A month ago, Brownstoner reported the presence of a big porable steam generator outside the Novo Park Slope on Fourth Avenue. Well, a check yesterday, reveale that it is still there, leading one to conclude that there are big Boymelheat issues at work. We can’t wait to see the summer brings in terms of the […]

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The Fourth Avenue Starbucks Dream is dead. Yesterday, we ran a photo of the awful blight at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Third Street where a building was planned that would have housed among ohter things, a Starbucks. Uh, cancel that soy grande latte, please. Not only is the Bucks dead, the entire project, […]

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The moment has arrived! Luxury rentals are now here in Robert Scarano’s latest Fourth Avenue masterpiece is on the market. We referred to it as as a “monster” and the KFC Building because it overlooks the Colonel. Nothing like luxury and the smell of chicken frying. It’s officially 110 Fourth Avenue and has 49 units. […]

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[Photo courtesy of Jack Szwergold/GL Flickr Pool] We haven’t checked in on the Carroll Street Corner of Nightmares in Park Slope because it loosens our bowels somewhat just to be in the vicintity of the bad architecture and fugyly vibes, but frequent GL Contributor Jack Szwergold was brave enough to visit the buiding we call […]

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[Click to enlarge rendering to full size] We’ve taken our share of shots at architect Henry Radusky and his firm, Bricolage Designs, over the years, so we were surprised yesterday to find several comments from one of the architect’s colleagues and an offer to send us a rendering of his latest building going up at […]

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On Sunday, we passed by the big Robert Scarano development at Fourth Avenue and 13th Street, shot some photos and posted them on Monday, nicknaming it Big Bob’s House of D because one side of the buiding looks like a jail. On Monday a sign went up identifyng the new building, with a big arrow […]

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A work of architectural genius? Or the most grotesque thing yet to show up on Fourth Avenue? There will be varying opinions but this is Robert Scarano’s at Fourth Avenue and 13th Street. This 12-story building being developed by Isaac Katan will have 135 units. (Anyone want to take bets on whether it’ll be a […]

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Has the new Brooklyn House of Detention already gotten its makeover?

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It’s always interesting to have confirmation that a huge planned project is indeed alive. So it is with big building designed by Ismael Leyva at 150 Fourth Avenue on the Gowanus side of dividing line. For a time the building next store had been vacated because construction work had undermined it, but that too, is […]

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Meet 385 Fourth Avenue, which is not the most solid member of our Dead Pool for project that may be dead in the water, but is start to gain that stench of death. This is supposed to be an 11-story building with 51 units from the shop of Richard Bienenfeld Arcitects in New Rochelle. Now, […]

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Slope Natural Plus which we first reported on in mid-January is now open at the corner of Fourth Ave & St. Mark’s on the Slope side of the great Fourth Avenue Slope-Gowanus great divide. Another business open on Brooklyn’s Park Avenue.

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On the left, we have what we call The Shaft, a product of Henry Radusky and Bricolage Designs. On the right we have The Big Ass Box from Christo the shop of Armand Quadrini, who is also known as the bench warmer for Robert Scarano because he has replaced the King of Brooklyn Architects on […]

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At first we thought we were seeing things, that maybe this had been there a long time and we just hadn’t realized. Then we seemed to remember that the bodega that had occupied this corner seemed to have had a going out of business sale in October or November. So, here, friends, is the latest […]

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Correspondent E.C. Stephens hit our voracious inbox of with some gold late last night after getting some photos of the ongoing work inside the much anticipated ramen noodle shop on the Park Slope side of Fourth Avenue at Degraw. (If you want to find us, we’ll be living there once the place opens.) It doesn’t […]

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We got this email from a reader a few days ago: “Rumor has it Catty Shack was closed down on New Years, and may remain closed.” Now, there’s an interesting discussion on Brooklynian about whether Park Slope’s fave lebsbian bar is doneski. One poster yesterday afternoon writes: ” I hear they got shut down for […]

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[Photo for GL Courtesy of Adrian Kinloch/Brit in Brooklyn] Aren’t the way new buildings blend with old ones great, either during the construction phase or when they’re done? GL Contributor and Brit in Brooklyn blogger Adrian Kinloch caught this shot at Carroll Street and Fourth Avenue where a building that was oirginally supposed to be […]

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We’ve already had a spiritual Henry Radusky building today. Now, we’ve got a 12-story monster rising at 574 Fourth Avenue, which is right on top of the Prospect Expressway. Yes, it’s a Radusky and, yes, car fans, some of these apartments are going to offer exceptionally dramatic views of both the insane traffic on Fourth […]

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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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Those who are familiar with Fourth Avenue know the big construction site between Butler and Douglass Streets. A row of apartment buildings was demolished, leaving single buildings standing on either end. One of them houses the Deli in the Slope. The official address of the project next door is 150 Fourth Ave and it’s supposed […]

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Here’s a glimpse into the future ramen noodle emporium coming to Fourth Avenue and Degraw Street courtesy of GL’s E.C. Stephens. When Brownstoner originally broke news that the owners of Sheep Station would be opening it, they said they were shooting for November. Doesn’t look like they’re going to make the target, but it’s still […]

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[All photos for GL Courtesy of Nathan Kensinger Photography] Yesterday, of course, was the formal rededication of the Fort Greene Prison Ship Martyrs Monument and its centennial. The remains of more than 10,000 Americans who died on British prison ships in Wallabout, offshore of what is now the Brooklyn Navy Yard are buried in crypts […]

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Developer Shaya Boymelgreen’s Novo Park Slope Condo on Fourth Avenue now has it’s “street level retail.” In this case, it’s New York Methodist Hospital’s Ambulatory Infusion Center. We won’t crack any jokes about this one because, among other things, it’s where cancer patients go to get their chemotherapy.

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In this month’s Real Deal, Gabby Warshawer, whose coverage of Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue is unparalleled, takes a look at gritty strip that is now dotted with 12-story condos and some restaurants. Are things going well or not? Well…”development sites on the strip that are actually selling are fetching far less now than they were just […]

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We meant to get to this earlier today, but the time change has caused our little Word Press platform to have a bit of scheduling glitch. (Like trying to put up scheduled posts on London time.) Anyway, here are some of the signs we caught at the Marathon yesterday.

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Here’s a short vid that we put together quickly to give some of the flavor of the 2008 Marathon as it traveled Fourth Avenue through Park Slope.

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