At last night's US Environmental Protection Agency's Gowanus Canal Superfund Community Advisory Group's (GAG) general meeting, members voted to adopt a resolution that asks for a total elimination of New York City's Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) int... »
(Buschenschank owners in front of CB6 Permit and License Committee last night)Members of Community Board 6 's Permits and Licenses Committee voted to deny a sidewalk café license for Buschenschank, the pseudo-Tyrolian beer pub at 320 Court Street at a ... »
More filming in the neighborhood.NBC's 'Law And Order Special Victims Unit" will be filming along several blocks between Hoyt Street and the Gowanus Canal as well as along some of the Side Streets tomorrow from 8 am to 7 PM. Residents have been asked ... »
Anonymous has left the following comment on the post Still Spinning: DEP at Wednesday Night's CB6 Meeting On Gowanus Clean-up:The DEP presentation was a propaganda show.And it would only be fair if Gary's CB6 club would allow all the other Superfund PR... »
Our local elected Representatives envision a 774-unit, mixed-income, mixed-use residential development for Public Place, the six acre brownfield site which runs along the Gowanus Canal and Smith Street.But what do we, as the community want? What would... »
Eileen Mahoney NYC DEPNYC DEP Jim MullerGary Reilly, CB6 Environmental Committee ChairLast night, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection gave a lengthy presentation in front of the Environmental Protection committee of Community Boar... »
Community Board 6 is holding an informational meeting with Representatives of the NYC Department of Environmental Protection on "the findings from the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund Site investigation and Feasibility Study relating to the ... »
The first time I walked past Buschenschank at 320 Court Street, the newish pseudo-"Tyrolian" pub on Court Street on a recent balmy spring evening, I was amazed at the noise emanating out of the eatery's huge window openings. The conversation fragments,... »
Anonymous has left the following comment on the post "Did Owner Of "Green Onion" Children's Boutique On Smith Street Simply Walk Away?": I've bought many gifts here; sometimes the staff was a bit flakey, but never especially pushy. What's more interest... »
What would your ideal Brooklyn look like? How would you re-imagine our public spaces? That is the question behind a show curated by Katherine Gressel entitled Brooklyn Utopias: Park Apace, Play Space, which use opened at the The Old Stone House. Local ... »
(photos courtesy of www.thamestunnelconsultation.co.uk)Thames Tunnel Film (2011) from Thames Tunnel on Vimeo.While New York City has once again wiggled out of its obligation under law to stop combined sewer overflows (CSOs) from its sewer system to fl... »
Jim Mueller, Assistant Commissioner DEP, Angela Licata, Deputy Commissioner, Kevin Clarke, environmental engineer.Testimony of Carter Strickland,Commissioner, New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), March 27, 2012 "At the moment ... »
Another great event at Proteus Gowanus. Join Chris Silver of jewishmorocco.blogspot.com for a lecture with discussion and recordings from North Africa and Israel.Music, Migration and the Maghreb:Jewish-Muslim Musical Collaboration in North Africa and B... »
Sun slowly setting on one of my favorite blocks in Carroll Gardens.In the distance, Park Slope.Pin It »
In front of the Second Street entrance of the F & G train Carroll Street Station at Second Place.Entrepreneurship in this neighborhood seems to be alive and well.A wooden chair, some leather polish and a few rags and voila, you have got yourself a litt... »
