This is the rendering of the Hudson Companies proposal for Public Place between Smith Street and the Gowanus Canal. The team led by Hudson is proposing 774 units of housing, 38,800 square feet of retail, 26,400 square feet of community space and 98,300 square feet of public open space. The development would include 365 underground […]

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The Department of Housing Preservation and Development presented details last night about two proposals that are finalists for developing the Public Place site in Carroll Gardens/Gowanus. The proposals come from development groups led by The Related Companies (left) and by The Hudson Companies (right). (A number of proposals have been eliminated.) Both would have more […]

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The Gowanus Village, which is across the Gowanus Canal from the Toll Brothers development site, is on the market. The property is being marketed by Massey Knakal. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported the asking price is $27 million. Developer Shaya Boymelgreen has apparently been out of the picture for some time. Here’s some detail: Boymelgreen, […]

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There’s a meeting on “What’s Going on at Public Place?” tonight in Carroll Gardens. The city is in the process of selecting a developer for the big project on one of the city’s most toxic parcels slated for development. The development could include 1,000 or more units of housing and buildings 10-12 stories tall. The […]

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This is the Gowanus Whole Foods site. We took advantage of its always open to the public status to shoot a bunch of photos. Some are below for viewing on this snowy Friday.

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Although it doesn’t happen frequently, the bridges over the Gowanus Canal are opened and closed to let barges and other vessels through. (We were dumbfounded to find the Hamilton Avenue Bridge raised at the height of rush hour one day causing traffic to clot into an angry gridlock in all directions.) Here’s an email we […]

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We ran still photos of the crap flow on the Gowanus after a heavy rain a couple of weeks ago. Since then, the Toll Brothers have shown their hand and the plans for the property bounded by Carroll Street, Second Street, Bond Street and the Canal. If the development gets the go-ahead and if it […]

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Will Gowanus and Carroll Gardens community activists find new common ground? Last week, we broke the news about the major Toll Brothers development in Gowanus here and on Curbed as part of documents filed as part of the process of seeking a rezoning for the project. The scale of the development and the fact that […]

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“The Gowanus seems to endlessly inspire. Real estate speculators. City historians. Mafia hit-men. Artists. Ah yes. The light of the Gowanus has been compared to Venice. Even Hepcat, who takes many a picture there, says so. What is it? The romance of the industrial landscape? The Kentile sign? The view of Manhattan and the elevated […]

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Space in the “Venice Springs Industrial Park” might be suitable for any number of things from edgy restaurant to artist studio and scrap processing to bakery. Oh, and canal boat tour operator. Well, it’s an interesting way to get people to pay attention to the ad for the commercial space that one is leasing on […]

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The Toll Brothers have revealed plans for their unnamed development on the banks of the Gowanus Canal. The plans are in a “scoping” document filed with the Department of City Planning. The developers are looking to rezone a three-acre property between the Canal, Bond Street, Carroll Street and Second Street as a “special mixed use […]

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Gowanus, Brooklyn

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This is an ad for space at the Sweater Factory in Gowanus that we found on Craigslist, where many listings have been posted recently. Were amused by how the loft space is marketed as being in a “hip Gowanus locale” and call Gowanus “Brooklyn’s next creative business hub.” Also we like the design of the […]

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Last week, the Department of Buildings issued the first permit for the planned Gowanus Whole Foods on Third Street. The permit, which was first reported by Brownstoner, would allow for some work on the foundation. The Friends and Residents of Greater Gowanus group, which opposes construction of the big project, sent an email to Community […]

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Gowanus, BrooklynOne finds many popular outdoor decorations in Brooklyn. One of the popular themes in Gowanus and Carroll Gardens is the religious icon, although we are not certain how many air conditioner Jesuses one will find.

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Maybe it’s a little premature to say that Third Avenue is about to become the new Fourth Avenue (or something like that), but there is clearly a lot of activity on and around this forlorn Gowanus boulevard. All you need to do is put everything together on a map and the picture crystallizes. In short, […]

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Everyone is buzzing today about the new Union Hall which will be opening on Seventh Street between Second and Third Avenues, and both Brooklyn Vegan and Gothamist had details as well as a statement from Union Hall’s owner. The Food of the Future blog first reported news of the new venue nearly two months ago, […]

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Remember the groundbreaking for the Gowanus Whole Foods? That was way back in 2006. Since then, the site has largely sat abandoned, although it has provided many opportunities for strolls on the frequently open property. Yesterday, our friend Gabby Warshawer, who has been keeping close tabs on the development, reported on Brownstoner that the Department […]

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Here’s a thought piece on Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue that has a lot of an analysis of the issues plaguing what Borough President Marty Markowitz calls “a grand boulevard of the 21st Century.” Does the Novo Park Slope “looms fortress-like over the playground next door”? Does the Crest greet “passersby with man-sized industrial vents”? Does Hotel […]

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Brooklyn’s favorite somewhat toxic playground is open to the public again. The flimsy fence at the Whole Foods site on Third Street has been opened up again by vandals. We stopped by on Saturday and a curious people were taking tours of the site over the weekend. Will it be “repaired” quickly, or will the […]

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Here’s a reminder about the forum taking place tonight (2/4) about Public Place that will feature professors and students from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Civil Engineering and Architecture that have been looking at the Public Place site. It’s called New Voices on the Gowanus: Focus on the Public Place. It takes place at 6:30PM […]

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Whenever we pass by the building that we like to call The Bunker on Bond Street because of its lack of windows superior abundance of wall space, we check to see how much progress has been made. We’re not sure if it’s the slowest moving building project in Brooklyn, but that’s only because there is […]

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There’s very cool series of film present by Spoke the Hub called “New York Matters” coming up at the Gowanus Arts Building, which is located at 295 Douglass Street between Third and Fourth Avenues. The films will be shown at 7:30 PM on the second Friday of every month. Here’s some wording about the series, […]

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There is a potentially interesting property mystery in Gowanus on what is suddenly the very hot selling market on Third Street between the Gowanus Canal and Hoyt Street. Last month, two properties went on the market between Bond Street and the Canal (photo below). A very knowledgeable source has emailed GL about a big property […]

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Idiotarod 2008 is nothing but a (well-document) memory now, but we thought we’d round up some Idiotarod-related material (including our own) from the weekend, and toss up a few individual photos we shot as well. Enjoy: 2008 Idiotarod Insanity: The Photos [GL] 2008 Idiotarod Insanity: The Video [GL] Best of the Idiotarod [Gothamist] Idiotarod 2008 […]

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