The Memorial Gathering Saturday at the Brooklyn Lyceum was a heartfelt opportunity for Bob Guskind’s friends (and family) to meet each other, share memories, and contribute to their understanding of a man who made a huge impression on Brooklyn in just a few years. Fellow bloggers and [...]
(Thanks to the Cobble Hill Blog)
Senator Daniel Squadron and Assemblymember Joan Millman sponsored a resolution to honor the life and work of Gowanus Lounge founder Bob Guskind. (The memorial gathering is Saturday.)
Resolution 1131 passed in both houses on Tuesday. The video shows Squadron speaking on the resolution. Among [...]
Bob was passionate about many things, but the following four organizations were very close to his heart. In lieu of flowers at the memorial gathering April 4 (please RSVP if you can), please feel free to contribute to these causes in Bob’s name.
MISSION: The Empty Cages Collective [...]
In Memoriam, Robert Guskind
Photo credit: Hugh Crawford
Gowanus Lounge and its large community of readers, admirers and friends mourn the loss of founder and editor Robert “Bob” Guskind. Dubbed by some “Brooklyn’s Blogfather,” Bob was a talented journalist, author, photographer and editor whose deep interest in [...]
If you are seeing this, then you know gowanuslounge has made it off of lunarpages. I have refrained from berating lunarpages as long as gowanuslounge was on it. There is still work to be done and there will be snags.
To remind everyone of Bob’s struggles and [...]
In an effort to keep the pipes clean, events related to how the site was restored and continued problems with the service provider, gowanuslounge will be going offline for ~2 hours at 11 pm Eastern this evening.
We are also going to fix some of' [...]
Bob was a good friend and I helped him with the technical nature of running a blog. Bob cared deeply for Brooklyn and gowanuslounge was his pride and joy. I am stepping out of the shadows to put an end to the speculation of why gowanuslounge was down. I know [...]
With great sadness, a few of Bob’s friends, who were given access to his site, will try to update Gowanus Lounge with:
1) An obituary and other links
2) An announcement of a memorial gathering (April 4)
Meanwhile, comments and questions are welcomed. [...]
Before the snow there was his mangificent pleather spsecimen on the streets of north Brooklyn. It brought us great joy.
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Most people just describe Brooklyn’s Sydney Wayser as indie or indie-pop. That mainly tells you what she doesn’t sound like (mainstream music). So let’s try to describe her music for you. Sydney’s main instrument is piano and her band consists of electric guitar, upright bass, drums [...]
[Photo for GL courtesy of Deborah Matack; click to enlarge]
Our beloved contributor and photographer Deborah Matack, who has a sharp eye and a kind soul to match it, wrote with this photo: “I was just saying to my mother several days ago that I was [...]
Interesting question about who would wiln versus who would lose? Does the architect and level of bureaucratic supersion matter?
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[Image courtesy of Ian David/GL Fickr Pool]
THe photogrpher also writes Immaculate Heart of Mary Church. Fort Hamilton Parkway and East Fourtrh Street to narrow down the terrritory in Windsor Terrace and/or Kennsington.
[...]This is a very welcome video from our long absent corresspondent F. Jasmin Adams, who dropped another good on us too, but we wil get to that tomorrow.
[...]The producers this fim write nobody mess with Amtrak Joe. And we add, especially in Red Hoook.
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[Photo courtesy of E.C. Stephens]
Corespondent E.C. Stephens reports in with some glee that the level of snow in Park Slope flower boxes has reached a critical, if not symbolic, eight inches. We take what we said earlier all back. This is cearly not your disapointing [...]
Wow. In about four or five month the slowest Hot Karl Fischer buiding out to be ready to go nondo. Well, eithe the developerws will bravely try to make it a condo in a grossy overprice, oversaturated market or they will simply not pass go and [...]
