First the premise of Ghost Town: A “misanthrophic dentist” having a colonoscopy dies for seven minutes. According to IMDB, when he comes back to life, “he can see the dead and is bothered by the ghost of a businessman who wants the dentist to break up the impending marriage of the ghost’s wife.” Among the stars are Tea Leoni and Greg Kinnear. It’s shooting on Tuesday (11/6) in Williamsburg and the area that will be impacted runs from Metropolitan Avenue to N. 4th Street and Kent Avenue to Berry. There’s an accompanying sign about how if your car is “relocated” from any of these streets you can call to find out where it now lives, etc. Dream Works, which is producing the film, appreciates your understanding both about having your car relocated and about a plot involving a semi-deadly colonoscopy that leads to seeing ghosts.

Is there an issue at the Park Slope Rite Aid at Seventh Avenue and Fifth Street that people should know about? Possibly. A GL reader forwarded an email from the Park Slope Parents group that alleges an employee took liberties with a debit card and that management didn’t care. The emails charges that a clerk helped “with the transaction process and without my wife knowing it helped herself to cash back out of our account.” When the person returned to the store, the email claims that she was “verbally abused by the manager” and that several visits to the story have produced “nothing but hostility from them.” The email includes a request:

I ask that you either don’t shop there or if you do then voice your concern to the management about this. Be careful and spread the word. Through community action things like this can be stopped!

We include the item as a caution to readers in Park Slope, if not about the specifics of an alleged incident, then about the reported attitude of management.

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

• Help Save Underground Railroad Houses: Write Jack Hammer Today [Duffield St. Underground]
• Eight May Run for Brooklyn Borough President [NYDN]
• Miss Heather Goes to Astoria [New York Shitty]
• Last Call for Comments on Dumbo Historic District [Dumbo NYC]
• Good Thing I Won’t Be in Brooklyn in 2012 [Escape Brooklyn]
• Man Threatens to Burn Subway Booth on C Line [NYDN]
• Appreciating Street Art, Giving Away Clothes [Esthetic/Aesthetic]
• Bay Ridge Tornado Recovery Continuing [Bay Ridge Blog]

The hazardous demolition site at 199-211 N. 9th Street, 208 N. 10th Street and 489 Driggs was worth noting for a couple of reasons yesterday. First, workers were putting up scaffolding, perhaps in a belated attempt to better shield passersby from construction debris, although whether they had a Sunday work permit to do so is unclear. More interesting, though, is that while cosmetic repairs were made to the awful fence around the work site, a child could still gain access to a site that could possibly kill someone. (We’ve named this a Construction Site Du Jour, not once, but twice and also identified it as a public safety menace and, uh, gave it an award last week for being so consistently crappy and beyond the interest of the Department of Buidlings.) A big gap in the fence was “closed” with a board leaning against it that almost fell over when we touched it. On the bright side, it looks like they’re making progress on the demolition, so, within a month the issue will be an empty lot that is not properly secured.

Perhaps you recall the day this summer the “submarine” was stopped in off Red Hook near the Queen Mary, spawning speculation (briefly) about terrorist plots and (then) a lot of jokes. Well, Duke Riley, the artist who launched the submarine, has a show at Magnan Projects, which is located at 317 Tenth Avenue in Manhattan. The show “examines the artist’s fascination with and exploration of maritime history and events around the waterways of New York City.” You can read more about it here at the gallery’s site. The blog Brooklyn Bachelor also has a post about Mr. Riley’s show with some photos. The show runs through December 22.

Chickens are the latest backyard fashion accessory. In Park Slope, however, one broker says, “What family in their right mind wants to buy a two million dollar house next to a chicken farm? You know, you think of chickens you think of some god forsaken place, upstate New York or some other country, not Brooklyn.–NPR & New York Shitty

The original meaning of this sign was obliterated by the elements and people a long time ago. We think it had something to do with cleaning up after one’s dog. It comes from Williamsburg.

Dozens of car windows were shot out Saturday night and Sunday morning in South Williamsburg. The windows appear to have been shot out with a b-b gun on Wythe Avenue, Bedford Avenue and other streets.–WCBS

This is Hotel Le Bleu, yesterday afternoon around 3PM, when the NOW OPEN signs stopped us dead in our tracks on Fourth Avenue as passed by to see if they’d made their opening date of November 2. They did. We have poked much fun at Le Bleu, but we’re happy to see it open. Things appeared very quiet yesterday afternoon. There were two vehicle in the parking lot, an employee was going inside with a bag and, as we were standing there, a fire alarm went off in the building. Le Bleu’s rooms are $300 and up, so it will be interesting to see how it does.

