Friday Blogwrap: Low Rent for Artists
Art Abounds at Brooklyn Artists Ball [Forbes]
17 Artists Win Subsidized Brooklyn Rent Through New Two Trees Program [NYO]
There’s a $195 Knife Made From Coney Island Boardwalk Wood [Curbed]
Uber Offering $5 Carpools to and From Williamsburg During Dreaded L Train Shutdown [Gothamist]
Park Slope’s New York Methodist Hospital Adds Trauma Center [DNA]
Movie Screening and “Spring Sing” Karaoke at Carroll Park This Weekend [PMFA]
Photo by Megan Cerullo
Thursday Blogwrap: Pretty Gardens Will Help Detox Gowanus Canal
City Building 90 “Curbside Gardens” to Help Clean Gowanus Canal [DNA]
Leaky Pipe Alert: The Insurance Option All Brownstone Owners Should Know About [BU]
Smorgasburg Vendors Launch Shuttle Bus During Weekend L Train Shutdowns [Gothamist]
Adams Proclaims April as Brooklyn Landmarks Month [Eagle]
Bringing Community, and Nature, Back to the Banks of Newton Creek [Curbed]
San Francisco-Based “Marine Layer” Open Its (Very Blue) Store in Cobble Hill [PMFA]
Habana Outpost Reopening Signals the Start of Spring in Fort Greene [DNA]
Photo by Axel Taferner
Wednesday Blogwrap: Sexy F Train Ads
Gaudy Bay Ridge Mansion Sells for $4.4 Million [NYO]
Sexy F Train Ads Too Hot for Brooklyn Councilman [Gothamist]
Gowanus Canal Needs Bike and Pedestrian Bridge, Business Group Says [DNA]
“Painting With a Twist” Franchise Opening on Smith Street [PMFA]
The Brooklyn Housing Shortage (1946) [Brownstone Detectives]
Escape from Hipsterville on the L train to Canarsie: Part One [Eagle]
Tuesday Blogwrap: More Snowden Bust Drama
Artists Demand Police Return Edward Snowden Bust [DNA]
East New York, Bed Stuy “Most At-Risk” Brooklyn Areas for Tax Lien Sale [DNA]
Roomies for Toomey’s [Q Parkside]
Playful Brooklyn Loft Comes With Its Own Treehouse and Cabin [Curbed]
Save The Date! The Church Avenue Street Fair Is Sunday, April 26 [DPC]
Garden Apothecary Invites Carroll Gardens Families to Grand Opening [PMFA]
Photo by Megan Cerullo
Monday Blogwrap: Another Hillary Protest
Brooklyn Hit With Anti-Hillary Street Art [Weekly Standard]
Landmarked Vinegar Hill Townhouse Sells for Record-Breaking $3.35 Million [DNA]
Developers See Opportunity at Site of Seven-Alarm Fire in Williamsburg [Crain’s]
Brooklyn Bridge Park Commits to Pursuing $700,000 Cost to Repair “Bouncy” Squibb Bridge [Eagle]
Cast Your District 39 Participatory Budgeting Vote Starting Tuesday [KensingtonBK]
Portokali, a New Organic Market, to Replace 7-Eleven on Sheepshead Bay Road [Sheepshead Bites]
Photo by Megan Cerullo
Blogwrap: Over 300 Years of Mapping Brooklyn
Navigating Brooklyn From the 17th to the 21st Century [Hyperallergic]
Bed Stuy Nonprofit Board Members Stole Cash and Evicted Families, AG Says [DNA]
NYCHA Will Get $100 Million for Green Improvements [Gothamist]
Help Spruce up the Neighborhood During the Court Street and Smith Street Spring Cleanup [PMFA]
Work Begins on Site of New Seven Story Building on 5th Avenue [South Slope News]
City Marshalls Seize George’s; Restaurant Could be Reopened by Family of Original Owners [DPC]
Brooklyn Box Browns [Gotham Gazette]
Photo by Matt Karp
Thursday Blogwrap: Season of L Train Shutdowns Starts Next Weekend
L Train’s Five-Weekend Shutdown Begins Next Week [DNA]
Brooklyn Parking Lot Will Become Eight Apartments, of Course [Curbed]
Gregory’s Coffee Inks Lease for First Brooklyn Spot [CO]
Eagle Provisions to Close in June [South Slope News]
Dasara, the Ramen Noodle Place on Smith Street, Is for Sale [PMFA]
Collect Your Scraps! Q Gardens to Launch Compost Project This Saturday [DPC]
City Taxpayers to Shoulder $2.5 Million Loss on Brighton Boardwalk Bathrooms [Sheepshead Bites]
Photo by Olaf
Wednesday Blogwrap: Splendid Revamp Coming to Fort Greene Theater
Reborn Paramount Theater in Fort Greene Will Look Like This [Curbed]
Nine People Hurt in Massive Crown Heights Blaze [DNA]
Gentrification Vultures Are Picking Crown Heights’ Bones Clean [Gothamist]
Bed Stuy CB Freaks out Over Adding Pedestrian Space to Fulton and Utica [Streetsblog]
It’s Time to Check in on Lightstone Group’s Mega Development in Gowanus Again [PMFA]
Tomorrow April 9, Neighbors to Protest Tax Subsidy for Real Estate Developers [DPC]
Coney Island’s First Hotel in Decades to Open This Summer [ATZ]
Facing Issues with Landlord, Brooklyn Belly May Not Reopen [KensingtonBK]
Photo by galvarez51
Tuesday Blogwrap: Fires in Flatbush, Bushwick and Prospect Park
Nearly 140 Firefighters Battle Bushwick House Fire, FDNY Says [DNA]
Good Samaritan Rescues Kids in Flatbush Fire [DNA]
Brush Fire Breaks out in Prospect Park [DNA]
Greenpoint Woodworkers Pushed out of Shared Factory [BK Paper]
Brighton Boardwalk Bathrooms to Move to Coney Island Avenue [Sheepshead Bites]
Van Leeuwen Flagship Store and Recipe Book Coming Soon! [Greenpointers]
Photo by Laura Holder
Monday Blogwrap: More Victorians Bite the Dust
Man Says He’s the First to Legally Live in a Trailer in New York City (Bushwick, That Is) [NY Post]
More Ads in Bushwick Encourage Hipsters to Move to Detroit [TRD]
Hole in One! Bedford Avenue Sidewalk a Walker’s Nightmare [BK Paper]
Artists Needed to Help With Large Scale Public Art Project in Bushwick [Bushwick Daily]
The Condos at the End of the Line — Canarsie [Awl]
Forgottentour #88: Coney Island [Forgotten NY]
More Victorians Bite the Dust in PLG [Q Parkside]
Salud on Avenue H Will Soon Reopen After Undergoing Updates [Ditmas Park Corner]
Photo by Anthony Fine