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Drama on Gowanus: How A Proposed Apartment Building Almost Destroyed Community

A long-time neighbor's proposal to develop his family-owned lot on 9th Street split the tight-knit community, resulting in a tense debate about the future of the area, colliding competing business and personal interests and neighborly loyalty. They worked it out.

Gowanus

Gowanus Rezoning Gets A Boost

Brooklyn Borough President and Democratic mayoral nominee Eric Adams announced his support for a controversial rezoning of the Gowanus area, giving the long-delayed project a boost.

Business

A Noisy “Ghost Bodega” in Gowanus Delivers Headaches to Neighbors

A lot on 6th Street in Gowanus, where food refrigeration trucks operated Reef Technology and Fresh Direct are generating noise complaints from neighbors living in adjacent buildings. (Image: Billy Richling/Bklyner)A tech company’s effort to get into the food delivery game is delivering nothing but headaches to some

Gowanus

Judge Pauses Gowanus Rezoning While City Provides Community Engagement Plan

The Gowanus Canal. (Image: Google Maps)A judge has temporarily stopped the clock on the contested Gowanus rezoning [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/plans/gowanus/gowanus-framework.page] process, ordering the city to provide the court with details for a planned public meeting before the process can continue. On Friday,

Bay Ridge

Brooklyn Gets 8 Michelin Starred Spots and 37 on the Bib Gourmand List, Williamsburg Dominates

Pierogies at Pierozek. Courtesy of STUNTMANpr.Earlier this week, the Michelin Guide announced their Bib Gourmand list, which this year includes 37 Brooklyn spots. Bib Gourmand is the group’s designation that recognizes restaurants that allow you to enjoy two courses and a drink or dessert for $40 or less.

Bushwick

Openings and Closings: Espresso, Eggplant, and Egg Sandwiches

Greenpoint has two new coffee shops, there’s a new tlayuda spot in Prospect Heights, and lots of sweet treats across the borough. As always, let us know if we’ve missed anything [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeHXqIQrTLCPeA3dvDaAHHsm5HeU8F7gfZnscBK337wqaY6Xg/viewform?usp=sf_link] , and stay safe. You can

Carroll Gardens

OPINION: We Should Have Paused the Gowanus Rezoning Until After COVID

By Briget Rein, Candidate for Council in D39. [https://www.brigetrein.com/] It has finally happened: Judge Katherine Levine lifted the temporary restraining order and the ULURP process has begun on rezoning Gowanus [/gowanus-rezoning-proceeds-to-public-review/]. The rezoning is inevitable. I want to make myself abundantly clear: I was never against the

Gowanus

Gowanus Rezoning Proceeds to Public Review

A sketch of thre Gowanus canal bridge crossing with waterfront development and pedestrian activity. (Image: Department of City Planning)The bitterly-contested Gowanus rezoning plan [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/plans/gowanus/gowanus.page] took two crucial steps forward on Monday. First, State Supreme Court Justice Katherine Levine lifted a

environment

Mayor de Blasio Joins Opposition to Gowanus Peaker Power Plant

The Gowanus Generating Station (Image: Astoria Generating Company)Mayor Bill de Blasio has joined climate activists and several lawmakers in announcing his opposition to the controversial replacement of two peaker power plants using fracked gas, including one in Gowanus. The Astoria Generating Company (AGC), which operates two power plants located

community

Design Nonprofit Launches Fellowship to Envision the Future of Gowanus

A rendering of the storefront of Van Alen Institute’s new location at 303 Bond Street in Gowanus, remade as a hub for community information. (Image: Van Alen Institute)A longstanding nonprofit with a track record of reimagining city spaces is launching a new fellowship program for Gowanus residents who

Bay Ridge

How to Celebrate Easter in Brooklyn: Chocolate Bunnies and Brunch

Our next holiday is right around the corner, and we have suggestions for everything from chocolate eggs and bunnies to marzipan lambs, and classic Easter brunch or dinner. Also, check out our list [/easter-egg-hunt-brooklyn-2020/] of the traditional Easter Egg Hunts happening around the borough this week. Candy and Pastries Buttermilk

Announcements

39 Community Leaders Endorse Doug Schneider In D39 Race

This morning Park Slope civil rights lawyer and Democratic District Leader Doug Schneider [https://dougschneiderbk.com/meet-doug/] announced his campaign to represent the 39th Council District had received the support of 39 nine community leaders across the district. Doug Schneider, campaign photo.Schneider is running to replace term-limited council member

environment

OPINION – Poison Land and Poison Rhetoric: Gowanus Rezone Proponent Uses Personal Attacks to Sidestep Public Health Concerns