Depending on one’s perspective, the following odd situation in Boerum Hill, via one of the local mailing lists, is either a huge pain or a Godsend. We know people that would consider it to be either. It could be a great way to get into the thrift shop or Williamsburg weekend sidewalk vending business. Anyway, here’s the situation:

We are experiencing a strange wrinkle in the urban garbage experience. Over the last week someone has been leaving garbage bags and cardboard boxes full of junk – old shoes, clothes, paperbacks, pots and pans – in front of our house, or actually neatly stacked neatly next to our garbage cans inside our front yard!? We and our tenants are puzzled since none of it is ours?? Today it was a cardboard box from a microwave filled with old pots and pans.

If someone has been cleaning out closets or your basement, or I suspect conducting a renovation and clearing out previous owners junk – please either schlepp this stuff over to the Salvation Army, or bag it properly in clear recycling bags (pots & pans are metal) or put into black trash bags and put out in front of your residence on the appropriate pickup days?

You will not get fined if you dispose of it properly, you burn off calories by walking to the Salvation Army, but we will be fined if you put it in front of our yard and it is illegally packaged.

We don’t understand why the junk dumpers don’t simply leave it out front of their own place Park Slope Sidewalk Giveaway-Style.

Here’s an email that you can send to help save the Underground Railroad Houses on Duffield Street. The deadline is tomorrow (11/5). Please help.–Duffield St. Underground

For this week’s Craigslist Brooklyn Missed Connection, we turn to a posting that is actually a Lost and Found, but a very interesting one:

MC with my lost digital camera – w4m – 25

I Lost my camera at one of the parties/bars i was at last night in williamsburg. I should have deleted the pornographic movies of me and my ex from there. Whoever finds it enjoy and please return it to me, thanks!

And, please don’t post it anywhere.

This is a rough map of the route of the New York City Marathon through Brooklyn from the Daily News. There are no detailed maps that we could find, so we’ll simply reiterate that it runs down Fourth Avenue then head down Laffayette and ends up on Bedford Avenue. It eventually makes its way across the Pulaski Bridge. Fourth Avenue is close from 8:15AM to 1PM. The lead pack of professional runners should come through Fourth Avenue in the Slope around 10:30AM and be in Williamsburg by 11AM. You can find out everything you need to know at the official marathon website.

“Guerilla gardening has a new genre as street artist Edina Tokodi grows site-specific moss installations of plush animal figures on wooden construction planks, utility poles, and billboards.”–Under Wire

Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn information and images:

• Dumbo Weekly Links [Dumbo NYC]
• Orange Sky in Gowanus [Brit in Brooklyn]
• Coming Up This Week in Brooklyn [About Brooklyn]
• Join Sustainable Flatbush for a Town Meeting on Nov. 12 [Sustainable Flatbush]
• Thanks to Those Who Gave in Windsor Terrace [Brooklynometry]
• Feel Good Coney Video [Kinetic Carnival]
• Gerritsen Beach and Sheepshead Bay from Above [GerritsenBeach.Net]
• Future Home of the Flatbush Community Garden [Flatbush Gardener]
• Plastic [I’m Seeing Green]
• Reviewing Frankies 457 [Brooklyn Enthusiast]

Here are some vids of past New York City Marathons as it passes through Brooklyn. Enjoy.

As you may know, we post dozens of Brooklyn items every week over at Curbed, here are some from this week that did not appear on GL:

• Gowanus Whole Foods (Site) Still Open to Public (above)
• Another Metropolitan Avenue Development Gets Bannered
• South Slope Building Getting Slightly Unbuilt
• New Bus Shelters Proving Very Popular
• Toll Brothers Ignore Crap & Clap, Push Gowanus Plan
• Non-Hipster Burg Report: Food Truck Fight
• Burg’s Grand Ferry Park & Domino Fences are Up
• And, Now, a Williamsburg Car-Tick-a-Thon
• 80 Metropolitan Cleans Up & Gets Boring
• Car Toast-a-Thon Marathon: Greenpoint Action Edition
• Gowanus Whole Foods Fence to Be Fixed…Really
• Brooklyn 2012 as Sold by Sir Ian McKellen
• Trick or Treat #5: Carroll Gardens Karl Fischer Grows
• Trick or Treat #4: Burg Halloween Car Toast-a-Thon Redux
• Karl Fischer Revealed #2: Bride of Frankenstein on Grand

Once a week, we like to look at some comments that GL readers have left during the previous seven days. Here are few selections from this week:

Atlantic Yards Hole Gets Bigger, Prospect Hghts Bldgs Smaller. “understand that this is not work on “atlantic yards.” this is excavation to build a new rail yard. work on “Atlantic Yards” can only happen if Forest City Ratner wins the lawsuits against it.” [Anonymous]