We finally made it over to the Mast Brothers Chocolate Factory at 105 N. 3 in Williamsburg and it did not disspoint. Right now they’re only serving up chocolate bars but the only they thing they have in common with Hershey’s is form. We tried the [...]
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And now, we take a walk on the “wild side” on Bedford Avenue. And the answer to the question, here as everywhere, is:
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, [...]
This is St. Kilda jewelry which has just opened on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope between St. Mark’s Place and Prospect Place. It look like they have a niece selection of merchandise. Here’s hoping they can ride out the recession-depresssion squeezing wallets everyehere.
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There is going to be a strong need for comic relief in this year’s mayor election, which is one reason we laughed out loud when we got an email last night that Rev. Billy, bet known for theatrically attaching himself to a variet of high profile [...]
[Photo courtesy of chadwbecks/GL Flickr Pool]
Our guess is that it’s something from the Brooklyn Museum’s collection.
Wrong. Boy are we assholes or what? It’ our good Gowanus Canal. And if’were not mistaken it a source of fue oil [...]
Because it’s a fucking love song and we sometimes starting day with fucking lllllllllloooooooovvvvvveeeeee songs
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[Photo courtesy of sabeth718/GL Flick Pool]
At an undisclosed location in Williamsburg and good enough, quite frankly, for our Blight series.
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Who says Bedford Avenue is nothing more than a corporate promotional shithole where street art has been replaced by corporaate promotion? Well, it is. This is Supreme’s marketing camapign as seen on Bedford Avenue featuring Old Mr. Heroin himsef, Lou Reed, like into inifniity.
[...]From the city’s always friendly Office of Emergency Management as of 11:54PM: “WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FOR NEW YORK CITY. The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Warning for New York City until Monday, March 2, at 6 PM. As many as 11 inches of snow may [...]
From the good, old National Weather Service…”MAJOR SNOWSTORM TO IMPACT TRI-STATE AREA TONIGHT AND MONDAY….LOW PRESSURE ALONG THE CAROLINA COAST THIS EVENING WILL TRACKNORTHEAST…PASSING TO THE SOUTH AND EAST OF LONG ISLAND MONDAY MORNING. THE LOW WILL THEN PROCEED UP INTO THE GULF OF MAINE BY MONDAY EVENING. STRONG CANADIAN [...]
From our friends at Sean Casey this week comes the beauty, who’s named Ozzie:
Ozzy is a two year old German Short Haired Pointer/Labrador Retriever…he is neutered, dewormed, treated with Revolution to prevent fleas, ticks, ear mites and heartworm and is up to date with vaccinations. His [...]
We normally don’t post this late on Saturday, but we just got an email announcement that East River State Park is reopening tomorrow, a month earlier than planned. The release was entitled “”Spring hsa Sprung! Friends of the East River State Park Succeeds in Getting Park [...]
Yes, friends, it’s cat and kitten adoption day today noon to five PM. The even, which is cosponsored by the Empty Cages Collective and NYC Pet Supplies is happening at 241 Bedford Avenue, between N. 3 and N. 4 Streets. You know what needs to be [...]
[Photo courtesy of Jack Szwergold/GL Flickr Pool]
Devoted reader and contributor Jack Szwergold writes: “This is in front of a church that is right across the street from the sweatshop my mom [...]
From the GL Inbox last week, this only goes to show how much neigbhoborhood activism it takes to get a some stop signs insgtalled. For real:
A quick note with the text of the letter that has gone out from CB7 to NYC DOT. Great letter by [...]
The GL readers who took this shot and emailed it it us writes that “the attached was hung tonite on second st and smith. Its a winner in the best flyer i have seen in a very long time seen category!” Indeed, it [...]
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Brooklyn, meet Greenpoint Lodge. Lodge meet Brooklyn our out of town tourist friends. Now, go play. This is The Lodge ag 95 Norman Sreet, which has benn advertising on Craigslist and that we found via a commengt left [...]
