Gowanus Canal

Kittery Brings a Taste of the Beach to Carroll Gardens

A sea worthy clam shack

Kale Tasting at Chez Khalessi; Sriracha Run in Bushwick

Monday, April 1 Kale-essi Tastings at Chez Khalessi Chez Khalessi, the new Game of Thrones-themed bar in Dumbo, already serves King Joffrey Juice and Sansa Screwdrivers. But the pub recently added new items to the dinner menu, and will be serving a "Kale-essi" tasting on Monday night, as a tribute t ... More >>

BBQ NYC: New 'cue, from the East Village to Gowanus

Gowanus Dolphin Finally Dies; Here's the Heart-Wrenching Video

Caution, this video courtesy of the New York Post is not for the faint of heart. Yesterday, Greg Howard reported on an injured dolphin that was trapped in the filthy waters of Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal, attracting crowds of spectators to the vicinity of the Union Street Bridge in the maritime indust ... More >>

UPDATE: There's a Dolphin Stranded in the Gowanus Canal

View more videos at: http://nbcnewyork.com. Update 4: Well, we've finally found out why no one's sending a team of divers jump into the canal and guide the dolphin to safety before it dies. They're not allowed. "Unfortunately, all we can do is watch and wait for the tide to rise, so the animal can ... More >>

The Gowanus Canal Cleanup Will Cost Half a Billion Dollars

The Environmental Protection Agency released its plan for cleaning up the Gowanus Canal Superfund site yesterday, and as expected, the process is going to be complicated, time-consuming, and mind-bogglingly expensive. Since its completion in the 1860s, the Gowanus has been the home of virtually eve ... More >>

*UPDATE* Brooklyn Councilman Brad Lander Warns Real Estate Group to Halt Development Project Along Gowanus Canal

[UPDATE]: The Lightstone Group will continue its bid to build a 700-unit housing development on Bond Street along the Gowanus Canal despite concerns raised in a letter from Councilman Brad Lander yesterday, the company said in a statement released to the Voice. "The Lightstone Group is fully commi ... More >>

Brooklyn Councilman Brad Lander Warns Real Estate Group to Halt Development Project Along Gowanus Canal

City Councilman Brad Lander let national realty firm, The Lightstone Group, in on a little secret yesterday: it's not a great time to build along waterfront neighborhoods in the city right now! Lander sent a letter to Lightstone Group chairman and CEO David Lichtenstein urging the company to withdr ... More >>

Brooklyn's South Sound Studio Completly Destroyed By Sandy

Hurricane Sandy has completely destroyed Brooklyn recording studio The South Sound. Located at the mouth of the Gowanus Canal, the 7000 square foot music and arts building which records bands like Beach Fossils, The Melvins, and Wild Arrows stood no chance against the flood waters that rushed in Mon ... More >>

Crystal Stilts

Whole Foods Cleared for Brooklyn Site

It's official, Brooklyn is getting a Whole Foods on a site along the Gowanus Canal. On Tuesday, the supermarket chain got approval for zoning changes from the city's Board of Standards and Appeals, clearing the last hurdle before it can obtain building permits and start construction, reports the Wal ... More >>

Littleneck: Gowanus Gets Its Clams

We promise you they're not from the canal

List: Five Key Songs For Tonight's Flight Of The Conchords Sing-Along At Bell House

​If you desire relentlessly goofy, profoundly surreal live entertainment this fine Wednesday evening, might I suggest you follow your nose to the banks of the Gowanus Canal and avail yourself of, yes, the Bell House's Flight of the Conchords Sing-Along, which will focus on season one (no "Caro ... More >>

Toxic PCBs Found in New York Public Schools

alamosbasement​Low levels of PCBs, a chemical compound linked to cancer, have been found in public schools across New York. The New York Times reports leaky light ballasts are to blame. Parents are being told that there is no immediate danger, but that long-term exposure could increase health ... More >>

Gowanus Canal Is Totally Grody, Finds EPA

​After a yearlong evaluation of Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal, the EPA has released their report on the levels of contamination in the waterway. The results, published yesterday, aren't good for the Superfund site. Two suspected carcinogens -- PAHs and PCBs -- were found to be "widespread" in the ... More >>

CARTOON CENTRAL

The best animators show off their work

'Sunday Best Presents Alex from Tokyo'

Benchmark: Park Slope's New Steakhouse

Benchmark's New York strip​When Benchmark--Park Slope's only true steakhouse--opened this spring without signage, it seemed to to be going for that tired "secret restaurant" cache. Thankfully, now a large sign announces the restaurant's existence--still, you might miss it as you walk by. The ... More >>

Sunday Best Finds A New Home; This Weekend's Party (With Dâm-Funk!) Is On

This guy's real happy to hear the news. The shocking announcement a few weeks back that BKLYN Yard was permanently shutting down -- robbing Brooklyn of one of its best outdoor venues, and marooning several great reoccurring summer parties -- still lingers, but perhaps the highest-profile of those ... More >>

BKLYN Yard, Site of Many a Foodie Extravaganza, Is Closing

536/FlickrThe sun has set on the BKLYN Yard.​Despite a fancy write-up from the Times earlier this week, the BKLYN Yard, home to numerous barbecues, food truck festivities, lobster bakes, and pig roasts, is closing up shop.

