We received an email along with a group of photos of the original feral dogs of Red Hook & Gowanus from Regina Massaro of the Spay Neuter Intervention Project (SNIP). Ms. Massaro and SNIP helped rescue the dogs. (Several were even pulled from the Gowanus when they were drowning.) We’ve never seen photos of them, […]

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Merde! After an original expected opening in early July, we’ve sat by helplessly as Hotel Le Bleu, the Fourth Avenue boutique hotel sandwiched between the taxi depot and the dialysis clinic, right near the Pep Boys and the Staples, has punted on repeated opening days. And so, the flagship hotel of the Gowanus hotel boom […]

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The Parkside Auto Repair property at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Third Street has been sold. Well, at least, there’s a big sticker on the “for sale” sign saying that it’s in contract. We don’t know if it fetched the asking price of $3.75 million, but that will become known soon enough. The lot […]

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We’re not even sure how we found the listing for this building at Union and Bond in Gowanus/Carroll Gardens, but it can be yours for a mere $12 million. It’s listed on City Cribs, and this is what they have to say: This corner warehouse on Bond Street is very large development site in a […]

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Gowanus, Brooklyn[Photo courtesy of Gary Mirabelle/Mirabelle Studios]

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Why, you might ask, is this picture interesting? Our answer: Because it shows what happens to the Gowanus Canal every time it rains as countless hundreds of thousands of gallons of stormwater runoff and untreated sewage flow directly into the canal. This photo and the pics in this flickr set were shot by Raymond Tan […]

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There are a few more details on that condo project that is going to be developed in Gowanus by the Hudson Companies, which built the 33-story J Condos in Dumbo. Last month, we noted the sale of the property at 3rd Street and Bond for $7.75 million. The Brooklyn Eagle reported yesterday that the developer […]

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Oh God. Here we go again. Yes, this a building designed by you know who. (Hint: His first name is Robert. His last name is Scarano.) We have featured it many times and named it The Bunker and/or The Bunker on Bond because of its striking lack of windows. In any case, you can look […]

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The good people at the Brooklyn Artists Gym emailed about two cool upcoming shows of winners that have won prizes in their shows. One is Pepe Villegas, who won first prize in BAG’s “Look See: Reflections” photography show. The other is Lucy Mink, who won first prize in the second annual “Small Works Show.” (That […]

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From one of our readers comes a story of some theft issues in the Gowanus and Park Slope area. We’ll let him explain: I moved into Park Slope/Gowanus (Degraw between 4th and 5th) in the middle of May and since that time I have had my bike stolen from in front of my Apt (learned […]

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While we haven’t gotten any reports of sewage geysers erupting in the streets in Gowanus as happened last year during an especially bad rainstorm, we did get these photos from Mirabelle Studios of flooding on Ninth Street between Second Avenue and the Canal. While the flooding has nothing to do with the Canal itself nor […]

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The Brooklyn hotel boomlet gets another dose of publicity with a NY1 story surveying the scene and taking note of the expanded Brooklyn Marriott, the Gowanus Holiday Inn Express, the Gowanus Comfort Inn and the Hotel Le Bleu as evidence of a developing “haven” for “Outer Borough tourists.” (Translation: your mother-in-law from Chicago visiting you […]

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As we noted yesterday, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development–which is overseeing development of the parcel on the Gowanus Canal known as Public Place published detailed guideines for the project yesterday. Developers have until October to submit proposals, although getting the project going will be a very long and complicated procress with at least […]

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The Public Place site presents some sobering environmental issues and the extent to which you will be comfortable with the cleanup will be determined by the extent to which you are comfortable with the state’s willingness to be aggressive in enforcing cleanup standards on KeySpan, which is responsible for the heavy lifting, and on the […]

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It’s a bit early to be posting about the Annual Gowanus Artists Studio Tour, which will take place this year on October 20 and 21. But we got an email from A.G.A.S.T. (Annual Gowanus Artists Studio Tour) asking us to help them pass the word to artists, which we’re happy to do. They write: We […]

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The Department of Housing Preservation and Development announced this morning that it is taking RFPs from developers interested in building on the extremely polluted Public Place site in Gowanus. Public Place will be a mixed-use development that will include at least 400 units of mixed-income housing, commercial space, community facilities and open space, including landscaped […]

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[Photo courtesy of TrekkerPanda/flickr]It has been there for 60 years, but no longer. A GL reader emails to say that the Italian Grocery at the corner of Third Avenue and President Street is no more: The Italian grocery on 3rd avenue and President, that has been family owned and run for 60 yrs, has closed […]

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The Comfort Inn on Butler Street in Gowanus is open. We even observed tourists coming out of the hotel. They appeared to be getting directions from an employee to what we assume was the subway. (Continue to read and you might understand why they potentially would be befuddled about their whereabouts.) Rooms we were glancing […]

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Was it just Saturday that we were gazing upon the Hotel Le Bleu nestled between the taxi depot and the dialysis facility on Fourth Avenue, thinking that it would be open in a matter of a few days. Well, newyorkology has temporarily burst our bubble by reporting that opening day has been kicked by one […]

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That didn’t take long. The Issue Project Room, which hosted its last event in its Gowanus Canal space on Carroll Street on Saturday night, is opening in a new location tomorrow night. The new space is in the wonderful Old American Can Factory at Third Avenue and Third Street (which is where the rooftop film […]

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We’d be remiss if we didn’t not that tonight is the Issue Project Room’s last night in its current space on the Gowanus. (No reason to totally mourn, though, as it starts up next week at the Old American Can Factory at Third Avenue and Third Street.). Tonight’s show, from the IPR’s website: SHARE celebrates […]

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Look for a new development to start rising soon at the corner of Third and Bond Streets in Carroll Gardens/Gowanus. The corner lot, which involves four different properties, recently sold to The Hudson Companies for $7.75 million. If the name sounds familiar, it’s because it is the same company that developed the J Condo in […]

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In the frenzy of keeping up with other things, we totally dropped the ball on something in our own backyard. The Gowanus Community Development Corporation and the Gowanus Canal Conservancy have a new executive director, Bob Zuckerman. He replaces Thomas Chardavoyne, who passed away earlier this year. The Conservancy–which will function as a sort of […]

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Truly, we realize that someday, this battle will be lost for good. Probably on the day that the Whole Foods at Third Street and Third Avenue opens, marketing wholesome goodness from a toxic site on the shores of the Gowanus, and people start calling it the Park Slope Whole Foods. We’ve already seen a Holiday […]

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Here’s a vid we found on the YouTube that takes a look at Gowanus in the context of planning and zoning issue. It has a college lesson video feel to it, but is worth a viewing is your interested in some of the neighborhood planning issues generally. You can click over to it here if, […]

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