[Photo courtesy of arichman33/flickr] The Gowanus Goes Green event, which we have posted about before, is this Sunday, June 1, from 11AM-6PM. Our point here, though, is to show how the event is being promoted locally, as per this photo shot on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope. The sponsors are taking the green theme quite […]

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We love these flowers, which bloom every year in May at the Union Street Bridge over the Gowanus Canal. They are a type of Clematis, which is part of the buttercup family. It’s a Royal Paulownia.

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We were a little surprised to see Public Place painted green when the F Train came around the bend from Smith-9th Street toward the Carroll Street stop. (Insert joke here about how this is why the Hudson Companies called their winning proposal to develop the property Gowanus Green.) We’d shot a photo of the site […]

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This is not a Brooklyn story except that a GL reader brought a post to our attention about solar lily pads that won a design competition for the Clyde River in Glasgow. He wondered if they had any use in the Gowanus. We don’t know about that, but we do know that you can read […]

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Just before noon our inbox lit up with forwarded copies of a press release from the Toll Brothers announcing their new tollbrothersgowanus.com website. The site has info about the developer’s big 460-unit development on the Gowanus Canal, a comment feedback form and promises updates about developments and meetings throughout the land use approval process and, […]

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The next phase of the long process of rezoning Gowanus will start on May 29. That’s when an “update and presentation” by the Department of City Planning on the next phase of the Gowanus Land Use Framework will take place. The meeting will take place at PS 32, which is located at 317 Hoyt Street, […]

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If you take photos of Brooklyn and you post them on flickr, we’d love to have them in our new Gowanus Lounge Flickr Pool. Pay it a visit and tag them “gowanuslounge.” [Photo courtesy of Dalton Rooney/flickr] This is the placid Gowanus as it looks from the Union Street Bridge along with the pretty reflections […]

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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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We were swamped yesterday and didn’t have a chance to post this photo that our Carroll Gardens Correspondent sent of a Sponge Park Sponge at the Court Street Fair. In case Sponge Park doesn’t ring a bell it’s a proposal for an eco-friendly park along the banks of the Gowanus Canal.

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Circle June 1 on your calendar for a Gowanus Goes Green event from the Gowanus Canal Conservancy, “a fun, family-friendly eco-festival to be held on the banks of the Gowanus Canal and along the historic Carroll Street Bridge. The event will be free to the public and will showcase an assortment of environmentally-conscious products and […]

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This is the plan for Sponge Park. We pulled out the image above to allow a better view because it contains some interesting elements. Of note, is the part of the park envisioned to surround the old power plant near the canal. This is property that was proposed as Gowanus Village by developer Shaya Boymelgreen […]

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Here are renderings of Sponge Park, which was presented by the Gowanus Canal Conservancy this week. The design comes from dlandstudio and is of a park that “would be aesthetically beautiful while working to reduce the problem of contaminated water flowing into the Gowanus Canal. The plan proposes a continuous esplanade running the length of […]

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There’s an interesting sounding meeting that’s being put together in Gowanus on May 7. It will take place on Second Street at the Gowanus Canal from 6:30PM-8:30PM. Per an email that’s been posted by Tom Gray from Council Member Bill de Blasio’s office: I would like to invite you to be involved in an open […]

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It’s been an eventful, if not tumultuous month or two, for the Gowanus Canal and Gowanus. Last week, the Hudson Companies was picked to develop the polluted Public Place site. Earlier, Toll Brothers unveiled their plan for a big Gowanus development and their intention to leapfrog the city planning process. A new gallery opened on […]

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The city has picked the Hudson Companies development team to build ‘Gowanus Green‘ at Public Place between the Gowanus Canal and Smith Street. Rogers Marvel is the project architect. The development will include 774 apartments, 38,000 square feet of retail and 100,000 square of open space. A big cleanup of the toxic site has to […]

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This is an “environmentally-conscious public park space around the Gowanus Canal” called Sponge Park that comes from the Gowanus Canal Conservancy and is designed by dlandstudio. There will be a presentation about it on Monday, April 21 at 6:30PM at PS 58, which is in Carroll Gardens at 330 Smith Street at the corner of […]

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Among the things that spring means are more chances to get out on the Gowanus Canal. So it is with the 9th Annual Gowanus Canal Earth Day Flotilla. This will be happening on Sunday, April 20 from 11AM-3PM and will include “a ceremonial eco-cruise” on the Big G. It is sponsored by the Urban Divers […]

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The sunset in Gowanus was spectacular last night, and we happened to be on the Third Street Bridge, just as the clouds turned a variety of shades of fiery yellows and oranges. Enjoy.

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For all of the intense reaction to the Toll Brothers proposal to build a 447 unit development in Gowanus, the project would not be far out of line with what the city is likely to propose for the neighborhood. The outlines of the city’s plan won’t be known for a bit, but buildings of 10-14 […]

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Yesterday, we posted about the presentation by a team from the Toll Brothers about their big and controversial project on the Gowanus Canal. Here are some renderings of the development, which has been designed by GreenbergFarrow with landscape architecture by Lee Weintraub, which we posted yesterday on Curbed, but didn’t feature here.

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A team of architects, planners and others working on the big Toll Brothers project along the Gowanus Canal made a presentation in Carroll Gardens last night. The group briefed the Community Board 6 Land Use Committee and fielded questions from an audience of about 50 people. Despite rhetoric in the community that has been heated […]

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The Toll Brothers are coming. Well, not Bob Toll himself, but some company representatives (most likely Development VP David Von Sprecklesen) to make a presentation on the big and controversial proposal for housing on the Gowanus Canal. The presentation will be a committee of Community Board 6, which this week weighed in a with a […]

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Community Board 6 has submitted its written testimony in the “scoping” process for the big Toll Brothers development on the Gowanus Canal. Among other things, the Community Board says the environmental review must look at the development in the context of other big projects that could be coming to the neighborhood and weigh its impact […]

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[Photo courtesy of Stanley Greenberg] This photo of flowers starting to bloom came to us courtesy of the Gowanus Dredgers, which planted them at the foot of Second Street at the Gowanus Canal where they launch their canoes. The trailers in the background, by the way, are on property that would become part of the […]

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Pratt Center for Community Development Director and City Council candidate Brad Lander was among those who spoke at the City Planning Scoping hearing on Thursday on the big and controversial Toll Brothers project in Gowanus. Late on Friday, Mr. Lander emailed to us to clarify things because he had been described as giving testimony that […]

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