This Week in the Voice: The 2010 Summer Guide

​As you emerge from the schvitzy oven that is New York's subway system today, indulge in that new heat and sunshine with the help of the Voice's special pull-out 2010 Summer Guide. Keep yourself busy above ground during the three-month sweat-stained shitshow that is a summer in New York City, ... More >>

'Sunday Best Presents Michael Mayer'

A New Brick Oven Pizza For Brooklyn

More pizza​ Strolling south on Smith Street from Carroll Gardens toward the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and the Gowanus Canal, you stumble across this fledgling brick oven pizza joint, on a very industrial block across from a car wash and next to an eccentrically decorated notary office. It's j ... More >>

AND THEY'RE OFF!

So what if the Kentucky Derby is months away?

Gowanus Canal Now on Facebook, in More Than One Place

​The Post announces that "the Gowanus Canal has finally joined the 21st century: The fetid waterway has its own group on Facebook." They mean the EPA has started a GC discussion group at its page, at which it encourages conversations that "follow the conventions of polite discourse." As you ... More >>

Drink for Gowanus

Mykl Roventine/flickr​The controversy surrounding the proposed clean-up of the Gowanus Canal may be far from over, but tonight the Gowanus Canal Conservancy is providing a less complicated opportunity to show support for the beleaguered waterway. It's holding its second annual Fall Beer Tastin ... More >>

Things to do this weekend for (mostly) free

​ Leaf peeper map of New York State Saturday Stinky Cheese Man author Jon Scieszka and five others read at Books of Wonder Hayrides at the Carl Schurz Park Harvest Festival Mask making at Kate's Paperie Craft fair, Chelsea, with PS11 and a group of local Etsy sellers Madison Square Fall ... More >>

Pig Roast 'On' Tonight at Brooklyn Yard in Spite of Downpour

The Hapa Kitchen cooks planned on roasting two pigs in an arcane Cuban-Chinese style at Brooklyn Yard this evening, assisted by some celebrity barbecuers. The bad news is, what with the incessant rain, there will probably be no canoeing on the Gowanus Canal tonight. The good news is that the pig roa ... More >>

Live: Theo Parrish, Soaking In It At Brooklyn Yard

Pics by Puja Patel, more below Theo Parrish apparently played Eddie Kendricks' "Date With the Rain" just about an hour before the first downpour washed over South Brooklyn last night; the Sunday Best dance party was the last of a Detroit-based trilogy that previously featured deep-house youngin Kyle ... More >>

Jana Hunter

Sunday Best with Losoul

'Sunday Best Presents Mr. Scruff'

Afloat in a Sea of Green--Guactacular Invitational 2009 Guacamole Contest

                    I knew enough from my previous attendance at the Bacon Takedown  and Chowder Slam that I'd better get to this event early: Guactacular Invitational 2009 was to be a competition among nine avo ... More >>

Despite Late Jameson Surge, Bloomberg Clicks With Jobs, Against Superfund

See, it could always be worse: Urbanite reports that a new issue of Spider-Man will have newspaperman J.J. Jameson, the webslinger's arch-nemesis, elected Mayor of New York. No word as to whether the cigar-chomping Bugle editor will end the smoking ban. It's fun to hear Spider-Man writer Dan Slott ... More >>

Luxury Apts. Coming to the Mighty Gowanus

RAVE ON

Dance all day on the Gowanus

Growing Food without Knowing, Hope Breeds From Depths of Dirty Gowanus Canal, and 60 and Still Being Carded...

The Official Guide to Twee Outdoor Summer Dance Parties

Stock up on deodorant, and gird yourself for another trip down the ol’ Slip N Slide

R.I.P, You Noble Whale

The Tower of Positive Thinking

Architects color the skyscraper green

Love on the Lamb

Culinary adventures in a Brooklyn outback

Close-Up on Gowanus, Brooklyn

Framing Sevens

Yoshiko Chuma leads us to art and architecture

Electric Dreams

A Shore Thing

Mini guides to five waterfront neighborhoods worth your salt

Grease Is Good!

Are lard, eggs, and fish tacos the new health foods?

Backward

Belleville builds a better bistro in Brooklyn's Park Slope

Close-Up on Red Hook

Two-Room Apartment in 1880s House

Low Life