Bklink: Park Slope is the Next Chelsea. “well, the dollar store on my block on 5th ave b/w prospect place and st. marks closed up shop a year ago and was replaced by a bad pan-asian restaurant and a useless hawker of over-priced beauty products. the little mom-and-pop real estate place just down the street closed. a local latino grocer closed and is being replace by a restaurant, etc. i don’t mind change, but it’s a sad day when everything useful gets replaced by some joint that sells booze and mediocre food or some high-priced boutique. that’s not progress, that’s just homogenization. lord help us.” [Anonymous]

Say What–Brooklyn Bus Edition. “If you’ve noticed, most of the signs in Red Hook are at street level. Just as well, the schedules are useless.” [Anonymous]

Did you know that of six old movie theaters in Coney Island, only one–the old Loews on Surf Avenue, now known to many as the Shore Theater–is still standing?–Ask Mr. Coney Island

Red Hook, Brooklyn

[Photo via threecee/flickr]

Anyone who hasn’t observed the level of activity in the Vanderbilt Rail Yards, which are intended to be part of the future site of the Atlantic Yards development, or checked in on the state of demolition work in neighboring Prospect Heights, will find that a great deal of work is being done. The photo above is one posted by Tracy Collins, who has been doing a masterful job of chronicling the progress of work. No Land Grab has a full post with photos called Ratnerville Railyard Illustrated.

Here’s an interesting concept: An audio walking tour of downtown Brooklyn called Anyplace Brooklyn that will be offered every Saturday in November (starting today) from Noon-2PM. The one hour tours start every five minutes. What’s cool about them? For starters, you can download the audio portion in advance to your MP3 player. (It’s also availableon CD.) Here are some details:

Where to Go: Come to the public tables @ Willoughby and Adams Streets in downtown Brooklyn to pick up materials and begin the tour. One-hour tours begin every 5 minutes between noon and 2 PM on every Saturday in November.

What to Bring: You must bring a CD player or an mp3 player with the downloaded files from anyplacebrooklyn.com to participate.

Anyplace, Brooklyn, an audio walking tour of Downtown Brooklyn, blends documentary sounds, interviews and guided observation to explore critical issues raised by the New York City’s Downtown Brooklyn Development Plan including: public space, democracy, eminent domain, freedom of expression and privatization. Anyplace, Brooklyn presents strong evidence that Downtown Brooklyn, far from being blighted, is a thriving neighborhood of historic and cultural importance. Participants bring a CD player or mp3 player with downloaded audio tracks to the public tables at the corner of Willoughby and Adams Streets in Downtown Brooklyn. There they pick up the walking tour materials and don headphones, setting off alone or in small groups for a one-hour exploration of the neighborhood.

Excellent way to pick up some valuable perspective on an important part of Brooklyn about to undergo a lot of development.

Al Pacino is spending time at the 78th Precinct for the movie Righteous Kill. Here he is, right on the streets of Prospect Heights.–not another f*cking blog!

We got this flier via email asking us to help spread the word about the upcoming “Town Meeting” in Carroll Gardens on November 19 that should be both heavily attended and very spirited, a couple of days ago, a reader named “Brooklyn Mom” left some comments on an earlier post clarifying some things about the meeting in response to questions raised in the neighborhood. Here are a few excerpts:

The Town Hall Meeting is set up to focus on the land use protections available thru the City; zoning and land marking in particular. Yes, there will be an informed (perhaps expert) panel. Their presentations will be question driven; the CGNA will be asking for Q’s from the CGNAYahoo group starting this weekend. Have a Q you want to include? Post it there. At the THM on the 19th, cards will be distributed at the door and collected thruout the presentation. The cards can be used for Q’s or comments to the panelists. The moderator will pose Q’s to the panel at his discretion.

…We have questions and we are looking for answers…The startling number of high end residential buildings under construction is effectively changing CG–replacing the human scale neighborliness with high rise hustle. Why can’t we have a say in what happens to our neighborhood? Who says the only development has to be luxe by professional high end developers? What about apartments and starter homes–for sale or rent within the price range of our under $50K population? We want to keep growing and welcoming at every level–the energy and mix is what keeps our streets active and safe.

It promises to be one of the more interesting community meetings of the year in South Brooklyn.

Not that you need GL to tell you, but it’s back to Eastern Standard Time tonight, officially at 2AM. So, if you have any timekeeping that don’t reset themselves, roll them one hour back. This means it will get dark tomorrow around 5PM. On the other hand, one could live in Berlin, instead of Brooklyn, where it will start getting dusky around 3:30 soon.