These pages serve as a central hub for Brooklyn bloggers, who are more often than not on the forefront of local news. Here you can find information about anything from new restaurants to upcoming events and breaking news written directly by your neighbors, all in one place.
Via: Dumbo NYC
The NYC Department of Design + Construction sent us the following March/April 2010 update on the reconstruction of Water Street between Adams Street to Old Fulton Street and Washington Street from York Street to Plymouth Street. Per the newsletter (PDF download 746kb):
Work In Progress: March – April, 2010
Excavation and installation of 36″ [...]
Posted In: Dumbo, Real Estate
Via: Sheepshead Bites
The 61st Precinct Community Council meets at 3093 Ocean Ave., on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. The 61st Precinct would like to invite you to our monthly meetings. Come in and meet with Captain Georgios Mastrokostas and his executive staff. Also, meet your community police officer and your local [...]
Posted In: Sheepshead Bay
Via: Sheepshead Bites
On Monday we gave you the schedules for lane closures along three local sections of the Belt Parkway undergoing construction. At the time, pothole repairs were just announced and it was suggested that closures related to the Seven Bridges Project would be suspended. That information was incorrect and we have updated the original [...]
Posted In: Sheepshead Bay
Via: Nostrand Park
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The Glass Shop on Classon Ave. [...]
Posted In: Crown Heights
Via: BeehiveHairdresser.com
We noticed a decomposing wasp nest perched high up in a stinky ginkgo tree on a busy Brooklyn corner.
They’ve moved on to nest elsewhere this year and we can only hope that this nest safely falls in front of someone so that they are scared clueless.
Posted In: Bay Ridge, Entertainment
Via: Brooklyn Street Art
This past weekend a new show at MarketPlace Gallery opened – which is remarkable in itself since an electrical fire badly damaged it last summer.
New York Street Artist CAKE, Brooklyn illustrator Travis W. Simon, and Albany’s RADICAL! took over the expansive space, run by brothers Samson, Alex and Max Contompasis.
The [...]
Posted In: Art
Via: Sheepshead Bites
Last week, we told you about Miss Brooklyn (and Manhattan Beach resident), Keelie Sheridan, shopping at the Nostrand Avenue Salvation Army store. That was after the “Living Big on Small Change” blog, Brokelyn, interviewed the contestant winner about her economical ways.
This week, just a short while before she crowns this year’s winner, Keelie [...]
Posted In: Sheepshead Bay
Via: Nostrand Park
Now that it seems that Atlantic Yards is pretty much a done deal, we were curious what folks think might be the spillover effects, if any, on Crown Heights. Interestingly, during last year’s local city council elections, almost all of the candidates for Crown Heights’ 36th district - a district located at the bookend of Atlantic Yards [...]
Posted In: Crown Heights
Via: Nostrand Park
In light of Shawn’s “Abandoned” post the other day, let’s reflect on another tragedy of abandonment (or since I’m a glass is half full type of gal — let’s just say this is a beacon of restoration potential) in the neighborhood. Kingston Lounge.
Located on the corner of Bergen and Kingston, Kingston Lounge has existed [...]
Posted In: Crown Heights
Via: Sheepshead Bites
A talented writer running a personal blog named More Glib Than Profound posted a chronicling of his childhood memories of F.W.I.L. Lundy’s Bros. Restaurant. Living in Sheepshead Bay all my life, I’ve heard so many stories of the massive restaurant that, as legend has it, sold 15,000 meals on Mother’s Day. But Lundy’s [...]
Posted In: Sheepshead Bay
Via: Sheepshead Bites
A talented writer running a personal blog named More Glib Than Profound posted a chronicling of his childhood memories of F.W.I.L. Lundy’s Bros. Restaurant. Living in Sheepshead Bay all my life, I’ve heard so many stories of the massive restaurant that, as legend has it, sold 15,000 meals on Mother’s Day. But Lundy’s [...]
Posted In: Sheepshead Bay
Via: Nostrand Park
When I reported that real estate activity in Crown Heights had gotten off to a slow start for 2010, I had my concerns. For the record, it’s not unusual under normal market conditions to begin the year with slow sales. The holiday season often causes home shoppers to suspend their search [...]
Posted In: Crown Heights
Via: BeehiveHairdresser.com
TMZ is reporting that Corey Haim, the HAIM, has been found dead this morning from an apparent drug overdose.
We loved watching him in ‘License to Drive’ and ‘Fast Getaway’ when we were growing up, so much so that we used to do a Corey Haim impression back in our stand-up days. That said, the dude also [...]
Posted In: Bay Ridge, Entertainment
Via: Sheepshead Bites
I’m so happy for the return of beautiful weather. In Sheepshead Bay, that invariably means walks on any of the four local beaches, and watching a sunset to the west. It means strolls along the marina, or having a cold beer on a cafe with sidewalk seating. It means Littlenecks at Randazzos, feeding [...]
Posted In: Sheepshead Bay
Via: BeehiveHairdresser.com
We swung by Leif Ericson Park at 8th Avenue to see how the Brooklyn Parrots are doing in this warm weather. No surprise, they’re loving it!
We found them taking a break from chewing the twigs off of the trees for their new nest and taking in some sun.
Having never seen them in person up until [...]
Posted In: Bay Ridge, Entertainment
Via: Brooklyn Street Art
Every want to act in your own Video? How about acting in a painting?
