Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory this Sunday morning it is cloudy and somewhat wet. Today is one of those days when a few April Showers will catch up with us. It will also be colder than it has been. The official forecast calls for some showers this morning and mostly cloudy skies the rest of the day. The high will be 59. Tonight will be mostly cloudy and breezy with a couple of late night showers and a low of 50. Up next: May flowers.–Accuweather

Seen an interesting FSBO (For Sale by Owner) posted somewhere? Send a photo and any relevant info along to us at thegowanuslounge (at) gmail (dot) com. Everyone loves a nicely taped up FSBO.

Who says you can’t get room to stretch out anymore? We found this Mill Basin baby, reduced to $410K and priced to move, taped up on the Coney Island Boardwalk. The house was renovated in 2005 and the owner is motivated, so bring your offers.

Has anyone else had problems with the staff at the park Slope library? While the librarians in the children’s room have always been very nice, with a few exceptions, the staff at the check out desk, and the guard, are unfriendly at best and (today especially) downright rude at worst. This is especially true when it comes to stroller issues (I have to use the ramp in back for a stroller I cant pull up the front steps). I am planning to write a letter of complaint, but also wondered if anyone else has had the same experience? I understand that people can have a bad day here or there, but just about every time I have been there, I have felt unwelcome.

We’ll say two things: (1). Based on the earlier post and comments, it’s probably a shared perception. (2). They are less than understanding when it comes to stroller issues?!

Just a reminder that we’ll be debuting the new look Gowanus Lounge on Monday. Other than a new design, it means that we’ll be residing on our own URL, www.gowanuslounge.com. We hope you’ll change your bookmarks (you can do it now, as it will redirect you back here until Sunday night) and that–most important–you’ll update your RSS feed on Monday. We’d hate to lose anyone in the transition!

Here’s another adoptable pet of the week from the Brooklyn Animal Rescource Coalition (BARC) shelter in Williamsburg.

Meet Rocko! He’s an energetic 2-year-old, playful and friendly in spite of being from an abusive home. He arrived at BARC from the city shelter and has made lots of friends but would really thrive in a loving, safe home. Rocko’s a medium sized, pitbull mix, up to date with all the medical stuff, microchipped and neutered of course!

For more info about BARC click here or call 718-486-7489 and tell them you want Rocko. Also remember that Clearly, any potential adopter has to decide if a particular creature in need of a home is right for their living situation, needs and their ability to provide the proper level of care and attention.

Here’s a very, very nice guide to places in Brooklyn where one can imbibe or consume (or both) outdoors, with photos. Never seen Rocky Sullivan’s rooftop deck in Red Hook or the patio behind Palo Santo in Park Slope with just one table beside a fountain. Then you must check this out. And, yes, we should have posted this a couple of days ago, but it’s relevant at this point through fall–Brooklyn Based

Here’s another adoptable pet of the week from the Brooklyn Animal Rescource Coalition (BARC) shelter in Williamsburg.

There’s a “Tenant Aid Workshop: Fighting for Affordable Housing” session coming up on Monday, April 28, at 7PM at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel RC Church, which is located at 275 North 8th Street at Havemeyer St. The announcement says: “Learn About Your Legal Rights as a Tenant, See if You Qualify for Rent Subsidies, Learn About Affordable Housing Opportunities, Sign-up for Further Counseling, Get Legal Representation if Needed.” It’s sponsored by the Greenpoint-Williamsburg Tenant Anti-Displacement Collaborative, which includes Brooklyn Legal Services, Churches United, Los Sures, Neighbors Allied for Good Growth (NAG), North Brooklyn Development Corp., the People’s Firehouse & St. Nicholas Neighborhood Preservation Corp.

