Playwright in pajamas at Bay Ridge Starbucks (NY Daily News)
Special Education students wait and wonder (NY Daily News)
Windsor Terrace storefront for rent (Brooklynometry)
A short discourse on the history of malt liquor (Self-Absorbed Boomer)
Japan comes to Brooklyn (Self-Absorbed Boomer)
Man acquitted of assault charge for manhandling of gym grunter (NY Times)
Starrett City will stay a rental (NY Times)
Building washer falls to his death on St. Marks Place (NY Times)
RIP: Bo Diddly (Found in Brooklyn)
One of the greatest gifts (Luna Park Gazette)
Win one for the zipper (Luna Park Gazette)
Alice in wine blog land (Self-Absorbed Boomer)
Rising food costs and the global food crisis (So Good)
In the land of crazy (Phatush Diaries)
Hoyt Street residents say no to Oyster Bar (Pardon Me for Asking)
Battle Hill on Memorial Day (Brooklynometry)
Rise in shootings and murders (Daily News)
Murder Book 2008 mentioned in Times’ feature about crime writers (Murder Book 2008)
Murder She Once Wrote (NY Times)
Coney Island Daze (Midnight Cowgirls)
I wish I could eat your cancer when (Blognigger)
Spinning Plates at the Russian Circus in Queens (Brooklynometry)
Siblings fall from Kensington window (NY1)
Babies switched at birth at LICH (NY1)
RIP: Film Director Sydney Pollack (Daily News)
Brooklyn Bridge on the big screen (Daily News)
Someone on Smith Street has been to Ikea (Pardon Me for Asking)
A living-room crusade via blogging (NY Times)
Cracks, falling cranes and new building inspectors (NY Times)
More on the hating Park Slope story (Brooklynometry)
Clarett’s "Contempo Collectiono ala Quarte" (Pardon Me For Asking)
Flatbush Food Coop just got bigger (Green Brooklyn)
Where to go dancing in Brooklyn (Brooklyn Based)
Crown Heights oversaturated with homeless services (AM Metro)
7th wedding anniversary (Midnight Cowgirls)
Biggest Brooklyn Designs Ever (McBrooklyn)
Brighton Beach urban patchwork slideshow (City Section)
A Sanctuary by the Sea (City Section)
Police group and State Senator Adams Charge NYPD with institutionalized racism (NY1)
A Brooklyn Saint (Brooklynometry)
A tribute to my mother (Pardon Me For Asking)
Brooklyn Blogfest (Sticky Map)
The accidental rebel: Paul Auster at Columbia in 1968 (New York Times)
Fifth Annual Brooklyn Peace Fair (Brooklynometry)
Record stores: let’s go back in time (Found in Brooklyn)
Meet Gowanus Sponge Park in detail (Gowanus Lounge)
NYC commish is gone, now what? (Gowanus Lounge)
Go-cart Derby, 2008 (Brooklynometry)
The gentle fight against 360 Smith (Pardon Me For Asking)
The wooded edge of the Lullwater (A Year in the Park)
For affordable housing: Queens is it! (Reclaimed Home)
Tacky thrift shop paintings at the Brooklyn Flea (Reclaimed Home)
Side street rising (Brooklyn Junction)
$8 traffic fee gets nowhere (NY Times)
Block Association calls for moratorium on AY demolitions (Atlantic Yards Report)
The conversion of subsidies into philanthropy (Atlantic Yards Report)
2008 Pulitzer Prizes announced (NY Times)
Guggenheim Fellowships Announced (Guggenheim Fellowships PR)
Lessons of the little red hen (Brooklynometry)
How’s this idea for congestion parking (Pardon Me for Asking)
Back when the Green-Wood gravediggers were mordant and rude (Pardon Me for Asking)
Getting thrown out of Frankie’s on Court Street (Pardon Me for Asking)
Toxins in NYC school buildings (NY Daily News)
Letter from the Health Commissioner about toxins (NY Daily News)
Home economics from four US regions (Times Op-Ed)
Bee on the apricot blossoms (Brooklynometry)
Subway super facial (Brooklynometry)
The great Brooklyn burger hunt (Brooklyn Skeptic)
Epic murals in Bed-Stuy (Bed-Stuy Banana)
All that glitters is silver (Creative Times)
Carbon/Silicon, high school, and the Toll Brothers (Found in Brooklyn)
Charlie Sahadi and the spices of his life (The City Section)
Bathing suit shopping: a close call at the mall (The Love We Make)
Is there a Park Slope in Charlotte, NC? (Gowanus Lounge)
City Council vote on congestion pricing today (NY1)
Out among the Brooklyn bloggers (Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn)
Earth Hour 2008 (Pardon Me For Asking)
Flatbush Americana (Found in Brooklyn)
Pastor emergency van (Bed Stuy Banana)
The day 85,000 NYC 8th graders find out where they’re going for high school (My Sidewalk Chalk)
What spirituality means to me (Old First Blog)
Crowing roosters (Brooklynometry)
Congestion pricing countdown (Sustainable Flatbush)
Hibernaculum (A Year in the Park)
Toll Brothers team talks up Gowanus Plan (Gowanus Lounge)
Glamour at Rush (Brooklynometry)
Ira Glass, My Ass (Midnight Cowgirls)
Make an impact about Toll Brothers Gowanus project (Found in Brooklyn)
On Bear Mountain (Shelleytown)
Bed-Stuy real estate picks (Bed-Stuy Blog)
Classes To Resume Friday At Brooklyn School After Gun Scare (NY 1)
Trader Joe’s work begins! (McBrooklyn)
Coney Island carousel goes to Ohio for, like, four years (McBrooklyn)
Sweet Melissa’s in Cobble Hill Expanding (A Brooklyn Life)
Francis Morrone to document every building in Brooklyn Heights (Brooklyn Heights Blog)
Historian to take stock of Brooklyn Heights (Brooklyn Paper)
Atlantic Yards is dead (Brooklyn Paper)
Take back the rail yards! (Brooklyn Paper)
Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries deeply troubled by AY changes (Atlantic Yard Report)
More to read on stalled Atlantic Yards Project (Gowanus Lounge)
More rides at Coney Island this summer (Gowanus Lounge)
Key Food wall redone (Brooklynometry)
Worst neighborhood acronyms ever (Brooklyn Junction)
Additional Passover trash collection in CB14 (Brooklyn Junction)
Weekender: Catskill, New York (Reclaimed Home)
Protesters hold vigil in Grand Army Plaza (NY1)
Building boom on Fourth Avenue (NY Sun)
The smallest American dream in Brooklyn (Brooklyn Junction)
Old Flatbush photos of Basil Paterson (Brooklyn Junction)
Fiske Terrace-Midwood Park landmarked (Flatbush Gardener)
Sol Yurick and the Anticipation of the Night (Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn)
Looking back on 5 years of war (New York Times)
Nixzmary’s stepfather guilty of manslaughter (NY Times)
Barack Obama: What a speech! (NY Times)
RIP: Arthur Clarke and Anthony Minghella
Mr. Pickle Truck (Brooklynometry)
A hippie bus from Vermont (Found in Brooklyn)
Feds act to rescue financial markets (NY Times)
The Manhattan crane collapse horror (Gowanus Lounge)
National Organization of Women honors Brooklyn Paper (Brooklyn Paper)
The Gang Who Couldn’t Shoot Straight (Found in Brooklyn)
Peaked roofs, crossed fingers (The City/NY Times)
Gowanus is West Park Slope? (NY Times)
Coney Island Opening Day (Gowanus Lounge)
Coney Island re-opens (Brit in Brooklyn)
Next time you have $4,300 to burn (Brooklyn Junction)
Loews King in Flatbush may be rehabilitated (Brooklyn Eagle)
I’m not in Brooklyn and I didn’t read any blogs on Friday. But I’m up now (5:38 a.m.) and catching up. So here’s what I read on Bob with some notes from me.
Tempo Presto is going pink. I hate to have missed this story. I know that there’s a Mexican restaurant is going in there—that’s all the construction guys would say. Guess they started painting. Hope No Words Daily Pix can grab a PIX. Please.
Park Slope’s Two Mystery Buildings. Here’s a story I’ve covered quite a bit. In fact, According to Jerry, who knows EVERYTHING, something is going on in the building on Third Street. Bob also mentions my post about the 2nd Street house that Whimsy built. Hah.
There seems to be no end to the fascination with the mystery building on Third Street. So often I walk by and people are staring and murmuring, "What’s with this building? Wonder who owns it? Why has it been vacant for all these years?"
Sixteen years and counting…
Finally, the big story of the Park Slope day, Purity Reopens. Guess it was just a clean up, a little redecorating or a family emergency. Who knows. They didn’t write, they didn’t call, they didn’t bother to tape a note to the door.
The nerve.
What would Ferrarro say about David Patterson? (Brooklyn Junction)
Walt Whitman on 17th Street (Brooklynometry)
Poking my head out (Brooklyn Cowgirl)
What was Spitzer thinking? (Bad Girl Blog)
Maggie Moo’s will be Dashing Diva (Gowanus Lounge)
A walk around my big fat ass (Reclaimed Home)
How to stop junk mail (I’m Seeing Green)
Brooklyn St. Patrick’s pubs, parades, parties and more (About Brooklyn)
Big story today from the Associated Press. It’s on Brian Lehrer, too and in NY Metro.
A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.
To be sure, the concentrations of these pharmaceuticals are tiny, measured in quantities of parts per billion or trillion, far below the levels of a medical dose. Also, utilities insist their water is safe.
But the presence of so many prescription drugs — and over-the-counter medicines like acetaminophen and ibuprofen — in so much of our drinking water is heightening worries among scientists of long-term consequences to human health.
A taste of the blogade at the Old Brick (Brooklynometry)
And nothing like the truth (Luna Park Gazette)
Astor Place soothed my soul (Found in Brooklyn)
Getting people to recyclce electronics (NY Times)
Thriller in Times Square (NY Times)
Storm causes excitement in South Slope (Gowanus Lounge)
Roller skating this summer at Child’s in Coney Island (Gowanus Lounge)
The foggy dew in Prospect Park (A Year in the Park)
Fighting school budget cuts: a meeting on Thursday (Gowanus Lounge)
The new and improved St. Clair Restaurant (A Brooklyn Life)
Battle tested vs. medium cool (Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn)
Has Hil chilled Bill? (NY Daily News)
Fifth Avenue honor system (Brooklynometry)
Best foreplay is husband who cleans house (NY Daily News)
New St. Clair Restaurant on Atlantic (McBrooklyn)
What reality TV can teach Hillary (NY Daily News)
A Walk Around the Blog (Brooklyn Optimist)
Daily News on the Brooklyn College dorms (Brooklyn Junction)
A Walk Around the Blog: LEED Platinum mixed use building (Reclaimed Home)
Lockdown at Packer Collegiate(McBrooklyn)
Boerum Hill photographer loves the Mighty Handful (Richard Gin)
Park Slope poet’s fleeting memories (Ugly Duckling Presse)
State of the MTA address (Gothamist)
The great Bed Stuy chicken rescue (Reclaimed Home)
Park Slope declares love for Babeland (Gothamist)
Reform Jews regularly praying (Andy Bachman’s blog)
Court orders husband to give wife 124,000 roses (Brooklyn Optimist)
Delicatessen Delicatessen interior (Brooklynometry)