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February 28, 2012
Gowanus Whole Foods Officially Off the Ground
Pretty soon Brooklyn will join the Upper West Side in looking like a sterile, predictable American suburb. That's to say that Gowanus is def going to have a Whole Foods very soon -- as early as 2013 -- as a city board today gave the grocery conglomerate a key zoning variance, according to the New ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 15, 2012
Snarky Puppy
Pretty soon Brooklyn will join the Upper West Side in looking like a sterile, predictable American suburb. That's to say that Gowanus is def going to have a Whole Foods very soon -- as early as 2013 -- as a city board today gave the grocery conglomerate a key zoning variance, according to the New ... More >>
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February 6, 2012
The Bureau of Unknown Destinations Offers an Outlet for Your Cabin Fever
Even the best New Yorkers can sometimes feel a little antsy after spending too much time in the city. Perhaps this is why rich folks have their summer houses out in the Hamptons, and there is a new four-story REI in Soho trying to convince people to give hiking and adventuring a chance. Now, a new ... More >>
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December 14, 2011
This Week in the Voice: The Government's Hidden Informant, Gowanus' Littleneck
This week in the Voice, out today: Graham Rayman breaks the story of Angel Perez, the shady federal informant in Miami that scammed the government into a $2.5 million investigation of a false death threat against a U.S. Attorney. Robert Sietsema reviews Littleneck, a new clam shack in Gowan ... More >>
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December 14, 2011
Robert Sietsema at Littleneck
Don't clam up. This week in the Voice, Robert Sietsema bites into bivalves at Littleneck, a Gowanus clam shack: "The most spectacular appearance of Brooklyn's iconic bivalve is on a clam roll ($16), featuring full-belly littlenecks with creamy tartar sauce and a few shreds of lettuce for colo ... More >>
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November 17, 2011
Brooklyn's Littleneck Reinvents Choucroute
Seafood choucroute--but you'll have to go to Gowanus to get it. Choucroute is a beloved Alsatian dish consisting of a vast heap of sauerkraut surmounted by a collection of sausages and smoked meats. New Gowanus clam shack Littleneck has reinvented it in spectacular fashion
Voice Choices
September 28, 2011
Sifter+Bizingas
Seafood choucroute--but you'll have to go to Gowanus to get it. Choucroute is a beloved Alsatian dish consisting of a vast heap of sauerkraut surmounted by a collection of sausages and smoked meats. New Gowanus clam shack Littleneck has reinvented it in spectacular fashion
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September 8, 2011
NYC's Most Obscure Restaurants: Schnitzel Bar in Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Way down below the Gowanus lurks Schnitzel Bar. We really only ever hear about a handful of restaurants out of the 50,000 that I estimate exist in the city. Even in Manhattan itself, there are vast swatches in Inwood, Washington Heights, Harlem, the Upper East Side, and around the fringes o ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 15, 2011
IT'S ALIVE!
This jazz festival is a monster
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June 3, 2011
Whole Food Gowanus Creeps Steadily Forward
A rendering of something that may one day exist.After many, many, many months, the fabled Gowanus Whole Foods is one baby step closer to reality.
Voice Choices
January 19, 2011
Alphabet Lounge Big Band
A rendering of something that may one day exist.After many, many, many months, the fabled Gowanus Whole Foods is one baby step closer to reality.
