Check Out GL’s Year-End Posts!

On Friday, we posted several year-end wrap ups. We’d love for you to check them out if you already haven’t, so we’re (again) including links in an item at the top of today’s posts in case you don’t feel like scrolling down. We thank you for reading during GL’s first year of life. We have big plans for 2007 and promise you that we’ll have a lot more, much bigger and way better as we close in on the ripe old age of one. A huge and heartfelt thank you to all who read, leave comments, send emails and provide encouragement. And, of course, to all the bloggers who link to our items and help get the word out. I can’t list you all, but special thanks to Curbed, Gothamist, Brownstoner, Brooklyn Record, Daily Intel, OTBKB, Sunset Parker, Kinetic Carnival and Z. Madison to name a few. If we left you off the list, please don’t take umbrage!

Oh, yeah, the links to the year-end items:

• GL’s Best & Worst of 2006
• GL’s 2007 Brooklyn Coming Attractions
• Top Ten Brooklyn Stories of 2006: The Year We Changed Forever

The Best New Year’s Eve Thing in Brooklyn

The 25th annual New Year’s Eve fireworks in Prospect Park!

Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: Hate Your Hat, But Dig You

It’s Sunday and New Year’s Eve, which means our last Brooklyn Missed Connection of 2006. So many more ships to pass in the Brooklyn night in 2007, though. For the last Missed Connection of 2006, we turn again to the G Train.

G-train, 530 last night, the tall pretty textile designer, reading mag – m4w – 30

I noticed you on the platform because you were tall….and cute. When the G finally arrived I got on with you and sat next to you, not really on purpose but more just becuase the seat was open and I had the opportunity. Next, was attempt to make some conversation…which I did. It was the weakest conversation, and you probably noticed a slight dampness to my brow and upper lip. “Where is that house?”, I said retardedly as you turned the page past the English castle. Surprisingly, you didnt quickly move away, but politley responded. And chatted a little before you got off at Bedford.
I kept trying to see if you were wearing a ring, but couldnt tell with the magazine in the way. But you were tall, like about 6’+ with those cute boots on. Blondish brown hair, a very noble nose and face, jeans, greyish leather jacket, and bouret sort of hat that I didnt really like. Seriously, frame that striking face with something else….go see eugenia kim. it can be our first date.

Youll never see this because youre too busy deigning textiles for furniture and interior things, and youre probably married or with b/f anyway. But I recently had a friend post on here and they ended up meeting and really getting along well, so just maybe….tell me something i said to you, or was wearing, and your first drink will be on me.

Just one free drink? Dude.

Honorable Mention:
to the girl in williamsburg whose hair I untangled from the tree

Brooklinks: Sunday Another Year Over Edition

Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images.

• The Old Prospect Heights and the New [NYT]
• Times Suggests We Know Cost of Atlantic Yards and Who Will Pay [AYR]
• ‘Remarkably Pungent’ Year-End Interview with Markowitz [No Land Grab]
• Wal-Mart Still Eyeing Brooklyn [Courier-Life]
• Sunrise, Mini-Market on 9th Street [seiously excited!]
• The Year in Review [Brooklyn Mama]
• 30 Seconds of Darkness in Red Hook [Callalillie]
• “Brooklyn Matters” Screening on Jan. 4 [Daily Gotham]
• Crappy Workspace [Erica’s Blog]
• No Words_Daily Pix [No Words_Daily Pix/Hugh Crawford/OTBKB]
• Revere Sugar Demolition Panorama [burnsienna]
• Wig Shop on Fulton Street [seriously excited!]

Gowanus Lounge Photo Du Jour, Part II: Woman with Dog

Caroll Street Bridge, Gowanus, Brooklyn

Gowanus Lounge Photo Du Jour: Craned Burg

Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Check Out GL’s Best & Worst and Other Year End Wrap Ups

Yesterday, we posted several year-end wrap ups. We’d love for you to check them out if you already haven’t, so we’re including links here in case you don’t feel like scrolling down. We thank you for reading during GL’s first year of life and promise you that we’ll have more, bigger and better in 2007 as we close in on the ripe old age of one, which is, like, six or seven in internet years.

• GL’s Best & Worst of 2006
• GL’s 2007 Brooklyn Coming Attractions
• Top Ten Brooklyn Stories of 2006: The Year We Changed Forever

Gowanus Lounge Photo Du Jour: Canal Chill Area

Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn

Interesting Old Coney Photo

This photo of Coney Island is interesting. We found it posted on a blog called Dante’s Inferno with Children, with the blogger identifying as the Cyclone in Coney Island, which it clearly isn’t. (The steel tracks are a dead give away.) It’s actually the Jumbo Jet, which ceased operation in 2002 and was subsequently sold and is said to be currently located in an amusement park in China.

Brooklinks: Saturday 48 Hours to Go Very Visual Edition

Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and, especially on weekend, images.

Photos:

• Best of 2006 [bluejake]
• Holga Cyclone Panorama [OuroborosX/flickr]
• Holga Beach Birds [OuroborosX/flickr]
• Beaming on Seventh Avenue [Park Slope Street Photography]
• Can You Hear Me Now? [Atomische]
• F Train Platform, 4th Avenue and 9th Street [seriously excited!]
• Sugar Flower [Lex’s Folly]
• Columbia Street Morning [keylimesteve/flickr]
• Dumbo Double Dipping [jUSTINYC]

Words:

• More from the Revealing Brooklyn Papers Markowitz Q&A [AYR]
• PLG Blogger Ticked Off at Creepy Spam Comments [Across the Park]
• Blogger Rethinks the Whole Blog Thing, Vows Change [Random Brooklyn]
• Life in the Brooklyn War of the Roses House [NYDN]
• We’re Not in Brooklyn Anymore [Brooklyn Record]
• Is Sunset Park a Hidden Gem? [Sunset Parker]
• Year End Hoopla [Kinetic Carnival]
• End of Year Review [My Brooklyn Year]