Gowanus

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

Luxury Apts. Coming to the Mighty Gowanus

Anti-Development Rumblings in Brooklyn

Aspirational Neighborhoods: Slope You Are If You Think You Are

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

"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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

INTO THE WILD

Gather ’round the campfire with José González

SEASONS CHANGE

A smorgasbord of fresh farm foods for the fall

Remember the Spartans

Spinach pies and baseball loukanika by the Gowanus Expressway

Electric Dreams

Spinach pies and baseball loukanika by the Gowanus Expressway

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

Spinach pies and baseball loukanika by the Gowanus Expressway

Yacht Club Secrets Revealed

Spinach pies and baseball loukanika by the Gowanus Expressway

Matters of Life

Spinach pies and baseball loukanika by the Gowanus Expressway

Close-Up On: Sunset Park

Spinach pies and baseball loukanika by the Gowanus Expressway

Close-Up on Red Hook

Spinach pies and baseball loukanika by the Gowanus Expressway

Close-Up on Boerum Hill, Brooklyn

Spinach pies and baseball loukanika by the Gowanus Expressway

Close-Up on Gowanus, Brooklyn

Spinach pies and baseball loukanika by the Gowanus Expressway

GOING, GOING, GONE!

Bid on original pieces by Thurston and Yoko

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 >>

Close-Up on Gowanus

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 >>

'Ibeam Trombone Festival'

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 >>

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 >>

TREASURE TRAIL

Spring cleaning just got a little more fun

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

TURKEY TROT

Channel your inner pilgrim . . . or turkey vulture

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.

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.

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 >>

'Trombone Festival Presents Jacob Garchik, Jen Baker & the Joe Fiedler Trio'

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 >>

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 >>

'Sunday Best Presents Kenny Larkin'

​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 >>

Natalie Merchant

​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 >>

CARTOON CENTRAL

The best animators show off their work

Jake Zavracky of Lowlands Talks Happy Hour, Booze in Beer & the Allure of Miller Lite

zavracky.comJake Zavracky​Jake 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 >>

Class Action Listings

zavracky.comJake Zavracky​Jake 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Alphabet Lounge Big Band

​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 >>

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.

IT'S ALIVE!

This jazz festival is a monster

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 >>

Sifter+Bizingas

​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 >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 4-story REI in SoHo trying to convince people to give hiking and adventuring a chance. Now, a ... More >>