Subject: Gowanus

• Where Are You From? Runnin' Scared Counsels Troubled Fellow Citizens

  August 12, 2008

• Bohemian Crapsody: W'm'sburg Blogger Assails Whippersnappers

  August 20, 2008

• Midday Mashup: Wild Man, Falling Man, "Prancey," and Pervs

  September 4, 2008

• Parties on the Newtown, Gowanus: Does Nature Need Gentrification?

  September 9, 2008

• Luxury Apts. Coming to the Mighty Gowanus

  September 11, 2008

• Anti-Development Rumblings in Brooklyn

  September 15, 2008

• Aspirational Neighborhoods: Slope You Are If You Think You Are

  September 19, 2008

• Local Brats' Allowances Cut

  October 13, 2008

• This Week's Voice: Ice-T and Richard Hell on the Election, They Might Be Giants, Craig Finn, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, and More

  October 29, 2008

• Gowanus Project Moves Forward, Builders Suffer Huge Losses

  November 11, 2008

• Times Excited by Brooklyn Blogs, Which Sort of Ruins Them for Us

  January 12, 2009

• "Vile" Building Misrepresents Its Path of Destruction

  Here's one of the things we love about Gowanus Lounge: They noticed advertising for a new Williamsburg real estate hideosity, 80 Metropolitan, says the builders "converted" the beloved old Dutch Mustard Factory, when the Factory was observably torn to the damn ground and 80 Met gloatingly built over its ashes. The Gowanus Lounge author originally posted the news on Curbed in decorous, restrained language. Today he returns to GL to extend his remarks, calling the marketers "despicable and deplora

  January 14, 2009

• Astroland Sign Comes Down

  Coney landmarks continue to be dismantled. Here's Dietrich's Flickr image of workers taking down the Astroland sign on Monday (h/t Gowanus Lounge). Yesterday the Department of City Planning began its review of the Coney Island Rezoning Plan, including a "Wonder Wheel Way Elevation" and a six-block "Residential and Retail District," which certainly looks more sparkly than what Coney has become since the demolition began.

  January 21, 2009

• Toll Brothers Pulling a Fast One in Gowanus?

  Never trust a landlord, even if you're a powerful community board. Gowanus Lounge has learned that Community Board 6, which had given conditional approval on February 11 to Toll Brothers' condo project on the Gowanus, thinks they've been swindled. Toll Brothers received the approval on the condition that the builder devote 30 percent of the units to "affordable housing." But GL finds a letter from the Board to city planning commission chair Amanda Burden (one of New York's most beautiful people

  February 13, 2009

• Quick Hits

  The Brides.com annual Valentine's Day mass wedding takes place tomorrow at the top of the Empire State Building. This year the event includes its first same-sex couple. Charles G. Hogg, the groundhog who bit Mayor Bloomberg on Groundhog Day, is appearing at the Staten Island Zoo this weekend, in case any of you want to go congratulate him. The Rockaway Wave attended the debate among five candidates for Joseph Addabbo's vacated council, to be decided in a February 24 election. Lew Simon sho

  February 13, 2009

• Reverend Billy Running for Mayor

  Bloomberg, Weiner, Thompson, Avella, quake in your boots: Reverend Billy has joined the 2009 mayoral race. The charismatic preacher against consumerism and related social ills, whose Buy Nothing Day service we attended last Black Friday in Union Square, announced his candidacy at his MySpace page and in a Sunday press conference. He plans to run on the Green Party ticket and is now seeking to fill petitions. "This is a chance not just to stand up against Bloomberg but to stand up against corp

  March 2, 2009

• Dirty Blonde: High Times at the Bell House

  The Union Hall crew opens another spot, and adds to a surprising resurgence

  September 17, 2008

• INTO THE WILD

  September 23, 2008

• SEASONS CHANGE

  October 1, 2008

• Surfing Bay Ridge at Asmak Taama with Gibby Haynes

  Matching fish with rock stars in Bay Ridge

  January 14, 2009

• Cabinet Magazine Hopes Its New Home Catches Fire

  February 25, 2009

• Remember the Spartans

  July 11, 2006

• Electric Dreams

  July 11, 2006

• In the Black

  September 29, 1998

• Our Man Sietsema: 'Australian lamb isn't good enough?'

  February 13, 2007

• ETA for Gowanus Yacht Club, Red Hook Ball-Fields

  April 5, 2007

• Yacht Club Secrets Revealed

  April 20, 2007

• Matters of Life

  April 3, 2001

• Close-Up On: Sunset Park

  June 18, 2002

• Close-Up on Red Hook

  December 3, 2002

• Class Conscious

  April 26, 2005

• Durian, Durian

  August 16, 2005

• Close-Up on Boerum Hill, Brooklyn

  October 11, 2005

• Close-Up on Gowanus, Brooklyn

  January 2, 2007

• GOING, GOING, GONE!

