Twitter: newvictorians- @brooklyncybele ya I agree I didn't sound like fireworks to me either. 7th ave & 11th here, where u?
- Did I just hear 3-4 gunshots in Park slope? 10-20 minutes ago? 7th ave and 11th? #parkslope #Brooklyn
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Brooklyn House Tour Listing for Spring 2010
The 2010 Spring Brooklyn House Tour Listing is almost complete. We are excited to attend a few of these great events around Brooklyn this year. Will you be joining us?
30th Annual Fort Greene House Tour
Sunday May 2, 2010 from 12:00pm – 5:00pm
Tickets: $20 or $25 day of event
Website and purchase tickets
26th Annual Brooklyn Heights Association [...]
Robert Providence – Preservationist Extraordinaire
Robert Providence you are our hero!
After Fight, a Brooklyn Brownstone’s Costly Rescue – NYT.
Posted in architecture, brooklyn, inspiration, new york, people Tagged bed-stuy, brooklyn, brownstone, hero, preservation, stuyvesant heights Leave a comment
Redhook, Brooklyn in 8mm
An ongoing project documenting Red Hook, Brooklyn by my officemate Jessica Lysons of Worker Bee Designs.
What amazing footage of the grain terminal, revere sugar refinery (demolished), Gowanus viaduct and the f train, BQE, and the Brooklyn Bridge.
Posted in brooklyn Tagged 8mm, bqe, brooklyn, film, gowanus viaduct, grain terminal, jessica lysons, redhook, revere sugar refinery 3 Comments
I LEGO NY BOOK
Remember these LEGO photographs from February 2009 in the NYT City Blog? Well the Illustrator Christoph Niemann has made a book about his creative LEGO pieces.
Posted in architecture, brooklyn, inspiration, new york Tagged book, Christoph Niemann, i lego n.y., lego, new york 1 Comment
The Jazz Loft Project
The Jazz Loft was documented from 1957 to 1965 by the great photographer W. Eugene Smith. This documentation spanned 40,000 photographs and thousands of hours of audio tapes. Smith captured over 300 jazz artists like Thelonious Monk, Zoot Sims, Bill Evans and Roy Haynes.
Through preservation of his documentation, we are able to hear and view [...]
Posted in music, new york, people Tagged bill evans, collection, history, jazz, jazz loft, research, thelonious monk, w. eugene smith, zoot sims 1 Comment
Brooklyn in Prints: A Special Gathering
There is a great collection of historical Brooklyn photographs and prints to be shown at the Brooklyn Historical Society. The gallery is open this Friday February 26th ongoing until March 14th 2010. The gallery opening details are below.
To view more images from this gallery, go to the Old Print Shop website.
Brooklyn in Prints: A Special [...]
Edible Brooklyn
Amelia Coulter’s architecture cookies are featured in the latest issue of Edible Brooklyn. Wow, they look yummy.
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Urban Center Books Temporarily Closing | NYC Museum of Complaint
Credit: Paul Soulellis
The Municipal Arts Society is moving to a new location later this month, and its bookstore Urban Center Books is having a large sale until Jan. 23, 2010. The good news is that much of their stock is down 40% from the cover price. The bad news for New York is that one [...]
NYC BigApps | Addendum
As an addendum to our earlier post about the NYC BigApps contest, we’re shedding some additional light on another contestant, as well as one we already covered. Though the opportunity to vote has ended, we should all still be supporting these projects, each of which contribute to making our city a better place to live.
Roadify [...]
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Antique Shopping and Lodging Upstate