[Photo courtesy New York Public Library] This is a photo of the coffee warehouse (aka the Empire Stores) on Water Street in Dumbo, which is currently being allowed to rot and deteriorate. It was taken by Berenice Abbott on May 22, 1936. Per notes from the NYPL: “Four-story brick warehouse with arched windows and doors, […]

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Are you a member of our GL Photo Pool yet? Why not? Are you a member but not contributing much? We want your photos. Please join or add photos, we love seeing them and running them. [Photo courtesy Josh Derr/GL Flickr Pool] Nice place to sit under the Manhattan Bridge on an ice cold winter […]

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The controversial Dock Street project proposed by David and Jed Walentas’ Two Trees Management inched closer to approval last night with a 30-7 vote in favor of the project by Community Board 2. The board Education Subcommittee had voted in favor of the project, but its Land Use Subcommittee had voted against it. Earlier this […]

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Are you a member of our ever growing Gowanus Lounge Flickr Pool, which is now nearly 3,600 photos strong? If not, jump into the pool. We’d love to feature your work and some of our favorite pool contributors have even become GL Contributors. [Photo courtesy of Josh Derr/GL Flickr Pool] We’ve walked over this hundreds […]

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[Photo courtesy of Josh Derr/GL Flickr Pool] This used to be the John Street Pier in Dumbo.

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[Photo courtesy of Josh Derr/GL Flickr Pool] One word that does NOT come to mind is invitingIn.

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A montage of water around the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges.

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A strange little short film shot in black and white on the Coney Island Boardwalk that ends in Dumbo.

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[Photo courtesy of Josh Derr/GL Flickr Pool] This is 135 Plymouth Street in Dumbo reflected, simply.

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[Image courtesy of I’mjustsayini’/GL Fickr Pool] It certainly looks pretty from way up there in Dumbo.

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No one is injured or run down, which is a good thing.

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[Photo courtesy of Brit in Brooklyn] Our dear friend and GL Contributor Adrian Kinloch of Brit in Brooklyn is supplying us (again) with some of his magnificent photos that we’ll be featuring in coming weeks. This is today’s selection, a look at Dumbo and beyond from the Manhattan side of the Manhattan Bridge. Like all […]

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The arch under the Manhattan Bridge was reopened to the public yesterday with some minor fanfare and Dumbo NYC had full coverage of the event. The new design from Rogers Marvel appears above. The goal is to have the renovation complete by 2009 when the bridge hits the century mark, but fundraising for improvements and […]

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[Photo courtesy of dumbonyc/GL Flickr Pool] Yes, it is a chair rather than a sofa, but it is a spectacularly placed on, sitting there as it is, amidst the weeds in Dumbo.

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“An archway underneath the Manhattan Bridge in DUMBO will be reopened today, adding additional public space to the changing face of the Brooklyn waterfront. The Department of Transportation, which has jurisdiction over the area, will open the archway where Water Street bisects the bridge, adding a new passageway connecting the northern and southern sections of […]

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Chalk it up to the pop-up park on Pier One and the Olafur Eliasson waterfall under the Brooklyn Bridge, but Fulton Ferry landing has been even more hopping with our tourist friends than usual this summer. “Indeed, visitors, whether they come here by walking over the bridge, by taking the Water Taxi or by one […]

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And now, Brooklyn Fashion Indie Week is upon us, running today through September 10th. The kickoff even is a runway show at the Brooklyn Bridge at 6PM today called “No Sleep Till Brooklyn.” Other events include live performances and runway shows. There will also be after parties for designers. Curiously, many of the events take […]

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Here’s our regular weekly post from the Center for the Urban Environment about the great tours they run: Dumbo. Saturday, August 23 – 1 – 3 pm – with Joe Svehlak. An acronym for the old Brooklyn waterfront under the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges is an amazing area of former industrial buildings converted to lofts […]

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[Photo courtesy of Josh Derr/GL Flickr Pool] Per the photographer: “Sunset reflecting off the glass skin of the J Condo building in DUMBO. Midtown Manhattan is visible just beyond.”

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The controversial Dock Street building planned by Two Trees Management developer David Walentas has picked up some support from the School Construction Authority. Per today’s Daily News: School Construction Authority President Sharon Greenberger announced the agency’s support for a school at the Dock St. tower project, raising neighborhood hackles. “It’s not an excuse for a […]

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[Photo courtesy of Erinmelina/GL Flickr Pool] This is some of the art on display as part of the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition show in Brooklyn Bridge Park in Dumbo. The show alway provides great opportunities to juxtapose images of the city with art.

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Here’s an interesting report from the CBS Sunday Morning News about Jane Walentas’s carousel in Dumbo. We came upon it courtesy of Dumbo NYC.

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[Photo courtesy of blackoutny/GL Photo Pool] Here’s another shot of a Brooklyn rainbow courtesy of a contribution to our GL Photo Pool by blackoutny. For the full sized shot, click here.

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“Even with Independence Day and then Election Day fast approaching, the most presidential place in New York City at the moment just might be an unexpected one: the work space of the design and fabrication company StudioEIS on the fourth floor of an anonymous-looking building in Dumbo, Brooklyn. There, in one corner, is a nearly […]

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“Summer is here and it’s hot. This past weekend hit record temperatures and what’s better than ice cream to cool us down? Seen for the first time in Dumbo were at least 5 different ice cream/slush trucks (not pictured is a flavored ice cart on Washington and York Street). So what you say? Not if […]

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