Property Shark has a new map mash-up courtesy of publicist Kelly Kreth that plots the concentration of single men throughout New York City (and their incomes too). We’ve taken the liberty of reproducing some of the Brooklyn version covering Dumbo, Brooklyn Heights, Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Gowanus, Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Fort Greene, […]

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City Council Member David Yassky is trailing Council Member Yvette Clarke and several other candidates by a wide margin in the 11th Congressional District race according to poll results published in the Daily News’ Daily Politics column, which came to our attention via The Politicker column in the New York Observer via the Brooklyn Record. […]

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1. Justinyc offers hints for that touch-and-go Brooklyn apartment hunt. The Brooklyn Record version of the post contains a list of helpful links to rental listings. On justinyc, he notes that while “you do not need to speak Polish or Yiddish to find a place in Brooklyn…it might help your chances if you do” and […]

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The Atlantic Yards news and notes never stop flowing. For starters, the Municipal Arts Society weighs in this evening with an assessment of Forest City Ratner’s development plan and some altnerate visions for the site. There’s a presentation for the media at 5:30 and a public meeting from 6:30 to 8:30 at Hanson Place Central […]

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Our item yesterday about nasty bicyclists calling moms in Prospect Park pushing strollers “asshole” reminded us that we have had this photo of a bicycle that lives on Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg for many days. We believe that the first time we saw it, many months ago, it was in better condition. Now, it’s not. […]

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All credit to the Brooklyn Record for bringing our attention to today’s Daily News story (motivated, we presume, by a story in the Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill Courier, which we hadn’t checked in on this week) about the crackdown on the, um, sidewalk planters in Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill. One would think that New Yorkers without backyard […]

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You could see and feel the change on the streets of Red Hook within days of the Fairway opening: hundreds of extra cars and increased pedestrian activity. While Gowanus Lounge knows that Red Hook could not remain frozen in a time warp of abandonment and wild dogs roaming the waterfront, the change still comes as […]

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Ah, the bucolic nature of the friendly green space of Prospect Park (assuming the roaming teen gangs robbing people are under control). But, wait. Daily Slope and its message board are full of tales of the unfriendly competition between walker and biker during car-free times in an entry called “Prospect Park is not the Tour […]

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Okay, so it has nothing to do with Gowanus or Brooklyn, but Gowanus Lounge is driven this morning to say a little something about last night’s Radiohead show at the Theater at Madison Square Garden that we were lucky enough to score a ticket for in the first row of seating behind general admission when […]

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Atlantic Yards opponents are again suggesting a “Coney Island arena solution” as an alternative to the huge Forest City Ratner project at Flatbush Avenue and Atlantic Avenue. In the latest salvo from Develop-Don’t Destroy Brooklyn, Daniel Goldstein says, “Coney Island is a viable location for an arena in Brooklyn that requires a serious and hard […]

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Earlier today, we noted over at Curbed an apparent split between Brooklyn developer Shaya Boymelgreen and Israeli mulitnational businessman Lev Leviev, the development heavies known as Leviev Boymelgreen. The relationship between the two, according to Globes Online has “soured” and they have “decided to end their collaboration.” Israeli tycoon Nochi Dankner is said to be […]

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People heading to the Williamsburg Savings Bank (aka One Hanson) kickoff party tonight may have to navigate protestors from ACORN. They’ll be there to call on Magic Johnson (the star attraction at the party and an investor in the project) “to stop the gentrification and resegregation of downtown Brooklyn.” ACORN, which protests widely to push […]

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Gowanus Lounge checked out the V-Spot, a five-week old vegan dining spot on Fifth Avenue between Douglass and Degraw, for brunch on Sunday. We are happy to report that our limited food sampling yielded good results and that we were content at V-Spot. Best of all, it’s a welcome addition for the vegetarian- and vegan-minded. […]

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In another sign that the pace of development in Gowanus is picking up, a large property at 505 Carroll Street has been purchased by developers. The parcel is between Third and Fourth Avenues on Carroll Street, almost across the street from Our Lady of Peace Church. The site is more than one acre and extends […]

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Gowanus Lounge shot this photo on Saturday during a marathon walking and photo session on Fifth Avenue and Fourth Avenue, not to mention Gowanus and Atlantic Avenue. This one, which we call “Fifth Avenue, Ungentrified” is one of our favorites from that day.

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We were a little slow in getting to this today, being swamped by the usual Monday tidal wave, but Gowanus Lounge is pleased to join the chorus of voices welcoming the Brooklyn Record, a new Brooklyn undertaking from Brownstoner. It only underscores our conviction that Brooklyn is the place to be, and writing about our […]

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Okay, so Gowanus Lounge couldn’t help but notice that the Brooklyn Brewery logo was prominent in the ads of the Sonic Youth/Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Iron & Wine and Neko Case shows at McCarren Pool. We have already noted that the Clear Channel Communications (okay, Live Nation) concerts at McCarren are not entirely popular with community […]

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Among the many, many spots that Gowanus Lounge dropped by over the weekend was the opening of the Leumurplex on Third Avenue between Ninth and Tenth Streets, just north of the F Train overpass. The new 3,000 square foot performance space, gallery and learning center (a “robotic art complex,” if you will) is the new […]

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Gowanus Lounge was out and about in Gowanus this weekend (among other things, taking a look at 505 Carroll Street, which has been sold for development…more about that later) when we ran across a celebration of the Feast of St. Anthony at Our Lady of Peace. That’s the pretty little church (founded in 1899) that […]

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The big Puerto Rican day parade might have been in Manhattan, but the celebration was citywide. Gowanus Lounge shot some photos of the Puerto Rican celebration at Coney Island yesterday afternoon, where there was plenty of music, dancing and partying.

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Last night’s perfect October weather offered multiple viewing opportunities. So, Gowanus Lounge crossed the East River to watch the Target Children’s Day fireworks (yes, that’s what that racket was around 9:30 last night). A bonus photo of the full moon over Brooklyn another shot of the fireworks are below.

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Forget New York Magazine’s breathy Futurama-World’s Fair like vision of NYC in 2016. If you want a sense of Brooklyn’s future, the interesting read is the Real Deal’s article, Record High Rises Set for Brooklyn. Let’s briefly quote some words that make the threat of killer hurricane slamming into Brooklyn almost seem tranquilizing: More than […]

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This image of corn crate, with strewn and abandoned ears of corn, sitting atop a wall with graffiti mural, comes from North 3rd Street in Williamsburg. We call it “Still Life with Graffiti and Corn.” There is no doubt a story behind how the corn came to be abandoned here, but we’ll never know.

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Off the Hook, originally uploaded by rsguskind. The always excellent B61 Productions blog devoted to Red Hook reminded us that we’d forgotten to run an item about Off the Hook’s spring shows this weekend. There are two more shows today (Saturday, June 10) at 3PM and 7PM. They take place at PS 15, which is […]

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Ever been out on the South Brooklyn Seine? The Gowanus Dredgers can help make that dream come true. The next Dredgers canoeing opportunity takes place tomorrow (Sunday, June 11) from 10AM-2PM. If that’s too early for your post-Saturday partying blood (do not attempt to conquer the Big G on a hangover), you can always try […]

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