Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory this Sunday morning it is cloudy and somewhat wet. Today is one of those days when a few April Showers will catch up with us. It will also be colder than it has been. The official forecast calls for some showers this morning and mostly cloudy skies the rest of […]

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Seen an interesting FSBO (For Sale by Owner) posted somewhere? Send a photo and any relevant info along to us at thegowanuslounge (at) gmail (dot) com. Everyone loves a nicely taped up FSBO. Who says you can’t get room to stretch out anymore? We found this Mill Basin baby, reduced to $410K and priced to […]

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Back in February, we posted someone’s negative observations about “terrible service” at the Park Slope Library.Today, we find another email in our inbox, forwarded to us by a reader of the Park Slope Parents list: Has anyone else had problems with the staff at the park Slope library? While the librarians in the children’s room […]

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Just a reminder that we’ll be debuting the new look Gowanus Lounge on Monday. Other than a new design, it means that we’ll be residing on our own URL, www.gowanuslounge.com. We hope you’ll change your bookmarks (you can do it now, as it will redirect you back here until Sunday night) and that–most important–you’ll update […]

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Yesterday, around 5:30 the Prospect Park Alliance released detailed renderings of prelimary plans for the Lakeside Center, the 36,000-square-foot two-level facility with two ice rinks that would replace the current Wollman Rink and do extensive landscape restoration to undo damage that was done when the original rink was built. The images give a much better […]

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Here’s another adoptable pet of the week from the Brooklyn Animal Rescource Coalition (BARC) shelter in Williamsburg. Since our cup runneth over with creatures needing a home, we’re featuring two dogs today (kitties tomorrow). This is our second Adoptable Cutie of the Week, Rocko. We’ll turn it over to the wonderful Lisa from BARC: Meet […]

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Here’s a very, very nice guide to places in Brooklyn where one can imbibe or consume (or both) outdoors, with photos. Never seen Rocky Sullivan’s rooftop deck in Red Hook or the patio behind Palo Santo in Park Slope with just one table beside a fountain. Then you must check this out. And, yes, we […]

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Here’s another adoptable pet of the week from the Brooklyn Animal Rescource Coalition (BARC) shelter in Williamsburg. Every weekend, we feature beautiful cats and dogs that need homes. We’ve been running a lot of cats, so to provide equal time, we’re feature a couple of pups today. Above is a Shar Pei named Jonah who […]

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There’s a “Tenant Aid Workshop: Fighting for Affordable Housing” session coming up on Monday, April 28, at 7PM at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel RC Church, which is located at 275 North 8th Street at Havemeyer St. The announcement says: “Learn About Your Legal Rights as a Tenant, See if You Qualify for Rent Subsidies, […]

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Work has started on the Indigo Hotel, the big hotel on Duffield Street designed by the ubiquitous Karl Fischer. It will be 22 stories and have 164 rooms and was originally supposed to be completed.–Brownstoner

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This is the Grand Army Plaza entrance to Prospect Park where an awful lot of colors are currently on display.

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related information and images. Pics BBG Twilight [Blue Jake] Blue 154 [Atomische] Red Hook Tree, Then and Now [Brit in Brooklyn] Slope in Bloom [Velvet Sea] Seagull [GerristenBeach.Net] Sand vs. Boardwalk [ckirkley/flickr] Words + Some Pics A Development Project with Real Bones [Curbed] Related: the Devils Work [Left in […]

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Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory the trees are totally bursting into neon greens and the sun is poking in and out from behind clouds. Today will be cooler, with variable cloudiness and a high of 64. Tonight, look for mostly cloudy skies with some showers and a low of 50. Some showers tomorrow too.

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The flowers are blooming in Greenpoint too, from which this lovely photo originates. It comes to us from Miss Heather, of course. The specific location is Greenpoint Avenue.

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Mark the calenders for a very, very big stoop sale in Greenwood Heights. It’s the 3rd Annual 23rd St. Mega Stoop Sale (23rd St. between 6th & 7th Avenues). It will take place on Saturday, May 17 from 11AM-5PM. Per an email: “Houses will have lots of stuff for sale, at, of course, very reasonable […]

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This image from Hicks and Carroll Street on a beautiful evening this weeks comes to us from Brit in Brooklyn photoblogger and GL photo contributor Adrian Kinloch (who will also be the esteemed AV consultant for the Brooklyn Blogfest on May 8).

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This is an email circulating via the Boerum Hill group. We present it in its entirety: Of late I have had a weekly visitor who is a fairly dapper Asian woman. She apparently does not speak English. She enters my yard, rifles my garbage cans and containers. Today she blithely stole a new garbage bag […]

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Call it the War on Love. The latest “love message” to go up on the construction fence that covered up the Carroll Gardens Democracy Wall didn’t even last 24 hours before workers scraped it off and repainted the fence. We have many questions: Will the developer get more love? Will the next poster last 24 […]

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We’ll be rolling out a new look GL on Monday that we’ve been slowly working on over the last few months. We say that in order to say this: GL will be moving from Blogger which has been our (more or less happy) home for the last two years and over to gowanuslounge.com, which has […]

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Real estate agency Brown Harris Stevens is being sued for allegedly discriminating against families with children. The suit charges that the agency discriminated against a couple with a child looking at rental apartments in Brooklyn Heights and Park Slope. Testers without children were able to get apartment for which couples children had been turned away. […]

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It’s anyone’s guess what the final Coney Island resolution will be, but for now, we can say that developer Joe Sitt and Thor Equities have found a new use for some of their land: a parking lot. The big plot of land along Stillwell Avenue that experienced premature demolition last year was being used (at […]

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A new shop called Boiy Krazy’s Groovi Gardens has opened on Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg. It’s 500 square feet of psychedelia/punk and there are chandeliers and Latin American art hung on the walls. And, oh yeah, clothes.–Racked

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We hit Brighton Beach & Coney Island yesterday evening. Here are 59 seconds of that experience.

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“The ‘Atlantic Yards stall’ has brought groups representing different flavors of project criticism and opposition together for a rally at 2 pm on Saturday, May 3, with a range of local political officials confirmed as attendees. The location is 752 Pacific Street near Carlton Avenue in the AY footprint, a block planned to hold “interim […]

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Berry Street in Williamsburg between N. 11 and N. 12 Street is quite the booming place in terms of new buildings. While 40 Berry (above) is the site of a new rental building designed by Perkins Eastman, 44 Berry (below) will be a renovation of an existing building into rental units. When all is said […]

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