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1010 President Street - Features Brooklyn stories and neighborhoods.

Bay Ridge Community News - Local news and an active message board.

Big Cities Big Boxes - Mary Campbell Gallagher, the author of this blog, claims that "there has never been a full public debate in New York City about whether we want to let in big box stores and, if so, what they should have to look like and how they should have to pay their employees."She attempts to give the anti-big box store side a voice. While Gallagher is focused mainly on Red Hook, she also blogs about more general issues big box stores and development in urban areas.

Billburg.com - Everything that's on the Net about Williamsburg is on this site: events, calendar, local artists, businesses. Discussion forums, virtual tours and more.

Brighton Beach - Head to Brighton Beach, a thriving immigrant community. Whether you're a Neil Simon fan or not, this site from the Brighton Beach Neighborhood Association will tell all you need to know about this legendary beachfront community.

Bring Basketball To Brooklyn - Forest City Development, Bruce Ratner's real estate company, set up this website to promote its idea to build a basketball arena for the New Jersey Nets in Brooklyn. The text offers very basic information, mainly through press releases; the images of models and drawings of the plan are the most useful part of the site.

Brooklyn - About.com's Brooklyn guide has lengthy lists of where to go for the theater, for dinner, or for worship. LIke all about.com pages, it is very commercially minded.

Brooklyn Academy of Music - Dating from its first performance in 1861, BAM has grown into a thriving urban arts center that brings international performing arts, media, and film to Brooklyn.

Brooklyn Borough President - The Brooklyn Borough President's stunningly detailed Internet resource of more than 60 Brooklyn neighborhoods. Includes history and current profiles. Worth a long look.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden - Visiting this site is the next best thing to visiting the garden: Exhaustive but well organized, it offers virtual tours and everything you would ever want to know about the garden, as well as gardening information and access to the resource center and library.

Brooklyn Children's Museum - Brooklyn Children's Museum offers over 27,000 square feet of interactive exhibition space, designed expressly for kids between the ages of 2 and 10. Ten different galleries offer fun-filled adventures in world culture and natural science.

Brooklyn District Attorney's Office - Home page of the Brooklyn DA's Office

Brooklyn Dodgers - Features a chronological history, player biographies, and information on the upcoming Boys of Summer movie.

Brooklyn Historical Society - The Brooklyn Historical Society's Web site has online version of several of its exhibits: the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge; 400 Years of Making a Living in Brooklyn. Don't miss the video game Worklore: Can You Make Ends Meet in Brooklyn in the Early 1900s? And be sure to contribute to the Baseball in Brooklyn exhibit by telling your story online.

Brooklyn Museum of Art - The Brooklyn Museum of Art is the second largest art museum in New York City and one of the largest in the United States. One of the premier art institutions in the world, its permanent collection includes more than one and a half million objects, from ancient Egyptian masterpieces to contemporary art, and represents almost every culture.

Brooklyn Public Library - Homepage for library and information on its 60 locations. Includes links to children activities, events, and an email newsletter.

Brooklyn Record - Brooklyn Record is a spinoff of the popular Brooklyn real estate blog Brownstoner. It covers the entire borough with plenty of visuals, focusing on everything from crime to culture to the essential issue: property. The blog also has 25 'neighborhood archives' pages, so readers with an interest in a specific area can skip straight to the news they're after.

Brooklyn Views - Since November 2005, Brooklyn architect Jonathan Cohn has been blogging about the Brooklyn Nets project. Cohn is critical of the plans, but he writes about why it's a bad piece of urban planning. Posts are fairly long, fairly sober, and some have charts!

Brooklyn West Indian Carnival - Features the history of the annual event celebrating the West Indian Caribbean culture.

BrooklynX - A project of Brooklyn Information and Culture. Extensive links about all things Brooklyn, with community calendar, bulletin boards, map and neighborhood links.

Coney Island Circus Sideshow - An on-line overview of the "last remaining authentic ten-in-one circus sideshow in the U.S."

Coney Island History - Great pix of Coney Island in its heyday as one of the world's most popular vacation spots.

Courier Life - Courier Life newspapers publishes several community papers in Brooklyn. This site has headlines from across the borough, as well as a look at what is being published in the Bay News, Kings Courier, Canarise Digest, Flatbush Life, Bay Ridge Courier, and Brooklyn Graphic.

Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn - This blog has been one of the most outspoken critics of the plan to build a basketball arena in Brooklyn. Its serves two purposes: 1) to convince people to oppose the project; and, 2) to show people who are already convinced how to mobilize against it.

