December 19, 2008

Four Years and 25,000 Posts Later

If our calculations are correct, this should be the 25,000th post on Brownstoner since the standalone site launched almost four years ago in January 2005. (We published at brownstoner.blogspot.com for three months before that.) This tally includes 10,730 posts on the home page; 13,285 posts on The Forum (initially called "Services" when the current site launched); 120 posts in the recently-added Restaurants section; and 865 posts in the various Renovation Blogs, including 192 in the original reno blog of our house.

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September 10, 2008

We're Looking for an Intern

We're looking for a motivated, blog-savvy, Brooklyn-loving college student to help us with research, handle a couple of daily posts and pitch others if they want. Candidate must be super reliable and able to work from home/dorm. Interested folks should send resume and a note to lisa AT brownstoner DOT com. Work is eight to ten hours per week.

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September 4, 2008

Take a Dip in the Brownstoner Flickr Photo Pool

City pools may have closed up shop for the season, but the Brownstoner Flickr pool is available 24/7 for your Brooklyn photographs. Please join us there so you can see your photographs here.

Urban Hurdle. Photo by weenieart.

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September 3, 2008

Announcing "Ask the Brooklyn Borough Historian"

We're pleased to announce that Ron Schweiger, the official Brooklyn Borough Historian, will be taking questions from readers on all matters of Brooklyn's past, and a few on its future, too. He's particularly knowledgeable about Coney Island, Sheepshead Bay, Brighton Beach and Victorian Flatbush — from their famous inhabitants to the developers who first plotted out the areas — and about the history of our street names and neighborhoods.

Ron was appointed by Borough President Marty Markowitz in 2002. Raised in Gravesend, Schweiger moved to Victorian Flatbush after graduating from Brooklyn College and getting married. He taught science for 31 years at P.S. 219 in East Flatbush and, after retiring from the Board of Education, began teaching science to grades three, four and five at Yeshivah of Flatbush. He's been instrumental in helping landmark several Brooklyn locations, from Fiske Terrace to the Avenue H subway station on the Q line.

Please leave questions for him in the comments below or email them to us.

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August 13, 2008

Send Brownstoner Your Green

And we don't mean money. Please send in your eco-friendly Brooklyn projects, big and small: decorating, renovating, new construction. The idea is to show others how to accomplish green living in the city, to share your sources (Salvaged windows? A great resource for mold-resistant sheetrock?) and your ideas and accomplishments. Send photos (500 pixels wide) and text to lisa AT brownstoner dot com.

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February 12, 2007

A Couple of Things

A couple of housekeeping items:

1) If you haven't taken the reader survey yet and want to participate, please do so as soon as possible. We'll be closing the polls at 5 o'clock today. Update: Polls are closed. We'll have the results for you on Wednesday.

2) One interesting result of the survey so far is that about half the respondents are in favor of requiring registration. We're not ready to require it yet, but we would like to take an intermediate step of strongly encouraging readers to register for a TypeKey identity. In addition to providing greater continuity in the discussion threads, it also helps us weed out the trolls from the real posters. Over time, if you stick to the same identity, you also start to develop the respect (or at least the recognition) of fellow readers which makes the sense of community stronger on the site.

Thanks

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