Gowanus Lounge’s take on Red Hook is in the Brooklyn Papers this week, which hits all around our borough starting today. It’s paired with an excellent story by Ariella Cohen about local developer and pizza entrepreneur Gino Vitale headlined “A slice of Red Hook.” (Given that Ariella is one of the people whose work teaches […]

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It seems like only yesterday–well, last week–that there were numerous headlines about Sen. Hillary Clinton’s opposition to the luxury highrises that would finance Brooklyn Bridge Park. She has done a quick flip-flop or, at least, a half-gainer, according to an article by Dana Rubenstein in this week’s Brooklyn Papers. The Senator’s original comments were reported […]

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Streetsblog has come up with the urban planning scoop of the week, making available a report prepared by Alex Garvin & Associates that has helped Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff develop the new urban planning vision for the city as discussed this week in the Observer. The paper compared the ambition and scope of the plan […]

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We’d noticed that the end of Van Brunt Street has been a little funky–as in rotting food funky–since Fairway opened in Red Hook. And, we’d heard some grousing from local business people that the grocery is a lousy neighbor, treating Van Brunt as its personal loading dock and trash disposal area. So, we were depressed–but […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog items and images. Eat: Weekly Food Roundup [Brooklyn Record] Farm Flourishes in Crown Heights [Brooklyn Downtown Star via Eating for Bklyn] Planet Thailand’s Manhattan Offspring, PT212, Sucks [Cuozzo/Post] Wombat + San Loco in Williamsburg [Eater] Artsy Brunch and Movies at Monkey Town [NYPress] Rice to […]

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The e-mail campaign that we wrote about to help the Empty Vessel Project boat keep its berth at the foot of First Street on the Gowanus Canal is still going on. And, we can report that, for now, the World War II Navy Rescue boat that is being rehabbed and used as a community-oriented space […]

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So, New York Water Taxi, which is now serving Williamsburg, Dumbo and Red Hook in addition to Water Taxi Beach just over the border in Long Island City, is running a photo contest. The Real Estate, which clued us in to this, quoted the press release as follows: Ahoy Hipster Photographers! Show us your pix! […]

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onNYTurf lays some interesting images and an invaluable map of Williamsburg development on us today. Call it absolutely required reading if you are interested in what Williamsburg might look like in five or ten years. The image above, is the possible future view from Bedford and Metropolitan avenues if Quadriad Development’s plans for the neighborhood […]

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The other day, we ran an item about how the corporate types at Holiday Inn insist on calling the Gowanus Holiday Inn Express the “Park Slope” Holiday Inn Express even though the hotel is on Union Street between Third and Fourth Avenues. The issue gets at the somewhat ever-shifting boundaries, and even names, of some […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related new stories, blog items and images. How Many People Does it Take to Make a Parade? Police Parade Rules Pending: Protest Now [Daily Gotham] Fighting the NYPD’s Parade Rules [streetsblog] Assemble for Rights: People’s Forum on Thursday [onNYTurf] People’s Forum on Proposed Rules on August 17 [Assemble for […]

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With the public hearing coming up on those NYPD rules that would define two or more pedestrians or bicyclists as a parade subject to ticketing or arrest under certain circumstances, a “People’s Forum” will be taking place tomorrow night (8/17) at St. Mark’s Church on 10th St. at 2nd Avenue at 7PM. The public forum […]

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A week before the big August 23 public hearing on the massive Atlantic Yards Draft Environmental Impact Statement, a range of civic and community groups along with elected officials will hold a press conference on the steps of City Hall calling for more time for public review and comment. The groups and officials will urge […]

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Gowanus Lounge had a fun time blowing glass this weekend at Pier Glass in Red Hook, the design studio and gallery run by Mary Ellen Buxton and Kevin Kutch (in the photo above, on the left). We got into this we when talked at length with Mary Ellen for a Brooklyn Papers story we were […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news articles, blog items and images. Look Really, Really, Really Hard: Shrill of the Week: Weeds [Dope on the Slope] Look Really, Really Hard: Fort Greene’s Fight for Livable Streets [streetsblog] Parade, Permits and the Right to Protest [Gotham Gazette] Two Maps of Blight [AYR] New York Magazine […]

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There’s a new blog around called Atlantic Yards Voter Guide (which we found thanks to onNYTurf) aimed at tracking candidates in the November election and their position on the Atlantic Yards Project. Given that keeping track of who has taken what position is difficult, it’s a welcome source of information. (It’s been done before, notably […]

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Gowanus Lounge got an email from Portside New York Director Carolina Salguero after our appearance last week on The Brian Lehrer Show. Carolina had called in during the show and wrote that she never got to make her key point about Red Hook, which is that “the hype is threatening the hyped goods.” We thought […]

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Gowanus Lounge checked out the entire Red Hook exhibition mounted by those Yale Architecture School grad students that created the unpleasant visions of Red Hook’s future. They are on display through August 20 as the BWAC Summer Art Show at the Beard Street Peir at 499 Van Brunt Street. Meanwhile, Steve McFarland the Red Hook […]

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The Gowanus Holiday Inn is now open and accepting guests, but Holiday Inn continues to say that its new Holiday Inn Express on Union Street in Gowanus is really in Park Slope. Specifically, the following verbiage from an item at Hospitalitynet: “We chose to develop a Holiday Inn Express in Park Slope because of its […]

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We found this “Open Letter” about Atlantic Yards from the Municipal Arts Society posted over at No Land Grab and think it’s important enough to reproduce here, as well. Dear Concerned New Yorker: Since the MAS announced its five principles to make a plan for the Atlantic Yards site work for Brooklyn, hundreds of people […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related new stories, blog items and images. Zoning Fight Leaves South Slope Group with $100K Legal Bill [Park Slope Courier] Skyrocketing Brooklyn Homeownership Costs [Carroll Gardens Courier] Mag Calls Atlantic Yards ‘Defining Moment’ in NYC Development Politics [AYR] Community Groups Fear ‘Toxic Stew’ in Water from Waste Plan [Bay […]

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We missed the “corpse flower” at its putrid peak on Thursday and Friday, but Gowanus Lounge made a point of seeking it out at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Saturday. What we found was a huge crowd visiting the BBG to get a look at whiff of the smelly flower, but no smell. “They opened […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news articles, blog entries and images. Look: Manhattan Avenue is Blowing Up [justiNYC] Southside Rooftop Freeze [justiNYC] Prickle [Lex’s Folly] Greenpoint Terminal Market Ruins [f.trainer/flickr] Brooklyn Heights Promenade [your pal matt/flickr] Read: Gowanus Holiday Inn Now Open [NYT] Yale Students Imagine Future of Red Hook [NYT] Green-Wood Cemetery […]

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn

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Resident Rabbit, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn

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Breaking Glass at Williamsburg’s Old Dutch Mustard BuildingField Trip: South WilliamsburgThe Beginning of The Edge in WilliamsburgThe Boom in Parks and the Green That Pays for ThemRed Hook or Gowanus? You Decide

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