This is a very welcome video from our long absent corresspondent F. Jasmin Adams, who dropped another good on us too, but we wil get to that tomorrow.

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[Photo courtesy of Nathan Kensinger] Those who follow he goings on at the toxic Public Place site will recall last week’s little scandal. First, most of the warehouse was demolished just as the public was informed that demolition was “about to begin.” Then, it turned out that the work was being done in a way […]

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[All photos for GL courtesy of Nathan Kensinger Photgraphy] Boy, we’ve been writing a lot about the warehouse on the Public Place site in the last week. But the hell with writing, GL Contributing photographer Nathan Kensinger, along with a couple of other famed Brooklyn photographic adventurers, got into the site over the weekend. Mr. […]

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[Photo courtesy of jag9889/flickr] At some point today, we can picture some comanding officers at the 76th Precinct in Carroll Gardens turning red and cursing. Very red and a lot. This is because a GL tipster sent us some very interesting information that does not bode well for community-police relations. How to put this? Officers […]

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Ah, 100 Luqer Street, an 11-story Hot Karl Fischer also known as the Carroll Gardens Monstrosity. It’s in the running with on of the Hot One’s Williamsburg buildings for being the slowest moving as action on this baby has been going on since 2006. This is what it looked like in 2007. But progress is […]

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You didn’t think the problem of “dog feces” in the toddler area at Carroll Park we posted about yesterday was going to just go away? Nah. This is the kind of, uh, shit, that draws attention. And that it did. This email from Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association: The response to the dog v toddler issue […]

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There seems to be a problem with “dog feces” in Carroll Park, specfically in the section used by infants and toddlers. Per an email on the Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association list: Yesterday, my friend’s sitter came home and mentioned that there was a lot of dog feces in the baby section of Carroll Park. It […]

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[Photo courtesy of chadwbecks/GL Flickr Pool] A woman running to catch the F Train as it heads for the Carroll Street Station in Carroll Gardens.

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[Photo courtesy of K. Lapp/GL Flickr Pool] When we first glanced at this photo in thumbnail form, it struck as an English Village but it is Carroll Gardens. The photographer writes, “This guy is walking down one of my favorite streets in all of NYC – Dennett Place. You see the entire length of it […]

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This letter from an architect who identifies himself only as JL, comes our way via the CORD neighborhood group. We’re running it because we think it makes some interesting points about how development is outstripping the community’s ability to handle it: As a trained architect and urban planner, but more importantly, as a concerned 20-year […]

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[Photo courtesy of F. Jasmin Adams] We’re all for the city’s new public toilets, but it looks like the ones being produced by CEMUSA as part off the city’s liked or loathed (depending on one’s point of view) “street furniture” program have an edge on this model which roving Carroll Gardens/Gowanus correspondent F. Jasmin Adams […]

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This is the relatively new Kiku Sushi Asian Fusion lounge place that has opened at 170 Smith Street. We have no clue what it’s like as a restaurant, nor is that why we’re writing about it. What’s interesting is that the building was in such wretched shape that it started to collapse (well some parts […]

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Two words: Adopt Zoe.

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Patois, the trailblazing Smith Street restaurant, served its last meal yesterday. This is the note that was taped to the front window. It says they’re looking for space elsewhere in the neighborhood. We can think of several spots that are empty or being renovated right off hand.

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It seems like only yesterday this was an empty lot with a pretty tree that blossomed every spring. No longer. This is 311 Warren Street, which is a five-story endeavor. DOB records show it as having only one dwelling unit, which has to be a typo. Either that, or someone’s building themselves a big place […]

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[Photo for GL courtesy of F. Jasmin Adams] Looks like Smith Street is in for more subway-related asbestos abatement. We got this photo from Carroll Gardens correspondent F. Jasmin Adams with the subject line “Get out your magnifying glass & face mask.” She found signs up around the Carroll Street Station. During a walkabout through […]

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[Photo courtesy of nifty_pete/flickr] A really cool picture of the train as it passes through Carroll Gardens.

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It’s not just a ride on the F Train on a snowy day above Carroll Gardens, it’s a ride that includes a sermon.

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There was some unhappiness last week that the Department of Housing Preservation and Development scheduled a key hearing in the middle of holiday party season, but more importantly, failed to make sure that work got out in the community about the meeting. The department has extended the public comment period for the draft scope of […]

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[All photos by JP Pagán/flickr] Say that ten times fast. In any case, GL Contributor JP Pagán ran into some Christmas carolers in Gardens last night and got some nice shot of them. They were on Third Street in the Gardens.

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[Photo courtesy of JP Pagán/GL Flickr Pool] This is the pretty little Transit Garden in Carroll Gardens all decorated and lit up for the holidays.

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[Photo courtesy of pixonomy/Gl Flickr Pool] PJ Hanley’s in the snow on Court Street in Carroll Gardens.

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[Photo courtesy of pixonomy/GL Flickr Pool] The photographer writes: “It was a winter wonderland in Brooklyn when I got home from work tonight. Guess it snowed all day. I was trapped in my windowless office the whole day. Wish I could have gone out and played in the snow.”

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A GL reader sent this to us for GL, but we thought it was so amusing that we posted it on Curbed late yesterday afternoon, figuring a lot of people would get a chuckle out of it. We wrote: Don’t the holidays bring out the best in people? Let’s take this sign, a photo of […]

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What else are you going to do on a day when snow, sleet and whatever are threatening than turn to funny ass photos of bizarre signs. For instance, this one submitted by a GL reader who writes, “I walk my dog by it every day and it never fails to crack me up. It’s on […]

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