Want a way to buy from local designers and to do a good deed at the same time? Then, consider doing some holiday shopping at the Brooklyn Indie Market on Smith Street on Saturday and Sunday (12/15 and 12/16). The designers will be donating up to 15 percent of their receipts to benefit at-risk families […]

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Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn[Photo courtesy of a special GL friend]

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Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn

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Is the Carroll Gardens Democracy Wall where residents have been posting murals and news articles about development news in their community in danger? It could be. There’s a sense among residents that both the police and local politicians may try to put an end to what has become a community fixture over the last six […]

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Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn[Photo courtesy of a special GL Correspondent]

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Here’s a bit of Carroll Gardens serendipity from a special correspondent with a good eye who’s been showering us with neighborhood goodness. In sending this photo to the GL Inbox in an email with the subject line “CG Secret,” our correspondent simply wrote: “’49 Caddy, Carroll Gardens, President Street.” Note the dust on the car, […]

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Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn[Photo courtesy of a Special GL Correspondent]

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The GL reader who emailed us this shot correctly identified our love of odds street signs, if not mixed messages. He writes: This one was taken on smith @ president (by the Gowanus Yacht Club.) Sounds like the DOT does not take any responsibility…you can cross the street at your own risk. Well, one should […]

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Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn

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The Carroll Gardens CORD group, which has been pushing for a development moratorium and fast action on rezoning has sent out another letter to elected officials. It says in part: “Who is watching out for our safety? Who is protecting our property? Why does it seem as though the developer’s rights and interests are put […]

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Carroll Gardens[Photo courtesy of a special GL Correspondent]

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Enjoy a little video report that covers love and real estate in Carroll Gardens. It’s from the wonderful Rachel Natalie Klein at IntoTheBox.TV.

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What is going on at 340 Court Street? Well, the photo, which was shot yesterday afternoon by a special GL Correpondent shows that a big dig is underway in the back of the former medical building that is going to be demolished. We also know that complaints have been filed with the Department of Buildings […]

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That shot-up car with the busted out back window and blood stained interior that had sat in a bus stop at Union and Henry Streets for nearly two weeks is gone. The story of the car had made the Sun yesterday, with credit to Curbed, where we first posted it, and NY1 (which is heavily […]

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Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn[Photo courtesy of a Special GL Correspondent]

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The shot-up car parked at a Carroll Gardens bus stop that we posted about on both Curbed and on GL yesterday is explored further in today’s Sun, which says it “appears to have slipped through the cracks” of the police evidence storage system. It’s supposed to be gone by tonight.

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Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn

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These buildings are neighbors. The two photos were sent to us by the same very special GL correspondent who provided yesterday’s tale of the Carniceria sign on Smith Street. Our correspondent writes: Picture one [left] is of very nice, renovated brownstone with, not-quite-original- but-it’ll-do, iron shutters. On Union Street in Carroll Gardens. This lovely thing […]

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Smith Street, Carroll Gardens

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We enjoy the Carroll Gardens Democracy Wall at the Carroll Street subway station. It is part of the now well-known plaza at the Second Place exit that will be closed for construction of the controversial building at 360 Smith Street, which led to both the wall and the CORD neighborhood group. Dozens of message appear […]

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It’s unclear what’s going to end up being built at 340 Court Street with the developers, the Clarett Group, saying that they’ll be putting up a six or seven story building and residents still afraid of a 21-story tower (which is theoretically okay under current zoning). What’s more certain is that the demolition crews got […]

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Yesterday evening was one of those times when it would have been useful to be in several places at once. At things would have it, we were under the weather an unable to be at any of them. So, we’re grateful to be able to refer to some superb coverage today by people that did […]

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The Carroll Gardens “Public Forum” on landmarking is taking place tonight (11/19) at 6:30 PM in the auditorium at PS 58. The panel will be moderated by Robert Levine, who chairs the Landmarks Committee of Community Board 6. Written questions will be submitted to a panel, but it’s our understanding that there will not be […]

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It doesn’t seem to us that anything has changed dramatically, but Planning Commissioner Amanda Burden recently noted in a letter to Borough President Marty Markowitz that there will be a fairly long time line for rezoning Carroll Gardens (as per significant local sentiment) and that she can’t “commit to a precise timeframe.” She writes, in […]

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Some Carroll Gardeners are fighting the war against plastic bags by avoiding them when they toss their recycling on the sidewalk. Way to go, neighbors.–Pardon Me for Asking

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