Even if you’re done with visuals and vids of Olafur Eliasson’s waterfalls, we highly recommend this one put into our GL Flickr Pool by Josh Derr. It’s a unique view of the top of the Brooklyn Bridge falls that he somehow shot from the bridge. Mr. Derr writes:

Personally, I find the view from above the waterfalls much more interesting than the normal views from down below. You can see the pooling area at the top of the frame, and the diffusers in the middle. The sound of the cascading water is actually quite nice, and helps dampen the din of bridge traffic.

It definitely provides a different look at Mr. Eliasson’s creation

There is some positive motion to report in the saga of the Long Island College Hospital playground in Cobble Hill, which has been the source of much neighborhood discontent both in terms of the park’s dirty condition and broken playground equipment. This is an email from “Staff at Long Island College Hospital” with some updates about promised improvements:

1) We have started the power washing of the main park.
2) The problem with the drain has been resolved.
3) The repair parts will be delivered in the middle of August. These items are shipped from Finland.
4) We have established an e-mail address LICHPARks@….We will be posting signs in the parks announcing the e-mail address. This will be monitored daily (Monday through Friday)

Unfortunately, the full email wasn’t posted. It functions as a link through the BoCoCa Parents Group on Yahoo. If anyone knows the actual email so that people don’t have to go to the park, feel free to email us or post it in comments.

It’s been all of about two weeks since we came across a bitter rant about how badly the Pavilion Theater on Prospect Park West sucks. Well, with the opening weekend of Dark Knight more people than usual went to sample the theater’s charms and came away with love for the place. Here’s a charming tale from livetotravel on Brooklynian:

Went to see The Dark Knight at the 3:00 PM show in the big room all the way upstairs – it must have need 90 degrees in that hot box for the entire length of the movie. Everyone was sweating profusely and downing tons of water. Afterward a mob scene ensued with people loudly complaining – all to no avail. The best excuses from the “management” – “I just work here” and “there were too many people.” Jesus – the biggest movie of the summer and they don’t adjust for it! I loved the movie (Ledger is amazing) but I fucking hate the Pavilion!!! Go see it in Manhattan. Boycott that dump!

Holy bat crap, it was actually 96 degrees in the hell hole.

Dick Zigun, the head of Coney Island USA and the unofficial “mayor” of Coney Island gave a talk yesterday. “The problem is that there is still no one involved in this project who understands how the amusement industry works,” said Zigun, who worries the development plan will result in “a nice mall for South Brooklyn fronted by a small … amusement park.”–Metro

Here’s our second photo gallery of Giglio photos from Williamsburg yesterday. All we can say is, it was hot on Havemeyer Street yesterday afternoon. For our earlier post with some closer shots of the people lifting the three-ton statues, scroll down or click here.

[Photo courtesy of Urban Lisa/flickr]

Speeches by Sen. Charles Schumer and Borough President Marty Markowitz among others preceded the official return of the Red Hook vendors to the ball fields on Saturday. The homespun affair has had an extreme makeover, with the vendors now dishing out their food from trucks and food carts instead of makeshift stands under tarps. They are also now more on the sidewalk than in the park itself. Our friends at Eater had a full report on and photo gallery of the return.

[Photo courtesy of Urban Lisa/flickr]

Read the full Parks Department Press Release ahead.

Here’s our first photo gallery from the Giglio Festival on Havemeyer Street in Williamsburg. The lift took place under a blazing sun at 2PM with a crowd that seemed smaller than usual, possibly because of the blistering heat. We decided to make the “faces” of the Giglio lift a separate photo gallery.

It didn’t take long for Park Slopers to focus on the clusterf new alternate side parking regulations that went into effect this week. They are not going over well with some people. Someone over at Brooklynian event created a full color coded Google Map to show the new regime. The creator, who posts as 8thandPrez, writes:

Did anyone notice that the new parking regs in Park Slope are really much worse than before? It used to be that half the blocks (from 4th ave to 7th ave) were Mon-Tues street cleaning and the other half were Thurs-Fri. That made for a nice logical sequence where you would park on one set of blocks and then move to the other set of blocks. Now, however, the 4th ave to 7th ave blocks are Mon-Thurs and the other half are Mon-Tues. So, for some strange reason we’ve got Monday street cleaning along the entire length of the streets. Sunday car moving is going to be a real nightmare now.

The full map, which is actually a handy guide to how the neighborhood is now split up is after the jump.

See the full work of art, ahead.

The power outages that affected parts of Park Slope, Sunset Park, Bay Ridge and Borough Park on Sunday have been mostly cleared up, at least, according to Con Ed’s outage map. (Each green triangle is 1-50 people without power). The trouble was caused by malfunctions with 4 of the 12 big feeder cables. About 2,000 homes and businesses were without power. Con Ed also reduced voltage to effected areas by 8 percent. Tens of thousands of customers were asked to cut back power use.

