We have two words to describe our reaction to this personal ad on the always interesting Craigslist. One of them is holy. And the other is shit. Let’s just say that it’s very, uh, specific, which in the wild world of CL probably means no one will pay attention anyway. Here it is: SWF who […]

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Oh, Carroll Gardens, you never disappoint. The issue of 360 Smith Street is very much alive with a hearing coming up about whether the building will be allowed to rise to the planned 70 feet or will get a trim to 55 feet. That decision is in the hands of the obscure, yet powerful, Board […]

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The Carroll Gardens group CORD is circulating a letter that it emailed to City Council Member (and Brooklyn Borough President candidate) Bill de Blasio about the upcoming Board of Standards and Appeals hearing about 360 Smith Street. The developer is looking for an okay to build the planned 70 feet rather than the 55 feet […]

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There is some food news from the far end of Court Street in Carroll Gardens. A special GL Correspondent who has supplied us with many juicy tidbits over a long period of time reports: Le Petit Café, down the end of Court St is expanding. They’re taking over George’s Pot Pourri once he moves his […]

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The Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association, which once met at the Scotto Funeral Home on Court Street, starts up with its post-Labor Day meetings tonight at a new location, the Hannah Senesh Community Day School at 342 Smith Street. Here’s is the email: Just a quick reminder- we resume the Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association general meetings […]

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The Vermont Market & Pharmacy, at the corner of Henry and Sackett Streets in Carroll Gardens, is one of the more mysterious spots in the neighborhood. The store has been closed about a decade and it even drew the attention of the Times a while back this summer. The article noted that the building’s owner […]

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Residents in Carroll Gardens are now circulating petitions to save the job Kathleen Henderson, the woman who runs recreation programs at Carroll Park. An email was making the round last night with the subject line “Help Save the Park Lady’s Job.” Here the text: Our beloved “park lady,” Kathleen Henderson of Carroll Park, is losing […]

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The 360 Smith development, which was stopped in tracks by the “narrow streets” Zoning Text Amendment that limited the height of buildings on “place streets” has a date before the agency that will decide its fate. Developer Billy Stein will take his case to the Board of Standards and Appeals on September 24 at 10AM. […]

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[Click to enlarge] The last phase of the ongoing changeover of Alternate Side Parking regulations that started in May in Park Slope will happen in Red Hook starting on Monday, September 8, when they are suspended for several weeks. Alternate Side regs will be re-instituted in Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens and other areas west of […]

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This item blends three items of interest: public school, community boards and, well, cockroaches. It comes from an email posted to the Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association list and concerns the auditorium at PS 32 in Carroll Gardens, which is often the site of Community Board 6 and other neighborhood meetings. Here’s what it says in […]

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The developer of 360 Smith Street took his case to build his building tall than allowed by new zoning language to the Land Use Committee of Community Board 6 last night and lost. The vote against the developer’s appeal (which will got the Board of Standards and appeals in any case) was unanimous with three […]

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It has been a while since we had an item about our little pigeon friends, but this morning we do. It comes from Carroll Gardens in the form of an email on the Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association list. Someone, apparently is feeing pigeons which, in turn, is leading to “a rat and possum problem.” (This […]

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The residents of Carroll Gardens that oppose the current planned height of 360 Smith (aka Oliver House) are not going to let the building slip through an appeal to the Board of Standards and Appeals without a fight. The building was stopped when a “Narrow Streets” Zoning Text Amendment was approved this summer. Among other […]

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It’s worth reminding everyone that there’s a meeting coming up about the controversial 360 Smith Street project on Thursday, August 28, given the unfortunate late August timing of the Community Board 6 Land Use Committee hearing. The meeting is being held to consider developer Billy Stein’s application to the obscure, yet powerful, Board of Standards […]

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Here’s a little something interesting to start the last week of August: Some residents on and near the southern end of Court Street in Carroll Gardens (near the elevated Gowanus Expressway) are saying that they are noticing an unusual number of dead birds. The word comes via some email exchanges on the BoCoCa Parents Group, […]

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Our old friend 360 Smith Street, (aka Oliver House), which was stopped in its tracks by the Zoning Text Amendment in Carroll Gardens that limited the height of buildings to 55 feet on “narrow” streets is back in action in a sense. The Department of Buildings had hit it with a Stop Work Order because […]

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This email comes from the BoCoCa Parents group and touches on an issue that has been in the news and is of importance to anyone that takes their kids to Brooklyn or NYC playgrounds–burns caused by the black mats under playground equipment: Some of you have seen some of the press over the past month […]

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[Click to expand] Remember when the Department of Transportation said that alternate side parking regulations might be suspended in Park Slope for much of the summer while signs were changed and the melodrama that ensued? Well, DOT is way ahead of schedule and the process has gone so smoothly in Gowanus and part of Carroll […]

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Another day, another child and nanny story from a local park. (Hey, it’s summer.) This one comes from Carroll Park and the BoCoCa Parents Group. Here are some excperts: This morning around 10:15, I was taking my son into the little side at Carroll Park and when I opened the gate a little boy wearing […]

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Although it depresses us to post anything to do with things that take place after Labor Day, as our decompression period from summer is long and our capacity for denial that it has come to an end is high, it’s worth noting that the Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association has a new meeting place and has […]

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This all comes courtesy of Animal, which has images of fake American Apparel ads that have sprung up in Carroll Gardens. One of them is at Union and and we’re not showing either before the jump. Animal writes: Brooklynites! The fake American Apparel ad artist is saving his/her dirtiest and headiest works for you. Here, […]

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Here’s an email we got about a Car Wash going on today: The Sacred Hearts – St. Stephen Altar Servers will be holding their annual Car Wash to be held today, from 11AM to 3PM in the Church Yard located at 125 Summit Street (off of Hicks St). The children hand wash each car in […]

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“The wine bar on the corner of Hoyt and Union (directly below us), is a complete nuisance. We are constantly battling with them about noise, they continually stay open, or at least operating, until 2 or 3AM in the morning, with music blasting. Our 2 year old can not sleep, and is sometimes forced to […]

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The Jim Mamary oyster bar on Hoyt Street that sparked on of the most vitriolic Carroll Gardens fights in recent memory (over a business) is making progress. A special GL Correspondent braved yesterday’s heat and humidity to catch some shots of the work underway at the controversial establishment near Union Street.

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[Photo courtesy of jplpagan/GL Flickr Pool] These gorgeous flowers come from Carroll Gardens, where there are many, from the roving camera of jplpagan via our Gowanus Lounge Flickr Pool.

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