  September 10, 2008

• PASTIE-A-GO-GO

  September 10, 2008

• Coney: New Dig, Times Dis, Cyclone Opens Sunday

  Kinetic Carnival looks at Joe Sitt's big dig at Stillwell Avenue and the Boardwalk at Coney Island and wonders what's up. Captain Nemo's readers speculate: new supports for the Boardwalk? Tents? A "Dream Land Amusement Park" is announced by lamppost sign for part of the blighted property. Gowanus' Bell House hosts a Fight For Your Right to Coney event Tuesday. The Times' City Blog drops a nasty note about "a certain type of New Yorker" who "would be thoroughly pleased to drink a beer at Rudy's

  March 30, 2009

• A Shore Thing

  May 16, 2006

• Frida Fatigue

  May 2, 2006

• Close-Up on Gowanus

  February 18, 2003

• 'Ibeam Trombone Festival'

  April 15, 2009

• The Governor Bans Bottled Water; Guactacular Winners Announced

  Bagless vacuum cleaner inventor James Dyson has filed a US patent application for "cubist" kitchen appliances, designed to take up less space than round, jug-shaped ones. [New Scientist] Governor Paterson has signed an executive order to phase out the purchase and use of all bottled water at government offices, including individual-sized and even cooler-sized water bottles, which are to be replaced with water fountains. [NY Times] Shocker! Meat from pigs infected with swine flu should not be e

  May 7, 2009

• TREASURE TRAIL

  May 20, 2009

• Details On the 2009 Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival

  Information remains scant on the super minimal page for the 2009 Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival, scheduled for August 8 at everybody's favorite BK venue the Old American Can Factory, a/k/a the Yard, a/k/a the old Issue Project Room space, a/k/a probably the only inhabitable lawn along all of the Gowanus. Last week, the fest announced two headliners--the Juan MacLean and RJD2--and the date and time, but otherwise kept pretty much mum about what they had in store. Pitchfork seems to have cra

  July 8, 2009

• Brooklyn Dumpster Pools Publicized, Ruined

  Earlier this month, Inhabitat pushed out the story of MacroSea's Gowanus dumpster pool parties. This weekend -- cannonball! New York Times, Daily News, Newsday, WPIX, et alia are suddenly all over it. These tales of MacroSea's reclamation of ordinary trash dumpsters into sanitary swimming tanks has been spiced by their "secret" location; the Times video shows Urban Eye reporter Melena Ryzik confidentially telling you that "It's 12:30 in the morning, I'm somewhere deep in Brooklyn, I can't te

  July 20, 2009

• Brooklyn Gets Its Very Own Kurve

  You've probably heard of Kurve, the futuristic Thai-fusion spot in the East Village so odd that it's prompted speculation that it's actually an art installation, not a restaurant. Well, Brooklyn has its own Kurve now, a place so strange that it's almost worth a visit just to see it. Imagine a wanna-be boutique hotel goes up on Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn, on the west side of the street, which is technically Gowanus, not Park Slope. This hotel is wedged between a taxi garage and a dialysis cent

  July 22, 2009

• Posts of the Week

  It's Friday afternoon, which means its time to give a shout out to the best posts of the past five days.The Early Word paid a visit to Vue, Gowanus' very own version of Kurve......and checked out the goods at Mantao Chinese Sandwiches in Midtown.Bill Peet, executive chef of Aretsky's Patroon, shared his recipe for Certified Angus Prime Beef Burger with Slow Roasted Tomatoes and Grilled Onions.The owner of Bklyn Larder talked about the challenges of running a new gourmet food store in a cost-cutt

  July 24, 2009

• Lunch, Garden of Dreams, Come to Vue

  Vue, the restaurant and lounge perched atop Gowanus's very own Hotel Le Bleu, has just debuted a lunch and brunch menu. Chef Chris Cheung will offer such apps as a Samurai spiked crab cake and chilled butternut squash soup, and such entrees as Denmark baby back ribs with macaroni and bleu cheese and the somewhat hilariously named "The Garden of Dreams, too Many Vegetables to List." When the Early Word visited Vue last month, it observed the restaurant's similarity to Kurve and bemoaned its "deep

  August 11, 2009

• R.I.P. Suzanne Fiol, Founder and Director of Issue Project Room

  ​Suzanne Fiol, who founded the itinerant new-music venue Issue Project Room in an East Village garage in 2003 and who shepherded the venue through three successive spaces, died yesterday, after a long struggle with cancer. In this paper's archives you will find any number of raptures about the sheer creativity of the spaces she turned into venues--an oil silo on the Gowanus; the Old American Can Factory; and a magnificently crumbling theater at 110 Livingston, which when it opens in 2010 o

  October 6, 2009

• TURKEY TROT

  November 17, 2009