Finally, someone is doing a Brighton Beach blog! Little ‘Rus, which we found courtesy of one of our other favorite area blogs, Sheepshead Bites, has been around for about a month and offer some eclectic coverage of the neighborhood from food (we learned about pelmeni) to development. While the former is interesting, the latter is [...]

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We’ve been seeing more threats over the last few months against bloggers from both the public sector and private individuals who don’t want things posted or who take issue with things that have been put up online. The threats come in all forms, from subtle suggestions that quoting an email is a violation of copyright [...]

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“Other than the people who declared war on me because of this site. No one, who knew how, has ever attempted a Denial of Service attack(DoS). If you were on the site at all today you might of noticed that the site was either not working or it was very slow. This was the result [...]

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Here’s the latest from Brooklyn Independent Television’s series featuring local bloggers. This vid features Sheepshead Bites talking about the local Sheepshead Bay fishing fleet.

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Truly, the ordeal endured by Ben Smith and Gur Tsabar, who founded the Room 8 blog, confirms every blogger’s worst nightmare of what can happen when politicians, government officials and, even, private citizens dead set on silencing opponents or throttling freedom of speech can do. Mr. Smith, who also produced the Ditmas Park Blog with [...]

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This is not a Brooklyn story, per se, but because virtually any blogger or online journalist could potentially be the subject of acts intended to intimidate them into not publishing things or of government legal action, this is a crucial First Amendment tale. The founders of Room 8 were recently the recipients of grand jury [...]

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The Crown Heightser, which stop posting last year, is back in business. Or, at least, it appears to be with a few new posts this month. We’ve always advocated for more neighborhood-based blogs in “underblogged” parts of the borough. One of the neighborhoods we always include on the list is Crown Heights. Here’s hoping they [...]

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This is an image from the NY Times Metro Section from July 9, 1998. It’s posted on the Fading Ad Blog, which is one of our favorites. Period. We got an email from Kevin Walsh of Forgotten NY, who produces another one of our very favorite websites, which said: “I read this and said, I’m [...]

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We were going to call 30 Second Life a “new” Brooklyn blog, except that’s it’s been around since December, so it’s only new to us. Regardless, it’s being produced out of Park Slope and it features 30-second slice-of-life clips. The creator emails to say: “The blog is about my day to day interactions with the [...]

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We got an email yesterday evening from the proprietors of a new Brooklyn photoblog called Shooting Brooklyn. The blog only has a handful of photos posted right, but we like what we saw and hope the bloggers are serious about posting at least one photo a day. One can never have too many daily sources [...]

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Brooklyn Independent Television’s wonderful series “A Walk Around the Blog” features Brit in Brooklyn blogger (and GL Contributor) Adrian Kinloch and Tracy Collins of Not Another F*cking Blog, who is creating an invaluable historical record of Prospect Heights in the pre-Atlantic Yards days. They’re great photographers, great bloggers, nice people and it’s a great show. [...]

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“Some would say that the recent rash of posting on the message board Brooklynian is an ominous sign for the once thriving Brooklyn periodical. A poster going by the handle AWP11201 has posted thirteen new threads in a single hour consisting of direct cut and pastes of the leading line and a link to the [...]

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Urban Exploration with Forgotten-NY.com from Brian Lehrer Live on Vimeo.
Here’s an appearance by Kevin Walsh of Forgotten New York and Richard Nickel Jr. of Kingston Lounge on Brian Lehrer’s TV show, Brian Lehrer Live. They talk about urban exploration and historic preservation and touch on some Brooklyn issues and places like Admiral’s Row.

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It’s hard to know exactly what conclusion to draw about New York Magazine’s cover story called “The Brooklyn Wars.” It deals with blogging and Brooklyn–specifically with Brooklyn’s biggest and most successful blog, Brownstoner. Yet, the article does so mainly by dealing with one of the site’s most persistent commenters, who identifies himself as “The What.” [...]

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Here’s the latest from BCAT’s fun series, A Walk Around the Blog. It features one of our regular go-to blogs for linkage, A Year in the Park.

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There’s a new blog in Sheepshead Bay called Sheepshead Bites. It is billed as “Sheepshead Bay’s community meetings, development issues, local politics, interesting people, happenings and cool new places — these are just some of the beats the Bite will walk. Welcome to Sheepshead Bites. Real Brooklynites. Real teeth.”

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Here’s a brand new Fort Greene blog from an anonymous blogger called The Real Fort Greene. It’s all of about four or five days old and here’s what the blogger has to say about starting it: “After years of reading the various Brooklyn blogs I became frustrated with the lack of consistent coverage on Fort [...]

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Here’s a segment of Brooklyn Independent Television’s Brooklyn Review that aired on Monday night that takes a look at how blogs are having an impact on development in Brooklyn. The full show will air again on Thursday (5/15) at 1pm & 9pm and on Friday at 3pm & 11pm. If you haven’t seen the show, [...]

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Brooklyn Blogfest I started sort of as a “joke,” or at least, a casual effort to have a few people read from their blogs, but it ended up being a lot more than that. Here’s a reflection on Blogfests I, II & III, which is an event that became something a lot bigger than the [...]

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[Image courtesy of Flatbush Gardener]
The Third Annual Brooklyn Blogfest, or BBIII, took place at the Lyceum on Fourth Avenue in Park Slope last night. A very large crowd of nearly 200 bloggers and non-bloggers attended to hears a lineup of speakers and presentations. In our own remarks, we noted that the blogging world had changed [...]

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The annual blogger get together known as the Brooklyn Blogfest is tonight at the Lyceum on Fourth Avenue. There’s a big program together for this year’s event, which is open to the public. It starts at 8PM and admission is $10. The Brooklyn Lyceum is located at 227 Fourth Avenue at President Street.

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The annual blogger get together known as the Brooklyn Blogfest is happening tomorrow night at the Lyceum on Fourth Avenue. There’s a big program together for this year’s event, which is, as always open to the public, and it’s taking place in a venue that can handle a good turnout, so it should be fun. [...]

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Gowanus Lounge is entering its third year today and we’re celebrating with a new design and some other changes. In our first two years, we’ve posted more than 7,000 items and covered an awful lot of territory. When we put up our inaugural post on April 27, 2006, there was still very little development on [...]

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New York Shitty turns two today. Huge congratulations to NYS and our friend and major contributor Miss Heather, who’s tossed us hundreds of photos for hundreds of GL posts. What began as a blog largely covering the byproduct of man’s best friend has, over the last two years, turned into an eclectic collection of photos [...]

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The Third Annual Brooklyn Blogfest is approaching quickly. It will take place on May 8 at 8PM at the Brooklyn Lyceum, which is located at 270 Fourth Avenue (at President Street) in Park Slope. Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn’s Louise Crawford, who founded the event and has worked hard on it every year, is putting [...]

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