Here’s this week’s adoptable pet of the week from the Sean Casey Animal Rescue shelter in Kensington.

This is Tiny. Here is a bit more about here:

Tiny is a one year old Jack Russell terrier/Pekingese…she’s spayed, dewormed, treated with Revolution to prevent fleas, ticks, ear mites and heartworm and she’s up to date with vaccinations. Her adoption fee is $200.00 and she’ll get one free exam at our vet’s office, one free month of pet health insurance and a microchip. If you’d like to meet her please email us at nyanimalrescue@yahoo.com for an adoption application.”

Sean Casey Animal Rescue is located at 155 East 3rd Street in Kensington. They have a lot of different pets in need. Their number is 718.436.5163.

UPDATE: Tiny was adopted on Sunday (3/16). May she have a long, happy life in her new home.

Last weekend, we posted the bizarre story of a Park Slope mugging in which the criminal got out of and drove off in an old Plymouth. At that time, the victim wrote in a Park Slope Parents email:

It seems that this is a NEW kind of mugging, apparently the police had never heard of it before in this area. A man in a old model car (possibly a Plymouth) pulled over as he was driving, got out of the car, grabbed my purse while I fell down, got back into he car, and peeled away.

There is more info to share today about the vehicle, via a new email:

The car was an old model, possibly Plymouth, & maroon. Very Boxy looking (the rear & front windows looked like they came straight up & down rather than on an angle, as in most cars. The cops said it sounded like a K car? (think the FBI “Stake out” cars in the old 80s movies)

Beware of people in maroon K Cars checking you out. In the meantime, we ask: How hard can it be for the police to find the K Car Mugger?

(Note: the vehicle is a K Car used only for illustrative purposes.)

The status of the rehab of the Loew’s Kings Theater in Flatbush has been a mystery for a while, but today’s Post seems to confirm a report that appeared on Brooklyn Junction back in January that there is significant progress in finding a developer. In January, Brooklyn Junction noted that a “major” operator was interested in theater. Today, the Post notes that the city “has begun soliciting bids” for the theater, although efforts have actually been underway since 2006 to find a developer. The 79-year-old theater closed in 1978 and has been deteriorating ever since. The bigger project would involve air rights, a big parking lot, “a boutique hotel” and retail. The Post puts the cost of rehabbing the theater at $70 million, which is double figures that have been previously noted.

The Brick Oven Pizza Gallery on Havemeyer Street in Williamsburg is toast, taking a small piece of us away with its gone-forever Brooklyn Caviar. We also enjoyed the outside patio they added a couple of years ago. Gone. All gone.—Brooklyn Paper

UPDATE: This report is incorrect. Before we were able to check and verify it for ourselves, a kind and informed reader left word that rumors of Brick Oven’s demise are greatly exaggerated. It was open last night and busy. We apologize for the scare created by Go Brooklyn. Brooklyn Caviar Lives!!!!!! Brick Oven Gallery is fine!!!! Another summer on the patio coming up.

Yes, it’s that time. The annual St. Patrick’s Parade will take place tomorrow (Sunday, 3/18) in Park Slope. It starts at 1PM. The Parade runs down 15th Street from Prospect Park West to Seventh Avenue and then along Seventh Ave to Union Street. It goes up Union Street to Prospect Park West and then down PPW to 15th Street. Here’s a vid of last year’s parade, below.

[Way cool Gowanus photo courtesy of neonsplash/flickr]

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

Images:

• Gowanus Managers Office [Blue Jake]
• Outreach [Atomische]
• Litchfield Villa [Dalton Rooney]
• Construction Site [DavidGardinerGarcia/flickr]
• Wallabout Door [Clinton Hill Blog]
• Third Avenue [Park Slope Street Photography]
• Gowanus Rocks [neonsplash/flickr]

Not Images:

