[Photo courtesy of Meg Greene] The photographer says: “During one of mymany sojurnes down 4th Ave I turned a corner and found a set of beautiful cars on the sidewalk. From across the street they appeared to be in pristine condition but upclose I noticed that the tires were flat and the inside was totally […]

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There may come a time when rooms in Gowanus are available for $29.99 a night because the entire Manhattan market has crashed, but for now, the hotels that will be charging those prices are moving along. We’ve already written of the Super8 that will be nearing completion on Third Avenue, but there is also activity […]

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[Photo for GL by Meg Groome] Everybody knows about the roof guard dogs in Gowanus and some people have seen them from street level or from the F Train. Well, GL Contributor and blogger Meg Groome caught them and here what she wrote about them: I was at the Smith and 9th Street station and […]

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Given the hornet’s nest of opposition stirred by a relatively small project like Billy Stein’s 360 Smith Street and the intense hostility directed at the Toll Brothers Gowanus condo rezoning proposal, there has been relatively little discussion about the huge Gowanus Green (Public Place) development between Smith Street and the Gowanus Canal. The picked the […]

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Worried about forclosure? In over your head? Get taken to the cleaners by some sub-prime lending scumbag? Problem solved. Call this number and you can “escape foreclosure.” We trust signs likes these in times like these tethered to telphone poles. Don’t you?

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There’s probably been more than one family from Ohio that’s had a collective bowel movement when they set eyes on the “Brooklyn Bridge” Comfort Inn on Butler Street off Third Avenue in Gowanus. Let’s just say it’s the kind of street that makes people want to fart and dash for the shitter if they’re not […]

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The fugly building erected at 9th and Smith Streets, right next to the old Russo Realty and Notary empire, is getting a spiritual tenant: the Center of Light. Correspondent Max Casey sniffed this one out and was panting while filing the report and photo. While brick would be more appropriate for the Man from Bricolage, […]

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(Click to enlarge) This is Bond and Carroll Streets in Gowanus way back in the winter of 2003. The reader who sent us this photo, which certainly brings back some memories, wrote: This is pre-construction bond&carroll street (2003). 346 bond, the roll-gated building, used to be a hansom carriage repair shop complete with a filled […]

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[Photo courtesy of megunski/GL Flickr Pool] Our favorite abandoned Whole Foods site in Gowanus is starting to get that nice earth tone fall look.

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We got an email from the Friends and Residents of Greater Gowanus group (FROGG) called “Defend the Gowanus.” It’s about a new online petition calling for a cleanup of the deeply polluted canal and protecting it from development that would worsen conditions. Here’s the email: I wanted to share this petition I created online that […]

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[Photo courtesy of Shield/GL Fickr Pool] It is, in its way, classic Gowanus.

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There are not many things in this world about which we are certain and we think our level of certainty decreases with each passing day. However one thing we know with absolutely certainty that we love are the Gowanus Canal ducks. There is nothing new about the ducks or other wildlife on the Gowanus. It’s […]

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This is not the first time we’ve posted about relatively open access and weird things at the landmarked building at the corner of Third Avenue and Third Street in Gowanus on the (maybe) Whole Foods site. The building is not owned by Whole Foods, but at various times, windows have been removed, the front doors […]

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Yesterday, Curbed dug up a number of renderings of the new Ismael Leyva building that would rise at 150 Fourth Avenue where a row of old apartment buildings was demolished earlier this year. In fact, last week, we posted about an adjoining building that has had to be vacated because it was so badly damaged […]

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[Exclusive photos for Gowanus Lounge by Ted Guslavic] This is Littlefield, the upcoming club on Degraw Street in Gowanus between Fourth and Third Avenues. Our correspondent Ted Guslavic reports that he stuck his camera under the gate at Littlefield, was mildly menaced by a worker who caught him, but still came away with a few […]

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There are many lovely holiday displays on Carroll Street in Gowanus and Carroll Gardens. This is one from the Gowanus side and it just shows that an air conditioner doesn’t have to look like an air conditioner when it’s Santa’s time of year.

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[Photo courtesy of megunski/GL Flickr Pool] We have seen this vista a zillion times, but all we can say about this particularly striking shot is that it manages to creep us out. Big time.

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Want to see and/or buy some art highlighting the cityscape? Well, the Gowanus Canal Conservancy’s Holiday Art Show and Sale called “Gowanus: A Sense of Place” is “an homage to the cityscape highlighting the work of 16 local artists. The Opening Artists’ Reception is today (12/5) at 298 Bond Street (between Union and Sackett) from […]

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[Photo for GL Courtesy of Adrian Kinloch/Brit in Brooklyn] This is, of course, the world famous Gowanus water station on Nevins Street as captured in beautiful light by Adrian Kinloch.

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It’s just a little thing, but the horrendously noisy and disruptive de-paving of streets like Dean and Carroll in recent weeks to prepare for repaving has exposed some of the original paving stone that existed before pavement did. This is a shot of Carroll Street in between dust clouds raised by passing cars. Some of […]

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That hotel that’s been under construction on Third Avenue for a while is not going to be a Days Inn or a Quality Inn or anything of that nature. While no permits have yet been filed with the Department of Buildings for signs a very reliable source–one of the construction workers–tells one of our GL […]

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It is another testament to the growing cultural face of the Gowanus, Cabinet, the quarterly magazine of art and culture, has moved to a 1,900 sq ft event and exhibition space on 300 Nevins St. According to their website, “Programming will include exhibitions, screenings, talks, dinners, symposia, performances, boating expeditions, and more.” The Cabinet event […]

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This bus has been parked all over Gowanus in recent weeks. Yesterday, a special correspondent spied it on Bond Street parked in front of the Robert Scarano-designed Satori Condos. As we know, Satori m means instant enlightment and while we’re leaning toward believing that the enlightenment that is coming here is that people are unwilling […]

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What’s amazing about this photo isn’t what’s there. It’s what’s not there: the roadwork that’s been going on on Third Avenue at the site of a bridge over the Gowanus for about two years. Yes, the work is actually finished, the bridge has been rebuilt and all the barriers have been removed. That was fast.

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A special GL Correspondent took note of the amount of work that’s been going on at the former prayer book factory on Third Street in Gowanus that is being converted into a mixed use project incuding a boutique hotel that could actually become one of the more interesting properties in Brooklyn. The official address is […]

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