Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the largest of the five boroughs of New York City, and is situated across the East River from Manhattan. Settled by the Dutch in the 17th century, and named for the Dutch town Breuckelen ("Broken Woods"), Brooklyn was an independent city until amalgamation with New York in 1898.

Brooklyn has always had a special character distinct from New York. It is known for its ethnic neighborhoods, its vibrant art scene, and the blocks of Victorian brownstone houses and churches. Brooklyn Heights was home to many literary people such as Thomas Wolfe and Walt Whitman, who captured their own particular Brooklyns in prose and poetry, just as people continue to do today.

There is a vibrant Brooklyn blog community. Some blogs focus on life in Brooklyn today and on all the facets of its present. There are also blogs specific to particular Brooklyn neighborhoods such as Fort Greene, Gowanus and Williamsburg. Still other blogs explore Brooklyn's rich past. There are as many Brooklyn places to visit online as there are real corners of this fascinating place.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Brooklyn”

• A Street Where Old Is New, Again

  
  City Room — Authority: 803
  Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn was known 50 years ago as Antiques Row. It is now enjoying a resurgence.
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• Bedford Ave. Loafers Wont Buy: The second edition of the Williamsburg...

  
  Curbed NY — Authority: 674
  The second edition of the Williamsburg Walks car-free Bedford Avenue experiment happened over the summer, and now local business-owners are doing the postmortem . Theyre not happy! Just like they werent very pleased about the pilot programs return. Their suggestions for next time: "Many retailers suggested ...
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• Long-Held Vision for Toy Museum Is Realized

  
  City Room — Authority: 803
  Marlene Hochman founded the Toy Museum of New York in 1999. It finally has a public exhibition space, on the second floor of a church in Brooklyn Heights.
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• The Wierd Festival 2009

  
  Grimy Goods — Authority: 138
  Wierd Records , Brooklyn and Killing Spree, Los Angeles Present: The Wierd Festival 2009!! Check it out LA, some cool rockin’, electro and industrial music comin’ your way at these uber hip, artsy fartsy events. Be sure to check out Blacklist and Martial Canterel on Saturday night! It all kicks off today! ...
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• Lux DoBro Rentals Going Great, Lux DoBro Developer Says

  
  Curbed NY — Authority: 674
  One of the attendees at this weeks Brooklyn real estate roundtable was developer Kevin Lalezarian, whose Brooklyn Gold luxury rental development is one of the 4,862 new developments to hit the Downtown Brooklyn market in the last couple of weeks. Did Lalezarian show up at the roundtable to tearfully bemoan the ...
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• Off the Hook!: Plays by Red Hook kids

  
  The Word on Columbia Street — Authority: 475
  On 11/20 and 11/21, the Falconworks Artist Group will be sponsoring a theater event featuring local Red Hook youth: "Six young playwrights, with the support of professional writers, actors, directors, and creative artists, take center stage in their own plays for an evening of funny, moving, raw, original theater." ...
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• FME: Windsor Terrace Greenmarket

  
  Eat to Blog — Authority: 125
  Over on Farmer’s Market Examiner I talk about the limited time left for the Windsor Terrace Greenmarket.
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• On the Block RESULTS: Five Greenpoint Condos Sell

  
  Curbed NY — Authority: 674
  The first long-awaited desperate developer blowout auction came to New York City last night, with units at Greenpoints Locale hitting the block at the Downtown Brooklyn Marriott. We were there to watch the condo plan for the 267-269 Kingsland Avenue project become effective right before our very eyes -- to the ...
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• Atomische : Cypress Hills / 2009

  
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  Atomische  : Cypress Hills / 2009
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• smART Brooklyn Gallery Hop Nov. 21-22

  
  mcbrooklyn — Authority: 430
  We received this notice about this years smART Brooklyn Gallery Hop: RSVP now for FREE transportation to 70 art galleries in Brooklyns “gallery districts” On Saturday, November 21 and Sunday, November 22, 70 participating Brooklyn art galleries will offer visitors outstanding exhibitions and refreshments as well ...
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• A 40-Cent Wings Special and Gunfire

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  It’s not uncommon for teenagers to flock to the mall at the end of a school day. But something went awry on Tuesday, when thousands of high school students descended on the Atlantic Center Mall in Brooklyn and a stabbing and shootings followed.
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• Push

  
  The Brooklyn Ink — Authority: 525
  Stefanos Chen brings us an epic showdown at a Sunset Park handball court.
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• Chicken Wings Dont Kill People, People Kill People [Shooting]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 868
  Police in Fort Greene say two shootings and a stabbing earlier this week were the result of a cheap wings deal. Put down the buffalo sauce, and step away from the bucket. Captain Anthony Tasso told...
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• Brooklyn Banks lost forever?

  
  HUCK magazine — Authority: 443
  The New York City Department of Transportation have announced that they will be closing down the Brooklyn Banks until 2014 . The legendary skate spot will be used for storage while they restoring the bridge above. But this is not the first time the banks have been threatened. Back in 2004, they were almost ...
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• Story Pirate event at PS 58 on 11/20

  
  The Word on Columbia Street — Authority: 475
  On Friday, 11/20, the PS58 PTA brings the Story Pirates to Brooklyn and they are opening the event up with welcome arms to the entire community! Details from the organizers: For months our PS 58 kids have been busy writing stories for the Pirates review. After reading all of our stories, the Pirates will select ...
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• REMEMBERING

  
  The Electric Egg Cream — Authority: 126
  A flag flaps in the breeze over Clark Street in Brooklyn Heights to commemorate Veterans Day. The Brooklyn Federal Courthouse rises in the distance. The small pedestrian bridge over the street connects one of Cadman Plaza West ’s co-op towers to another. Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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• Widow tells of Taser cops torment

  
  NY Post: Sports — Authority: 932
  The decision that started it all -- commanding his officers to Taser a naked and deranged man who then fell to his death from a metal awning cover in Brooklyn-- took Lt. Michael Pigott only a split second. But ending his own life -- layering tra...
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• 1993 WTC plotter in Mike meet

  
  NY Post: Sports — Authority: 932
  A controversial imam who was an "unindicted co-conspirator" in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was among a group of Muslim leaders invited yesterday to a meeting with Mayor Bloomberg at City Hall. Siraj Wahhaj has defended the convicted WTC bo...
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• Mikes amusing $95M Coney deal

  
  NY Post: Sports — Authority: 932
  A Brooklyn developer and the Bloomberg administration have ended their game of chicken over the future of Coney Island -- agreeing to a $95.6 million deal that will get the city nearly seven acres of prime boardwalk property to build a spectacular ne...
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• Stir the pot! Liquid marijuana bust in Bklyn

  
  NY Post: Sports — Authority: 932
  A Brooklyn dealer regularly listed a cornucopia of intoxicants on his drug menu -- but it was the "liquid marijuana" special that really caught law enforcements attention. "It has not been seen around here before," Capt. Gerard Dowling of Manhatta...
  14 hours ago

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