Links:
· 4 Brooklyn Neighborhoods Lose Power [NYT]
· Power Outage Socks Brooklyn [NYP]
· Thousands Loose Power in Brooklyn [NYDN]
· 2,000 Without Power in Brooklyn Neighborhoods [Gothamist]
· Con Ed Asks People to Turn Off AC [Sun]

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

· 3 Dems Vying for State Senate Seat Covering Flatbush & Midwood [NYT]
· Nine-Year-Old Girl Left for Dead in Hit-And-Run [NYP]
· Woman Barricades Self & Kids in Apt. for 3 Hours [NYDN]
· Will Olin’s News Atlantic Yards Open Space Designs Surface in Sept.? [AYR]
· Brooklyn Man Arrested in Fatal Hit and Run [amNY]
· On Going to Brooklyn When You Die [Metropolitan Diary/NYT]
· Brooklyn Heights Teens with Air Pistols Go on Rampage [BHB]
· Weekly Dumbo Links [Dumbo NYC]
· A Sunset Park Church, Then and Now [BVIB]
· Coney’s Freak Bar Ready & Pastel [Kinetic Carnival]
· Momos and More at New Ditmas Park Tibetan [Ditmas Park Blog]
· Shalom and Salaam in Prospect Park [A Year in the Park]

[Image courtesy of i’mjustsayin/flickr]

The Liars played McCarren Pool yesterday and here’s a shot of Angus Andrew from the stage courtesy of i’mjustsayin. See the full set here.

Musician Charles Sibersky sent us (another others) an email about his performance this week on the 24th at Aji, which is a new spot on Ninth Street below Fifth Avenue,asking for a shout out:

Come out and support live jazz at 9st Street’s newest restaurant. Located at 287 9ST(4th &5th Aves.) in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, Aji serves Peruvian and Argentinian dishes. Drinks, too. I’ll be playing their magnificent Story and Clark piano on Thursday, 7/24. I’ll be joined by Gary Levy, sax and Ed Fuqua, bass. We start at 7:30.

More info about Aji here.

[Photo courtesy of Dope on the Slope/GL Flickr Pool]

This image came to our GL Photo Pool courtesy of Dope on the Slope. The mirror in question is on Third Street in Gowanus, attached to a lot used by Verizon.

Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory, it’s happening again. Today’s forecast calls for “Times of sun and clouds, very warm and humid; a shower or thunderstorm around this afternoon.” The high will be 90 and it will feel like 99 (which is better than 103). There will be some storms around tonight. The low will be 76. Another heat advisory from the National Weather Service is in effect until 6PM. The heat wave is expect to break by the middle of the week.–Accuweather

[Image courtesy of heartonastick/flickr]

The Siren Festival took place in blazing heat in Coney Island yesterday and the flickr images are starting to multiply. Click here for all the “Siren Festival” tagged images from this year. That’s Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks playing, above. And that’s the Siren Fest as it appeared from the top of the Cyclone.

[Image courtesy of jontangerine/flickr]

[Photo courtesy of sabeth718/flickr]

The first Williamsburg Walks event took place yesterday under blazing sun and opposite the Siren Festival in Coney Island. It looks like it was more lively than the efforts on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, but almost anything on Bedford is going to have an edge in that sense. We’ll be curious to see how it goes on upcoming Saturdays, particularly the ones where the heat index is under 100.

[Image courtesy of dag2008/flicker]

This Sunday, we turn our weekly Craigslist Missed Connection attention to the Siren Festival. We’ll start with one we like an then list a few more.

Siren Festival Girl – m4w – 32 (* see below)
hey…you know who you are…we exchanged glances, (or was i suffering from heat stroke and imagining the whole thing??). you are the adorable indie-looking girl. approx 25-30. * this was either at the dodos, ra ra riot, steven malkmus, bss, the boardwalk, surf ave…after i saw you i had to jump in the ocean to cool off, and i think i may have ingested discarded medical waste in the process, so don’t you see…i am very deserving of your reply.

And here are few more early Siren Fest MCs:

NTrain from Sirenfest, blue/red/purple shirt – w4m – 19 – (Coney Island)

a desert back in the siren photo pit – m4w – 24 –

Siren Festival – W 10th Stage – Green Shirt around 6:30 – w4m – (Coney Island)

Today’s Times follows up with a story of iron gate thievery in in Brooklyn neighborhoods like Crown Heights and Clinton Hill that was first reported on Brownstoner in Crown Heights. They’re stealing big, heavy gates, people.–NYT

This vid comes from GL Flickr Pool contributor jplpagan. Just a little bit of Gowanus Canal Jellyfish Zen.

[Photo courtesy of Josh Derr/GL Flickr Pool]

This image from the Brooklyn Bridge, looking down on the Olafur Eliasson waterfall comes from Josh Derr.

A number of new Judith Supine works have popped up around Williamsburg in recent weeks. This one is from Hope Street, east of the BQE, in a spot where one doesn’t usually find street art.

Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory, we’re looking at a day that is strikingly similar to yesterday and the day before. The forecast calls for it to be “hot and humid with clouds and sun; an afternoon thunderstorm in one or two spots. The high will be 94 and it will feel like 103. Tonight will be humid with showers and thunderstorms around and a low of 76.–Accuweather

There is progress to report about the “Third World Dump” created by a development mess on long-suffering N. 11 Street and Roebling in Williamsburg. (In fact, there are so many construction sites in the area that some days several pile drivers are going at once at sites a few blocks apart creating a most interesting sonic effect. The overall mess and appearance of this part of neighborhood will be fairly awful for at least the next two years.) In any case, the same person that emailed us and sent photos of the mess on N. 11 Street followed up with an email late yesterday saying that it was being cleaned up a little. Our correspondent writes: “The buildings dept must have come down today after a response to some complaints. Some progress has been made. The only issue is the clogged drain at the corner that has formed the new ’11th & Roebling Pool’, from the water that is being sprayed at the site from the opposite corner.” That is a very large dumpster that’s been set up outside the Warehouse 11 building, which is on the site of the cleaned-up Roebling Oil Field.