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Slow Falls by Abigail Levine
Along the side wall of Four & Twenty Blackbirds Abigail Levine, a NY dance and performance artist, created Slow Falls for the Movement Research Dance Festival back in June. Details from June event: 4 dancers, starting 6…
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Brooklyn Spaces Interviews Breuckelen Distillery Co.
Okay, so the following is not in Gowanus, but it’s about booze, so you really can’t object. Anyway, Brooklyn-Space.org throws back a few with gin and whisky maker Brueckelen… Housed in a former…
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Tenant Vs. The Landlord
The battle between tenants and landlords is probably as old as time. On Brokelyn.com Gowanus’s own Rachel Eve Stein breaks down when you win and when you lose with building issues. Read It:…
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Sweet: BIT – Four And Twenty Blackbirds
This past June Brooklyn Independent Television stopped into Four And Twenty Blackbirds for a slice and to see what’s inside the Gowanus pie shop.
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Annual Gowanus Artist Studio Tour Returns
The amount of art exploding out of every building in Gowanus is almost criminal!” –You, after you attend this years AGAST event Annual Gowanus Studio Tour (AGAST) has just announced that registration is…
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Makerbot’s 3D Printer: Colbert Bust timelapse
John Biehler captures a timelapse of a 3D printer from Brooklyn’s own Markerbot cranking out a bust of Stephen Colbert. This is such cool eye candy! via: DoobyBrain.com
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KRRB Talks Cutting Board
KRRB blog gives a little blurb on Gowanus Furniture’s Cutting Board. Read it here: KRRB Blog: 5 Easy Pieces – Morse Code, Clock Hands And Chalk Boards
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The West Coast finds Gowanus
Yesterday the LA times published that the Gowanus Canal stinks and that it’s… “the latest, hottest, coolest spot in a city that won’t sleep until it’s completely gentrified.” Read it: Los Angeles Times: A…
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Guac Rockin a Boat!
Some lucky bastards were placed on a boat with Nacho New York’s Guactacular winners and bands: So So Glos, American Darlings, and North Highlands for a seafaring chip dipping good time! more info at: NachoNY.com
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Weekend Hangover: Studio as Petri Dish
On Friday we scrubbed up and wandered into Gowanus Print Lab’s opening reception for Studio as Petri Dish. The gallery features artists from GPLs Studio and shows mixed media works with a wide variety of…
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Shrines for the Gowanus
If you were an out-of-towner and just walking by the Canal on Saturday at around 4:00pm, you might of thought there was some type of religious ceremony going on for a God named…
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Revamped or Being Destroyed… My Brooklyn
my brooklyn looks at the dramatic cultural and economics shifts of some Brooklyn neighborhoods and dissects the negative & positive meanings behind the word ‘gentrification’. It also specifically looks at how well established…
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Gowanus: The Little Guy Wins!
The New York Times discusses how Gowanus’s stalled real estate boom has created a new kind of economic development: It has been a year since the developers stopped calling. But something interesting has…
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Friday’s Heavy Metal Drum Solo
Here is your reward for being such good little workers all week… It’s a heavy metal drum solo from Tamas of Verismo @ Gowanus Ballroom !
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Subway WiFi not near you…
Yesterday, we posted something about how the outer boroughs get the shaft by the MTA… well add this to the list… The MTA is going to finally roll into the 21st Century and…
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More on Gowanus Pete
Back in June we reported on a new character named Gowanus Pete that’s being featured in the Kurt Christenson & Reilly Brown comic Power Play. More images of the tentacle armed super hero…
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Even More Trees for Gowanus
This year the Gowanus Canal Conservancy team planted trees in Gowanus as a part of the City’s Million Trees NYC program. They recently received a grant for $37,400 from the New York State Department of…
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MTA Shafts the Outer Boroughs
That headlines comes as no surprise to anyone who has ridden the subway anywhere outside of Manhattan. If you’ve ever tried to get to Manhattan outside of rush hour or on the weekends…
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Got Big Hands? NASA prototype Glove needs them
From everyone’s favorite find ‘someone for something odd’ website: Craiglist…. Need large hands to test space glove (Gowanus) Date: 2011-07-25, 12:36PM EDT Reply to: [email protected] Human test subjects required for participation in NASA funded…
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Monday’s Rewind: Brooklyn Informed – Gowanus Canal
9 months ago Brooklyn Informed posted this video about the Gowanus Canal. It’s an FYI video that features a few of the key players in the current clean up process. Via: SHFT on…
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Update: Gowanus gets a Record Store!
