We’ve already had a spiritual Henry Radusky building today. Now, we’ve got a 12-story monster rising at 574 Fourth Avenue, which is right on top of the Prospect Expressway. Yes, it’s a Radusky and, yes, car fans, some of these apartments are going to offer exceptionally dramatic views of both the insane traffic on Fourth […]

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Worried about forclosure? In over your head? Get taken to the cleaners by some sub-prime lending scumbag? Problem solved. Call this number and you can “escape foreclosure.” We trust signs likes these in times like these tethered to telphone poles. Don’t you?

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· Driver of garbage truck crushed to death in Bed-Stuy [NYDN] · Post Notices Astroland Rocket in Danger. Wow. [NYP] · Why the Obfuscation About the Atlantic Yards Hold? [AYR] · Three Days to Do a REALLY Good Deed [Bad Advice] · 277 Gold Topped Out [Brownstoner] · Empty Playground on a Miserable Fall Day […]

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One of the co-founders of CORD, the Carroll Gardens Group that was born around the controversy surrounding the 360 Smith Street Building, has penned a scathing letter about the powerful board to which zoning, DOB and other decisions can be appealed. Among other things, she accused the board of making a recent zoning decision look […]

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There’s probably been more than one family from Ohio that’s had a collective bowel movement when they set eyes on the “Brooklyn Bridge” Comfort Inn on Butler Street off Third Avenue in Gowanus. Let’s just say it’s the kind of street that makes people want to fart and dash for the shitter if they’re not […]

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The fugly building erected at 9th and Smith Streets, right next to the old Russo Realty and Notary empire, is getting a spiritual tenant: the Center of Light. Correspondent Max Casey sniffed this one out and was panting while filing the report and photo. While brick would be more appropriate for the Man from Bricolage, […]

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(Click to enlarge) This is Bond and Carroll Streets in Gowanus way back in the winter of 2003. The reader who sent us this photo, which certainly brings back some memories, wrote: This is pre-construction bond&carroll street (2003). 346 bond, the roll-gated building, used to be a hansom carriage repair shop complete with a filled […]

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PuLsEsTuDiO, on 1100 Dean St., is hosting a Holiday Bazaar this Saturday, Dec 13th. They’ll be convert the whole studio in to “a Middle Eastern market stall, with colorful handmade goods covering walls and floors.” The point is to throw a little spice into the holiday shopping season and to offer our friends and neighbors […]

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[Photo courtesy of megunski/GL Flickr Pool] Our favorite abandoned Whole Foods site in Gowanus is starting to get that nice earth tone fall look.

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Our community-minded and dear friends at Park Slope Parents are warning the community about an energy scam that’s different than the one we’ve been covering for a month. This one is about people brazenly ringing doorbells and asking for money, presumably from the tragically gullible. Here it is, via the miracle of copy and paste: […]

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If you’re trying to figure out what to get your office’s Secret Santa, or that aunt back home who does expect a little something, how about a beautiful calendar? Local photographer and writer, Brenda Becker, has been wandering and photographing our lovely Prospect Park and writing her experiences and knowledge on her blog A Year […]

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This charitable appeal has been widely publicized and hit up every blog in Brooklyn for a post (most of which have done so), but it’s for a good cause, so why not join an already large club? Brooklyn Gives, an initiative of Independence Community Foundation is encouraging Brooklynites to make a holiday donation to the […]

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And, now, some musical selections through the weekend: Thursday 12/11/08 Music Hall of Williamsburg: Will Sheff (of Okkervil River) $17, 9:00pm Friday 12/12/08 BAM Café: Brandon Ross (Virtuoso Guitarist) Free!!, 9:00pm Saturday 12/13/08 BAM Café: TrioNada (Jazz) Free!!, 10:00pm Music Hall of Williamsburg: Meat Puppets (Country/Punk/Psychedelic) $18 Advance/$20 Day of Show, 9:00pm Sunday 12/14/08 Barbes: […]

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We’ve shopped at the Key Food in Windsor Terrace, and while it’s not our fave place to go, we’ve never noticed that it was especially revolting. Well, maybe we haven’t paid attention or it’s gotten worse, since we haven’t set foot in there in a long time. Here’s an email from a GL Reader just […]

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Look, it’s a promotional video for a development in Boerum Hill and it’s trying to sell you condo. That having been said it’s worth watch to either (a). check out the condos or (b). laugh at the marketing attempt.

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Bark, The Herald Angels Sing… FIDO (Fellowship in the Interest of Dogs and their Owners) is sponsoring a Holiday celebration for Brooklyn dog owners and their furry pooches. Brooklyn dog owners: bring your canine companions and come celebrate the holidays at a morning gathering In Prospect Park. Saturday, December 13, 8 – 10 a.m. Join […]

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Observing a recent and fascinating blog debate (originated on Brooklynian.com) about the oldest business in Park Slope (it is most probably Neergaard’s)—set my mind reeling with another business, a most unusual structure with green domes on the corner of 25th Street and Fifth Avenue across from Green-Wood Cemetery. The Weir Greenhouse (now McGovern-Weir, pictured here) […]

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The store we’re writing about, which is called Deluxa, has been around a couple of months, but its owner who is a regular GL reader just brought it to our attention and it sounds cool in a major way. Here’s her email to us: I was wanting to share with you and the readers…that I’ve […]

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[Photo courtesy of nifty pete/Gl Flickr Pool] Here’s a little bit of Christmas decorative spirit Park Slope-style.

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· Fort Greene vs. Clinton Hill Business Improvement District War [NYDN] · Atlantic Yards Fatigue? Tiny Crowd, Two Reporters Show for Anniversary Event [AYR] · Development Watch: 348 Sackett Street [Brownstoner] · Work Starts Again at 132 Second Place [PMFA] · Heights Tree Lit in the Rain. You Know Who Is There. [BHB] · Thompkins […]

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We got an email from the Friends and Residents of Greater Gowanus group (FROGG) called “Defend the Gowanus.” It’s about a new online petition calling for a cleanup of the deeply polluted canal and protecting it from development that would worsen conditions. Here’s the email: I wanted to share this petition I created online that […]

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As workers continue to dismantle Astroland and put rides into shipping containers (which could conceivably be brought back if there is some agreement to reopen the park next year), things are looking very grim. We got this email from the Save Coney Island group last night that the iconic Astroland Rocket might be destroyed and […]

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Yesterday, we posted two big photo galleries on Curbed of the work underway at McCarren Pool. One was of the new skatepark that is being built on the Bayard Street side of the property. The other was of the renovation work underway on the arch. The later is pictured above. The former is pictured below. […]

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It’s been a while since we got around to a Transportation Tuesday or Transportation Thursday, but when we found this deconstructed bike attached to the Carroll Street Bridge at the Gowanus Canal we knew we had to act.

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[Photo courtesy of Shield/GL Fickr Pool] It is, in its way, classic Gowanus.

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