[Photo courtesy of New York Public Library Digital Collection]
This Bernice Abbott photo is described as “Billboards and signs, Fulton Street between State street and Ashland place, Brooklyn. (October 29, 1936).”
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Collina Italina will open on March 16 on Garfield Place and 6th Avenue bringing a touch of bellissimo to the Slope. According to their website:
At Collina Italiana (CI), we offer Italian language and culture programs both on- and off-site. Lovers of Italian language and [...]
We’ve beein seeing these listings on CL for weeks but were too dumb to put two and two together until Miss Heather just did. $75 a night at a failed condo. Nice. [New York Shitty]
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em>And now, it’s time for our weekly feature from Eat It: The Brooklyn Food blog. This week’s review is of Aliseo in Prospect Heights:
Lucky me! I was taken to dinner at the wonderful Aliseo (665 Vanderbilt Avenue, between Prospect Place & Park Place, 718-783-3400), an amazing [...]
The Tempo Presto on Seventh Avenue in the Slope went early last year, eventually becoming the pretty succesful Barrio Restaurant. Well, adding to the growing amount of retail or restaurant space that is available on Fifth Avenue in the Slope is Tempo Presto’s take out branch. [...]
A month ago, Brownstoner reported the presence of a big porable steam generator outside the Novo Park Slope on Fourth Avenue. Well, a check yesterday, reveale that it is still there, leading one to conclude that there are big Boymelheat issues at work. We can’t [...]
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It just might work and it will certainly help people forget about things. In any case, this is the sign in the window of Bierkraft on Fifth Avenue in the Slope, which is a sort of a paradise for breakwki lover interested in a a part [...]
We’ve also avoided the complex topic of using Federal economic recovery funds to bail out the financially sinking Atlantic Yards project. Local backers have been pulling out al the stops to lobby the governor for money and to us–who fully support a massive Federal spending plan [...]
We’ve been too diverted by other subjects–some of them stupid–to wade into Atlantic Yards recently, but it’s time. Yesterday, the State Appellate Court Ruled for the Empire State Development Corop on the Atlantic Yards Environmental Impact Statement Appeal. Oppenents will now ask the state Court of of [...]
[Photo for GL courtesy of Meg Groome]
Perhaps Coney Island can be the kind of pace where can chill out all year round. Our photographer writes of this group in front of the historic Child’s Buiding: “This group was basking in the sun and tucked [...]
One of the post-punk classics from John Lydon and PIL: “Two sides to every story. Somebody Had to stop it. I’m not the same as when I began.”
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[Photo courtesy of Aonghais MacInness/GL Flickr Pool]
The photographer writes that “Was walking though Ikea in Red Hook and saw lots of smoke in the distance. ” He lables the pic a “fire,” but it seems [...]
As the possible Atlantic Yards site (also known as Propect Heights) is being demolished by Bruce Ratner, Guy Ambrosino is doing–or saying–something about it. (Bear in mind, however, his statement is more of the memory and the appreciation of communal statement than it is in protest [...]
We found this announcement in a Park Slope Parents email for a new group that could be quite interesting in its own way:
I’ve started a group called Brooklyn vs Burbs and Beyond, for people living in Brooklyn who are being priced or driven out of [...]
There’s an important meeting tonight at 6:00 PM about the proposed rezoning of Gowanus that could seriously change the face of about 25 blocks of the neighborhood. The Community Board 6 Landmarks and Land Use Commmittee will be reviewing the city’s proposal. The meeting takes place at [...]
[Commandant's House in snow in 1914]
One of the great things about doing tours around the city is the unexpected treasures that you come upon. One of these lies at the edge of Vinegar Hill and end of Evans Street. Traveling the streets of Vinegar Hill [...]
Even though some high-end stores in the South Slope are dropping like fies, it’s encouraging to see new shops opening anywhere on Seventh Avenue. This is the new Cohen’s Fashion Optical, which is having its grand opening at 298 Seventh Avenue, between Eighth and Ninth Streets. [...]
