Carroll Gardens residents will be talking about the Battle of 360 Smith Street at a meeting of the Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association tonight. It should be a spirited discussion, with residents trying to work out their expectations for the building, particularly its height along both Second Street and Second Place, and the future of the […]

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Some Carroll Gardens residents say they are disapppointed that yesterday’s rally on Smith Street was more about architect Robert Scarano than about the building he is designing in their neighborhood. One resident wrote to say: There was both some gratitude that [City Council Member Bill] de Blasio wants to point his finger at Scarano (who […]

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Significant news on the 360 Smith Street front after some residents met with the developer, William Stein. If you’ve been following the story, the neighborhood has been in a mini-revolt for nearly two weeks about a building designed by Robert Scarano that would go at Second Place and Smith Street. GL first reported the story […]

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The Battle of 360 Smith Street will heat up again tomorrow (Wednesday, 6/6) with a rally at 12:30 that is being organized by Council Member Bill de Blasio. (We’ve gotten four press release emails about the rally, not counting emails that have simply mentioned it.) Although architect Robert Scarano is said to have redesigned the […]

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Another development overnight in the Battle of 360 Smith Street. That’s the Carroll Gardens development sight that has sparked a noisy neighborhood revolt over the size and design of a proposed building and led to a rally that will take place on Wednesday, June 6 at 12:30. As it turns out, some of the signage […]

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One begins to get the sense that this is not a good time to be an architect who can be used as the poster boy for everything that is wrong with Brooklyn development. When a Carroll Gardens resident leading the charge against the controversial Heavy Metal Big Red Brick Building on Smith Street passed along […]

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Thanks to Z. Madison for bringing this to our attention, as it had escaped us entirely: There is an E-Waste Drive going on in Carroll Gardens this weekend that has been organized by City Council Member Bill de Blasio. It’s another opportunity to dispose of unwanted computers, VCRs, cell phones and other unwanted electronic gear […]

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As we’ve reported, architect Robert Scarano is apparently changing the exterior design of his building at Second Place and Smith Street from metal to red brick. However, Carroll Gardens residents say their opposition is as much about the scale of the eight-story building in the neighborhood of two- and three-story brownstones as it is about […]

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That sound you hear at the on Smith Street near the Carroll Street subway stop? It’s the noise of the community organizing to try to seriously change a building planned for Smith Street and Second Place. The image above is a rendering someone in the neighborhood created and put on a flyer showing how what […]

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That building that could rise at Smith Street and Second Place in Carroll Gardens has, um, struck quite a chord in the neighborhood. First, we got an email from our original tipster noting common ownership of the lot at 360 Smith Street where the eight-story Heavy Metal Building designed by architect Robert Scarano would go […]

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When we got an email the other day from someone trying to rally opposition to a new development on Smith Street and 2nd Place we immediately realized they were talking about a building whose rendering has been posted for a long time. The plans have been filed and were just disapproved, but that could only […]

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We return to our “What’s That Thing on Top” feature, looking at interesting building additions around Brooklyn. The “Thing” comes to us from 116 3rd Place in Carroll Gardens and it is currently especially noticeable given that it’s yellow. The addition is a fourth floor and a penthouse and we can happily say that a […]

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