• Brooklyn Schoolgirl Hit by Stray Bullet [NYDN]
• In Manhattan, Ratner Trying to Brand Prospect Heights as “Downtown” [AYR]
• New Newtown Creek Park [Brownstoner]
• Good, Bad & Ugly on DeKalb [New York Shitty]
• Gangs of Bed-Stuy [Bed-Stuy Banana]
• Jay & Front St., Then & Now [Dumbo NYC]
• Speak Out on Iraq at St. Ann’s [OTBKB]
• Seed Turns to Sprouts in Dumbo [Green Brooklyn]
• Kangaroos, Porcupines, Etc. [A Year in the Park]
• Morning Walk in Dumbo [Self-Absorbed Boomer]

A new building on 39th street between 8th and 9th Avenues in Sunset Park is going to be a hotel. “Those were the rumors and buzz going around. One could also see that the architecture seemed to be more fitting for an office building or a hotel. Now we can confirm that it is a Hotel that is nearing completion at the location. It is ideally situated near the 9th Avenue D train station placing it within a half hour of midtown Manhattan and it is also within easy reach of the B35 and B70 bus lines.”–Sunset Park Blog

The quality of this looong video is sucky, but in a toy camera kind of way. The poster writes, “The sights and sounds of Coney Island as filmed by a Fischer Price Pixelvision camera circa 1993. Landmarks include the Cyclone and (now demolished, then abandoned) Thunderbolt roller coasters, the Wonder Wheel, Astroland.”

“Toll Bros. Inc., the Horsham luxury-home builder, said it might face ‘significant’ losses if its joint-venture partners on a number of projects were unable to meet their financial obligations….Toll Bros. said that since it might not have a controlling interest in some of these ventures, ‘we may not be able to require these joint ventures or their participants to honor their obligations or renegotiate them in acceptable terms.’ Toll Bros. reported last month a net loss of $96 million and a 23 percent drop in revenue for the company’s first quarter ended Jan. 31. The company’s stock is down 28 percent in the last year…” Toll’s urban ventures are holding up better than their suburban McMansion business, so far.–Inquirer

The forecast calls for periods of rain and drizzle this morning, although it certainly appears not be the case at the Brooklyn weather observatory. Morning clouds will give way to some sun. The high will be 56. Tonight, we’re looking at overcast skies with a bit of rain and snow toward dawn. Yes, that’s what the forecast says. The low will be 39.

This little joey is Brooklyn-born and bred, but its species is native to Australia. Our zookeepers are still waiting to see whether this little one is male or female, so our only word of advice is to keep the name unisex.


Once all of the suggestions are in, the zoo’s animal staff will review them and choose the top four. HOB’s homepage will post these four contenders and the public will vote for their favorite online…Born late last year, the curious little ‘roo is now often seen hopping out of mom Christy’s pouch to briefly explore its new surroundings, before heading back inside to take cover. The Prospect Park Zoo is the only zoo in the Northeast with western gray kangaroos, and it can now boast having four of them. The best part is the kangaroos roam freely throughout their exhibit, so you never know when one might literally hop your way! The zoo will be open Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and until 5:00 p.m. on the weekends. Starting March 22, the zoo begins its spring summer hours, which are Monday-Friday 10 am to 5 pm; 5:30 weekends.

We have tossed the name “Coney” into the ring. It has a good gender-neutral sound and also works well as Coney the Kangaroo.

The City Planning Department held its Scoping Hearing yesterday for the proposed Toll Brothers development on the Gowanus Canal. With neighborhood resistance to the project getting organized, the hearing attracted more attention than the average technical City Planning session. The room was full during the afternoon session and about 18 people spoke on the project. Blogger Pardon Me for Asking told us that 14 people spoke against the Toll rezoning and three spoke supportively of the project, though not necessarily the special rezoning. PMFA wrote that she was “proud” of the community’s performance at the hearing:

Clearly urging the Board to not issue the spot zoning change that Toll Brothers’ will need to push their project through, Carroll Gardens residents listed some of their concerns. Amongst the concerns raised about the effects the development will have on the area were effects on the infrastructure, the obvious hazards of building on a very polluted site as well as the recurrent flooding around the canal.