Rendering of the post-rezoning Gowanus canal bridge crossing with waterfront development and pedestrian activity. (Rendering from the Department of City Planning website)By Nora Almeida, Linda LaViolette and Miranda Sielaff In a take-down attempt that’s short on evidence and heavy on pro-developer talking points, Michelle de la Uz’s

affordable housing

OPINION: Gowanus Green Opposition Offers Up NIMBY Misinformation Cloaked in Progressivism

Courtesy of Marvel Architects/SCAPE Landscape ArchitectsBy Michelle de la Uz A recent opinion piece by several Gowanus residents [/opinion-welcome-to-gowanus-green-brooklyns-own-love-canal/] opposed to affordable housing development in their neighborhood, unfortunately, continued a pattern of dangerously misleading rhetoric about the Gowanus Green development. As a 43-year old nonprofit comprehensive community development corporation

Boerum Hill

District 39 Council Candidates Talk About the Future of Gowanus

Rendering of the post-rezoning Gowanus canal bridge crossing with waterfront development and pedestrian activity. (Image: Department of City Planning) Brooklyn Council Member Brad Lander has spent almost half a decade organizing community planning meetings to generate consensus around the rezoning of Gowanus, the southwest Brooklyn neighborhood known for its historic

Bed Stuy

Openings and Closings: Bibimbap, Branzino, and Beef Yaroa

This week we welcome a new Italian eatery with a great happy hour, a coffee shop with a cause, and a pop-up at a gone-but-not-forgotten favorite. We say goodbye to Crown Height’s Associate Supermarket after a long road, which you can read more about here [/associated-supermarket-given-30-days-to-vacate-crown-heights-site/]. As always, let

affordable housing

OPINION: Welcome to Gowanus Green—Brooklyn’s Own Love Canal

Rendering via Department of Housing Preservation and DevelopmentBy Linda LaViolette, Miranda Sielaff and Nora Almeida, VOICE of GOWANUS Advocates of the proposed Gowanus Rezoning claim that a plan to privatize and develop affordable housing on Public Place (Gowanus Green), the site of a former manufactured gas plant, justifies a massive

Bed Stuy

Openings and Closings: Tortillas, Tomato Butter, and Toast

Welcome back to another week’s openings and closings. This week we say hello to another (yes, another) crab restaurant, a new sandwich shop, and give a Manhattan bakery a new Brooklyn home. Our goodbyes are a mixed bag this week, with one extreme tragedy and one just a quick

Borough Park

District 39 Council Candidates Talk BQE, Schools and Gowanus Rezoning

L-R Top row: West, Hanif, Schneider; bottom row: Haq, Krebs, ReinCandidates for Brooklyn’s Council District 39 (Park Slope, Carroll Gardens, Windsor Terrace) gathered virtually Thursday night to talk about issues ranging from the crumbling Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and the Gowanus rezoning to school reopenings and composting. At a forum hosted

Gowanus

Opponents of Gowanus Rezoning Hire Counsel For Potential Legal Challenge

Rendering of the post-rezoning Gowanus canal bridge crossing with waterfront development and pedestrian activity. (Department of City Planning)Update: January 15th, 2020 – 5:58pm The Voice of Gowanus group announced it has filed a lawsuit against the city’s Department of City Planning (DCP) in Kings County State Supreme Court.

Bay Ridge

Openings and Closings: Sabaya, Salami, and Soufflé

Welcome back to yet another installment of Openings and Closings. This week we welcome a few new Greenpoint spots, a coffee shop/woodworking parlor, and yet another seafood restaurant. As usual, the few goodbyes we have are hard, but there are mercifully only three. And as always, let us know

Bay Ridge

Openings and Closings: Thai, Taquerias, and Trials

Borsalia [http://borsalia.com/] 79 Grand Street, between Wythe Avenue and Berry Street. > [https://www.instagram.com/p/CHyHEnWlM9t/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading] [https://www.instagram.com/p/CHyHEnWlM9t/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading] This new coffeehouse and pastry shop opened on November 10th and

Carroll Gardens

Q&A With Justin Krebs: Running For A More Livable Park Slope

Justin Krebs in Park Slope. Fall of 2020. By Zainab Iqbal/BklynerJustin Krebs, 42, is a community organizer running to represent District 39 in the city council in next year’s elections. He is the Director of Campaigns at MoveOn [https://front.moveon.org/] and co-founder of arts space The

Arts & Culture

Featured Free Event: Gowanus Night Heron

UPDATE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED On the evening of November 14, seventeen Brooklyn artists will descend upon the banks of the Gowanus Canal like the elusive black-crowned night heron. The free event, dubbed Gowanus Night Heron, is a pop-up exhibition of work spanning photography; collage; drawing; spoken word; and

Business

Park Slope BID Launches Local Gift Cards

Park Slope’s 5th Avenue BID has found another way to try to keep holiday shopping local— specialized gift cards. The gift cards, which are available through Yiftee, can be used at any participating business in the area. Right now, around 40 businesses have signed up, including Annie’s Blue