This is a presentation about the big Toll Brothers development proposed for the shore of the Gowanus Canal that would require a special zoning change. The Powerpoint was created by architects Chris McVoy and John Hatheway. It’s a little hard to follow the written portions, but the visuals are quite fascinating for anyone interested in [...]

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[Photo courtesy of Property Shark]
The photo above is 525-27 Court Street before construction work started on a new seven-story building with 18 units. It will come from Henry Radusky and Bricolage Design, a firm that is not on the Top Ten list of some people in South Brooklyn in terms of the aesthetics of its [...]

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[Photo courtesy of captaindisko/flickr]
On Monday, we posted about a new effort in Carroll Gardens to try to find ways to calm traffic and stop accidents. It was spurred by an accident that could have hurt or killed people late last week. A GL reader left a comment that directed us to this photo of the [...]

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The Brooklyn Indie Market, which is at Smith and Union is having a Steampunk and Vintage Style Day and fashion show on Oct. 25th from 11AM-7PM. There’s a fashion show at 2PM. Per a release, the lineup includes:
• Karen von Oppen –Confession NY, Provocative creations, designed to seduce.
• Wren -Purevile, Post Apocalyptic Victorian Accessories and [...]

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[Photo courtesy of vaduzuvunt/GL Flickr Pool]
They are indeed creepy and they are on Smith Street and came to our GL Flickr Pool courtesy of valued contributor vaduzuvunt.

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There was a pretty bad car accident on Smith Street over the weekend and it’s led to the formation of new group to talk about and try to do something about traffic safety issues on both Court and Smith Streets, which like many local streets, often feature drivers going way to fast for what are [...]

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The Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association meeting tonight should be lively as, among other things, it will be covering two of the neighborhood’s favorite projects: 360 Smith Street and the proposed Toll Brothers residential development on the Gowanus Canal. Per an email:
Architect, John Hatheway will discuss the BSA case progress on 360 Smith Street/aka 131 [...]

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We do know there is work going on at Frankies 457 on Court Street on the major expansion that will make it easier to get a table at one of the more popular Italian restaurants in South Brooklyn. What we don’t know is when the work will be completed. In any case, a Special GL [...]

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The site of the 360 Smith Street development has been quiet for some time. A new piece of artwork popped up during the last 48 hours. We have no idea about the placement or the placer.

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Don’t look now, but a nanny was spotted sleeping in Carroll Park in Carroll Gardens. The Sleeping Nanny of Carroll Park apparently didn’t just catch a few seconds of shut eye. She was quite out for quite a bit of time. Here is a first-hand account via the BoCoCa Parents Group:
Hi, If this person was [...]

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A Special GL Correspondent has gotten a first look at the new food store getting ready to open on Court Street. There is major progress to report at gourmetfresh between Third Place and Fourth Place. The shelves are being stocked, which is certainly a sign of an impending opening. Residents on that end of Court [...]

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City Council Member Bill de Blasio has been involved in the debate over 360 Smith Street since it became a community issue in Carroll Gardens. He has been involved in most public forums over the issue and his office has practically become the official go-between with the community and the developer. Recently, the neigbhborhood group [...]

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We have two words to describe our reaction to this personal ad on the always interesting Craigslist. One of them is holy. And the other is shit. Let’s just say that it’s very, uh, specific, which in the wild world of CL probably means no one will pay attention anyway. Here it is:
SWF who isn’t [...]

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Oh, Carroll Gardens, you never disappoint. The issue of 360 Smith Street is very much alive with a hearing coming up about whether the building will be allowed to rise to the planned 70 feet or will get a trim to 55 feet. That decision is in the hands of the obscure, yet powerful, Board [...]

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The Carroll Gardens group CORD is circulating a letter that it emailed to City Council Member (and Brooklyn Borough President candidate) Bill de Blasio about the upcoming Board of Standards and Appeals hearing about 360 Smith Street. The developer is looking for an okay to build the planned 70 feet rather than the 55 feet [...]

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There is some food news from the far end of Court Street in Carroll Gardens. A special GL Correspondent who has supplied us with many juicy tidbits over a long period of time reports:
Le Petit Café, down the end of Court St is expanding. They’re taking over George’s Pot Pourri once he moves his store [...]

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The Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association, which once met at the Scotto Funeral Home on Court Street, starts up with its post-Labor Day meetings tonight at a new location, the Hannah Senesh Community Day School at 342 Smith Street. Here’s is the email:
Just a quick reminder- we resume the Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association general meetings on [...]

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The Vermont Market & Pharmacy, at the corner of Henry and Sackett Streets in Carroll Gardens, is one of the more mysterious spots in the neighborhood. The store has been closed about a decade and it even drew the attention of the Times a while back this summer. The article noted that the building’s owner [...]

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Residents in Carroll Gardens are now circulating petitions to save the job Kathleen Henderson, the woman who runs recreation programs at Carroll Park. An email was making the round last night with the subject line “Help Save the Park Lady’s Job.” Here the text:
Our beloved “park lady,” Kathleen Henderson of Carroll Park, is losing her [...]

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The 360 Smith development, which was stopped in tracks by the “narrow streets” Zoning Text Amendment that limited the height of buildings on “place streets” has a date before the agency that will decide its fate. Developer Billy Stein will take his case to the Board of Standards and Appeals on September 24 at 10AM. [...]

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The last phase of the ongoing changeover of Alternate Side Parking regulations that started in May in Park Slope will happen in Red Hook starting on Monday, September 8, when they are suspended for several weeks. Alternate Side regs will be re-instituted in Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens and other areas west of Court [...]

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This item blends three items of interest: public school, community boards and, well, cockroaches. It comes from an email posted to the Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association list and concerns the auditorium at PS 32 in Carroll Gardens, which is often the site of Community Board 6 and other neighborhood meetings. Here’s what it says in [...]

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The developer of 360 Smith Street took his case to build his building tall than allowed by new zoning language to the Land Use Committee of Community Board 6 last night and lost. The vote against the developer’s appeal (which will got the Board of Standards and appeals in any case) was unanimous with three [...]

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It has been a while since we had an item about our little pigeon friends, but this morning we do. It comes from Carroll Gardens in the form of an email on the Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association list. Someone, apparently is feeing pigeons which, in turn, is leading to “a rat and possum problem.” (This [...]

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The residents of Carroll Gardens that oppose the current planned height of 360 Smith (aka Oliver House) are not going to let the building slip through an appeal to the Board of Standards and Appeals without a fight. The building was stopped when a “Narrow Streets” Zoning Text Amendment was approved this summer. Among other [...]

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