Here’s an email circulating via the Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association about a noisy bar and an attempt to kill a tree that we believe focuses on Fourth Place and Court Street. The email doesn’t name the bar, but it would appear that it might (we are speculating based on circumstantial evidence) be PJ Handleys, which […]

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The old International Longshoremans Association Building on Court Street is no more. In its place at 340 Court Street is a big hole being dug for the foundation of The Collection at Court Street condos being built by the Clarrett Group. The building will be designed by Rogers Marvel, but the developer has refused to […]

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The reader who sent us this photo calls it “Midnight Couch Photo,” presumably having something to do with the time of the photo. In any case, what’s interesting is the where the couch was located: at Raccuglia’s funeral home at Sackett & Court Streets in Carroll Gardens, making it our first funeral couch.

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The Public Place project has led to new concerns in Carroll Gardens. Yesterday, we got a flurry of emails from several people about asbestos removal work that’s been going on a 455 Smith Street, which is a huge warehouse that was quietly added to the Public Place project after a development team to build Gowanus […]

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Five of nine developments in Carroll Gardens questioned by the community after the “narrow streets” zoning change was enacted last week have been hit with Stop Work Orders by the Department of Buildings. (The photo above is of 360 Smith Street before work was halted.) This is because they are not complete enough to be […]

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[Photo courtesy of F. Jasmin Adams] Our Carroll Gardens Correspondent passes along this image of a rather fascinating neighborhood moth that’s hatched in the hot weather in the spirit of our on-and-off focus on natural Brooklyn things.

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[Photo courtesy of nedward.org/GL Photo Pool Flickr] On the heels of the zoning text amendment’s passage and a Stop Work Order from the Department of Buildings at 360 Smith Street, the planned closing of an entrance to the Carroll Street subway station has been put on hold. Per an email from the MTA: The MTA […]

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Yesterday, we posted about what the impact of the Narrow Streets Zoning Text Amendment would be on the 360 Smith Street project (aka Oliver House aka the former Heavy Metal Building). By late yesterday afternoon, we knew: it was hit with a Stop Work Order because the plans don’t conform to the news zoning and […]

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Does the “Narrow Streets” Zoning Text Amendment mean trouble for the controversial 360 Smith Street building (the former Heavy Metal Building) known as Oliver House? It could be. The amendment takes effect right away and the building’s foundation does not appear to be complete enough to be vested under the old zoning. One resident we […]

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An effort to officially define a number of very narrow streets in Carroll Gardens as actually being narrow for zoning purposes received unanimous support from the City Council yesterday afternoon. The “Narrow Streets” Zoning Text Amendment had won wide political and community support. It changes obscure, yet critical, zoning language that had considered very narrow […]

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There is significant excitement in Carroll Gardens neighborhood circles today as the City Council is slated to vote on the “narrow streets” Zoning Text Amendment. The technical change will redefine very narrow neighborhood streets as being narrow for zoning purposes. They have been defined as “wide” because the front gardens of buildings were counted as […]

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There was a unanimous 6-0 City Council committee vote yesterday on the Carroll Gardens narrow streets zoning text amendment that puts the crucial zoning change one step closer to an almost assured City Council approval on Wednesday. A special GL Correspondent reports that many supporters of the amendment, which would define very narrow streets in […]

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[Photo courtesy of nedward.org/GL Photo Pool Flickr] We’ve run a couple of items this week about the impending closure of the biggest entrance to the Carroll Street subway station in Carroll Gardens so that work can go ahead on the 360 Smith Street project (also known as Oliver House). This is a look at what […]

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[Photo courtesy of Brooklyn Streets] We noted yesterday that an entrance to the Carroll Street Station in Carroll Gardens will soon be shut down to accommodate the construction of the 360 Smith Street development. Here’s a bit more detail from the MTA that went out yesterday: This is to inform you that MTA NYC Transit […]

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Our faithful and wonderful Carroll Gardens correspondent laid this photos and two after the jump on us, in an email with the subject line “Kafkaesque in CG” (which could apply to dozens of thing going on at any given moment in the land use and development business in Carroll Gardens). She was talking about actual […]

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During the public discussion about the 360 Smith Street project in Carroll Gardens, aka Oliver House, there was much discussion of the plaza in front of the Carroll Street Station and of the need to close one of the station’s entrances during part of the construction. There were concerns among some residents that the closing […]

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This is the former site of the International Longshoreman’s Association Building (aka 340 Court) at Court and Union that has been the subject of much contention and bitterness in the neighborhood. There’s nothing left of the old structure but a lot of rubble and a hole where the building’s basement used to be. A couple […]

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The Carroll Gardens group called CORD, which formed around the contentious issue of the design of 360 Smith Street (now known as the Oliver House Condos) and went on to push for a broader downzoning of the neighborhood, must be in a good mood. Late yesterday, the group started circulating a “thank you” email for […]

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Today’s New York Times profile of eatery entrepreneur Jim Mamary and his partners delves into the topic of the controversial Hoyt Street oyster bar which was the subject of an epic and bitter struggle with the community. On the one hand, they say the hassle cost them money and was very personal and they’d never […]

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Here’s a street couch we found waiting for pick up in Carroll Gardens the other day. Nice specimen.

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We know that bars in residential parts of the neighborhood tend to really upset Carroll Gardens residents, but how about TV commercial for Microsoft? Would an Apple shoot tick off fewer people? In any case, Thursday is Bill Gates Day on Carroll Street.

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This series of photos in video format comes from Variable Resistance and was included in our GL Flickr Pool. The images were made on a camera mounted on the front of a bike on a ride to work.

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Yesterday, a “zoning text amendment” that redefines very narrow streets in Carroll Gardens as being narrow for zoning purposes, cutting the height of buildings that can be built on them, passed the City Planning Commission by a unanimous vote. It goes to the City Council on July 23, where easy approval is expected. In the […]

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The “narrow streets” zoning text amendment that would redefine a number of narrow Carroll Gardens streets as actually being narrow for zoning purposes was passed by the City Planning Commission today by a unanimous vote. The measure would define the streets as 50 wide rather than the current 130 feet (which counts front gardens) and […]

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A feature called I Hate Valentines Day is shooting on Smith Street this week (it’s actually one of several shoots in Carroll Gardens). The Smith Street action takes place tomorrow and, given the film’s synopsis on IMDB, there’s little mystery why Smith has been chosen as a location: “A florist tries to convince a restaurant […]

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