The Gowanus Dredgers are going to be having their annual party in Gowanus in a couple of weeks. Here’s word from them: Celebrate the rebirth of Gowanus with a block party at the shoreline. Live music, All-u-can-eat BBQ from PJ Hanleys, Canoe tours, Kids’ entertainment, raffles with prizes from local shops & restaurants. Suggested donation […]

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This is a rendering from the massive Draft Environmental Impact Statement that has been done for the proposed Toll Brothers development in Gowanus, which has generated its share of community opposition. The massive document clocks in with 26 sections and runs hundreds of pages, covering some of the possible impacts the big project would have […]

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A special GL Contributor sent us this gem, suggesting that we change GL to Gowanuts Lounge. We had no idea what he meant by the email subject line until we looked carefully at the attachment. Well, sometimes one person might say Gowanus whereas another might say Gowanuts. Eh. Gowanus. Gowanuts. Same difference. Presumably, they’ll still […]

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Have you jumped in the pool and joined our big and growing GL Flickr Pool? If not, we hope you take the plunge because we’d love to see your photos and post them here. You can join the pool here or simply tag your pics “gowanuslounge.” [Photo courtesy of rembklyn/GL Flickr Pool] Here’s a view […]

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[Photo courtesy of rembklyn/GL Flickr Pool] Here is the Gowanus Canal reflecting some of its tagged up surroundings in another gorgeous shot submitted to our GL Flickr Pool by rembklyn.

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This is, of course, Hotel Le Bleu which opened earlier this year on Fourth Avenue in Gowanus. It was supposed to have a futuristic-looking lounge and restaurant at the top called Vue, which is described as “The new haunt of New York’s chic set. From its lofty perch on the 8th & 9th floors, take […]

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Bell House, the Gowanus venue on Seventh St. from Union Hall will be opening on September 18, with a free show including Matt Pond Pa and Lilys making it the first major new club to open its doors in the neighborhood. The new website is here. Per a press release from Union Hall: In the […]

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We almost hesitate to post this because it’s like embedding a commercial, but there’s something so compellingly odd about this vid for the upoming Gowanus venue Littlefield that we’re allowing ourselves to be suckered. What’s the name of the venue again?

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Workers have started reducing a President Street warehouse to rubble, clearing the way for another entry in Gowanus’ burgeoning hot-sheet scene hotel boom. A developer named SAI Hospitality plans to build a 100-plus-room hotel in place of the warehouse ; SAI also has designs on another vacant warehouse on the street, between 3rd and 4th […]

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That new venue on Degraw Street that was first reported in July by our friends at Brownstoner, has been fleshed out in detail by Gothamist and by Bumpershine after a press release started circulating. The venue, which will be located at 622 Degraw, will be called Littlefield. There’s a new website (which is just a […]

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There is progress to report in the long-running saga of the Gowanus Whole Foods. This comes on the heels of a post we had in early August about activity on the site and of statements from the grocer that they’re working up a revised plan, but that the company has certainly not abandoned its plan […]

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[Photo courtesy of sabeth718/GL Flickr Pool] Yes, it’s the Gowanus Canal. These are some of the pilings near the one of the bridges over our favorite b body of water in Brooklyn.

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This is old news in the sense that it happened at the beginning of the weekend, but it only merited a few lines in the crime blotter of the Post and we’ve been seeing a lot of emails on the local email lists asking what happened at the Douglass Pool in Gowanus. Here’s an email […]

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[Photo courtesy of mikebny/GL Flickr Pool] This is beautiful Union Street in Gowanus and the view toward Park Slope. The image comes from mikebny through our GL Flickr Pool. Do consider jumping in an joining if you haven’t.

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[Photo courtesy of June Carter Cash Peep/GL Flickr Pool] We’ve had photos of these sunflowers on Union Street near the Gowanus Canal before, but they are endlessly fascinating to us. We like the angle in this pic.

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“The Argyle condo on Fourth Avenue in Gowanus is finally starting to look like building. After a slow start, Argyle has added floors in both the front and back and has reached eight floors. In recent weeks, has actually become visible above the lower buildings around it….It bills itself as being in Park Slope, and […]

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So, is Monte’s Venetian Room on Carroll Street in Gowanus closed for renovations? Well, it is. If you look at the front door. A special GL Correspondent reveals, however, that there is more to it that than, particularly if one approaches from a different direction: On the face of it, Monte’s Venetian Room is telling […]

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On Saturday, August 16th, a “Maryland 400” remembrance ceremony was held at the Michael A. Rawley American Legion Post, located between 8th and 9th Streets and Third & Fourth Avenues. A faded New York State historic blue and yellow sign has been hanging in front of the Post on 9th Street commemorating the “Maryland Heroes” […]

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Francis Morrone takes a look at Gowanus in today’s Sun and offers up a taste local history and some thoughts about its past, present and future. He notes the neighborhood’s industrial history, quoting Lewis Mumford’s description from the 1950s of “grimy factories and warehouses and gas tanks” and “empty lots and industrial rubble” — evoking […]

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Oh, how times change. As if all the new buildings that have gone up and continue to go up on Fourth Avenue, taking out some of the more traditional businesses like garages and auto body shops along the way aren’t enough evidence of massive change on Fourth Avenue. (Plus things like eye glass shops and […]

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Rooftop Films is hitting off all the local blogs about an upcoming screening of a film about Rawanda on their beautiful Gowanus rooftop. Here’s the email that we (and others) received: This is Danielle from Rooftop Films (www.rooftopfilms.com). I’m writing to let you know about one of our upcoming shows. Saturday, August 23rd, at 8:00pm […]

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[Photo courtesy of 66 Square Feet] The Gowanus sunflowers are looking great these days. This image comes from 66 Square Feet blogger Marie Viljoen. She writes: “My favourite (and everyone’s?) garden on Union at the Gowanus Canal. I have photographed it in the spring but have never seen the legendary sunflowers until now…I give a […]

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Here’s a notice that’s been posted in a building at Fourth and Bond in Gowanus that was passed along by a GL reader, who writes: “A friend in the bldg on 4th and Bond sent me this.” Yes, Gowanus is a bit different than other neighborhoods.

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[Photo courtesy of Trina356/GL Flickr Pool] The photographer wrote “magritte like clouds roll by.” If you don’t look too closely and realize we’re looking at Gowanus, St. Agnes almost makes it look a little like Amsterdam.

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Next week you can have the chance to take a canal ride on the Gowanus and learn about the Battle of Brooklyn. “On Thursday evening August 21 at 6:00 PM at 2nd Street and the Gowanus Canal the Dredgers provide free canoeing on the canal. [Vincent Favorito] will give a talk on the Revolution. The […]

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