Community Board 6 District Manager Craig Hammerman, who is a candidate for City Council and has been working as a volunteer with residents to coach them on the land use review process used the session to blast the city government’s approach to both Carroll Gardens and Gowanus. “Political and economic forces seem to have wrenched control of the neighborhood’s destiny from the community itself,” he said in a prepared statement. “The community is here to take it back.” Mr. Hammerman seemed to reserve his harshest criticism for the city’s handling of the Carroll Gardens rezoning issue:

It’s a community that has been lobbying actively for the Department of City Planning to apply contextual zoning protections to prevent further destruction of its built form. We know the Department has committed to looking at Carroll Gardens at some unspecified future date. It is apparent, however, that we will likely need to wait for a new administration to take over before that will happen. In the interim, irreparable damages to the community will continue to mount. The decision not to act expeditiously is a conscious act that suggests that our city government is not there to protect us.

Mr. Hammerman urged the Planning Department to listen to resident concerns. “We’re raising an army of citizen planners to raise the issues that we believe must be considered,” he said. “We know that if an issue doesn’t make it into the scope we can’t get it studied, and if it isn’t studied it can’t be considered when looking at changes to the project.” Mr. Hammerman sought to draw a distinction between Carroll Gardens and Gowanus, which he called “a mixed-use community with an important industrial heritage whose distinct architecture has been deemed eligible by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.”

The Toll Brothers are asking for approval of their project ahead of any rezoning of Gowanus. All indications are that the city will recommend a zoning framework very similar to the density that the developer are seeking. Written comments can be submitted through March 24. The comments should be sent to Robert Dobruskin, Dept. of City Planning, 22 Reade St., New York, NY 10007. A copy should also be sent to Community Board 6 at 250 Baltic St., Brooklyn, NY 11231.

Even thought Lt. Gov. David Paterson does not assume the governorship until Monday, it’s never too early to get the campaign started urging him to “pull the plug” on the Atlantic Yards project.

“Rat sightings have closed down six classroom trailers at a Brooklyn elementary school, with a teachers union official saying she spotted numerous rodents nosing around the temporary classrooms. Four pre-kindergarten classes, a kindergarten class and a special-education class usually meet in the trailers at P.S. 272.” The school is in Canarsie.–Metro

Is the Brooklyn Museum in for some Atlantic Yards/Bruce Ratner blowback? Atlantic Yards Report notes there was visible anger at a meeting about Atlantic yards last night about an upcoming April 3 Gala honoring developer Bruce Ratner. AYR notes:

…the crowd’s ire was spurred by breaking news that Forest City Ratner CEO Bruce Ratner would be honored early next month by the Brooklyn Museum. And while local elected officials were understandably wary of criticizing the museum, leading the Brooklyn Paper to conclude that that DDDB’s Daniel Goldstein “was nearly alone in his vitriol,” that wasn’t the mood last night. Goldstein…said DDDB had received a lot of e-mail about it. Prospect Heights resident Irene Porges told the crowd that she had just purchased a museum membership but would ask for her money back.

Others said they wanted to hold a protest on the occasion of the museum’s ball honoring Ratner on April 3, and met afterward to plan the action. The effect of Forest City Ratner’s contributions to local institutions, Goldstein said, “is to silence a lot of people who wouldn’t otherwise be silent.”

Stay tuned to see what form protests about the Brooklyn Museum Ratner Gala take.

Photoblogger Nate Kensinger celebrates the first anniversary of his blog by going inside Admiral’s Row and return with superb photos of the wrecked state of the historic buildings at the heart of a development controversy. If you haven’t seen them yet, check them out as they are very cool.–Kensinger Photography

Things are coming along well in the Gowanus Hotel Row, ie President Street between Third and Fourth Avenues. The new hotel at President & Third is taking shape and demolition permits are out for properties up the street where SAI is building two hotels. The day is coming when there’s a very good chance mom & dad will be staying in Gowanus when they come to visit.–Brownstoner