The “Gowanus Transformations: Celebrating 150 Years of Manufacturing” exhibition opens this week at the Brooklyn Historical Society. It’s curated by Christine Mackellar, Margaret Maugenest, Friends and Residents of the Greater Gowanus (FROGG) and Southwest Brooklyn Industrial Development Corp. and South Brooklyn Local Development Corp and “focuses on a group of diverse businesses that demonstrate 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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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 a rendering of the entrance to the Smith-9th Street station, which is slated to be closed for more than a year for renovations. A redone station is supposed to reopen in 2011, but we haven’t seen any recent timetables, so it’s unclear if the original estimate is accurate any longer. We found this […]

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This face was forwarded to us by our Carroll Gardens Correspondent from Bond Street in Gowanus. We’re unclear as to who or what it is, but it has that certain something.

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A Starbucks may be coming to Fourth Avenue and Third Street on the Gowanus side of the neighborhood line. Yesterday, we noted the demolition of the former Parkside Auto Repair at the corner of 3rd & Fourth, which is being offered up for 20,000 square feet of retail. An informed GL reader emailed to say […]

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There is more compelling evidence of the serious upscaling and development of Third Avenue in Gowanus. This is is a recently cleared development site at 433 Third Avenue, as noted by Brownstoner back in February, which will be developed as a six-story residential building with 27 units. It comes from SLCE, an architectural outfit that’s […]

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Chalk up another car-related business formally gone from Fourth Avenue. We say “formally” because Parkside Auto Repair closed last year, having sold its property for $3.75 million. Since then, signs have offered the property for up to 20,000 of retail space. The demolition equipment came for the garage, which is now gone. There are no […]

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It’s starting to look like the big development at Public Place is going to get a lot larger. The winning Hudson Companies proposal included 774 units of housing and tens of thousands of square feet of commercial and community space. When presentations were made in Carroll Gardens during the winter the possibility that an adjacent […]

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After we put up a post yesterday about the (possibly in violation of Stop Work Order) demolition going on at the site of a Fairfield Inn in Gowanus, we got an email from Friends and Residents of Greater Gowanus about a meeting that the Department of Environmental Conservation is having on Wednesday, May 7 from […]

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A reader passed along some interesting news about a new cafe and wine bar that’s going to be opening in Gowanus near the Carroll Street Bridge. We don’t have a name or more specific info on it, but we stopped by over the weekend and looked through the window to check out the cafe/bar under […]

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Demolition is underway on the site of a new hotel planned for Third Avenue between Douglass and Butler Streets. As reported by Brownstoner a couple of weeks ago, the hotel will be a Fairfield Inn. DOB records show that it will be a nine-story building with 134 rooms. The interesting thing is that when we […]

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This is Union Street in Gowanus at the foot of the Union Street Bridge where there is always a garden. Come summer, there will be sunflowers here.

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Last week, we had a special sneak preview of the Center for the Urban Enviornment‘s cool new Gowanus headquarters. The public grand opening takes place on Saturday, May 10 from 11:30AM-4PM. Per an email: The Center for the Urban Environment opens the doors to its new green building with hands-on fun for the entire family. […]

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The Robert Scarano building on Bond Street, which we last heard from when a guard dog got loose and mauled a dog being walked, has gotten a name: Satori. It will be marketed by the Developer’s Group. The building has had an interesting history, starting with the demolition of an historic carriage house and continuing […]

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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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“For about 30 years I’ve been on bended knee,” says [Carroll Gardens Civic Association founder] Buddy Scotto, “begging developers to come into Carroll Gardens. It’s hard for people who haven’t been involved to understand how difficult it’s been…All of a sudden there are all these people who are concerned about high buildings are going to […]

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Perhaps a Maypole dance in Gowanus would float your boat? We got an email from Proteus Gowanus about one they’re having on Sunday, May 4 at 3PM. There’s nothing we can add to what we received, so we’ll simply go to the copy and past: A Dance Around the Maypole: proto-speed-dating and the ancient rite […]

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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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After last last week’s excitement about the selection of the Hudson Companies to develop the toxic Public Place site as Gowanus Green, we swung by to check on the progress of pre-cleanup work there. Concrete is being dug up and removed from the site, leading to neighborhood concerns about what will happen if/when contaminants are […]

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The Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment has moved into cool new digs on newly-hot Seventh Street in Gowanus (which will also be the site of the new Union Hall venue). We got an early look at it last week, but were asked to keep the photos to ourselves until today. Well, the day has […]

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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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We found artist Pasqualina Azzarello working on her mural at the development going up at the corner of Third and Bond in Gowanus. She has been expanding the huge mural and even extending around the construction trailer. Brownstoner has been running weekly posts about the development. The latest has some renderings of the design from […]

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