Saturday’s most thunderstorm in late afternoon apparently caused some of the usual flooding issues near the Gowanus Canal. These are scenes from Ninth Street near the Lowe’s, where flooding is common during big downpours and rainstorms. A series of photos taken on Ninth Street yesterday evening around 7PM was placed in our GL Photo Pool […]

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We had the pleasure of going up the Gowanus Canal on a New York Water Taxi on a tour sponsored by our friends at the Center for the Urban Environment, whose posts appear on GL every week. Here’s a little vid of the cruise that shows all those drawbridges in action and water views of […]

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There’s an update meeting coming up on the Public Place site between the Gowanus Canal and Smith Street, which will be developed into a large mixed use project called Gowanus Green by a development team that includes the Hudson Companies,the Bluestone Organization, Fifth Avenue Committee and Jonathan Rose Companies. It will take place on Thursday, […]

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“About a quarter of Thomas Greene playground has been fenced off so that National Grid can dig underneath the Parks Dept. facility and see how polluted it is.” The playground was part of the site of the former Fulton Manufactured Gas Plant, which left a mess of toxic underground coal tar behind. Most of the […]

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Have jumped into our GL Photo Pool yet? We’d love to see your photos, so please join and/or tag you photos “gowanuslounge.” [Photo courtesy of Brooklyn Bred/GL Flickr Pool] This is the view of the placid waters of the Gowanus Canal on a nice summer evening that found its way into our Gowanus Lounge Flickr […]

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[Photo courtesy of Heather-D/GL Flickr Pool] We return to our street couch series with a contribution from Heather-D to our GL Photo Photo pool that almost rendered us speechless with its magnificence and by virtue of its location. It comes from Union Street in Gowanus and all it needs is a side table and a […]

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We took a cruise up the Gowanus canal yesterday with the Center for the Urban Environment, which produces great posts every week for us. (See Ruth Edebohl’s post coming up in a bit, for an example.) We’re not sure what was better: passing under most of the drawbridges on the canal, enjoying the sea level […]

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The rezoning that put the wheels in motion for the development of Brooklyn’s Park Avenue four years ago covered most of 4th Avenue between President and 15th streets, allowing for the construction of 12-story residential buildings on the thoroughfare. What was left out of that rezoning is now set to join the higher-rise party. One […]

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Given that there has been no official news forthcoming from Whole Foods about its planned Gowanus store, we turn to some promotional items for hints of what might, or might not, be coming. Yesterday, we had a photo that showed just how abandoned quiet the Whole Foods site at Third Street and Third Avenue is. […]

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Actually, this post about the presentation of the Sponge Park Concept to a Community Board 6 committee this week is simply a convenient excuse to run one of the cool renderings of the concept again. In any case, the Gowanus Canal Conservancy will be presenting the design to the Parks Committee of CB 6. The […]

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[Photo courtesy of Nate Kensinger] This is Gowanus in the rain on Saturday night as seen from the Old American Can Factory at Third Avenue and Third Street. The photo comes from GL Contributor Nate Kensinger. What is particularly fascinating about it is that it offers a nice view of the Gowanus Whole Foods site, […]

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[Photo courtesy of Nate Kensinger] Rootop Films 2008 Gowanus premiere, with a series of shorts on the always interesting topic of eminent domain, was a washout in roofop terms on Saturday night. Yet, it still managed to look cool indoors with the rain coming down outside and a bunch of lightning strikes out the window.

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Our favorite local film series, Rooftop Films, returns to the roof of the Old American Can Factory at Third Avenue and Third Street in Gowanus tonight (6/14). Tonights program is INDUSTRIANCE Short Films: Eminent Domain. Shorts program co presented by XO Projects. Dynamic short films about communities in flames and on the cusp. Then, next […]

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“One week, two more hotels planned for Gowanus.” Part of warehouse on Third Street is being converted to a hotel and a lot of DeGraw Street between Third and Fourth Ave may become a 10,000 square foot property. All told there are nine hotels underway or planned. You must check out the Gowanus Hotel District […]

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[Photo courtesy of Dalton Rooney/flickr] Check out this pic added to our GL Photo Pool by Dalton Rooney, who always does superb work. It combines many elements that we like, notably the looming Gowanus Expressway and a stark parking lot.

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We’ve seen this image of a bucolic Gowanus Bay before, but we’re taken by it when we clicked over to the Ephemeral New York post courtesy of a Brownstoner link yesterday evening. ENY says it’s “An 1851 oil painting by Australian artist Henry Gritten. The full title is ‘Sun Set at Gowanus Bay in the […]

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There are planters and, then, there are planters. This former toilet on Union Street near Nevins in Gowanus on the front steps a very rundown and possibly vacant home is a planter. Very DIY.

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There is very little that one can add to the photo of this chair, which we came across on Third Avenue in Gowanus. It is regal with its leopard print upholstery.

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A developer has bought up a major building on Third Street in Gowanus/Carroll Gardens. The Abigail Press building, which was said to be on the market sold for $12 million to a developer who plans an adaptive reuse of the building that will incorporate office space, art and production studios, and a hotel that overlooks […]

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This pedestrian crossing sign in Gowanus at Union and Bond Streets has been leaning more and more and more. Yesterday, it seemed to be warning pedestrians of the bike that a child had momentarily left at the crosswalk.

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We’re very tempted to call this Department of Environmental Protection boat, the Jamaica Bay, which was docked at the Carroll Street Bridge yesterday as part of the Gowanus Goes Green event, the Turd Boat. That, however, would be wrong, as it is intended to pick up far more than crap from the surface of the […]

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We spent some time at the Gowanus Goes Green festival sponsored by the Gowanus Canal Conservancy on the shores of the beautiful Gowanus. The fest took place on Carroll Street, where a variety of groups and businesses had tables and booths set up, and on the grounds of The Yard. (Said grounds are really nice […]

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The Gowanus Goes Green festival is happening today on the grounds of The Yard, which is on the Gowanus Canal at the Carroll Street Bridge. The day features a peformance by Brooklyn rockabilly band the Defibulators, food and beverages from V-Spot, Union Hall and the Treats Truck, and lots of stuff from local green businesses […]

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[Photo courtesy of ethersong/flickr] The acronym CSO (Combined Sewer Overflow) many not mean a lot to many people, but it is what happens in the Gowanus whenever it rains hard enough. What it means is that storm sewers and sanitary sewers flow directly into the canal. (In raw terms, garbage and crap go right into […]

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In honor of today’s Gowanus Goes Green event, here are some vids posted up on the YouTube related to Gowanus and the canal.

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