[Photo courtesy of Mugsniffer/GL Photo Pool]
Well, the rotting hulk of a building atop which Robert Scarano was planning luxe penthouses in Williamsburg, has seen some action: the addition of grafitti that says “Hipsters Suck.” The project [...]
The Fourth Avenue Starbucks Dream is dead. Yesterday, we ran a photo of the awful blight at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Third Street where a building was planned that would have housed among ohter things, a Starbucks. Uh, cancel that soy grande latte, [...]
Toren, one of the new buildings going up in the Flatbush Avenue corridor is really taking shape, although the base, which will really define the look of the building has yet to be installed. The building was designed by SOM and is definitey one of the most distinctive new towers [...]
[Photo for GL courtesy of Deborah Matlack]
The industrial beauty of this shot under the (soon to be repaired) Culver Viaduct in Gowanus on Ninth Street. We’ve always felt that as grungy as it is, there is an oddly compelling beauty to the thing above [...]
[Photo courtesy of Jennifer Dunne/GL Flickr Pool]
Wonder why she named this shot from Prospect Park “hanging on”?
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We found this on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope yesterday, although there weren’t that many of them around. If you know anything about this girl, please call one of the numbers above. There’s very little info on the notice itself. Not even a name.
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On Thursday, 2/26, there’s going to be a fundraiser for the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, a nonprofit environmental organization that runs environmental science lessons for elementary school kids aboard a big wooden boat. It’s be docked in Red Hook in the future. The takes place the [...]
[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather]
Miss Heather, who discovered this masterpiece on Green Street, called it “Dead Chairs Wear Plaid.” Us, we’re speechless when we look at it.
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[Photo courtesy of Deborah Matlack]
We hit the new Magic Bowling in early February when we noticed the signage going up and our devoted contributor Deborah Matlack passed by the other day and documented some progress. It was once the home of the B&B [...]
[Photo courtesy KellsNYC/Yelp]
Prospect Height’s dining staple Beast is celebrating its 4th year anniversary today. Come celebrate Beast’s anniversary with delicious eats, drinks and all-around good times. Today starting at 6pm. Complimentary Hors d’oeuvres & drink-specials! Special Festivities begin at @9pm! Wonder what those will [...]
Milton is the name of both the band and its leader, a long time performer at both Pete’s Candy Store and The Living Room. The latter is where the band plays the last show in its February residency tonight at 9. Milton has lived all over the place [...]
The Park Slope Civic Council has been pushing to greatly expand the Park Slope Historic District (which is a lot smaller than a lot of people think it is. Along thos lines, it’ll be holding its annual community forum on Thursday, March 5, 2009 at 7:00 [...]
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· The MTA is Going to Rebuild Culver Viaduct After [...]
This opinion about the Big Guy Upstairs comes from Fourth Avenue. Does anyone want to guess whether it’s from the Gowanus or Park Slope side? If you said “Gowanus,” you win. There was a church van parked about 20 feet away.
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The moment has arrived! Luxury rentals are now here in Robert Scarano’s latest Fourth Avenue masterpiece is on the market. We referred to it as as a “monster” and the KFC Building because it overlooks the Colonel. Nothing like luxury and the smell of chicken [...]
[Photo courtesy of Jack Szwergold/GL Flickr Pool]
Sometimes we’re guilty of seeing buidings and not thinking about once took place in them. How people were worked to the bone. Abused. Underpaid. Denied unions. Or exposed to [...]
Recorded at the Manchester Apollo in October 1977. Does Iggy looked blissfully f’d up or is it just us seeing something that’s not there?
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[Photo courtesy of Ron Harrell/GL Flickr Pool]
Ah, the decrepitude of our beloved Smith-9th Station. Looks even better in black and white.
