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Bklink: L Train Female Watching iPod Porn!!!
“To the woman playing hard-core iPod porn on the L train this morning, thank you for such an entertaining journey under the East River. Seriously folks, from approximately Lorimer St. to 3rd Avenue,...
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Bklink: Skull & Cross Bones on Car is Good or Bad Sign?
“We’ve often focused on Smart Cars as symbols of gentrification, but this vehicle that we found parked on a street we will decline to identify east of theWilliamsburg BQE dividing line, raises an...
View ArticleBklink: RIP Studs Terkel
We are a day late and a dollar short on this, but Studs Terkel, one of the true greats died at the age of 96 on Friday. It is among the things bringing us great sorrow this weekend.–NYT
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Bklink: Another Slope Java Spot Opening?
“Couple storefronts south of Union Market on 6th avenue…” The exact location or ID of the business in question is unknown but the news is definitely worth passing along.–Brooklynian
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Bklink: Fourth Avenue Rising or Not?
In this month’s Real Deal, Gabby Warshawer, whose coverage of Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue is unparalleled, takes a look at gritty strip that is now dotted with 12-story condos and some restaurants. Are...
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Bklink: Getting Naked for Barack
“Everyone experienced history on Tuesday night — but the crowd that had gathered to watch the returns at Prospect Heights’ Soda Bar experienced it in a slightly different way. Just when CNN was getting...
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Bklink: Salute Salud
You can’t say it any better than that. It looks like Flashbush has itself a new sweet spot. Salud Organic Juice Bar is open for business at 1308 Avenue H. And this isn’t just one of those juice chains...
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Bklink: The Coney Island Blues
Now that the rides are down, the water’s cold, and we’re all getting ready to bunker down in and close to our homes for the winter, Coney Island has turned into a quiet wonderland fitting to sing the...
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Bklink: Closeouts at 9th St. & Fifth Ave. in Slope
“Maybe it’s a sign of the times that this prime piece of real estate, on the corner of 9th Street and 5th Avenue, is going to be a discount shop. DII is now the name of the discount department stores...
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Bklink: Yemeni-Italian Restaurant to Atlantic Avenue?
“I received a tip about Reginella, our new Atlantic Ave neighbors. It seems that the same owners and chefs from Saana, the Yemeni restaurant that formerly occupied this space, are behind this new...
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Bklink: Always Trying to Keep the Hipsters Down
Damn the man and his desire to take away the little bits given to others. Turns out rather than provide the security and grounds keeping during the cold months, the city would prefer to lock everyone...
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Bklink: Top of the Edge
The Edge, the huge project on Kent Avenue was topped out, on schedule yesterday. What fascinates us is the comment of Douglaston Development’s Jeffrey Levine: “For those who think the world’s gonna end...
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Bklink: Chainsaw Vigilante Tackles Problem
“Just after Tropical Storm Hanna, we reported on the growing situation with the possibly predatorial plant that is taking over certain parts of Sheepshead Bay. A few weeks later, I interviewed a...
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Bklink: Brown, Stinky Water in Slope, Sunset Park
There were several reports yesterday of “brown, stinky” tap water in both Park Slope and Sunset Park. The Slope reports came from Garfield Place, Carroll Street, Second Street and 6th Ave and 1st St....
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Bklink: Skinhead Menace on Slope’s Seventh Avenue?
“Just walked home from the train around 11:30 and saw a group of two or three older looking Skinheads hanging out with some of the younger punk kids from the neighborhood on 7th Ave and 15th. Couldn’t...
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Bklink: Awwwww Rats!
Just when you thought it was safe to walk the streets, look out! There are rats afoot! Ok, like we didn’t know that already. But, apparently those little suckers are multiplying (another fact we were...
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Bklink: Free Williamsburg/Insound Brian Eno DVD Contests
Like the bald aging dude who made the first Roxy Music album what it was, did Baby’s on Fire, Burning Airlines Give You So Much More, ambient music and went on to be the best producer of music in the...
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Bklink: Into the Kingdom of Real World Brooklyn
The Red Hook pier where the Real World Brookyn cast has been living has been revealed and it’s quite something, full of Brooklyn paraphernalia that most of us wouldn’t be caught dead with. There are...
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Bklink: Thank God–Marty Markowitz Helps Marco Polo Mobster
If you run a popular Carroll Gardens restaurant (Marco Polo) and you get indicted because of mob ties, who do you call? Marty Markowitz. This story slipped in over the weekend, but deserves weekday...
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Bklink: Ex-Daily News Reporter Pulled from AY Coverage Per Ratner?
“So, in all of eight minutes, the IFC Media Project tonight tried to address how the three major New York newspapers have covered Atlantic Yards. The segment landed a body blow on the New York Daily...
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Bklink: Avalon & Toren Rising
Toren had a head start and is winning the race, but Avalon Fort Greene, which is across the street is going up at an amazing pace or as a tipster put it “Both of these buildings are going up quick!”...
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Bklink: Comptroller Blocks Jail with Retail for Now
City Controller William Thompson slammed City Hall Thursday for out-of-control costs at the Brooklyn House of Detention – putting a halt to the unpopular project. Thompson, a plaintiff in the lawsuit...
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Bklink: Gowanus Jewish Press Building on Market for $10M
“Four years after rejecting the advances of Shaya Boymelgreen and Isaac Katan who were in the process of buying three adjacent properties, the owners of the Jewish Press building have put their...
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Bklink: No Sales at Toren or Edge Since September
There’s some bad news from two of Brooklyn’s top-of-the-line developments, Williamsburg’s Edge and Flatbush Avenue’s Toren: they haven’t sold any units since September. The news comes right from the...
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Bklink: Failed Condo Goes Luxe Hostel in Greenpoint
We’ve beein seeing these listings on CL for weeks but were too dumb to put two and two together until Miss Heather just did. $75 a night at a failed condo. Nice. [New York Shitty]
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