Work has started on the Indigo Hotel, the big hotel on Duffield Street designed by the ubiquitous Karl Fischer. It will be 22 stories and have 164 rooms and was originally supposed to be completed.–Brownstoner

Pics

• BBG Twilight [Blue Jake]
• Blue 154 [Atomische]
• Red Hook Tree, Then and Now [Brit in Brooklyn]
• Slope in Bloom [Velvet Sea]
• Seagull [GerristenBeach.Net]
• Sand vs. Boardwalk [ckirkley/flickr]

Words + Some Pics

• A Development Project with Real Bones [Curbed]
• Related: the Devils Work [Left in Bay Ridge]
• Everyone’s Working Together for a Better Brooklyn Blogfest (May 8) [OTBKB]
• Help Needed with Greenpoint Bedbug Workshop! [New York Shitty]
• Happy 60th, Sahadi’s [BHB]
• Free Chair, Wife Hates It [Brooklynometry]
• Coney Surf Cafe Grand Opening Today [Kinetic Carnival]
• Dumbo Rent Check [Dumbo NYC]

Outside the Brooklyn Weather Observatory the trees are totally bursting into neon greens and the sun is poking in and out from behind clouds. Today will be cooler, with variable cloudiness and a high of 64. Tonight, look for mostly cloudy skies with some showers and a low of 50. Some showers tomorrow too.

This is an email circulating via the Boerum Hill group. We present it in its entirety:

Of late I have had a weekly visitor who is a fairly dapper Asian woman. She apparently does not speak English. She enters my yard, rifles my garbage cans and containers. Today she blithely stole a new garbage bag out of one of the cans and toddled away. When I confronted her that I had watched her steal the bag and leave with it, she said, “NO!” evidently thinking that concluded the matter as the bag was now in her possession.

As I am not one to tangle with middle aged ladies, she won this round. However, has anyone else had to deal with this person and who does one call to get her convinced that A; trespassing is not how we do things here and B; she is not entitled to simply steal whatever she finds convenient to have.

Before I get branded as heartless, I will point out that not only do I organize the returnables so that the derelicts can find them separately from my trash and that of my tenants. Furthermore I organize the bags on the sidewalk so that the sanitation workers can easily see what’s what and lift is with a minimum of difficulty.

We now return to our regular programming.

We’ll be rolling out a new look GL on Monday that we’ve been slowly working on over the last few months. We say that in order to say this: GL will be moving from Blogger which has been our (more or less happy) home for the last two years and over to gowanuslounge.com, which has been redirecting people to blogger for two years. On Monday morning, we hope you’ll reset your bookmarks or, at least, remember to type in gowanuslounge.com. For those of you that read GL via your RSS feed, we hope you’ll change over on Monday and we’ll keep broadcasting RSS messages asking you to do so. All of our archives will be migrating over to our new server, although they’ll always be available here too. We hope you’ll make this long overdue switch with us and, of course, we’ll have more to say about it on Monday.

Real estate agency Brown Harris Stevens is being sued for allegedly discriminating against families with children. The suit charges that the agency discriminated against a couple with a child looking at rental apartments in Brooklyn Heights and Park Slope. Testers without children were able to get apartment for which couples children had been turned away. Discrimination against families with children is said to be fairly widespread, particularly with apartment rentals.–NYT

A new shop called Boiy Krazy’s Groovi Gardens has opened on Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg. It’s 500 square feet of psychedelia/punk and there are chandeliers and Latin American art hung on the walls. And, oh yeah, clothes.–Racked

We hit Brighton Beach & Coney Island yesterday evening. Here are 59 seconds of that experience.

“The ‘Atlantic Yards stall’ has brought groups representing different flavors of project criticism and opposition together for a rally at 2 pm on Saturday, May 3, with a range of local political officials confirmed as attendees. The location is 752 Pacific Street near Carlton Avenue in the AY footprint, a block planned to hold “interim surface parking” that could last indefinitely. (The Brooklyn Paper broke the news, though the lead of the article says Sunday rather than Saturday and stresses stopping demolitions.)”–AYR