The news that City Council Member Bill de Blasio is in Iowa stumping for Sen. Hillary Clinton appears to be leaving a sour taste in the mouths of some Carroll Gardens residents. We got one email from a neighborhood resident on New Year’s Eve with the subject line: “Carroll Gardens Going to the Dogs?” that […]

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Some of the founders of the CORD group, which established itself as a voice in Carroll Gardens development issues after it coalesced around the controversial 360 Smith Street building, will be on News 12 this evening. Group members were interviewed at the Carroll Gardens Democracy Wall in the plaza at the Carroll Street subway stop. […]

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Yes, we know it was only a few days ago that more grassroots artwork was added to our favorite wall in Brooklyn, but this new addition just popped up. We love the neighborhood spirit and old-fashioned way of communication the Carroll Gardens Democracy Wall represents. (We’re also proud to note that GL and Curbed posts […]

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It looks like the Russo Realty empire on Smith Street near Ninth Street is about to meet its maker. Earlier this year, blogger 423 Smith jokingly referred to the strip as “The Notary District.” The buildings have been in the process of being prepped for demolition since summer, with rat poison spread around. Now, a […]

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The GL reader that sent along this photo simply said, “Perhaps someone should have double checked that last order.” Indeed. The wood pile is outside of Savoia, the restaurant on Smith Street.

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Despite the fact that some posters were torn down last week and there have been rumblings of opposition from local officials, there some new artwork at what we like to call The Democracy Wall in the plaza at the Carroll Street subway stop in Carroll Gardens. The new poster deal with development, of course, and […]

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Is the Carroll Gardens Democracy Wall where residents have been posting murals and news articles about development news in their community in danger? It could be. There’s a sense among residents that both the police and local politicians may try to put an end to what has become a community fixture over the last six […]

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Did that sign at Carniceria, the defunct restaurant on Smith Street that sprang up in place of the also defunct Porchetta which took the place of the dead Banania, look familiar to you? Indeed, it should have. A special GL correspondent in Carroll Gardens sent us these photos along with an email entitled “The Rape […]

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We enjoy the Carroll Gardens Democracy Wall at the Carroll Street subway station. It is part of the now well-known plaza at the Second Place exit that will be closed for construction of the controversial building at 360 Smith Street, which led to both the wall and the CORD neighborhood group. Dozens of message appear […]

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Since May, a wall at the Caroll Street subway stop that would be part of the controversial 360 Smith Street development has become the venue for all sorts of posting by building opponents. This is the latest protest poster that has gone up, basically putting out the message that the opposition still has questions and […]

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The Carroll Gardens neighborhood group CORD that first organized behind the issue of 360 Smith Street is pressing forward with its petition for a moratorium on new buildings more than 50 feet tall while a neighborhood downzoning is being considered. (The idea has gotten mixed reviews, with many elected officials saying it would require a […]

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The CORD group in Carroll Gardens posted the photo you see above on their Carroll Gardens Petition blog and have been emailing it around too as a way of noting that the controversial building at 360 Smith Street is moving forward. The group also notes that the building at 125 Second Place, which is adjacent […]

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The coming of a McDonald’s isn’t normally headline material, but when the McDonald’s in question is on Smith Street and the rumor has been floating around for a while, it is. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle reports (we found it via McBrooklyn) that the McDonald’s is coming–to a location that has been previously dismissed: And guess […]

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We don’t know what’s up with Vincent Russo, the gentleman who has owned these curious buildings on Smith Street for more than a half-century, and whose signage has adorned the neighborhood for decades. Months ago, a commenter noted that he had passed away (he is well into his 90s) earlier this year although we haven’t […]

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1) It looks like Jessie’s Brooklyn Kitchen, whose blue-and-yellow storefront has been in place for some time at 220 Smith Street (uh, since at least January), is closing in on an opening. We know this due to our powerful talent for observation, like the fact that there was painting going on outside that had something […]

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How you feel about what this photo shows depends on whether you view it as an instance of the glass being half empty or half full. Or something like that. On the right is Kyoto, a Japanese restaurant on Smith Street that has just opened. Normally, we would have included this in a Brooklyn Nibbles […]

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Today is the Bastille Day Celebration on Smith Street, but Smith’s French spots were decked out a bit for the occasion on the actual day, yesterday. Head on down to Smith and Dean Streets today (7/15) from Noon-8PM for the festivities.

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[Photo courtesy of Petanque America] Get ready for the annual Bastille Day Celebration on Smith Street. It will happen on Sunday, July 15, from Noon-8PM, with the epicenter being at Smith and Dean Streets. Here’s info from the Brooklyn Boule blog: Join us for the biggest Bastille Day celebration outside of France! Sunday July 15, […]

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We put together some photos we’ve taken of Smith Street near Atlantic Avenue, mostly this year, that show a little bit of the surviving old Smith and some of the new. This is the last part of Smith Street to be hit by the wave of gentrification that has turned corner gift stores into Starbucks, […]

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We find this during and after photo of the Smith Street building that used to house Tirado Income Tax interesting in that we got it with dumpster out front and, then, just recently. Of course, it’s not much without a photo from earlier, but it still shows a tiny slice of change on Smith Street […]

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Naturally, people living in the vicinity of the rumored possible Smith Street McDonald’s aren’t greeting the possibility of McMuffins in their midst with warmth. A GL reader emails to say people are: all aflutter over the possibility of a MickeyD’s taking the place of the Brooklyn Camo. Someone called it a “tipping point” after it […]

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We don’ t know who, exactly, has been working on Robert Scarano’s Wikipedia page, but we have a funny feeling that it’s someone that lives in or near Carroll Gardens. Why? Recent additions to the constantly changing, shall we say, ScaraWiki, concern the controversy surrounding his building at 360 Smith Street and the effort by […]

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[Photo courtesy of superkb/flickr] Okay, this is absolutely, positively, the last street fair we note until the Atlantic Antic. We think. It’s the Smith Street Funday Sunday, which is taking place this Sunday, June 24 from 11AM to 6PM on Smith Street from Bergen Street to Union Street. It’s produced locally rather than by the […]

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No, this isn’t about design issues or about density concerning that controversial proposed building at 360 Smith Street in Carroll Gardens. Nope. It’s about signs allegedly being painted over by the NYPD and, then, quickly replaced by residents. If you’ve walked out of the Second Place exit of the Carroll Street station in recent week, […]

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Well, thank God for that. (Not really. Just a point of interest about big chain being gobbled up by bigger chain.) Now, if we could maybe get some of the old neighborhood pharmacies and stores that have been driven out of business back? Or protect the handful that are struggling to hang on?

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