“The new project at 324 Bedford Avenue epitomizes the stupidity of off-street parking requirements. The building sits at the corner of Bedford and South 2nd. It is designed by Bob Scarano, and is slowly inching its way toward completion (a stop-work order was issued in March, 2007 and the permits have all been revoked). Architecturally, [...]

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Grand Ferry Park closed for a remake in October and, while the reopening was a few months later than promised, the redone park–which provides a bit of waterfront access in a part of Williamsburg where none currently exists–is open again and looking good. There is a lot of new landscaping and the park, overall, has [...]

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[Renderings courtesy of Learned Evolution via Eater]
A couple of weeks ago, Nicole Davis of Brooklyn Based posted details about the new bowling alley and venue on Wythe Avenue at N. 11 Street that will be called Brooklyn Bowl. Today, there’s more info about it, including the fact that Blue Ribbon will be doing the food. [...]

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Here’s our last Giglio post of the season. It’s a short vid of the Giglio lift on Sunday on Sunday. Until next year…

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The “Fuck Condoburg” crew is back at it again in Williamsburg after a bit of a hiatus and 80 Metropolitan is once again a favorite canvas for the welcome, pro-gentrification message. While many sites have gotten the Condoburg treatment over time, the 80 Met site has been hit repeatedly with messages of love.

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“The management of N. 11th has been very responsive anytime we (as neighbors) have had a complaint. All you have to do is call them and talk to them (I know, a novel idea). When neighbors of ours complained about the tiny styrofoam the offered to come over and clean it up. When another person [...]

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We call this shot we caught in Williamsburg over the weekend, “Chair, TV, Papa John’s.” We think it has that certain something that defines the ideal Burg street scene.

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This “We Live in Brooklyn” poster recently appeared on N. 6 Street near Kent Avenue, which is still a favorite spot for artists to show their work on the street.

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Here’s our second photo gallery of Giglio photos from Williamsburg yesterday. All we can say is, it was hot on Havemeyer Street yesterday afternoon. For our earlier post with some closer shots of the people lifting the three-ton statues, scroll down or click here.

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Here’s our first photo gallery from the Giglio Festival on Havemeyer Street in Williamsburg. The lift took place under a blazing sun at 2PM with a crowd that seemed smaller than usual, possibly because of the blistering heat. We decided to make the “faces” of the Giglio lift a separate photo gallery.

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[Image courtesy of i'mjustsayin/flickr]
The Liars played McCarren Pool yesterday and here’s a shot of Angus Andrew from the stage courtesy of i’mjustsayin. See the full set here.

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[Photo courtesy of sabeth718/flickr]
The first Williamsburg Walks event took place yesterday under blazing sun and opposite the Siren Festival in Coney Island. It looks like it was more lively than the efforts on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, but almost anything on Bedford is going to have an edge in that sense. We’ll be curious [...]

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A number of new Judith Supine works have popped up around Williamsburg in recent weeks. This one is from Hope Street, east of the BQE, in a spot where one doesn’t usually find street art.

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There is progress to report about the “Third World Dump” created by a development mess on long-suffering N. 11 Street and Roebling in Williamsburg. (In fact, there are so many construction sites in the area that some days several pile drivers are going at once at sites a few blocks apart creating a most interesting [...]

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2008 Giglio Festival — Night Lift from rsguskind on Vimeo.

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If you like the Hold Steady or you enjoy watching stuff on VBS, then you might enjoy a short segment featuring the band and some VBS people drinking at the Levee in Williamsburg (once known as a different bar), playing darts and shooting pool.

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Tomorrow is the first day of Williamsburg Walks, the pedestrian-only Saturdays on a stretch of Bedford Avenue. The Days for Williamsburg Walks are July 19th, July 26th, August 2nd, and August 9th. It runs from Noon-7PM. The people-only zone goes from Metropolitan Avenue to N. 9 Street. A similar experiment on Montague Street in Brooklyn [...]

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We went over to Havemeyer Street in Williamsburg last night to catch the Night Dance of the Giglio that’s part of the Giglio Festival at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church. There was a crush of people (the questionable estimate was 28,000), but far less than shows up for the Sunday lifts (the last of [...]

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Once upon a time, neighbors of the construction site we used to call the Roebling Oil Field were worried about the pools of oil that bubbled to the surface as the property was dug up. Then, the oil was cleaned up and the Roebling Oil Building rose (very quickly) on the site. It’s now known [...]

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[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather]
Here’s an interesting addition to a sign at Bedford Avenue and N. 5 Street in Williamsburg that Miss Heather captured recently. We have no idea how they got there or why, but they’re certainly interesting.

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There is little one can add to this message on Berry Street in Williamsburg except to say that, well, Jimbo likes hugs. Don’t we all?

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It’s been a while since we took a look at the Soleil, whose working name had been the Finger of S. 1 Street before it got a marketing name. We passed by again recently and caught a look at the finished product, which we must say does cut quite a profile on the otherwise very [...]

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We’ve noted the goings on at the big former lot on Bedford Avenue between N. 11 and N. 12 Street multiple times. The land was most recently a parking lot, but at one point was a paint factory and has a variety of toxic issue associated with it necessitating some cleanup before development of a [...]

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Shot last night from the roof of the Gretsch Building in Williamsburg. Simple, yet gorgeous.

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