Photo via Gowanus Lounge Curbed is reporting on the latest victim of luxury condos: Myrtle the Turtle. Who's behind the act of animal cruelty? All fingers are pointing to the construction workers, who have the same shade of red paint on site at 5 Roebling Street. A neighbor, and friend of Myrtle the Turtle, wrote in:It is obviously intentional because she got such a sustained spray that it has drip marks. The face and......

Brooklyn Bridge and cloud, by The life of Boyne at flickr At 125 years old, it's time for the Brooklyn Bridge to undergo a little fix-up work. The Dept. of Transportation is about to begin a multi-year series of projects to shore up Roebling's bridge structurally, as well as give it a cosmetic touch-up. Popular Mechanics recently named the Brooklyn Bridge one of the top ten pieces of national infrastructure most in need of......

If one ever wondered if there was a rhyme or reason to where those WET PAINT signs show up on subway pillars, the Daily News gives some idea. The paper learned that the MTA made sure to paint the pillars at three major station hubs right before politicians used them as locations for press conferences."I gotta figure a way to get the governor to my station in Brooklyn," quipped Gene Russianoff of the Straphangers......