Update: The new Record Store in Gowanus is called Sector. Sector is a transplant from Vinegar Hill and offers quality music, designer art toys and collectible culture. They had their ‘soft’ opening this past…
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Banks Default on Gowanus House…now it’s ugly
From the Daily News Some of the nation’s biggest banks have let THOUSANDS of abandoned New York City homes seized in foreclosure fall into dangerous disrepair, the Daily News has found. Since the…
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Proteus Gowanus’s Paradise Bizarre a 2011 Benefit
Film makers Sean Hanley & Ted Rogers take us into the world of Proteus Gowanus’s Paradise Bizarre an event with music, dancers, writers, preachers, strumpets, fixers, puppets, and therapists. Basically every type of event Proteus…
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Ivy Gardens…Ivy Blocked!
So, we caught some sort of drama unfolding outside of Ivy Gardens this morning. (May not be drama, but if it sounds like a ‘duck’ then…). Out front of the brand spankin’ new ‘super…
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Turn the ‘Lightouts’ it’s time for music July 25th
Back in March we reported ,on the old Blogspot site, on the group Lightouts a Gowanus based duo that kicks out indie rocks songs…. Well, Lightouts are playing a gig right around here on…
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Gowanus Happening: July 21 – 24
Thursday July 21st, 2011 Making / Repairing Things Brooklyn Artist Gym: Figure Drawing – 12p Proteus Gowanus: Fixers’ Collective – 7pm – Bring your broken thing and with you they will see what can…
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Gowanus Lowline – And the Winner Is…
Almost six months ago a group called Gowanus by Design began it’s competition for the Gowanus Lowline, which name we assume is supposed to reference Manhattan’s ‘High Line’. The competition asked people to…
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Restoration Gowanus
Back in June a man posted that he intended to restore a townhouse that he and his wife had recently purchased in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Since then he has really made some amazing progress…
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Photos: Gowanus just before night via: runinsta.com
ruinista.com pops off a few shots of Gowanus on a Sunday just before the night rolls in. See it here: doctors in the gowanus.*
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Gowanus Inch By Inch: T.E. Conklin Brass and Copper Company
On Nevins Street where Sackett Streets runs into the Gowanus Canal sits the T.E. Conklin Brass and Copper Warehouse. The T.E. Conklin Brass and Copper Company was founded in Manhattan in 1860 and…
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Photo Blog Essay of Gowanus by Garrett Palm
On Summit County Citizen’s Voice, Garrett Palm takes a dip into the super area that is the superfunded site of Gowanus. Read it here: Morning photo: Explore the Brooklyn ‘backcountry’
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Weekend Hangover – Frenching at Littlefield for The Skint’s Bastille Day Bash
So on Saturday we donned berets and sashayed over to Littlefield for the skints Bastille Day Bash. Despite the long bar line we managed to grab a few free bulldog gin cocktails and…
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Brooklyn Street Art
Over this past week artist Luci Westphal collected images of graffiti and murals that paint the buildings and sidewalks of Brooklyn. Check out her blog here: Good Hard Working People
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DeRosa’s gowanus canal revisited: Polluted Past, Uncertain Future
When people think of beauty it usually has something to do with a picturesque natural landscapes such as colorful flowers next to tiny streams or giant tree covered mountains against endless blue skies….
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Rumor Mill: Colson Patisserie coming to 3rd Ave
Rumor has it that the Park Slope café / bakery Colson Patisserie is opening up a new place at some point soon on 3rd Ave and Union Street in the old Dawg Shack….
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Crooked Tail Closing
This morning Crooked Tail Cafe at the corner of 3rd Ave and President announced that it will be closing today. Stop by and have one last Brooklyn Cheesesteak or other great sandwich for…
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Artist Gets the Boot, Charter School Moves In
Once again an artist is displaced because real estate rewrites the rules… Patch.com Reports: Goodbye Artist Lofts, Hello Brooklyn Prospect Charter School
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Les Bicyclettes Blanches at Gowanus Ballroom
In case you missed it here’s Les Bicyclettes Blanches playing at Gowanus Ballroom. Via: Mourrice Papi
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Brooklyn Independent Music Fest
In September the Fall season will come and it won’t be hot as hell anymore….except at Littlefield where the Brooklyn Indie Music Fest will melt the faces off of concertgoers…. 2 Stages and…
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Tough Trees!
Matthew Wills points out a few super trees growing in the urban industrial areas of Gowanus on Backyard and Beyond: Three Gowanus Trees
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Littleneck “clam shack” coming to 3rd Ave
As reported long ago a ‘fish place’ called Littleneck “clam shack” is coming to 3rd Ave between President St. and Carroll soonish. The website says they will be selling “classic New England-style beach…
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So Many Books and So Little Time
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Interview: Eric Epstein Director of Memory Tape’s Video for “Yes I Know”
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Halyards
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Capturing A Photographer: Robert DeRosa
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Buy Brooklyn at By Brooklyn
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This is not a hat…this is the Little Prince’s World / A Family Of Artist
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Now the Canal’s Polluted? Try 100 Years Ago!
