was sitting on the front stoop — she said there’d been a break-in and that somebody had stolen some copper pipes from the basement. None of the apartments were entered, and they didn’t even touch my bike or the old air conditioner or TV that I’d had out in my stoop sale, all of which were in the hallway outside my apartment and right by the basement door. Just the pipe. Landlady says they got in through the main door, either someone left it open or they drilled the lock. The lock was actually removed and taken away along with the pipes, weirdly enough. Scary …

We suppose the bright side is that the thieves were so intent on the copper pipe, they didn’t didn’t bother with apartments.

Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images:

· Private Initiative: Turning City-Owned Brooklyn Land Into Parking Lot [NYT]
· Brooklyn Tech HS Graduation Rate Falls [NYDN]
· A New “Barclays/Nets Community Alliance” [AYR]
· A Look Inside the Fort Greene Masonic Temple [Brownstoner]
· A Wall Provides “Affordable Housing” [Footprint Gazette]
· Green Church Update/Bulletin [Bay Ridge Journal]
· Watching Life from a Park Bench [A Year in the Park]
· Painting the Brooklyn Watefront [CityRoom]
· Friedrich or Fedders? [New York Shitty]
· Dreamland’s Purple Rain Skate Party [Kinetic Carnival]
· June Manhattan Beach Incident Update [GerritsenBeach.Net]

The dispute over the proposed intake facility for the homeless at the armory in Crown Heights continues, although the city has made some concessions:

On Thursday, Heather J. Janik, a spokeswoman for the city’s homeless services agency, said an additional intake center would be opened in Manhattan to lessen demand at the proposed Brooklyn site. She said it would open “in tandem” with the new Brooklyn intake center, at the same time that the current central intake center, the Bellevue Men’s Shelter on the East Side, closed down. The site of the new center in Manhattan, which will be open 24 hours, has not been determined.

Local officials and residents want more. Here’s a video report produced by the New York Sun.

Perhaps you’ve seen Coney Ilsand Albino Python White Lager and the other Coney Beers?

So what do you get when you mix a tattoo artist, coriander, the boardwalk, a pinch of “the sensual dance of provocative hops” and a snake charmer? Coney Island Albino Python White Lager — one of five beers developed by Shmaltz Brewing Company, under a licensing agreement with Coney Island USA, the nonprofit organization that runs the Coney Island Museum, the Mermaid Parade and the sideshow. At the risk of overloading the Beery Brands of Brooklyn, other brews include Coney Island Lager (”Freak’s Favorite”), the Sword Swallower, the Human Blockhead and Freaktoberfest.

Read more over at the CityRoom.

[Photo courtesy of June Carter Cash Peeps/Gl Flickr Pool]

Our photographer writes: “The lifeguard on Brighton beach. I think I just burned out my retinas. Christ that’s bright orange.”

“Dylan’s concert sold out quite fast because the Prospect Park bandshell is a very small venue for such a superstar. Thereafter, the tickets were being sold for outrageous prices like 500 and 600 dollars online. It would have sold out whether the fence was see-through or not. Why not allow the majority of fans to enjoy the show. It would have cost them nothing to have the fence see- through and it would have made a lot of people happy. Too exclusive and too mean-spirited.”–Bob Dylan Does Prospect Park

[Photo courtesy of jaymegordis/GL Flickr Pool]

This is a waterside view of the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park, courtesy of jaymegordis in our GL Flickr Pool.

A pretty nice day is on tap, with partly sunny skies and a high of 81. Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a shower or thunderstorm in spots and a low of 67.–Accuweather

This discarded specimen comes to us from N. 8 Street in Williamsburg, where we found it loaded up with other tossed furniture. We call it, Sofa with Drawers.

Looking for stuff to do? It’s Brooklyn Based Tip Sheet Time. In Clinton Hill, Thistle & Clover is holding its second round of Open Calls for new designers on Monday, Aug. 18. McCarren Pool has a very busy week with shows with Wilco, Regina Spektor and Aesop Rock. If you’re coop happy, then check out the discussion at 7PM tomorrow (8/14) with the Greene Hill Food Coop about the pros of a 100 percent working coop, like Park Slope’s. There’s lots more too.–Brooklyn-Based

[Photo courtesy of wzrdreams/GL Flickr Pool]

Here’s some “Coney Tarot” via our GL Flickr Pool. Also check out this cool Coney fireworks photo from the tables next to Nathan’s from the same photo contributor.

