“Hello” we called on the new Gowanus. Our voices echoed back. This was not the Gowanus Canal of the last thirty years. It also was almost unrecognizable.
The events of November 8, 2024, caused me to change my view of Amsterdam. I am devastated at the attack on Jews during the 86th anniversary of Kristallnacht.
Artist Jos Prol’s Debut Solo Show Opens November 9, 2024, at Gowanus Dredgers Gallery with GIANT GOWANUS DRIFTWOOD SCULPTURE and 14 FOOT-TALL PAINTING.
“Hello” we called on the new Gowanus. Our voices echoed back. This was not the Gowanus Canal of the last thirty years. It also was almost unrecognizable.
The Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health celebrates 30 years of Sportsball tonight at the Pierre Hotel in New York City, bringing a new vision to healthcare. Arthur Ashe created the Institute on December 3, 1992, just three months before his death from AIDS.
Following multiple sold-out shows on a floating stage on the Gowanus Canal over Labor Day weekend, The Fish Queen of the Gowanus Canal will debut several new songs in upcoming performances at Principles in Gowanus on October 4th & 5th. The Fish Queen of the Gowanus Canal, a new musical, […]
Mark D Phillips photograph of a Green Heron titled “On The Hunt” captured the 2024 Best in Department prize in the Eastern States Exposition’s (The Big E) Creative Arts Photography Contest. The fair celebrates the people, the food, the livestock, wildlife, shopping, agriculture and music of the six New England states, hosting about 1.5 million revelers annually and this year drew a record of more than 830 Photography Contest entries.
Mark D Phillips launches GowanusCanal.us, a new website devoted to his 35-year documentation of the renaissance along and in Brooklyn’s Superfund waterway.
Photoville 2024 returned to its true home under the Brooklyn Bridge with its best rendition yet, presenting a showcase of photographers around the world. I had a tingle of anticipation as I spotted one of the greatest photographs of recent memory, Ami Vitale’s heartrending image of the last moments of the last White Rhino, Sudan. Looking at the image, with the incongruity of the roadway of the Brooklyn Bridge above it, was striking.
Professor Jay Pasachoff of Williams College lit my interest in total solar eclipses and I thank him as I celebrate my third TSE viewing on April 8, 2024.
Remembering Chuck Liddy, by Mark D Phillips. Chuck Liddy is the reason I am the photographer I grew into. Our competition at the Morganton News Herald shaped my entire photographic career.
The Hochgebirge Challenge began in 1931, running continuously except for a few years because of war and lack of snow, and is recognized as the longest running team event in the US. The race has been an Olympic qualifier event, a National Championship, a National Championship qualifier event, and most recently, the qualifier for the Masters National Championship. The trophy is spectacular and makes you want to kiss it just like the Stanley Cup.
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A favorite image by Mark D Phillips in the Gowanus Abstract Fine Art Gallery.
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Bette Stoltz, president of the South Brooklyn Local Development Corporation, began a campaign in 1984 that culminated with a 12-year rebuilding campaign and brought Smith Street and Boerum Hill back to life.
Considered to be the first suburb in America, Brooklyn Heights boasts the greatest views of lower Manhattan and brownstone mansions that rival anything on Fifth Avenue.
Charles Carroll, a Maryland signer of the Declaration of Independence who never lived in Brooklyn, is honored with Carroll Street, Carroll Park, and finally, Carroll Gardens.
Originally named Ponkiesbergh by the Dutch farmers who settled the cobblestoned area in the 1600’s, the neighborhood gained its present name, Cobble Hill, from a variation of the English translation, Cobles Hill.
Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass – DUMBO for short – is the new art mecca of New York City. Brooklyn Bridge Park begins its Waterfront run and has turned DUMBO into a Brooklyn playground.
How did a Superfund site end up in South Brooklyn? Originally a series of tidal creeks, the native Americans named it Gowanes Creek in honor of Chief Gowanes of the Canarses tribe, who lived, hunted, and fished along its length.
Today’s Red Hook is much smaller than its original boundaries. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Red Hook point was a shipping destination and is today the home of Fairway grocery store.
Grand Army Plaza, the northern entrance to Prospect Park, is of special interest to Civil War enthusiasts with the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch, a colossal granite Arc de Triomphe.
