There is another electronics recycling opportunity in Carroll Gardens coming up at the end of the month. It’s one of the Department of Sanitation-sponsored collections and it will be happening on Smith Street between Carroll and President Streets. Collection times are Saturday May 31, 10am-4pm, Sunday June 1, 10am-4pm and Monday June 2, 4pm-7pm. (More […]

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The Carroll Gardens Neigbhorhood Association is having its next monthly meeting on Monday, May 12 at 7:30. It takes place at the St. Mary Star of the Sea Senior Residence, which is located at 41 First St. The agenda includes a “Report on Post Office Community Meeting” by Frank Verderame, an update on the Regional […]

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This is a very busy night in Carroll Gardens in terms of meetings, with three important ones at once: 1) Borough President Marty Markowitz will hold a public meeting to discuss the pending zoning text amendment in Carroll Gardens proposed by the Department of City Planning. Residents have been working hard to gather support for […]

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This is the Public Place site between Smith Street and the Gowanus Canal that is under going some preliminary site prep work while remediation plans are formulated for the contaminated land. (Public Place was the site of a Manufactured Gas Plant and left over toxins are deep underground and must be cleaned up by National […]

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Yesterday’s Court Street Fair in Carroll Gardens found the new South Brooklyn Neighborhood Alliance with a booth and groups handing out information about a proposed zoning text change that would redefine a number of streets in the neighborhood as narrow ones, reducing the height of potential new developments and buildings. (The very narrow streets are […]

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[Photo courtesy of JP Pagan] There was some excitement after the Court Street Fair in Carroll Gardens yesterday evening. JP Pagan, whose wonderful photos we featured in a gallery last week, emailed to send these photos and reported, “Fire engines filled Carroll Street all along the park this evening. A couple of firemen took the […]

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After several years of construction work, the scaffolding is coming down from the Robert Scarano-designed building on Bond Street that we call the Bunker and that is known for marketing purposes as Satori (“instant enlightenment“). This is the view at sidewalk level courtesy of our Carroll Gardens correspondent who, in addition to filing these photos, […]

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[Photo courtesy of drhoff22/flickr] If you were running out of tube socks, had destroyed your last pair of cheap sun glasses or were going insane due to zeppole and sausage sandwich deprivation, help has arrived. It’s street fair season! The Brooklyn season sort of kicks off with the one on Court Street in Carroll Gardens […]

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[Photo courtesy of F. Jasmin Adams] This photo comes from our Carroll Gardens Correspondent from Court Street: “Here is the old Polly-O parrot logo poking out from the Triufenel Deli sign on Court and President. They took over the old Pastosa pasta store which then morphed into Fratelli across the street. Fratelli has since closed […]

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So, what’s this Carroll Gardens “narrow streets” zoning text amdendment thing all about? Several groups in Carroll Gardens have prepared the equivalent of an FAQ about the text amendment, which is now moving through the public review process. It’s been posted by the CORD group among others, but we’re also presenting it here.

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To those that have not been following the contentious Carroll Gardens issue known as 340 Court Street, this is probably just a weird photo of a construction fence. Those who are fans of the former International Longshoreman’s Association Building, however, will understand the significance of the emptiness: 340 Court Street is gone. Well, at least, […]

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This new Tale of Brooklyn Childcare Woe comes from Carroll Park in Carroll Gardens, raises the specter of nanny-needing parents cruising the parks and byways to try to hire away Someone Else’s Nanny. Exhibit A is an email circulating via the BoCoCa Parents group: As we all know finding a good nanny is difficult. I […]

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Among the many changes that neighborhood activists have been pushing in Carroll Gardens is a change in old city zoning regulations that define some very narrow streets in the neighborhood as “wide streets,” allowing for the possible development of tall buildings. The Department of City Planning has apparently agreed to a zoning text amendment that […]

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