Here’s an interesting vantage on Brooklyn from a helicopter, complete with some very shaky camera work.

[Photo courtesy of Glasson/GL Flickr Pool]

Remember the Greenpoint Terminal Market? We do. It was one of our favorite places to shoot pics in Greenpoint and could have been quite something had it been landmarked and restored. It was not to be, however. A couple of weeks after we started GL, it went up in a spectacular fire that is said to have been set by a local drunk scavenging copper. In any case, the site of the fire ravaged buildings is an empty lot now, but here’s a shot of the old skybridges over West Street dropped into our GL Flickr Pool by Glasson.

This is 439 Metropolitan Avenue, which has been slowly going up across the street from Meeker Avenue and the entrance to the BQE. The building will have a mix of apartments and office space from Helder Design. It’s NYC’s first LEED Platinum rating for a mixed-use buildings and one of several green buildings going up in Brooklyn, including the Greenbelt, another Williamsburg structure.

It looks like there’s going to be a Park Slope Seventh Avenue “Food and Restaurant Tour” coming up in September. It’ll be happening on September 18 from 7PM-10PM. Per an email we got about it: “Please join your fellow Slopers for a stroll along 7th Avenue where your favorite restaurants (and maybe a few you haven’t yet discovered) will be sampling some of their signature dishes. The samples are FREE, so bring your friends and your appetite.” Okay. Free samples! So, we’ll refrain from any remarks about the state of the restaurant world on Seventh Avenue in the Slope.

[Photo courtesy of Glasson/GL Flickr Pool]

It was only a few years ago that McCarren Pool was a kind of a scary spot, covered with graffiti and overgrown with weeds. All that’s changed now, but GL Flickr Pool contributor Glasson laid some nice pics on us to recall the good, old pre-hipster, pre-concert days at McCarren.

A couple more pics of the the Good Old Days, ahead.

[Photo courtesy of Adrian Kinloch/Brit in Brooklyn]

This is the (temporary) new look Fulton Mall, with ongoing demolition work and buildings rising in the background. This space will eventually be filled by the huge mixed use complex called Citypoint with condo tower is due to rise there including 525,000 square feet of retail, 360,000 square feet of office space and 900,000 square feet of residential space in a tower up to 60 stories tall.

There hasn’t been much food news on 3rd Avenue in Gowanus since Bar Tano opened on the corner of 9th Street back in February, but there’s some action brewing on the block between President and Union streets. On the corner of Union, an establishment called The Dog Shack opened a few days ago. Per its name, the business is hot dog-centric, though its owner says it’s also going to offer deli-style sandwiches. A full menu is still being developed. Meanwhile, on the President Street-side of the same block, the long-planned Crooked Tail Cafe recently shook off a Stop Work Order, and food display cases have made their way inside the future coffee/sandwich shop. Crooked Tail is being opened by one of the guys who owns neighboring Canal Bar, and it’s been planned since early this year.

Here’s a newly-posted video from the Prospect Park Alliance made by Tom Illich about Brooklyn’s favorite park. We found it via A Year in the Park, which offers up some thoughts about it as well. Check it out.

Last night’s rainbow was spectacular, and while there are many shots of it in Queens, there is some Brooklyn action too, over the Brooklyn Bridge and captured from the F Train traveling over Gowanus. Check it out.–Gothamist

Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images:

· Moms Defend Bay Ridge Playground Against Drunks, Unruly Teens [NYDN]
· So, Perhaps Barclays Center 2012? [AYR]
· Toren Showing a Lot of Skin [Brownstoner]
· Homelessness in Sheepshead Bay [Sheepshead Bites]
· Summer Streets 2008 Video [Streets Blog]
· Williamsburg is an Asian Food Black Hole [Williamsburg is Dead]
· Greenpoint Chinese Food Showdown [Neighborhood Threat]
· Nellie’s Lawn, Park Sex, Dylan, Etc. [A Year in the Park]
· Nassau Ave. Station Smell Really Does Suck [New York Shitty]