We have no answer here, just a question submitted by a GL Reader: I hear from one of my neighbors that there was a shooting last night, a few minutes before midnight, on 12th St between 3rd & 4th. Unclear if someone was shot or if it was ‘just’ gun-play. Any word on this? We […]

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[Photo courtesy of K. Lapp/GL Flickr Pool] The photographer writes: “Strolling the canal today, I discovered that the old flat mirror on a woodpost that allowed me to see back to the Kentile sign has been taken down, and a new convex mirror has been put up. It offers its own cool views, as seen […]

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While some projects like Robert Scarano’s Satori get all the enlightenment attention, there are other buildings going up on Bond Street. This, for instance is 398 Bond, which makes itself quite a presence on the low-rise street. It was briefly hit with a Stop Work Order back in October, but it was quickly back in […]

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[Photo courtesy of chadwbecks/GL Flickr Pool] Gowanus tundra, indeed.

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Well, sometimes when you put up a post and you don’t know the answer, you get one. Such is the case with the mysterious big green building at the corner of Union and Bond Streets in Gowanus and has been on and off the markets. The broker from Brooklyn Heights Real Estate involved in the […]

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[Photo courtesy of Stephanie Faith Wiens] This is the old BMT powerplant in Gowanus, also known at the Batcave. Revelations that it was a squatters paradise nearly three years ago prompted anonymous threats to a photographer and an anonymous online harassment campaign that was referred to in the New York Times on Sunday. (The cyber […]

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[Photo for GL courtesy of F. Jasmin Adams] This is Bond Street in Gowanus in yesterday’s snow, looking peaceful. The building in the photo would be the southernmost part of the property upon which the Toll Brothers want to build their big Gowanus Condo Project.

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[Photo courtesy of happyjayme/GL Flickr Pool] It’s that darned Gowanus light, better than Venice itself, but not quite as good as Amsterdam.

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[Click to enlarge] A couple of weeks ago we noted on Curbed that a prominent Gowanus building at Bond and Union Street that used to be well known for its graffiti and street art was back on the market. The big unused warehouse (which was the scene of a counterfeit baseball merchandise bust during the […]

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There’s nothing new about the Carroll Street Bridge being tagged up or vandalized, and we realize that we feature plenty of images of what people would consider vandalism, but there’s something that bothers us about seeing our favorite little bridge in New York City being messed up in stupid ways. For instance, was it really […]

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The Department of Housing Preservation and Development crew, which managed to tick off a lot of Carroll Gardens residents by holding an important hearing in the middle of the holiday and with little prominent pubic notice, has send out another email noting that the period for public comment was extended. It says: We wanted to […]

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[Photo courtesy of K. Lapp/GL Flickr Pool] There is something appealing about all those trailers sitting there in Gowanus near the shores of Brooklyn’s Grand Canal.

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Dude is either nuts or really enjoying himself. This was around dusk when it was really getting cold.

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[Photo courtesy of nifty pete/GL Flickr Pool] It’s either an F or a G Train (we presume an F) in the Great Gowanus Metroplex at night.

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[Photo courtesy Smith & 9th/GL Flickr Pool] Here’s a fascinating and different angle on an old Gowanus landmark.

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Just last week we called the Toll Brothers proposed condo on the banks of the Gowanus one of our five rotting corpses of 2009. That’s because we think the project will be approved but won’t be built in the current economic climate. The Toll firm itself so deep in financial shit that Robert Toll is […]

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[Photo courtesy of robby-T/GL Flickr Pool] Gowanus industry, taken close to where the photographer lives.

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[Photo courtesy of New York Public Library] This is Carroll Street at Bond Street looking toward the Gowanus Canal. The building with the smokestacks is the power plant that is still standing today. This photo is from 1930.

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We do love the Toll Brothers proposal for a condo on the shores of the Gowanus that we are fairly convinced won’t be built any time soon, partly because the developer’s finances are–how to put this–going down the shitter with astounding speed. In any case the firm is looking for a spot rezoning of property […]

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[Vid courtesy of chadwbecks/GL Flickr Pool]

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This one kind of fell through the cracks before the holidays, as a reader wrote us about going to Hotel Le Bleu on Fourth Avenue seeking to imbibe at the lounge on the top floor. As readers may know, we’ve been calling it Tres, Tres, Tres Bleu because the whole freaking hotel is lit up […]

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Here’s a fun one from our friends at the Municipal Art Society that shows the Carroll Street Bridge, one of the few surviving retractile bridges left, opening and closing. It’s a fascinating thing to watch if you’ve never seen it and it is, without question, our favorite bridge in Brooklyn.

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A GL Reader sent us this pic of squatters leaving a boarded up building in the Greater Gowanus Metroplex. We not going to get into the address and have crop out identifying details as well as blurred the faces of the people leaving. We think the continued presence of squatters in the neighborhood is an […]

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Remember, the Gowanus Canal Conservancy is having an art show and sale called “A Sense of Place” through tomorrow. They’ve added some items too. It takes place at 298 Bond Street between Sackett and Union Street, today and tomorrow from 11AM to 7PM. On Monday, remaining art will be 20 per cent off. Here’s some […]

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