[Photo courtesy of Adrian Kinloch/Brit in Brooklyn]
This incredible street sofa comes from Sunset Park and the remarkable camera of blogger and esteemed GL Contributor Adrian Kinloch. It comes from the end of 39th Street near the water.

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[Photo courtesy of jaymegordis/GL Flickr Pool]
Here’s another view of the Brooklyn Army Terminal at night from the pier behind it courtesy of jaymegordis in our GL Flickr Pool.

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[Photo courtesy of jaymegordis/GL Flickr Pool]
This is a waterside view of the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park, courtesy of jaymegordis in our GL Flickr Pool.

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[Photo courtesy of Adrian Kinloch/Brit in Brooklyn]
This is something that one sees when one looks up in Sunset Park. It comes to us from the camera of Adrian Kinloch, a GL Contributor who has kindly hit us off with a major supply of superb photos this week.

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Johnny’s Pizza and the Papa Johns that moved in next door in Sunset Park aren’t exactly good friends, but there has been no bloodshed and there appears to be an uneasy coexistence between the neighborhood business and the chain pizza place.–NYT

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“Calling the section of 8th Ave. off the N train ‘Chinatown’ is like calling The Wire ‘a TV show’ or foie gras ‘food.’ It doesn’t do it justice. Yes, you can get great dumplings and buy glazed tripe and chicken feet from street food vendors. There are the usual bins of tiny dried fish and [...]

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[Photo courtesy of Galvarez51/flickr]
This image comes from 25th Street in Sunset Park in the shadow of the Gowanus Expressway. It’s a contribution to our Gowanus Lounge Flickr Pool by galvarez51.

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The power outages that affected parts of Park Slope, Sunset Park, Bay Ridge and Borough Park on Sunday have been mostly cleared up, at least, according to Con Ed’s outage map. (Each green triangle is 1-50 people without power). The trouble was caused by malfunctions with 4 of the 12 big feeder cables. About 2,000 [...]

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Yesterday, we had post from a Park Slope Parents member about the teens terrorizing people at the Sunset Park Pool (and follow up about the teen turd at the Red Hook Pool) by jumping over and over into the pool. Blogger Best View in Brooklyn, who often posts about the pool and all the activities [...]

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“Around 1 PM on Sunday, the plywood and metal fencing surrounding the construction of the new Amalgamated Bank on 5th Avenue and 45th Street fell to the sidewalk. No one was willing to say if any pedestrians or workers had been hurt; everyone was very grumpy and sullen. For good reason, I’d say.”–Best View in [...]

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Here, from our Park Slope Parents inbox folder that’s kept full by recipients who send along the newsworthy and/or interesting ones, is an exchange about the Sunset Park and Red Hook Pools. We begin with this:
I went to the sunset park pool less than 2 weeks on a tuesday around 5pm and there was an [...]

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[Photo courtesy of Best View in Brooklyn/GL Flickr Pool]
This is how the big stuffed toys play in Sunset Park. Blogger Best View in Brooklyn, who contributed this pic via our GL Flickr Pool, calls it “Naughty, Naughty Monsters.”

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[Photo courtesy bestviewinbrooklyn/flickr]
This view of kids playing in the sprinklers at the Sunset Park Pool that was put in our GL Photo Pool by bestviewinbrooklyn certainly fits the In the Pool theme. The photographer also produces the Best View in Brooklyn blog, which covers Sunset Park.

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Yesterday it was raccoons. Today, we have roosters, courtesy of a post on Brooklynian:
So, this morning at 7:30 I’m walking towards the subway at 4th and 25th. At 24th and 5th there’s a gas station. I just walk onto the gas stations parking lot when ” cock a doodle doo!” is screeched RIGHT BEHIND ME! [...]

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Since we’ve been on the topic of playground conditions, the one in Sunset Park has some issues too. “…while broken equipment and putrid water is of concern, definitely, the trash [in the Cobble Hill LICH playground] doesn’t look as delicious as ours usually does. No adult diapers, or baby diapers, for instance. And nothing like [...]

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With smokes at more than $8.00 a pack in most places, it’s no wonder that “loosies” are now being advertised at fifty cents a pop. This flier was taped up on Fifth Avenue in Sunset Park.

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[Photo courtesy of Mr. Heather]
Here an interesting look at Sunset Park as seen from the water. The photo comes from Mr. Heather and is part of a much larger photoset from a waterfront tour on Sunday.

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It was a fun scene on Fifth Avenue in Sunset Park yesterday. Here are a few of the pics we shot during the celebration.

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Here are a few scenes from Fifth Avenue in Sunset Park yesterday, which had its own impromptu Puerto Rican Day celebration.

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The city is looking for someone “to operate excursions, educational boat services, and/or other waterborne vessels intended for public use” from the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park. The RFP has gone out from the New York Economic Development Corp.–The Real Estate

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Sunset Park’s Chinatown has gotten some serious press in the last week with a Village Voice article by Robert Sietsema, who says it’s less crowded, less tourist and, well, better than those in the other boroughs. We’ll take that.–Best View in Brooklyn

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If you go to your local park today, the odds are you will find something special going on. That’s because it’s “It’s My Park Day!” citywide. We can’t possibly highlight them all, but were’ going to pull a few from the inbox. (Check out Prospect Park’s activities, which we posted about earlier in the week, [...]

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There’s no end in sight to the redevelopment of the Sunset Park Bush Terminal Piers into a new, multi-use 23-acre, $36 million public park. Two years after it was announced with great fanfare, the project has yet to enter remediation, the first phase of development that deals with the removal of pollutants or contamination from [...]

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We’re not clear whether the balance of cleaners on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope is at an equilibrium point or not, but new one will be opening near Fourth Street. The interesting part is that it comes from Sunset Park, where local blogger Best View in Brooklyn shares the news that she’s losing her cleaner:
…when [...]

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The new ferry service from Rockaway to Manhattan via Sunset Park starts today (on a cold, rainy day). “I’m going to withhold judgment until I hear how the ferry actually works out with timing and logistics. I’m tempted to take my stroller-pushing self onto the early ferry just to check it out. Maybe on a [...]

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