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December 10, 2010
Crop to Cup Moves South, While Luke's Lobster Expands North
Luke's Lobster is expanding again, this time in a northwesterly direction: per Diner's Journal, the shop is moving to a prime location at 426 Amsterdam Avenue at West 80th Street. As with their East Village location, they'll be a handful of blocks from fellow crustacean-pusher Mermaid Inn, an ... More >>
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December 1, 2010
Crop to Cup Relocates to Gowanus
A walk by Crop to Cup in Brooklyn yesterday revealed that it was the last day of operation at the Atlantic Avenue location. Just seven months after the artisanal roaster opened up shop in Brooklyn Heights, it's moving its facilities and café to Third Avenue in Gowanus. Have a restaurant tip ... More >>
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October 27, 2010
Class Action Listings
A walk by Crop to Cup in Brooklyn yesterday revealed that it was the last day of operation at the Atlantic Avenue location. Just seven months after the artisanal roaster opened up shop in Brooklyn Heights, it's moving its facilities and café to Third Avenue in Gowanus. Have a restaurant tip ... More >>
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August 19, 2010
Jake Zavracky of Lowlands Talks Happy Hour, Booze in Beer & the Allure of Miller Lite
zavracky.comJake ZavrackyJake Zavracky is living the dream: tending bar by day and making music by night. Or is it the other way around? In any case, when he's behind the bar at Lowlands, the beer garden that opened in Gowanus earlier this year, he aims to please. What's on tap that's season ... More >>
Voice Choices
July 27, 2010
CARTOON CENTRAL
The best animators show off their work
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July 13, 2010
Natalie Merchant
The best animators show off their work
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June 22, 2010
'Sunday Best Presents Kenny Larkin'
The best animators show off their work
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May 27, 2010
Tomorrow: Our 10 Best Italian Heroes
Half of the iconic fried calamari hero from Catene Deli, Gowanus, Brooklyn. The hero represents one of the greatest accomplishments of Italian-American cooking, a method of packaging the abundance of the New World into a convenient transportable meal, one that permits options in the way it m ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 6, 2010
'Trombone Festival Presents Jacob Garchik, Jen Baker & the Joe Fiedler Trio'
Half of the iconic fried calamari hero from Catene Deli, Gowanus, Brooklyn. The hero represents one of the greatest accomplishments of Italian-American cooking, a method of packaging the abundance of the New World into a convenient transportable meal, one that permits options in the way it m ... More >>
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January 22, 2010
Posts of the Week
As we slide down the wormhole leading to the weekend, we pause to reflect on the best posts of this four-day week: Battle of the Dishes waged a blood sausage smackdown between Despana and Buenos Aires Steakhouse. We ranked Our 10 Best Lower East Side Restaurants. Strange Snacks of the World consi ... More >>
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December 18, 2009
Union Market Opens Third Location on Court Street, Bringing More Upscale Groceries to Cobble Hill
Whole Foods may not be coming to Gowanus anytime in the near future, but On Monday, Union Market will bring its own brand of aspirational grocery shopping to the neighborhood a few blocks north.
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December 16, 2009
Agnostic Front Will Reprise Victim in Pain Live And In Person At The Bell House
Mark your calendars for Friday, February 26, hardcore fans. And read Jason Buhrmester's splendid recent Voice feature on the record's 25th anniversary here. We are all old, yes, but we can still gather at a swank Gowanus nightclub and run into each other one more time.
Voice Choices
November 17, 2009
TURKEY TROT
Channel your inner pilgrim . . . or turkey vulture
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July 24, 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 ... More >>
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July 22, 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 wa ... More >>
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July 20, 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 ... More >>
Voice Choices
May 20, 2009
TREASURE TRAIL
Spring cleaning just got a little more fun
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May 7, 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 govern ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 15, 2009
'Ibeam Trombone Festival'
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 govern ... More >>
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March 30, 2009
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' ... More >>
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February 13, 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 ... More >>
Blogs
January 21, 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 ... More >>
Blogs
January 14, 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 ... More >>
Blogs
January 12, 2009
Times Excited by Brooklyn Blogs, Which Sort of Ruins Them for Us
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 ... More >>
Voice Choices
October 1, 2008
SEASONS CHANGE
A smorgasbord of fresh farm foods for the fall
Voice Choices
September 23, 2008
INTO THE WILD
Gather ’round the campfire with José González
Blogs
September 19, 2008
Aspirational Neighborhoods: Slope You Are If You Think You Are
Gather ’round the campfire with José González
Blogs
September 15, 2008
Anti-Development Rumblings in Brooklyn
Gather ’round the campfire with José González
Blogs
September 11, 2008
Luxury Apts. Coming to the Mighty Gowanus
Gather ’round the campfire with José González
Voice Choices
September 10, 2008
GOING, GOING, GONE!
Bid on original pieces by Thurston and Yoko
Blogs
September 9, 2008
Parties on the Newtown, Gowanus: Does Nature Need Gentrification?
Bid on original pieces by Thurston and Yoko
Blogs
April 20, 2007
Yacht Club Secrets Revealed
Bid on original pieces by Thurston and Yoko
Blogs
February 13, 2007
Our Man Sietsema: 'Australian lamb isn't good enough?'
Bid on original pieces by Thurston and Yoko
NYC Life
January 2, 2007
Close-Up on Gowanus, Brooklyn
Bid on original pieces by Thurston and Yoko
Dining
July 11, 2006
Remember the Spartans
Spinach pies and baseball loukanika by the Gowanus Expressway
NYC Life
October 11, 2005
Close-Up on Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
Spinach pies and baseball loukanika by the Gowanus Expressway
NYC Life
February 18, 2003
Close-Up on Gowanus
Spinach pies and baseball loukanika by the Gowanus Expressway
NYC Life
June 18, 2002
Close-Up On: Sunset Park
Spinach pies and baseball loukanika by the Gowanus Expressway
Dance
April 3, 2001
Matters of Life
Spinach pies and baseball loukanika by the Gowanus Expressway
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