flea-112009.jpg This is it, folks! We've arrived at the final weekend of the outdoor flea season and luckily it looks like the weather is going to cooperate both days. And for those of you who like to plan ahead, remember that the Gifted holiday market launches the day after Thanksgiving in the old ...

575%205th%20ave%2011-09%20w%20rendering.jpg All the construction netting on the Fifth Avenue Committee's supportive housing project on 5th Avenue and 16th street has come down, and it's now possible to see progress on the corner of the structure. The rendering above shows how it's supposed to turn out. ...

south%2011-09.jpg South, the new bar in the former Vin Rouge space on 5th Avenue between 17th and 18th streets, has opened. According to BlackBook, South is run by the same people who own the Brooklyn Ice House in Red Hook and has half a dozen beers on tap. StreetLevel: New South Slope Bar on Tap (Brownstoner) ...

house Park Slope 289 Garfield Place Corcoran Sunday 2-3 $1,950,000 GMAP P*Shark house Ditmas Park 664 Westminster Road Douglas Elliman Sunday 2:30-4:30 $800,000 (was $995,000) GMAP P*Shark house Greenwood Heights 323 21st Street Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 1-3 $749,000 GMAP P*Shark house Bedford Stuyvesant ...

Six months ago it was Memorial Day weekend and there were not enough open houses to make doing an Open House Picks post worth. Therefore, there's no Six Months Later post to run today! Previous Six Months Later Posts (Brownstoner)

658-Bergen-Street-1109.jpg Things have been going pretty well over at 660 Bergen Street, the 16-unit Karl Fischer-designed condo development in Prospect Heights. When we took its temperature back in March, six apartments were in contract. And now? 12 are either closed or in contract, leaving just four ...

68-Bergen-Street-1109.jpg The public notice regarding the liquor license application is a couple of weeks old at this point, but the tipster who alerted us to the fact that a new restaurant is slated for the storefront space at 68 Bergen Street just down the street from Dunkin Donuts just noticed it. ...

viridian-1109.jpg After a tough run as a condo development (it went bust at the beginning of the year), the Viridian has had a nice reversal of fortune recently in its new life (under new ownership) as a rental building. We passed by yesterday and saw plenty of evidence of people living there. Later ...

iris-cafe-1109.jpg Brooklyn Heights Blog has the scoop (and the photos) on the latest addition to the neighborhood's culinary scene: A cute spot called the Iris cafe opened yesterday at 20 Columbia Place in Willowtown. Anyone tried it yet? Willowtown’s Iris Cafe - the Photos! (BHB) GMAP

JJ%20Byrne%20Site%20Schematic%20presentation%20MM.JPG The schematic plan above details the next round of renovations the city is planning for J.J. Byrne Park in the Slope. (Click on the image to enlarge it.) The revamps are the result of a couple years' worth of community listening sessions on how to ...