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Brooklyn Dodgers in the Gowanus
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August 3, 2011Gowanus Happenings: August 4th – August 7th
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July 27, 2011
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July 27, 2011More on Gowanus Pete
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August 5, 2011Sweet: BIT – Four And Twenty Blackbirds
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July 27, 2011Subway WiFi not near you…
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Slow Falls by Abigail Levine
Along the side wall of Four & Twenty Blackbirds Abigail Levine, a NY dance and performance artist, created Slow Falls for the Movement Research Dance Festival back in June. Details from June event: 4 dancers, starting 6…
Sweet: BIT – Four And Twenty Blackbirds
This past June Brooklyn Independent Television stopped into Four And Twenty Blackbirds for a slice and to see what’s inside the Gowanus pie shop.
Makerbot’s 3D Printer: Colbert Bust timelapse
John Biehler captures a timelapse of a 3D printer from Brooklyn’s own Markerbot cranking out a bust of Stephen Colbert. This is such cool eye candy! via: DoobyBrain.com
Guac Rockin a Boat!
Some lucky bastards were placed on a boat with Nacho New York’s Guactacular winners and bands: So So Glos, American Darlings, and North Highlands for a seafaring chip dipping good time! more info at: NachoNY.com
Revamped or Being Destroyed… My Brooklyn
my brooklyn looks at the dramatic cultural and economics shifts of some Brooklyn neighborhoods and dissects the negative & positive meanings behind the word ‘gentrification’. It also specifically looks at how well established…
Friday’s Heavy Metal Drum Solo
Here is your reward for being such good little workers all week… It’s a heavy metal drum solo from Tamas of Verismo @ Gowanus Ballroom !
Monday’s Rewind: Brooklyn Informed – Gowanus Canal
9 months ago Brooklyn Informed posted this video about the Gowanus Canal. It’s an FYI video that features a few of the key players in the current clean up process. Via: SHFT on…
Proteus Gowanus’s Paradise Bizarre a 2011 Benefit
Film makers Sean Hanley & Ted Rogers take us into the world of Proteus Gowanus’s Paradise Bizarre an event with music, dancers, writers, preachers, strumpets, fixers, puppets, and therapists. Basically every type of event Proteus…
Turn the ‘Lightouts’ it’s time for music July 25th
Back in March we reported ,on the old Blogspot site, on the group Lightouts a Gowanus based duo that kicks out indie rocks songs…. Well, Lightouts are playing a gig right around here on…
Brooklyn Street Art
Over this past week artist Luci Westphal collected images of graffiti and murals that paint the buildings and sidewalks of Brooklyn. Check out her blog here: Good Hard Working People
Les Bicyclettes Blanches at Gowanus Ballroom
In case you missed it here’s Les Bicyclettes Blanches playing at Gowanus Ballroom. Via: Mourrice Papi
Littleneck “clam shack” coming to 3rd Ave
As reported long ago a ‘fish place’ called Littleneck “clam shack” is coming to 3rd Ave between President St. and Carroll soonish. The website says they will be selling “classic New England-style beach…
Their Radical Dads & here’s their video “New Age Dinosaur”
Gowanus Canal based trio Radical Dads releases a new video for their song “New Age Dinosaur” that features the Gowanus area and other parts of Brooklyn. -––Doesn’t Loews look super sexy in this Match.com style…
So Many Books and So Little Time
Slicing the Public Each year, city-funded institutions wage petition and letter writing campaigns to try to prevent the now ever growing budget cuts from being passed down through Albany and City Hall. It’s getting to…
bike it: gowanus to midtown
If you didn’t know it takes about 40 to 45 minutes by subways to get to midtown Manhattan. It takes just about the same amount of time by bike depending on bridge traffic. Kenie Huber…
Brooklyn Shorts – Gowanus
Brooklyn Shorts is a daily comic and super-short film series that relates to a particular Brooklyn neighborhood. Above is the film and below is the comic for our favorite BK neighborhood, Gowanus… To…
Monday’s Rewind: Gowanus Music Club
Back in 2010 Brooklyn Independent Television took a look inside a school for the next generation of Rock Stars… the Gowanus Music Club.
Time-lapse: Gowanus Ballroom – The Architecture of Devotion Exhibit
Great time-lapse of a hanging of Black Paw Photograph’s for the Architecture of Devotion Exhibit at Gowanus Ballroom. The exhibit goes from June 24th – July 3rd.