The Group is called “Hold Your Horses” comprised of French and American members.
Song is “70 Million”
Posted In: Art
Via: I love Franklin Ave.
I’ve been on the road this week, but here are some stories that my various Google Alerts and local sources put on my radar:
Scary – An armed home invasion took place at Lincoln and Franklin yesterday morning, sending a half-dressed man racing into Fisher’s Supermarket for help. Police are investigating.
Silly – [...]
Posted In: Crown Heights
Via: Dumbo NYC
Choice Market is now open until 11pm every night. Also, the cheese & charcuterie and wine & beer are now available. Free delivery from 9am-10pm.
Choice Market
108 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Tel: 718.797.1695
Fax: 718.797.1914
Courtenay@choicemarkets.com
(PDF of menu here (632kb))
Previously:
More photos on the Flickr site here.
{Choice Market (Dumbo) Open for Business, 18Feb2010}
{Choice to Open [...]
Posted In: Dumbo, Real Estate
Via: Dumbo NYC
Choice Market is now open until 11pm every night. Also, the cheese & charcuterie and wine & beer are now available. Free delivery from 9am-10pm.
Choice Market
108 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Tel: 718.797.1695
Fax: 718.797.1914
Courtenay@choicemarkets.com
(PDF of menu here (632kb))
Previously:
More photos on the Flickr site here.
{Choice Market (Dumbo) Open for Business, 18Feb2010}
{Choice to Open [...]
Posted In: Dumbo, Real Estate
Via: Brooklyn Street Art
Street Artist Hugh Leeman, whose work you may have seen in Lower Manhattan, is currently in India, and he sends this dispatch about some wheat-pasting he’s been doing there:
These pieces I recently put up in Varanasi, India just as Holi festival began. They are on the ghats near the Ganges river.
I was [...]
Posted In: Art
Via: Hawthorne Street : Prospect Lefferts, Brooklyn
King of Tandoor is about to get some competition. A flyer (a lot of flyers, actually…) showed up on my doorstep yesterday from Gandhi, a new Indian restaurant that opens tomorrow (March 10). Gandhi will be at 2032 Bedford Avenue, between Parkside and Clarkson.
Gandhi is operated by the [...]
Posted In: Prospect Lefferts
Via: Sheepshead Bites
Brennan & Carr (3432 Nostrand Avenue) seem to really love their Facebook page, using it to connect with fans and pump up the rivalry with Roll-N-Roaster. Now, they’re musing on a second location. They asked, “If another B&C was to open up, where would an ideal location be?”
Here’s a screenshot of the status update:
Seems [...]
Posted In: Sheepshead Bay
Via: BeehiveHairdresser.com
We recently spotted ‘Toons’ on the pulled down gate of a closed down bodega. ‘Toons’ is a tag that we haven’t seen in years.
In the mid to late 90s ‘Toons’ was everywhere we looked and was usually accompanied by a friendly ‘Tops’ tag nearby. We even rode a bus one day and watched Toons and Tops [...]
Posted In: Bay Ridge, Entertainment
Via: Hawthorne Street : Prospect Lefferts, Brooklyn
There are two block association meetings this Thursday, March 11, one for Lincoln between Ocean and Flatbush, the other for Hawthorne Street between Flatbush and Bedford.
LinRoFORMA (Lincoln Road b/w Flatbush & Ocean Residents & Merchants Association) is meeting at 7 pm at K-Dog. The new group will be choosing [...]
Posted In: Prospect Lefferts
Via: Sheepshead Bites
A “50 percent off” sale of North Face products caused a mob scene yesterday at Downtown, a clothing retailer on Avenue U and Batchelder Street. We’re not really sure what the big deal was, but for most of yesterday afternoon and into the evening lines formed down the block. The store was only [...]
Posted In: Sheepshead Bay
Via: I love Franklin Ave.
Yikes–I Love Franklin Ave goes out of town for a weekend and all hell breaks loose. For those who haven’t heard, Franklin Park/Dutch Boy Burgers was slapped with a Stop Work Order that prevented the grand opening of the burger joint and closed the big room of the bar until [...]
Posted In: Crown Heights
Via: Brooklyn Street Art
From the Editor:
In the past I breezed by destroyed posters and flyers that amass on construction worksites and abandoned buildings with little thought. Thanks to the work of photographer Vinny Cornelli I have learned to see them entirely differently – like Earth Science, like strata; a layer of text or design or [...]
Posted In: Art
Via: Sheepshead Bites
Police revealed the identity of the 22-year-old man killed in yesterday’s shootout near P.S. 194 in Gerritsen Beach: George D’Amato Jr., the son of a retired court officer.
His father, George D’Amato Sr., told the New York Post:
His devastated dad, George D’Amato Sr., said his son — who “had minor scrapes with the law, [...]
Posted In: Sheepshead Bay
Via: No Shush Zone – Brooklyn Public Library
After the 82nd Academy Awards on Sunday night, the red carpet moments, nominees and winners were all the buzz. Many of last year’s nominated films are not yet available to view at home, but while you wait for those DVDs to come out, or for your DVD holds to [...]
Via: Greenpointers
I got a chance to check out the first swap by Town Square last month and got a chance to get rid of some stuff I was tired of and pick up quite a few new to me items. I highly suggest checking one out as they are just a great way to get [...]
Posted In: Culture, Greenpoint
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