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[Photo courtesy of Jack Szwergold/GL Flickr Pool]
We haven’t checked in on the Carroll Street Corner of Nightmares in Park Slope because it loosens our bowels somewhat just to be in the vicintity of the bad architecture and fugyly vibes, but frequent GL Contributor Jack [...]
We were wondering how many Brookynites stick to the borough other than to visit the Big Island for job purposes (those who still have jobs). Herewith is our GL Poll inspired by our friend Carmen:
Go to Manhattan Except to Work?
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Well, here’s proof that Smart Cars are in fact smart. This one is after natural foods. On the other hand, given that the Slope Natural on Fifth sucks big ones (seriously, it’s bad), shouldn’t the Smar Car be at the Food Coop. On the other hand, [...]
The story of the Damnwells is not unfamiliar: around eight years ago Alex Dezen (lead vocals, guitar, piano), David Chernis (lead guitar), Ted Hudson (bass), and Steven Terry (drums) form the band and base it in Brooklyn. They release two CDs, Bastards of the Beat and Air [...]
GrowInStyle is a company founded by a mom in Sheepshead Bay Mom who’s got business to tend to while mommin’ the kid. To do so, she’s got herself an amazing website that not only provides all the urban babies the chance to have the oh [...]
This afternooon the City Council is having a hearing on the topic of bedbug infestation and several proposed bills. The hearing starts at 1PM. It will deal with some of the ignorance surrounding the issue. A bit from the email we got:
The New York City Council’s [...]
You may or may not have patience to sit through the long audio with black screen at the end, but the pics here are quite impressive. The person that posted the vid writes: “I had an ongoing leak that management lied to me about fixing. Someone eventually admitted to me [...]
Things seem to be going okay at 349 Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg, but we can see the kiddies in the Burg are having some fun tagging up the fugly as hell “elegant facade of Jerusalem Gold Stone” that looks like painted stucco from across the street. [...]
[All photos for GL courtesy of Brenda From Flatbush]
Last Friday, we posted a big gallery of photos of the now completely vacant blocks of Willoughby and Bridge Streets where Avalon Bay West may (or may not) build a gi-normous commercial and residential tower. [...]
Well, new unemployment claims are at record levels and we’re heading toward something that resembles more of a Depression that a little ‘ole recession. Well, at least something that will make the Reagan Recession of the Early 80s, which was pretty brutal, for those who only [...]
Borough President Marty Markowitz has expressed little interest in funding a fix for the deplorably deteriorated Coney boardwalk in the past and is planning to spend $64 million on an increasingly controversial concert venue that many say is ego-driven waste of money that will actually [...]
Who knew the Sisters ever had a budget to do shit produced on location like this? Maybe that’s why Andrew Eldritch can’t get along with record companies. “Dominion - Some say prayers/Some say prayers/Now I say mine.”
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[Photo courtesy of Donkey Attack/Gl Flickr Pool]
From Nevins and President Streets. We don’t even want to know what led to this.
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Calling all you baby parents! For eight weeks starting Monday, 3/16, Prospect Park will be hosting “Nature Babies” at Prospect Park Audubon Center. This program gives parents and caregivers the opportunity to build up their babies’ smarts and culture thru storytelling and craft activities [...]
Meet 113 Monroe Street in Bed-Stuy. We run this to show the ongoing fuglyfication of Bed-Stuy and how architects have gone wild tossing up mediocre structures that don’t fit in with the gorgeous brick and brownstone environment. The only saving grace here is that it’s at [...]
[Photo for GL courtesy of Gary Mirabelle]
To the extent that it’s not being marred by out-of-context, fugly new development, Bed-Stuy is one of Brooklyn’s most beautiful neighborhoods as displayed in this shot from our own Gary Mirabelle.
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There was a long time when we wondered if 99 Havemeyer in Williamsburg, which is at the corner of Hope Street, would ever exist because progress on the site was so slow it made one of developer Shaya Boymelgreen’s projects look like it was progressing at [...]