Brü = Brew with Lenses and Limes
Friend Mark and his friend Tyler show how they can easily brew a Pale Ale with supplies from the Brooklyn Brew Shop in Gowanus. Read it here: www.LensesAndLimes.com
Bling Bling Golden T-Shirt
If we played poker like Mr. Spiderman Tobey Maguire we would totally use only things made of Gold! We’d: write with a gold pens, drive a gold Cadillac, drink gold flake cocktails, eat gold…
How to Brew with Brooklyn Brew Shop
Check out this ‘how to’ guide for brewing beer via: BrooklynBrewShop.com Brooklyn Brew Kit is available at: Brooklyn Victory Garden at 920 Fulton Street Brooklyn, NY
Enticement to go see ‘Seaworthy’
Just a little preview for ‘Seaworthy’ at joint art exhibit, workshop, oh, and boat launch from EFA Project Space, Flux Factory and The Gowanus Studio Space. Get more details at: Seaworthynyc.org Seaworthy also features…
Tote Bag Printing At Gowanus Print Lab
Musician Grace Weber and her boyfriend Dane created this short video that shows just how easy it is to print tote bags for her new album at Gowanus Print Lab in Gowanus, Brooklyn….
Transforming South Brooklyn
On Grist.org, an environmental publication, Brooklynite Sarah Goodyear reports on the negative effects that the Gowanus Expressway has had on the South Brooklyn area. She references a video produced by the American Society of Landscape Architects…
Friendly Falcons & Their Friend the Snake present: Oh, River
The Friendly Falcons and Their Friend the Snake are a music and visual art group by artist’s Jeffery Kurosaki and Tara Pelletier. Their work takes music, sculpture, & drawing and rolls it into…
Inside the mind of Brooklyn Brine
Christian Amundson and Pedro Padilla take a look at Brooklyn Brine in Gowanus and get an interview with the ‘master of pickles’ Shamus Jones. Check out more brinetastic things at: BrooklynBrine.com
Squid of the Week: The Anachronism
Preview for The Anachronism, which is a Steampunk style short that tells the tale of two kids who find a giant wrecked robot squid. Bonus Your Face Off The actually film short… The…
Two JasperJohns TV Show features Gowanus
A new internet TV show involving “nine gay brothers from Ohio living in New York whose last name is Jasperjohns” called Two Jasperjohns shows off parts of Gowanus (Gowanus Canal). Just look how sexy…
Memory Tapes new video features Gowanus
Memory Tapes new surreal video for “Yes I Know” features images of both Gowanus and Park Slope Brooklyn. The video’s Direction and Post was done by Gowanus’s own Eric Epstein. Disclosure Your…
Gowanus Grove Video
Marshall McDonald creates a video highlighting the festivities at the Gowanus Grove (June 5th,2011). The video gives a good insight into what one experiences when going to the Sunday dance event just off…
Time Lapse of Makerbot 3D Printer Assembly
This is a time lapse by Lucas Saugen of a MakerBot Thing-O-Matic 3D Printer kit being put together. Found Via: LaughingSquid.com
Skate Gowanus…Skate it real Good!
Skaters: Bogdan Dzyurak, Henry Wuwong, Tony Soto, and Nikios Wallace head out, on what we believe is a Tuesday, to skate through Gowanus. Homage, the skate shop of Carroll Gardens, captures all the sweet…
Saturday Rewind: Recycling Center in Staten Island
The History Channel’s Daniel Wilson takes viewers inside the Pratt Industries Staten Island Paper Recycling facility.
Body of Water – a video about the Canal
Three colleagues created a video essay on the Gowanus Canal for a journalism course at NYU.
Brooklyntastic: Havin’ A Party – Best Commercial Event
This commercial is so Brooklyn and just so fantastic we can’t even tell you. It reminds us of the classic Grand Prospect Hall ad. that runs on NY1. Family owned Havin’ A Party has…
Battle For Brooklyn-Atlantic Yards project
Through corporate funds, political support, tax breaks, and what seemed to be strange insider deals, a stadium and skyscraper sized condos are now emerging from the Atlantic Rail Yards and where old Brooklyn…
Monday’s Rewind: Balloon Into Space
In August of last year Brooklynites Luke Geissbuhler & his 7-year-old son, Max, did something a bit odd; they launched a balloon into space for an amateur science experiment. The little balloon sported…
Holy Jello Competition, Batman!
It’s one of the greatest substances on the planet; both icky and sexy to the touch. It’s J-E-L-L-O, Jell-o! And Gowanus Studio Space wants you to use this cool substance in a very…
Gowanus Grind: Images from Thomas Greene Park
Hitting the deck and blasting through the pavement, Homage Skateboarding posted kick-ass multi-frame images of peeps ripping it up on the new skateboarding elements at Thomas Green Park Click the image for more photos
One Book for an Entire Bookstore…truly Martian
Andrew Kessler’s ‘some kind of special’; not only did he get the chance of a lifetime by getting to hang out at NASA during the Mars Mission, he wrote a book about it, and…
Stroll along Gowanus Canal – Patch.com Reports
ParkSlopePatch and CarrollGardensPatch took a moment last week, in honor of Earth Day, to talk about the Gowanus Canal. The piece dives into a brief history and talks to locals about the clean…