East New York Projects - A web site for those who grew up in East New York's Linden and Boulevard public housing projects in the 1960's. Leave messages for old friends and participate in daily chats. Interesting site trying to recreate a community 45 years gone.

Footnotes NY - FootnotesNY provides factual information and thoughtful provocative comments on politics, education, courts, and current events in Central Brooklyn primarily, but also in the entire city.

Gowanus Canal Community Development Corporati - The website for a neighborhood preservation company serving the Gowanus, Red Hook, and Carroll Gardens neighborhoods in Brooklyn. Provides information about several programs the organization is working on and profiles of the neighborhoods it serves.

Gowanus Lounge - This blog covers "life and real estate development in post industrial Brooklyn and New York City." It keeps up with the local development battles, and on what's happening in and around the Gowanus Canal.

Greenpoint Star - The site for this Brooklyn-based community newspaper has several new stories each week, as well as a searchable archive. Readers also contribute content on the "Grapevine". The Star is connected to several other community papers throughout Brooklyn and Queens, and regularly shares content with them.

GreenpointUsa.com - Community calendars, art, info on officials, demographics, and entertainment. Extensive and impressive site, full of information.

Hello Brooklyn - An on-line Brooklyn guide covering everthing from community events and entertainment to news and weather.

Lidbrooklyn - A few days after Erik Engquist's "Brooklyn Politics" column hits the streets in nine different Courier-Life community newspapers, it's posted online by a local Democratic club.

MySlope.com - Park Slope's semi-official web site, with good listings of local shops, services, real estate and local government.

Neighborhood Roots - Brooklyn community organization dedicated to the promotion and preservation of historic Greenpoint.

New York Aquarium - The Wildlife Conservation Society Park located on Surf Avenue, Coney Island.

No Land Grab - A guide for those who oppose the Brooklyn Arena plan. This site consists of a web log of news relating to the project, a calendar of arena-related events, and instructions on how to oppose the plan. The site focuses on the opposition of local residents, giving a photo tour of the neighborhood and posting letters from Brooklynites.

Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn - This blog, serving "Park Slope, New York, and Beyond," focuses more on the Brooklyn social life and less on, well, the proposed basketball arena, than many of the other blogs based in this area. The author is a mother, and one of her main concerns is how the Brooklyn baby boom is playing out in Park Slope.

Planet PLG - This blog covers Prospect Leffert Gardens, with print and audio interviews with local officials, reports about new restaurants opening, and regular exclusives such as fully illustrated coverage of police officers hunting ducks in the neighborhood's streets.

Prospect Park Alliance - Prospect Park's Web site has information about the park's ecology, events, the surrounding neighborhood, and history of various sites in the park. There are also maps in formats appropriate for viewing online or printing, and access to the 36 page annual report.

Set Speed - This Fort Greene-based blog keeps close tabs on local real estate. Its interest is split between big issues, like gentrification and the Atlantic Yards project, and the prices of local condos.

Soul of America: Brooklyn / Queens - A guide to shops and galleries, churches, bookstores and libraries, restaurants, entertainment and historical landmarks in the African American and Caribbean neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Queens.

South Brooklyn Legal Services - South Brooklyn Legal Services is an organization working on advocacy and legal education organization for low income New Yorkers in southern and western Brooklyn. Its plain website offers information about several types of law, including child care, consumer and employment law, housing and foreclosure law, and government benefits. Reports on topics such as household employment taxes and buying a first home are also featured.

Sunset Parker - This blog is based in Sunset Park and keeps up with local politics and events. But its focus stretches beyond the immediate neighborhood. It regularly runs "today in Brooklyn history" or "today in New York history" posts, as well as Brooklyn videos of the day, Brooklyn birthdays, and so on.

The Atlantic Avenue Tunnel - Features color photos from recent tours of this long-defunct railroad tunnel, as well as historical information.

The Brooklyn Expedition - On this educational site jointly produced by Brooklyn's Children Museum, Brooklyn Museum of Art, and Brooklyn Public Library, kids can explore themes derived from library and museum materials. Topics range from "Structures" to the art, history and culture of Latin America.

The Brooklyn Web Site - News from Courier Life Publications, discussion groups, and links to neighborhood organizations.

The Gowanus Canal Community Development Corporation - A neighborhood preservation non-profit organization dedicated to the revitalization of the Gowanus Canal area in South Brooklyn, New York.

Waterfront Museum - Dedicated to celebrating the waterfront. Circus, live music and education visits for kids. Extensive links.

Wildlife Conservation Society - Information on projects devoted to saving wildlife and wildlands throughout the world.

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