A while back, Dermot Company announced it would be building a high-rise at 29 Flatbush Flatbush Avenue near BAM. Now, we have a partial rendering from the Dermot site. The building will be designed by an increasingly popular architect in Brookyn Ismael Leyva and will clock in at 44 stories with 333 rental units. The […]

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We got off the R Train at Pacific Street yesterday so we made a point of going upstairs for a quick look at what MoMA’s been up to at the Atlantic Avenue station. There are now MoMA signs everywhere and reproductions of 59 works of art. (Threre’s even a map on one wall showing where […]

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On Sunday, we passed by the big Robert Scarano development at Fourth Avenue and 13th Street, shot some photos and posted them on Monday, nicknaming it Big Bob’s House of D because one side of the buiding looks like a jail. On Monday a sign went up identifyng the new building, with a big arrow […]

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[Click to enlarge to all its glory.] In theory, Gowanus could get very big and very crowded, if the parcels of land the city is planning to rezone for residential use are built upon. It’s a big if–given the credit meltdown and the hideousy polluted nature of some of the sites–but that’s what could happen […]

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[Photo courtesy of Gary Mirabelle] A little bit of Bed-Stuy wall art courtesy of local artist and photographer Gary Mirabelle.

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Check out Colin Newman, Bruce Gilbert, Graham Lewis and Robert Gotobed, aka Wire–one of the most important bands in rock history–performing one of our favorite Wire songs on TV in 1979. Oh, yes.

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[Photo courtesy of spiffae/GL Flickr Pool] At the lovely intersection of Hamiton Avenue and Smith Street.

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Ahhh Valentine’s Day… a holiday dedicated to love… and commercialism. Sure you can succumb to buying your honey an overpriced (or underpriced, if you’re a last minute kinda person or just a cheap bastard) bouquet of flowers, a box of chocolates or some fancy lingerie that’s really more for you than your lover… or you […]

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[Photo courtesy of New York Public Library] This is Joralemon and Hicks Streets in an undated photo looking toward the East River, clearly pre-BQE.

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We walked by the Crooked Tail Cafe in Gowanus the other day and finally found it open for business. We don’t know how long it’s been open, but it still had the little “grand opening” type banners out front. It’s next to the Canal Bar and occupies the space of what had been a landmark […]

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Ah, 100 Luqer Street, an 11-story Hot Karl Fischer also known as the Carroll Gardens Monstrosity. It’s in the running with on of the Hot One’s Williamsburg buildings for being the slowest moving as action on this baby has been going on since 2006. This is what it looked like in 2007. But progress is […]

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Uh, let’s see. The call box is out of service. (Who looks for call boxes instead of calling 911 on their cell, anyway?) But what you do is, call 911 and say “I want to report a fire.” On the other hand, if it was a car crash, we suppose you would call and say […]

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This is a gorgeous timelapse from an upper floor in Prospect Heights/Crown Heights of a snowfall in December. Music by Opsvik & Jennings. Do not be alarmed when it begins.

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It’s not hard to tell that we’re excited to see the Parks Department finally fixing the disgraceful Coney Island Boardwalk about which we’ve been ranting for nearly three years. We caught some actual workers in the act doing actual work, so we thought we’d share.

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[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] This baby, which is indeed regal, comes from Green Street in Greenpoint.

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The Center of Light Building, the horrendous Henry Radusky building at the edge of the former Notary District at Smith and Ninth Street will be getting a new tenant. Another Uncle Louie G ice cream place. And not just any Uncle Louie G, but what looks like a sit down one. A GL reader tipped […]

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The warehouse occupying a huge portion of the Public Place site between Smith Street and the Gowanus Canal, which was quietly added to the project after a developer was chosen, doubling the size of the development on the toxic site, has been approved for demolition. Word came via an emai from Council Member Bill de […]

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[Photo courtesy of Meg Groome] Ah, the fun of the weeky Polar Bear Club gathering and dip in the bracing waters of Coney Island.

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Make it through the first few seconds of this vide and you’ll see the vid of The Forest from 1980. Most copies can’t be embedded. And, yes, that dude playing guitar and singing “The girl was never there/It’s always the same/I’m running towards nothing/Again and again and again” is really Robert Smith. Holy shit. He […]

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[Photo courtesy of threecee/GL Flickr Pool] The photo is from Dean Street at Flatbush Avenue in Prospect Heights.

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If you’ve been through the Atlantic Ave subway station in the last week, you’ve noticed increasing amounts of MoMA stuff around. There are things proclaiming an “art installation” is underway. The turnstiles now sport MoMA logos. We suspect the steel beams will be covered too, making the station look like a huge ad for the […]

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[Photo courtesy of Deborah Matlack] Yes, the sunsets in Coney Island are beautiful, especially this time of year when the sun sets over the water, but they’re spectacular in Red Hook too as this pic from our dedicated contributor Deborah Matlack shows.

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